Paid Members hallicks Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 Just watched the highlights on iPlayer. Forgive my ignorance, but I thought they were Czechia now? Have they gone back to Czech Republic? Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 Decided to abandon my 3am alarm and catch up this morning. No game or highlights on ITVX or ITV YouTube at 6am. But the Beeb had the highlights up. Still the best. One to make @SuperBacon cry but I watched the Spain 1-5 Holland game on Beeb YouTube last night. Was presented from the BBC's base right on the beach in Rio. They were simpler times when the Beeb wasn't just another pawn in the political game. Enjoyable game last night. The three red cards were mad but I don't think there's much arguing with any of them. The last one I was surprised was a red but I like it. It was a proper cynical foul and I'd like to see them punished more often. Lovely moment for Raul Jiminez. Helped to start to feel like the football tournament is about, you know, football. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 12 Author Members Posted June 12 Or you could just go here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/m002v7zq Quote
NeverYield Posted June 12 Posted June 12 South Korea looked good I thought, I'd like to see them march on a bit in this tournament. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 12 Author Members Posted June 12 12 minutes ago, NeverYield said: South Korea looked good I thought, I'd like to see them march on a bit in this tournament. I'd love Sonny to go far and do well of course, and can definitely see them making the last 16/quarters. Quote
Briefcase Posted June 12 Posted June 12 Watched the 3am game last night probably against my better judgement but was a good watch, South Korea looked really good in moments and probably should have finished a few chances (Son missed about 3-4 good chances). Czech as expected more physical and looked dangerous on free kicks and corners. Annoyingly I missed the second South Korea goal as I went for a piss, came back and it was 2-1, didn't even catch the replays and wasn't going to wait to see the winning goal at full time. Referee let quite a few challenges go, 1 yellow at the end of the game but probably could have been a few on each side, the polar opposite to the earlier game in that respect. Quote
SaitoRyo Posted June 12 Posted June 12 3 hours ago, hallicks said: Just watched the highlights on iPlayer. Forgive my ignorance, but I thought they were Czechia now? Have they gone back to Czech Republic? Czechia is the shortened, more English (and tourist) friendly name of the Czech Republic. It only really became commonly used in the mid-2010s when the Czech government offiically approved its use and then everyone else began adopting it. I think a lot of people abroad still thought the country was called 'Czechoslovakia', so it's helped with that, if nothing else. It divides opinion over here. My Czech wife is not a fan, but a lot of people are either fine with it or don't care as it doesn't impact their life much. I personally don't really like it and would never call it that. Sounds too much like Chechnya to me, but I can see why other people would rather use it than Czech Republic. Quote
Paid Members Cod Eye Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 That ref cam has got the potential to record some iconic footage over the tournament. I was sceptical first, but after it showed that early Son miss from a few feet behind him, I can now see the potential of it! Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 2 hours ago, NeverYield said: South Korea looked good I thought, I'd like to see them march on a bit in this tournament. Just shows that the World Cup is still a useful measuring tool. I keep up with World Cup qualifying and the continental tournaments so it's obvious South Korea are a very good side in Asia but years ago, that wouldn't have meant much against a middling European side like the Czechs. South Korea are miles better than them though. Other than, fitting the steotypes nicely, set peices, the Czechs are nowhere near as good technically, couldn't match them for movement and invention and have no-one with the flair or pace that almost all the Koreans seem to have. They're an excellent unit. Fuck knows how they and Japan have failed to win the last two AFC titles. Quote
Paid Members Ronnie Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 5 hours ago, hallicks said: Have they gone back to Czech Republic? Nope: the BBC is ignoring Czechia's government's request from 2016 to use that form, as it is, if its group tables are indicative, Türkiye's request, too. FIFA, on the other hand, are abiding by the requests. One curiosity to note: the country's name hasn't changed. It's still the Czech Republic formally, but they would like the shortened form to be used. There's nothing new in this: nobody refers to the Federal Republic of Germany by its formal name, nor the French Republic. We truncate ours, too; we'll happily speak of “the UK” or “the United Kingdom” but only in the most formal of circumstances is “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” used. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 12 Author Members Posted June 12 44 minutes ago, Cod Eye said: That ref cam has got the potential to record some iconic footage over the tournament. I was sceptical first, but after it showed that early Son miss from a few feet behind him, I can now see the potential of it! They have quite a few videos from the Prem/Bundesliga/Serie a on YouTube that last a couple of minutes, and I think they're quite fun, ref cam can stay. It is a bit off putting that on the biggest stage of all, the refs look like they're about to take part in a Laser Quest session though Quote
Rossman Posted June 12 Posted June 12 South Africa really can't play out from the back. They couldn't really play forward either to be fair. Don't expect them to get any points in that group. Top shithousery from the linesman in the Czech Republic/South Korea game. As Soucek thought he put the Czechs in front, and ran off towards the byline to celebrate. He ran straight up to the linesman, who then put his flag up for offside. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 12 Paid Members Posted June 12 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Rossman said: Top shithousery from the linesman in the Czech Republic/South Korea game. As Soucek thought he put the Czechs in front, and ran off towards the byline to celebrate. He ran straight up to the linesman, who then put his flag up for offside. There was a suggestion before the tournament that the semi-automated offside tech is faster now. I wondered if the lino had been informed about it? On that, they said VAR will give corners now but there were two in the opening game at either end that were wrongly given as goal kicks and nothing happened. Edit: Catching up on The Rest Is Football on Netflix while working. Micah is appealling to Harry Kane to break Lineker's World Cup scoring record to shut Lineker up and Shearer says to Lineker: "I know what you'll be saying, it keeps me relevant. You're not fucking relevant. You're off the BBC and you're on Netflix with us." It's absolutely hilarious but doesn't say much for Netflix! Edited June 12 by tiger_rick Quote
Briefcase Posted June 12 Posted June 12 (edited) 16 minutes ago, tiger_rick said: On that, they said VAR will give corners now but there were two in the opening game at either end that were wrongly given as goal kicks and nothing happened. Apparently the rule is... - If a corner has been awarded but should be a goal kick then VAR can intervene - But they can't do so if a goal kick has been awarded that should have been a corner. The reasoning being that they wouldn't want a team to incorrectly score from a corner. Edited June 12 by Briefcase Quote
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