FIFA World Cup - Qatar 2022

IdleHans

Qatar manager looks disturbingly like the twat Danny murphy

Only not quite as miserable

ForeverAddickted

You watch... I bet Qatar are losing this game, so that when they beat the Netherlands 5-0, there cant be accusations of match fixing

ForeverAddickted

What was the deal with the Qatar bloke and his head piece in the stands?

DaveMehmet

ForeverAddickted said:

What was the deal with the Qatar bloke and his head piece in the stands?

Wear it or we’ll cut your hands off 

ValleyGary

That would have been a worldie

ForeverAddickted

Jeeez... that could have been goal of the tournament right there - Great effort from the Qatari

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Much better second half from Qatar 

ForeverAddickted

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

Much better second half from Qatar 

Primarily because Ecuador dont appear to be giving a shit

Cafc43v3r

queremos cerveza!

ForeverAddickted

Cafc43v3r said:

queremos cerveza!

Bless you

killerandflash

ForeverAddickted said:

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

Much better second half from Qatar 

Primarily because Ecuador dont appear to be giving a shit

Saving themselves for the next matches.

Or they have the same fitness training as Charlton

ForeverAddickted

Even Dion Dublin on commentary, sounds bored with having to come out with the mandatory positive crap

soapboxsam

1 match down.
63 to go.

ForeverAddickted

Great advertisement to prove how shite the World Cup will be in four years time, when we increase to 48-nations.

Leuth

They couldn't even fix this. They're so shit 

oohaahmortimer

Proper Emirates style stadium emptied early , it looked deserted 

SELR_addicks

Must be up there for worst opening game ever. 

moutuakilla

That offside is still baffling me. When the graphic of the knee being offside is shown there is another Qatar player playing him onside? They just delete him from the graphic

Fumbluff

Is that beard glitter?

EugenesAxe

Hope Qatar get absolutely spanked every match.

ValleyGary

The real deal starts tomorrow 

CAFCsayer

moutuakilla said:

That offside is still baffling me. When the graphic of the knee being offside is shown there is another Qatar player playing him onside? They just delete him from the graphic

It's not even just that, the graphic is from when the guy is playing the ball, not from when the ball is being played to him

Bournemouth Addick

Can't remember ever the host nation's fans leaving early in a WC. Ecuador completely shut the game down second half but still, why bother going? 

soapboxsam

ForeverAddickted said:

Great advertisement to prove how shite the World Cup will be in four years time, when we increase to 48-nations.

Gibraltar v Malta 2026 ?

We will be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Callumcafc

Proper snooze fest second half. Was only ever going to be that way once Ecuador got two goals in front.

se9addick

moutuakilla said:

That offside is still baffling me. When the graphic of the knee being offside is shown there is another Qatar player playing him onside? They just delete him from the graphic

The offside law is actually that any part of the body of the attacking player can’t be ahead of the second to last defensive player. We just don’t think of it in those terms because the goalkeeper counts as one of those defensive players and will almost always be the last man back. In this situation the ‘keeper was having a nightmare and came charging off his line meaning he was the second to last player and the Qatar defender behind him - the one you’re seeing deleted from the graphic - was the last man back. 

Here’s the actual law:

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

ForeverAddickted

ValleyGary said:

The real deal starts tomorrow 

England vs Iran will be interesting, with them our own nation - USA vs Wales | Dutch vs Senegal could be really decent match ups

RodneyCharltonTrotta

ValleyGary said:

The real deal starts tomorrow 

It's coming home 

moutuakilla

se9addick said:

moutuakilla said:

That offside is still baffling me. When the graphic of the knee being offside is shown there is another Qatar player playing him onside? They just delete him from the graphic

The offside law is actually that any part of the body of the attacking player can’t be ahead of the second to last defensive player. We just don’t think of it in those terms because the goalkeeper counts as one of those defensive players and will almost always be the last man back. In this situation the ‘keeper was having a nightmare and came charging off his line meaning he was the second to last player and the Qatar defender behind him - the one you’re seeing deleted from the graphic - was the last man back. 

Here’s the actual law:

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

Fair enough, don't usually pay attention to where the goalie is on an offside!

Gribbo

Is Lineker pissed?