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Just now, Davkaus said:

Some might call it conspiracy, but I watched South Korea vs Italy.

Refs at FIFA tournaments don't deserve an ounce of trust.

The Spain game was just as bad with the  disallowed goals too that year. Soured the 2002 tournament for me all that.

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You have to assume that just off camera in the VAR room there's a quiet, well dressed man with a pistol on his lap staring menacingly at the team and occasionally reminding them how much he enjoyed his time in the KGB.

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6 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

If a player has 23 'key passes' in a game in which his team have scored 1 goal, the stat is bollocks.

There was a quite good article by Jorge Valdan in The Guardian this Friday about stats like this and similar stats.

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These days we know someone ran 12.345km during a game. An admirable figure but did he run to help? To get in the way? As he ran, did he think? We need the context. If not, let’s leave the numbers for something else

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/29/jorge-valdano-love-football-opposite-of-science

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Just now, sne said:

Russians are notorious bottle jobs, can't see them winning a penalty shoot out.

so with that said, congratulations Russia.

"Russia win 5-0 on penalties, with the referee controversially ruling every saved Russian penalty to be retaken due to handball".

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