European Championships 2024 ⚽ 🏆 ⚽

[Bill Madrid]

How can Belgium ALWAYS underperform? It's like that kit is a curse.

Because their squad has a combined age of 1,097

 

[Airfixx]

Oh come on. How can they (VAR) take only a minute to decide if it was a handball? In PL we take at least 5 minutes.

Yeh... Where's the showmanship and tension building?

You'd never have time for an indignant Gary Neville monlogue in such a short space of time either......

Game's gone.

 

[LLB Part Deux]

Very happy scenes here in the Slovak half of the LLB household.

 

[RicharliSon]

Winning your opener isn't for everybody.

 

[Starks]

Fair play, good result for Slovakia. First real shock of the tournament.

 

[Jay Ban]

That was entertaining.

 

[Airfixx]

How can Belgium ALWAYS underperform? It's like that kit is a curse.

That team reminds me SO much of the past England Golden Gen (Gerrard & co.)......

 

[Starks]

That snicko thing was weird wasn't it. Have we seen that before?

View: https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/1802761783658025178?t=ybe5cehZN1ctKJhVljcT9Q&s=19

 

[Yiddy]

He's battling with the player. He's tried to hold him off and the opposition players strength pushed his arm forward which then touched the ball. Very very harsh is he supposed to not try to defend the ball.

 

[The Swellhead Spur]

He's battling with the player. He's tried to hold him off and the opposition players strength pushed his arm forward which then touched the ball. Very very harsh is he supposed to not try to defend the ball.

Not defend the ball with his hand no

 

[Starks]

The bigger shock was realising Belgium are ranked 2nd in Europe

 

[Brian Fantana]

He's battling with the player. He's tried to hold him off and the opposition players strength pushed his arm forward which then touched the ball. Very very harsh is he supposed to not try to defend the ball.

Yeah it’s not handball really but I can see why the ref had to give it nowadays.

 

[Airfixx]

LOL at the studio twats effectively telling the FIFA ref official that she's wrong........

 

[Yiddy]

Not defend the ball with his hand no

He's holding the player off who then forces his arm forward while coming behind himwhich then connects with the ball.

 

[Deuterz]

That team reminds me SO much of the past England Golden Gen (Gerrard & co.)......

They're in their Hodgson's first Euros stage of that golden generation. Their WC semi final was when they were in the peak of it, aka probably when we went out to an incredible Brazil side ... like us, they had a good team but France had a better one.

Now the stars are creaking with some retired, and you're getting the Gary Cahill level types creep in to the team.

 

[Football Chap]

He’s much more Carlos Vinicius than anything Ndombele like tbh. Just a donkey.

Vinigoal slander!?

 

[The Swellhead Spur]

Remember the Kane Vs Lukaku comparisons?
At every fucking moment that was a joke

 

[Fat Abbot]

I snapped the guys leg from a challenge but I didn't mean to snap his leg so it doesn't count.

Clown logic

…. except for the fact that the handball rule explicitly says ‘deliberately’

It is an offence if a player:

• deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm, for example moving the hand/arm towards the ball
• touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger […]

 

[Crockett]

We had a worse one ... Moura vs Sheffield.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STbB_Y73z3A

 

[Deuterz]

…. except for the fact that the handball rule explicitly says ‘deliberately’

Wrong.

When it comes to handballs leading up to goals, deliberate or not is irrelevant.

• scores in the opponents’ goal:
  • directly from their hand/arm, even if accidental, including by the goalkeeper
  • immediately after the ball has touched their hand/arm, even if accidental