The Football/Soccer Thread

Yeah. I could see a ball intentionally played back to a keeper...but a deflection? Either way, announcers believed it wasn't offside and the referees agreed.

As long as you are onside the last time a team mate played the ball then you are onside.
 
I was out to dinner the other night and saw what might be the worst penalty I've ever seen taken (even including English international games and the one I ended up kicking solidly along the ground and unfortunately straight ahead in a game we were already up 8 to 0, so luckily it didn't matter).

 
I was out to dinner the other night and saw what might be the worst penalty I've ever seen taken (even including English international games and the one I ended up kicking solidly along the ground and unfortunately straight ahead in a game we were already up 8 to 0, so luckily it didn't matter).




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Jesus...3-3...guess Ronaldo really doesn't want to get eliminated. The other game is tied 1-1 as well.....Portugal needs a win.
 
Get in Ro Ireland!

As for England vs Iceland... great another team that will Park the bus and we won't be able to break them down.
 
Okay, I finally have found someone who's topped my friend's semi-pro soccer career. My friend, who is no fan at all of the game really, was visiting a friend years and years ago and got drafted in to play on their indoor team, signing an actual contract where he got to keep the match jersey as compensation. Anyway, he got flattened once or twice by some big lummox from the other squad, and so went out a little later and kicked him in the back of the leg, earning a straight red and a well-deserved break.

But those Swedes, wow.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-footballer-sent-off-for-farting-during-match

I am just grateful they didn't enforce when my son was playing U5 through U8, or he'd have perhaps earned the rumored brown card.
 
Finally a game Germany played well. Control from start to finish. Spain or Italy next.