• suction@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The men’s World Cup was also subject to heavy “scripting” by FIFA through the referees. You give FIFA way too much credit, there’s just no way 16 minutes of overtime are reasonable in a WC final at 1:0

    Also I was sort of rooting for England, they are so poor now and their country is going down the drain, this World Cup win would have given them hope and a way to be a little proud again, even if just for a short while…

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      11 months ago

      How is it ‘scripting’ when most of the games have tonnes of injury time? This is how they’re applying the injury time consistently to address the problem of time wasting etc at World Cups. They’ve been very transparent about this.

      They’re taking the same approach in Premier League and EFL games this season. Sheffield Wednesday vs Southampton the other week had 15 minutes of injury time too.

      Just accept you made a ludicrous argument and were wrong.

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        11 months ago

        The PL also has a bad reputation for exaggerated overtime, compared to all other European leagues.