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Things that are a bit rubbish about this world cup
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Originally posted by Doraemon View PostThe player of the match awards (or at least the ones voted for by fans on twitter. Which I assume are the official ones). They have nearly all been for a player who has scored a goal for the winning team. There seems very little appreciation for any other contribution to the game. For example in the Holland v Japan game last night it went to Lieke Martens, who IMO had a poor game apart from her first goal and the fact she was the nominated penalty taker.
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The US President deciding to go after Rapinoe on his Twitter feed.
Though it did induce this fine response from Ali Krieger
[URL="https://twitter.com/alikrieger/status/1143941893086162945?s=21"]https://twitter.com/alikrieger/status/1143941893086162945[/URL]
If this becomes a thing, it has the potential to make him even more unpopular among many relatively well off suburban women who voted for him in 2016, but consider the USWNT to be genuine heroes.
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- Mar 2008
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- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Ponytails- I am simply objecting to sameness and will happily compile an XI of short-back-and-sidesers who have bucked the trend. Ms Felicity also points out that in the era of Argentine and other male longhairs players, while there were occasional ties and hairbands there were almost no ponytails (Redondo..?)
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Going back to haircuts, I believe this particular style is known as the Ribery. It is not often requested...
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Related to all the VAR and silly handball law complaints, it feels to me that the ratio of proper goals to goals from penalties seems inordinately high (certainly if you take out the blow-out wins against Thailand). I think that's rubbish. It may be increasing the goal count, which FIFA likes, but it seems to not really be real football. I just don't like it when too many games are decided by free-kicks and penalties rather than from proper goals from open play. And this tournament feels like it's fallen particularly heavily on the penalties.
(Expect someone to produce some stats to show that I'm wrong, but it's definitely how it feels)
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Dion Dublin as the token man in the BBC studio. He's not needed at all.
And why do we have to repeatedly watch David Beckham high fiving people in the crowd. I mean, it's good that he's there, but come on, we don't need to see that more than once. He's not the story!
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To be fair to the man himself, he has been a casual but definite supporter of the Women's game for a while (also true of John Terry). He should be able to attend a match along with his daughter, if that is what they want to do. Yes, he will be aware that it will be used and marketed and that he will be the 'face' of the England supporters in the stadium, but he is the face of everything he does. Possibly excluding using a mobile whilst driving and therefore losing his licence.
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