World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

[Terrierbyassociation]

Re: World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

EODS, one fatal flaw. This was at the end of the game so it was going to penalties after this. In hockey, the team could have survived the advantage because if they kept it tied they could have continued the game. Kept going.

Same with most sports.

Soccer has an almost fixed amount of time before ending.

 

[JohnN]

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Whatever the ref called is fine.


There is nothing analagous to literally stealing the game winning goal out of the net illegally.

What would happen if twenty hockey fans stormed the ice with :30 seconds left and built a human wall in front of the net? That's the only scenario close to being equal to this one.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

Whatever the ref called is fine.


There is nothing analagous to literally stealing the game winning goal out of the net illegally.

What would happen if twenty hockey fans stormed the ice with :30 seconds left and built a human wall in front of the net? That's the only scenario close to being equal to this one.

OT. Cross ice pass to a player on the back door. Goaltender is not in position whatsoever. Defenseman tackles open player before he gets a shot off.

Lifetime ban for the defenseman?

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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OT. Cross ice pass to a player on the back door. Goaltender is not in position whatsoever. Defenseman tackles open player before he gets a shot off.

Lifetime ban for the defenseman?

Anaheim signs him.

 

[jmh]

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Rather enjoyed that BOOT TO THE HEAD! of DeZeeuw.

BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Nyah, nyah

Awful goal to concede. He misread it all the way.

I thought maybe it took a little bit of a deflection off one of the defenders on the way through.

I do, however, see plenty of reason to want Uruguay to lose because it's ridiculous that such a mediocre team would go so far in the tourney.

And because their style is boring, and their games have been exciting mainly in spite of their best efforts.

And wasn't that a second yellow for Van Bommel and therefore a red??

What the heck?

No - and I know why you made this mistake. Boulahrouz got a yellow earlier in the match and the commentators mistook him for Van Bommel because they're similar sizes and have similar hair (and because Van Bommel is generally throwing himself all over the place).

Because it's a different sport with different rules. Not every sport needs to be Americanized, and there's no purpose for the NCAA's rule except that it wants to be different, which is an asinine reason to change a common rule. Just like the proposed icing rule in hockey sucks. And the NCAA can't even fall back on the "all our timed sports end at 0:00" because its field hockey rules allow the continuation of play past 0:00 under certain circumstances.

In football you have untimed downs on a defensive penalty at the end of a half (quarter, too?) to prevent the defense from ending things on a penalty. I think it's a pretty decent analogy to preventing a team defending a lead in a soccer game from capitalizing too much on time wasting - one free down is fairly comparable to letting a team that's trying to come back keep playing until the defending team gets a clear, in recognition of the imprecision of timing in soccer games.

So should I start MERTESACKER or RAMOS tomorrow?

Scoring:

Points Action
5 Goal
4 Defender clean sheet
3 Playing 61+ minutes
3 For each goal assist
2 Playing 31-60 minutes
1 Playing 1-30 minutes
1 For every save - Outfield player
1 For every 2 solo runs - Attacking Bonus
1 For recovering a ball - Defending Bonus
-1 Foul causing a penalty
-1 For every 2 goals conceded by your goalkeeper or defenders
-1 Yellow card
-2 For every penalty miss
-2 Own goal
-3 Red card (includes any yellow card points)

I'd say Ramos (despite his girl hair) because there's a better chance of him getting a goal or an assist.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

In football you have untimed downs on a defensive penalty at the end of a half (quarter, too?) to prevent the defense from ending things on a penalty. I think it's a pretty decent analogy to preventing a team defending a lead in a soccer game from capitalizing too much on time wasting - one free down is fairly comparable to letting a team that's trying to come back keep playing until the defending team gets a clear, in recognition of the imprecision of timing in soccer games.

It'd also be along the same lines of if the ball is snapped before the clock reaches 0:00 the play continues until it's dead.

 

[JohnN]

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So should I start MERTESACKER or RAMOS tomorrow?

Scoring:

Points Action
5 Goal
4 Defender clean sheet
3 Playing 61+ minutes
3 For each goal assist
2 Playing 31-60 minutes
1 Playing 1-30 minutes
1 For every save - Outfield player
1 For every 2 solo runs - Attacking Bonus
1 For recovering a ball - Defending Bonus
-1 Foul causing a penalty
-1 For every 2 goals conceded by your goalkeeper or defenders
-1 Yellow card
-2 For every penalty miss
-2 Own goal
-3 Red card (includes any yellow card points)

I'd go with Ramos as well. Mertesacker can have games where he is just invisible.

Or just ask the octopus.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5764787,00.html

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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So gehen die Deutschen, die Deutschen gehen so!
So gehen die Deutschen, die Deutschen gehen so!

So gehen die spanier, die spanier gehen so
So gehen die spanier, die spanier gehen so

[/Repeat]

 

[jmh]

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Sometimes "Van Der Vaart" sounds like "Van Der Fart".

 

[WeWantMore]

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So gehen die Deutschen, die Deutschen gehen so!
So gehen die Deutschen, die Deutschen gehen so!

So gehen die spanier, die spanier gehen so
So gehen die spanier, die spanier gehen so

[/Repeat]

Never thought I'd see the day, but I think I'm pulling for the Krauts as well. Far more likable than Spain or the Dutch ( 'cept for de Jong of course) in my mind.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Sometimes "Van Der Vaart" sounds like "Van Der Fart".

Sometimes?

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Never thought I'd see the day, but I think I'm pulling for the Krauts as well. Far more likable than Spain or the Dutch ( 'cept for de Jong of course) in my mind.

I like the way the Germans play as well, although my rooting interest was dictated long ago purely by heritage before I even began to understand they way each nation plays the game.