2026 FIFA World Cup Thread

[Phantom255x]

Fantastic way to open the World Cup, and the scoreline will help with goal difference as well 

I liked the fact that they made that rule change to allow the VAR to review diving which results in a yellow card (the "Mistaken Identity") rule. Tim Ream was initially booked for fouling Almiron because he performed an Olympic-worthy dive but the VAR notified the referee to review it on the video and on review the card was rescinded and Almiron was booked for simulation. Now if only we could do that in the NBA 

FIFA has it right. Meanwhile the NBA would just look away and maybe at best just say "oops we made an oopsie" in the L2M they post the day after (pointless) 

[SparzWizard]

Saw a meme from a basketball fan "how to watch grown men flop and complain for 90 minutes" and someone responds "how's that different from LeBron, SGA and the NBA?" 💀😬

USA played well against Paraguay last night. Pretty impressive.

[Moranis]

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