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• Money talks, and FIFA benefits far more from England reaching the semi-finals than Norway. It’s a known fact....
  Svein-Roger Jensen in The 2026 World Cup — 3rd Quarter-Final
• And what about the clear elbow to the back of the Norwegian player trying to score a goal? Should have been a penalty right?rnrnPeople are upset that the var is seemingly used at random and not for every important decision....
  Svein-Roger Jensen in The 2026 World Cup — 3rd Quarter-Final
• And what about the clear elbow to the back of the Norwegian player trying to score a goal? Should have been a penalty right?rnrnPeople are upset that the var is seemingly used at random and not for every important decision....
  Svein-Roger Jensen in The 2026 World Cup — 4th Quarter-Final
• Anyone watching this one? If so, can you help me understand how the free-kick Tagliafico was awarded in the 47th minute is in any significant way different to Spence putting his leg across the defender to protect his possession of the ball for the overturned penalty? I agree it’s a ‘soft’ foul because one player is effectively preventing the other from getting to the ball when they don’t actually have any contact with the ball themselves, but those are given as free-kicks consistently. A penalty is just something awarded for a free kick offence that occurs in the penalty area. There is no ‘higher bar’....
  Si Cooper in The 2026 World Cup — 4th Quarter-Final
• The best team did not win tonight. The game should have been over in regulation time. Norway were robbed. This result is so wrong and bad for the sportrn...
  Svein-Roger Jensen in The 2026 World Cup — 3rd Quarter-Final
• HAHAHAHAHA that link is to some Norwegian spiel untranslated and nowhere do the names Burn or Rooney appear. Or, perhaps you could show us where they do Svein-Roger in English so that suspicions that you make crap up can be cleaned up. ...
  Paul Griffiths in The 2026 World Cup — 3rd Quarter-Final