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Post by monic on Jun 28, 2019 19:32:45 GMT
So far 1 booking and 1 goal but not for the same teams, its on but I'm barely watching
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Post by bidiein on Jun 28, 2019 19:52:05 GMT
Seems to be a bit of targeting of pink haired Rapiden…..not what we want in the ladies game!
Early goal but just the one. France could still do it.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 28, 2019 19:55:01 GMT
I don't know what it is about America but they make the teams playing them play like a bunch of thugs. France don't do that normally.
Bit of shame if Rapino is getting a kicking. She's the only one I've got any respect for.
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Post by bidiein on Jun 28, 2019 21:01:37 GMT
I wonder if - in the US - female footie is more popular than male footie (soccer as they call it) because girls are not allowed/discouraged to play American Football?
Rapino is an inspiring player and USA deserved their win. How the Lionesses will cope with them remains to be seen.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 28, 2019 21:54:18 GMT
It's hugely more popular amongst women in the US. In fact, it's regarded as a woman's sport. Which makes it even more annoying that the women's team still get paid less then the men's team, even though they are far more successful.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 29, 2019 14:06:14 GMT
Just saw highlights of the France game. How did they not get that penalty? According to the new rules, that was handball. We've seen teams go out of the competition because of handballs like that. So how did France not get a pen?
Honestly, the American team get every dodgy decision going. Always have done.
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Post by monic on Jun 29, 2019 18:14:47 GMT
The Germany team will be spitting mad as they have just been denied a penalty when the GK missed the ball and hit the German player BUT the player was offside when she attacked the ball.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 29, 2019 18:51:08 GMT
I know! I'm not sure the VAR was working today as neither game had any decisions from them. And there was a blatant foul on a German player before Sweden's 2nd goal.
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Post by beverley61 on Jun 30, 2019 18:25:51 GMT
The US team have a ban on any player playing outside of the country, similar to rugby here. Some of them think it is unfair because the men are allowed to play abroad (do they - woman on radio said so, but I missed the start and don't know if she was a player, journalist or caller- she was American). Anyway that's their rule and they think it makes the team better.
Mind you, the US is so big, it must be like playing across Europe anyway.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 30, 2019 19:10:43 GMT
I didn't know that! They don't mind having non-Americans playing over there though. Quite a few Brits have played for US teams.
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Post by HoraceCoker on Jun 30, 2019 20:09:36 GMT
...looks like a US v Holland/Sweden final......
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 7:09:52 GMT
Traitor!
I'm not holdng my breath, but hope we beat USA. At the moment I'm totally anti-American because they were stupid enough to put that idiot child in the Whitehouse.
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Post by beverley61 on Jul 1, 2019 11:32:24 GMT
I didn't know that! They don't mind having non-Americans playing over there though. Quite a few Brits have played for US teams. Yes, I heard Hope Solo talking about it, but then she launched into her woe is me, I was wronged spiel because she lost loads of sponsorship after she called Sweden (I think it was Sweden) cowards at the last World Cup (or somewhere). They played a tactical defensive game and beat the US. She was desperately trying to get her co-presenters to back her point of view because "Hey, we all want to win and play the game fair, right", "I mean you can't just defend and hope to get a break, that's not the game, that's cowardly - that's why I called them cowards". The silence from the others was deafening and the producer obviously cut in and we moved to the cricket scores!!! There was me thinking, a tactical defensive game is just what England need!!! Oh and Hope it is fair, it is playing the game, getting a goal on the break is completely legit, it's called tactics. |
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Post by Miranda on Jul 1, 2019 13:40:33 GMT
She is a nasty piece of work, Hope Solo. I was disappointed the BBC gave her the job, TBH.
She got sacked twice from the US team. The first time, I think, was when her boyfriend got arrested for drink driving and she, also drunk at the time, attacked one of the police officers. I think the charges got dropped eventually and she got back on the team. She also got arrested for attacking a family member but wasnt' charged for that.
She's now permanently sacked cos she kicked off with the coaching team when they dropped her for a game. The replacement keeper let in a couple of goals so Solo went on social media to say she should have been playing cos she would have saved them. The team refused to go on the plane home with her, there was a big row and the USFA had to buy her a ticket home on a different plane. That was on top of the Sweden 'coward' thing.
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Post by beverley61 on Jul 1, 2019 15:13:06 GMT
Jeez, how is she still working and why have the BBC employed her, we don't really need a US commentator, we could have got one from any country.
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Anymore to come?
