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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

Slap Shot said:
Why does the SEA stadium look like it was made piecemeal and not in a good way? It's ridiculously ugly.

Hope the U.S. doesn't have any more games scheduled there.

And yes I am bitter the Twin Cities didn't get a sniff of this WC despite the fact it would have been a fantastic host in every imaginable way.
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Minneapolis pulled out on their own because FIFA wouldn’t share more cost details during the bid process. Otherwise they probably would’ve been selected.
 
MichVandal said:
Don't they commonly introduce new ball designs for WC events? Which changes the aerodynamics quite a bit.

To say that the analysis is very accurate, but not new.
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Yeah, I think it was 2010 there was a big hullabaloo because Adidas came out with a ball that was glued rather than sewn so it was technically “rounder” than any ball before and changed the movement.
 
MichVandal said:
Don't they commonly introduce new ball designs for WC events? Which changes the aerodynamics quite a bit.

To say that the analysis is very accurate, but not new.
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TBF, the ball was introduced well before the World Cup and the teams have had plenty of time to prepare with it.
 
Question to the true enthusiasts- are they letting more physical play happen than normal? Seems when I watch English football, a lot of the tackles where the ball handler is just knocked down is called a penalty. So it's interesting to me to see players just get knocked down and the ball is turned over. By knocked down, shoulder to shoulder check.
 
The English game is called tighter than most other leagues, but it seems to have been a point of emphasis for the officials to let the players decide this and only get involved if truly necessary. A lot of things are getting let go that wouldn't normally fly in most leagues, certainly not England. As long as the officials let it go both ways (and they seem to be) that's fine. Everyone should understand by now that the officiating is lax and adjust accordingly. The worst thing is when you get inconsistency and no one knows where that line is. So far that doesn't seem to be an issue. Normally it's "no blood no foul" but the other night a player literally drew blood with a tackle and it wasn't even a foul, much less a card.
 
ticapnews said:
The English game is called tighter than most other leagues, but it seems to have been a point of emphasis for the officials to let the players decide this and only get involved if truly necessary. A lot of things are getting let go that wouldn't normally fly in most leagues, certainly not England. As long as the officials let it go both ways (and they seem to be) that's fine. Everyone should understand by now that the officiating is lax and adjust accordingly. The worst thing is when you get inconsistency and no one knows where that line is. So far that doesn't seem to be an issue. Normally it's "no blood no foul" but the other night a player literally drew blood with a tackle and it wasn't even a foul, much less a card.
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Which league is officiated more like this? It's kind of fun. And some less getting shot and rolling around on the ground.
 
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