benjii

Yeah, can't wait to see the free flowing Russians in the next round.

My first thought too. It's got our name on it.

Explosive diarrhoea.

What's funny about that? If you review any corner or free kick into the box you'll see some sort of physical contact which is technically a foul.

You're a mess, mate. A proper sad case.

No, but reason enough not to engage VAR. Don't want VAR overturning decisions for minor off-the-ball incidents.

Not a penalty. Ramos was not fouled at all. Pique probably was a bit but was nowhere near getting the ball and it was at the low end of the foul spectrum.

Can't believe they took Costa off.

Keeper at fault for the winner. Was never in the right position. Wouldn't fancy England to beat Uruguay.

Quality.

Why are they so angry?

Bridge was garbage in his first few appearances as a left midfielder. I think it was the following season that he suddenly became a top left back.

Alain Snapchat? That's obviously a hoax rumour / smokescreen.

So they're like the Skates? Do they have the most passionate, most amazing, most best fans?

His cute little smile.

VAR producing a corrected outcome yet again.

That's fine in theory but what exactly do we do to ensure that? Throw the game? We will rotate that squad and so will Belgium and those players who come in will want to show the manager they should be in the starting eleven.

What would an Aberdeen fan know about football?

That's an abysmal chant. I'm no singing that pish.

He was trying to shrug off the guy who was deliberately impeding him moving towards the ball. He was fouled and responded a bit too vigorously but the arm action was a brushing-off, not an impact swing. Correct decision. Those who disagree are armchair fans who never played and got picked last at school. Fact.

Agree with all of this. Football could easily stamp out dissent, time wasting, etc. with a few changes in approach. Thinking back to last night, whilst the Cedric handball was a big error, over the two matches I think there were 4 VAR decisions: 1 - Portugal penalty. Original decision by ref: wrong. VAR review led to correct outcome. It was a clear foul. 2 - Ronaldo yellow card. Original decision by ref - didn't see it. VAR review - probably correct. It wasn't violent conduct but was probably a little too robust. 3 - Cedric handball. Original decision, correct. VAR decision, wrong. No idea why it was referred back to the ref. 4 - Spain goal. VAR confirmed that Aspaz was onside. So, despite all the furore, that's 3 out of 4 incidents where VAR improved the outcome. They need to tweak the referral process to make it faster and less intrusive but on the whole it seems to be producing better outcomes.

VAR was correct to enable the Ronaldo penalty and I thought the yellow card decision was correct too. It wasn't violent conduct, his arm was pointing down, he was trying to shrug the guy (who was trying to impede him) off. The penalty on Cedric was ridiculous. I don't understand why the VAR team even referred it back to the ref. And that incident took three minutes, but only 1.5 extra minutes were added.

#SalatforSalah

No problem with female commentators in principle. However, the ones that have been used thus far in football have irritating, too-high voices. It ends up sounding like a kid's homework project. Grating.