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World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

glorygloryeze said:
As i asked in the FIFA thread, hasn't there been a precedent set when Ronaldo was allowed to start the tournament even though he got a red card in the last game of qualifying? Or have i misremembered that?
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It wasn't the last game it was the penultimate one and he was suspended for the last qualifier.

However, it was a 3 game ban, 2 of which were dropped. I don't think its right, but this isn't the first world cup to ignore leftover suspensions from qualifying.

Not sanctioning a red mid tournament, just because the host nation government had a moan, is a whole other level imo.
 
Couldn't stay awake for it last night, watched it this morning, huge win for England, very impressive, Pickford and Bellingham exceptional, Gordon too, best I've seen him play for England, didn't stop working. Subs all did well.

No complaints about the officiating, Kane and Quansah both guilty and punished accordingly.

Norway will be a different challenge, but beating Mexico there is huge.
 
Lemonade Money said:
This is a tough take. Thought we were pretty good generally, and our core of Kane, Bellingham, Anderson, and Pickford were excellent.
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Obviously part of our game approach was directed by being a man short.

But Tuchel didn't see it much different to me tbh.

One has to remember, although they had a major home advantage (crowd, altitude BUT not weather), their players aren't major players for European teams.
 
DeanoAustin said:
What @NoLimits01 said but also, there is a clear process in the EPL for overturning red cards and several precedents.

There has been no transparency on this decision. There have been 13 reds I think in the tournament and only one player has had this treatment without any explanation as to why. It's corruption.

There was uproar over this before confirmation of the Trump phone call.
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Maybe, I know this is out there, maybe they were deserved red cards.
 
DeanoAustin said:
It's not the point though. There has to be a transparent process to decide what's deserved and what's not and that process has to be made public up front.

Neither of those things happened.
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I wasn't aware there was no review process, seems pretty dumb.
USA should beat Belgium without balgoun, even with our star CB pairing, Belgium are pretty meh.
It was never a red imho, justice has probably been done, maybe not the way we would all like, but that's life unfortunately.
 
What has happened is clearly BS corruption but on the long run it will be for the good of the game. From what I can see they have argued that officials cannot make judgements based on slow motion replays with no context. Something that virtually football fan agrees with. Hopefully this is the death of VAR.
 
robp135 said:
What has happened is clearly BS corruption but on the long run it will be for the good of the game. From what I can see they have argued that officials cannot make judgements based on slow motion replays with no context. Something that virtually football fan agrees with. Hopefully this is the death of VAR.
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I thought it was a frame-by-frame stop/start review which was the issue? (To me that’s different to slo-mo which is still shows continuous movement just slowed down). But I didn’t watch the game so didn’t see how the incident was reviewed.
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
Trump has basically killed this WC, its just blatant corruption, how can it be taken anything like seriously now
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Plenty of dictators in history have wanted the World Cup won on home soil, as a mark of their, and their country's power.
If Trump wants the US to triumph, he needs a plausible way to get past the favourites, say allow Paraguay to kick lumps out of France with no comebacks. Let's see if that becomes a theme for the best sides.
 
Lemonade Money said:
Plenty of dictators in history have wanted the World Cup won on home soil, as a mark of their, and their country's power.
If Trump wants the US to triumph, he needs a plausible way to get past the favourites, say allow Paraguay to kick lumps out of France with no comebacks. Let's see if that becomes a theme for the best sides.
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"Dictator" lol
 
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