10-12-2022, 19:57
Oh dear these conspiracy theories don't do any favours to conspiracies.
The Spanish team deserve Oscars if you think they deliberately threw away their lead against Japan. They can pass until the boats sail home, but they have no real strikers. So they deliberately avoided Brazil apparently in order to fall foul of rope-a-dope tactics by Morocco who beat them on merit. In the old days they'd have sent Sergio Ramos up to barge in and head in an equaliser. Just as a bonus they'd played their long-range shooter at centre back - Rodri - who often comes through with a 20 yarder in these circumstances.
Poor refereeing is necessarily endemic at the World Cup, because of the commitment to smaller countries providing officials. I suppose widely different global income levels do therefore increase the risks of corruption. But surely poor managerial decision-making led to most of the surprise results? Have the managers been corrupted by perhaps FIFA? Portugal have played their 4th best keeper throughout, he was fcking up small time till today when he knocked them out, and they've left Leao on the bench every game until too late, dropped Cancelo and allowed Ronaldo to wreak havoc on himself and the team, whilst leaving Bruno Fernandes out there losing possession, mis-controlling the ball and wasting chances. France lost a surprise game because they left put too many first-choice players at once. Spain thought everyone would surrender like Costa Rica and they didn't. Brazil lost to Cameroon because they just did the same things over and over in the knowledge they were already through ........ AND so it goes.
Just as every tackle in which a player goes down screaming is not even a foul, never mind a yellow card, so every surprise result doesn't point to corruption just because you know that there is a lot about FIFA bent more bizarrely out of shape than a Qatari stadium. Surprises happen because fallible human beings are involved, who make poor decisions, under-rate their opposition, over-rate themselves, pick people they like instead of the ones who can play ........ and players make huge blunders under pressure, some never perform and referees get involved deliberately or accidentally in the final result. And so if there is corruption it can hide amidst a sea of the accidental and the cock-up
The Spanish team deserve Oscars if you think they deliberately threw away their lead against Japan. They can pass until the boats sail home, but they have no real strikers. So they deliberately avoided Brazil apparently in order to fall foul of rope-a-dope tactics by Morocco who beat them on merit. In the old days they'd have sent Sergio Ramos up to barge in and head in an equaliser. Just as a bonus they'd played their long-range shooter at centre back - Rodri - who often comes through with a 20 yarder in these circumstances.
Poor refereeing is necessarily endemic at the World Cup, because of the commitment to smaller countries providing officials. I suppose widely different global income levels do therefore increase the risks of corruption. But surely poor managerial decision-making led to most of the surprise results? Have the managers been corrupted by perhaps FIFA? Portugal have played their 4th best keeper throughout, he was fcking up small time till today when he knocked them out, and they've left Leao on the bench every game until too late, dropped Cancelo and allowed Ronaldo to wreak havoc on himself and the team, whilst leaving Bruno Fernandes out there losing possession, mis-controlling the ball and wasting chances. France lost a surprise game because they left put too many first-choice players at once. Spain thought everyone would surrender like Costa Rica and they didn't. Brazil lost to Cameroon because they just did the same things over and over in the knowledge they were already through ........ AND so it goes.
Just as every tackle in which a player goes down screaming is not even a foul, never mind a yellow card, so every surprise result doesn't point to corruption just because you know that there is a lot about FIFA bent more bizarrely out of shape than a Qatari stadium. Surprises happen because fallible human beings are involved, who make poor decisions, under-rate their opposition, over-rate themselves, pick people they like instead of the ones who can play ........ and players make huge blunders under pressure, some never perform and referees get involved deliberately or accidentally in the final result. And so if there is corruption it can hide amidst a sea of the accidental and the cock-up