2026 World Cup (Official Thread)

[Jagdaddy]

They really should just get rid of VAR. It just gives them more ways to figure out how to help the teams they want to win than it makes the game more "fair"

I don’t know about that but maybe it should be limited to stuff that happens in the offensive box and offsides.

 

[buckeyemania11]

I don’t know about that but maybe it should be limited to stuff that happens in the offensive box and offsides.

I just don't get how VAR can make that ruling there, it wasn't near egregious enough to change the call to a foul and wipe the goal, but of course Argentina and Messi get every call their way.

 

[Jagdaddy]

I just don't get how VAR can make that ruling there, it wasn't near egregious enough to change the call to a foul and wipe the goal, but of course Argentina and Messi get every call their way.

100%. It was criminal. The kind of shit that you’d expect to happen to England.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Goddammit. Fuck you Egypt.

 

[buckeyemania11]

What a joke.

 

[buckeyemania11]

No foul on Argentina of course on a similar kind of play. No way they are taking that goal back.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Complete horse shit, they won't even review that. But very questionable similar soft "foul" is immediately reviewed and judged in Argentina's favor when it happened in the reverse role.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I'm drowning over here in all this FIFA integrity

 

[BuckBackHome]

Hell of an ending!

 

[buckeyemania11]

Hell of an ending!

Hell of a job by FIFA successfully helping in pushing their golden child forward gotta give it to them.

 

[OHSportsFan]

Back home. Still depressed/angry/sad we didn’t come back with a win.

I feel like I want all the scathing takes as if the Bucks just lost The Game.

 

[buckeyemania11]

If the officiating were consistently bad in all directions it would be one thing, but it seems to always be consistently bad with the majority of the time it favoring the team that you'd think that FIFA would gain more from moving on. Argentina has been a constant benefactor of questionable decisions.

 

[Dee-Liem]

Fox's Thierry Henry, Alexi Lalas have tense exchange over FIFA's Folarin Balogun ruling

Fox's Thierry Henry and Alexi Lalas reached a boiling point Tuesday morning over FIFA's ruling on Folarin Balogun and the USMNT's loss to Belgium.

awfulannouncing.com

Early on Tuesday in the Fox Sports studio, analysts Thierry Henry and Alexi Lalas, who have butted heads a few times throughout the tournament, clashed once again over the Balogun ruling and its impact on the story of the U.S.’ loss to Belgium.

I am glad any time Alexi Lalas is on the TV (for the past decade or so for me), I change the channel or mute it. It's been endless hot takes and embrace debate for over a decade (although Fox wants that).

 

[Jaxbuck]

I feel like I want all the scathing takes as if the Bucks just lost The Game.

Sorry man but there are like 6 of you that actually care.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Fox's Thierry Henry, Alexi Lalas have tense exchange over FIFA's Folarin Balogun ruling

Fox's Thierry Henry and Alexi Lalas reached a boiling point Tuesday morning over FIFA's ruling on Folarin Balogun and the USMNT's loss to Belgium.

awfulannouncing.com

and any time Alexi Lalas is on the TV (for the past decade or so for me), I change the channel or mute it. It's been endless hot takes and embrace debate for over a decade (although Fox wants that).

I'm not a Lalas fan at all, but, based on the quotes in the article, I'm actually more with him than with Henry on this one.