2022 World Cup - General Discussion & Non-USA teams thread
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
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that's called being an idiot. Every player knows that if you take your shirt off, it's an automatic yellow.
11 yellows in the match, and it's not as though the ref was handing them out unnecessarily.
I’m hoping that FIFA shifts to an alternative option of having the bottom 32 teams play single play in games to begin the tourney to get to 16, then those combine with the top 16 teams to make eight 4 team groups like now and it plays out the same. It adds an extra game for those teams (so if one of them made it to the final, they’d have an extra game compared to the champion now) and extends the length of the tourney which are things the major (European) leagues don’t like. It’s also a bit harder on those lower ranked teams but most of them are in the “just happy to be playing in the WC” situation anyway and could get the glory of an opening win.
Anything is better than 3 team groups. That structure just sucks.
France-Poland at 10. I doubt Poland will put up much of a fight.
England-Senegal at 2 could be interesting.
England-Senegal at 2 could be interesting.
Am I the only one that finds the quality of the Fox announcers to be turrible? Very little actual play by play calling. What little analysis they offer is pathetic: Dembelé is a good player, Mbappé is both good and fast, Lewandowski looks frustrated, etc. Too much of human interest back stories during the game.
I also don’t understand why they think they have to use British commentators. The female host is particularly tough to take. Can’t believe they can’t find some American commentators who understand the sport.
In general, I prefer British commentators as they usually focus on calling the actual play on the field. I only wish I was savvy enough to figure out how to use VPNs so I could access the British radio commentary to go with my DirectTV feed.
In my opinion, the commentary teams from Fox are two color commentators that spend half of their time discussing human interest stories.
I was bummed when I saw the World Cup would be on fox. They can never get it right, even for the NFL and especially for college football. Any TV channel that will let an announcer say “Charlie Sizzle” over and over should never get another sporting event
If you’re going to have a day of two meh round-of-16 matches, best to have it on a Sunday.
