All things Football (soccer) related

[RangerJoe]

A follow up on Canadian soccer, I know that most of the world refer to it as football but they also have another sport called football.

"FIFA has deducted six points from Canada in Olympic women's soccer standings and banned three coaches for one year amid a drone-spying scandal at the 2024 Paris Olympics."
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". . . (FIFA) issued a fine of CHF $200,000 (about $312,700) against the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA)."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/fifa-dedu ... -1.6980085

[warspite1]

New season - same old Spurs. I hate football so much…… oh well, there’s always next year…….

[Orm]

This season was ruined almost as soon as it begun six months ago. Pretty much nothing worked and way to many points lost. But feels better now somehow. Six straight wins can have that effect.

Maybe, just maybe, we have a chance of getting a spot to the euros this year.

[RangerJoe]

A retirement . . .
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/arti ... 24evjm9gno

[Orm]

The football season ended on a positive note.

The men had a strong finish of the season and managed to take third place, after an abysmal first half of the season.

The ladies won the final game of the season, and that secured a place in the top league for next season. Well done.

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Not sure what I think of VAR. Why having it when a goal that is legit according to the offside rules gets disallowed by VAR for being offside. The VAR team took the offside on the wrong player. A saw a notice that that VAR team is now suspended. Anyway. What is the point of having these delays if they get it wrong anyway. Bah.

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Rumania vs Kosovo. Not sure what I think here. Doesn't feel right to award Rumania a 3-0 win for Kosovo 'forfeiting' the game when it was only one minute of stopping time remaining (approximately), and the score 0-0. On the other hand. Kosovo refusing to play because they do not like what they hear from the audience is not right either.

I probably think that the score when the match was broken should be the final score, and then the teams should get other punishments instead. I lean towards that matches should be settled on the field.