General Football Thread

[Benjamin]

This Argentina Colombia game is crazy. They had a double red card incident that was unbelievable.

[Thrilla]

Watching the Bolivia - venezuela game, Bolivia got a free kick, and the ref straight away went to the spot where the foul happened, got out a can of spray paint, and made a mark as to where the free kick was to be held.

In South America refs have the spraypaint to mark the ten yards for the wall. It's an obvious yet brilliant move to curb one of the most irritating bits of football.

Does the paint fade away at all or are there just marks all over the pitch by the end of the game?

[Lineker]

iirc it fades after 30 seconds or so. Why it isn't used universally boggles the mind.

[Ant]

Health and Safety bullshit from the FA more than likely.

[EddieG]

Swear the referee at the China-Holland game is Juan Mata.

[METALMAN]

Doubtful

[Monkey D. Lars]

Guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUVoqB_qKeI

[Summers]

Wow.

[Lineker]

Mido has retired aged 30.

Nobody cared.

[Colly]

My mate once ran on a treadmill next to Mido. True story.

[Adam]

Mido can run?

[Colly]

Really fast apparently, despite it being at the end of one of those summers where he returned to Boro having gained 7 stone.

[Khain]

Watching the Bolivia - venezuela game, Bolivia got a free kick, and the ref straight away went to the spot where the foul happened, got out a can of spray paint, and made a mark as to where the free kick was to be held.

In South America refs have the spraypaint to mark the ten yards for the wall. It's an obvious yet brilliant move to curb one of the most irritating bits of football.

Does the paint fade away at all or are there just marks all over the pitch by the end of the game?

it's not paint, it's foam that disappears after 45-60 seconds. It's extra cheap, they sell it on the retail here and it's around 10 USD

[Lineker]

I call bullshit, Mido would never use a treadmill.

[Gazz]

I once ran on a treadmill next to Stan Collymore when he was harping on about making a return to the Premiership.

He got off after about four minutes, sweating like a paedo at a nativity play and then spent the next twenty trying to chat up a receptionist who clearly had no idea who he was.

[Adam]

Apparently Javier Mascherano got sent off in tonight's game against Ecuador for repeatedly kicking the guy driving the injury cart. Just...what.

[Lineker]

That segues nicely into this: The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has banned away fans from attending football matches after the death a supporter.

[Khain]

Police violence and brutality and they ban away fans. The stupidity of the AFA and Argentinian government never seems to stop.

[stokeriño]

Lionel Messi is being investigated for tax fraud...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22877408

[King Ellis]

That'll be him moving to Russia now to try and earn it back.

Or would that be Monaco now?