*Official* Women's Football World Cup 2019 thread

[MW1304]

Cameroon refusing to play because they don't understand the offside rule. Interesting.

 

[cpr]

Reckon they got absolutely shafted for their goal though, all it proved to me was that she was level.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

One of her feet was offside.

 

[andmark]

About the only football match where it'd be interesting to post about in the Political Correctness thread.

 

[Uppercut]

Hoping to catch one game this tournament that isn't dominated by some kind of head-melting VAR controversy.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

If players are going to behave like that when the decisions are so obviously correct there's not much hope. The VAR errors in that game were the non retrospective viewing of the elbow, plus England not getting a penalty and the lack of a red card for the last minute foul. I would hope the last two were the referee believing with the game won and lost she might as well let it go.

 

[sledger]

Displeasing scenes

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Hoping to catch one game this tournament that isn't dominated by some kind of head-melting VAR controversy.

It's gotten exhausting. Can't wait for it in the Premier League.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It was pretty pathetic stuff from Cameroon.

As LT says one hopes the ref was turning a politic blind eye late on because, in isolation, there were a couple of howlers.

 

[marc71178]

If the early elbow had ended up as a red would Cameroon have behaved better?

 

[wpdavid]

If the early elbow had ended up as a red would Cameroon have behaved better?

Not sure how that would have affected the dissent and refusal to restart after the VAR decisions. Maybe the last minute stamp on Houghton, but the game was over by then anyway.

I was wondering what the referee was supposed to do when they refused to restart after our 2nd goal. Yellow cards to all of the outfield players? Or maybe just to the captain.

What's been lost in all the brouhaha about the Cameroon's behaviour is how poor we were for long parts of the game; just as we were against Japan actually. Greenwood, Bright and Duggan particularly culpable, but the central midfield was pretty ordinary too.

 

[marc71178]

It might have stopped the spitting and violence a bit?

FIFA have now said the referee’s performance was good and she got the VAR calls right. However they’ve also said they could take retrospective punishment against all 3 potential red cards...

 

[wpdavid]

It might have stopped the spitting and violence a bit?

FIFA have now said the referee’s performance was good and she got the VAR calls right. However they’ve also said they could take retrospective punishment against all 3 potential red cards...

Maybe. And lets hope something does happen about what should have been red card incidents.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

After that USA penalty they might just as well abolish football.

 

[andmark]

FFS, the BBC's online video coverage is so far behind that England just scored their third, and I knew they were going to score because the text already said "0-3". If the video is to be behind, the text may as well be also.

 

[wpdavid]

Much better performance last night. Helped by Stokes replacing Greenwood. And massively helped by Houghton being fit; she really is terrific. Needs to be mind you, with Bright still accident prone along side her.

 

[andmark]

Much better performance last night. Helped by Stokes replacing Greenwood. And massively helped by Houghton being fit; she really is terrific. Needs to be mind you, with Bright still accident prone along side her.

Yeah, I was very impressed. England had a well organised pressing structure, including encouraging Norway to pass into pressing traps. And yeah, as you say, Steph Houghton has had a very good tournament from what I've seen. Seems to be a very good player.

 

[Uppercut]

Phil Neville is a crashing bore.

 

[sledger]

Phil Neville is a crashing bore.

Haha he is, but yet I have warmed to him quite a lot over the last year or so. He is much better in his capacity as a coach than he ever was as a pundit.

 

[Uppercut]

Haha he is, but yet I have warmed to him quite a lot over the last year or so. He is much better in his capacity as a coach than he ever was as a pundit.

By all accounts he's doing quite a good job, but every time he opens his mouth I cringe.