The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Carl]

Talal said:

Do you have a source on that? Because I legit only found one site saying that it should have been red. On the Soccer section of Reddit everyone thinks that a yellow card was the correct call.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/12/world-cup-2014-should-neymar-have-been-sent-off-before-equalising-for-brazil-against-croatia-4759800/

70% of the poll (however many people that is) say he should have been off.

http://www.crunchsports.com/category/soccer/brazil-3-1-croatia-neymar-scores-twice-amid-controversy-201406130001/

He was lucky to stay on.

http://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3999/world-cup-2014/2014/06/13/4879171/lovren-slams-referee-after-croatia-lose-opener

Lucky to escape a red card.

http://www.asiantribune.com/node/79985

Lucky to survive
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I could go on and find more, but I wont. The football world is split on it though.

On the funnier side of things, here is a video of Blatter being booed by thousands of people.