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Agree, it will be very close. A lot is being made though of them having only lost 2 in 88 at home, but they play in CONCACAF so aside from USA and Canada they only really play Central American and Caribbean nations who are all lowly ranked. And the two they did lose were Costa Rica and...

International betting markets also have England as clear favourites.

Not with the bookies ...

Kane hasn't helped with the way he went down. I think it is a penalty, but the way they have done VAR in this tournament (except for contact on keepers) there's no way VAR would be getting involved.

I've been around a lot younger, us older referees are more professional and less potty mouth * 😂 * exemptions exist, one of which may be me

Yeah, to coin an old phrase he would would have to be licking his boots for there to be a retake there.

Bad luck unfortunately, if there was an allegation of something being said and he hadn't covered his mouth there would be no action unless the referee had heard it. I don't really think it is based on assumptions, whether they have covered the mouth is black and white, and it is usually easily...

Suspect IFAB told them they can't just make it up as they go along.

Was it SPA though, I'm not sure the attacker was getting the ball before it went out of play? Although given he didn't even give the free kick that is a moot point.

Isn't just the US, I was on holiday last week so watched most of the games on BeIN Sports and they broke to adverts. I'm actually amazed ITV haven't, some advertising executive has probably already received his P45.

Yes, it is a loophole, a sub can be made immediately even if the player going off has received treatment. Same as with the 30 second "rule" PGMO used last season.

It was a FIFA decision, but do you really don't think they were leaned on by someone? From what understand FIFA aren't making any money out of the breaks, but some companies certainly will be which makes me suggest an element of lobbying went on. The problem is with them being 3 minutes, which...

Poor law wording again, I just do t see how something that is subjective can be a clear and obvious error. VAR was brought in to remove absolute howlers from the game, if something is subjective it doesn’t fall into that category in my opinion.

LOL, I was still in short trousers at primary school in 1982 so definitely don’t remember it. Heard it discussed on talkSPORT earlier in relation to the game last night. Hawksbee and Jacob’s show so they were definitely both old enough to remember it.

Everything in football at the moment is about squeezing out as much competitive advantage as you can, can’t see why they wouldn’t do it.

The outcome is taken into effect in pretty much all walks of life of life. If you hit and kill someone driving at 28 mph in a 30 zone you will probably face no further action, hit them at 32mph and you are facing prosecution and probably jail time. If that person you hit just has a few bruises...

This has been a problem for ever even before it was 48 teams. Classic being 1982 when both Germany and Austria knew that a 1-0 German win would guarantee both teams progressed. Germany scored after 10 minutes and then neither team played football, it became known as the disgrace of Dijon and the...

Surely VAR should be staying out of subjective decisions? Subjective is the polar opposite to clear and obvious, VAR should be going nowhere near subjective decisions. Although I don’t actually think this was a subjective decision.

The point is it is more important now. Previously they had that 50/50 chance and it didn’t affect their chance of taking the first penalty. Now it does, and effectively to get “supporter advantage” they have to give up that first kick. If I was an owner I would be 100% relocating the away...

Kind of agree, but the law wording doesn’t help. If you commit a foul, and the referee penalises it, that breaks an opponents leg how can it possibly be argued that you didn’t endanger their safety? It is black and white, you broke his leg in two places with a foul challenge, you didn’t mean to...