Posted on 06/23/2010 4:38:14 AM PDT by Perdogg
USA v Algeria 10am EDT
USA win, they are in!
What football thread? I thought this was about soccer.
Meanwhile, in the other game, Rooney is taken out, and he’s pissed!
Basically. If
(a) you are on the half of the field where the goal you score on is
and
(b) the ball is behind you. That is, you are closer to the goal you score on than the ball is.
Then,
at least two players from the opposite team must be closer to the goal than you are at the time a pass is played to you.
The rule is made to stop basket hanging, cherry picking, e.g. standing next to the other goalie waiting for a pass.
You can mostly assume that the goalie is on the goal line, so you mostly look at where the defender closest to the goal is when a pass occurs.
The black line on the TV replays they are showing is a line drawn through the defender who's closest to the goal he's guarding.
If an offensive player is in the black, he's offside.
This is a basic description. There are some variables involved, but if you can get a grasp of the basic rule you should be able to understand the calls most of the time.
USA is running out of time.
Come on only 10 minutes left to play!
Go USA!
USA has to go for it now, however, big danger of giving up one here.
JESUS CHRIST the referee SUCKS. THis should have been a penalty kick for the USA
This sucks, I’d rather lose all three games, than go out like this.
Soccer is dead here, stick a fork in it.
Go for it USA. Now it`s time for full risk.
It´s all or nothing!
There always is when you make the field bigger, but they showed they can do it the other day.
How much stoppage time did you think will be added?
Looks like we can stick a fork in this World Cup :-(
England Slowenia over 1:0
At the moment England and Slowenia in the next round.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
HOLY CRAP!!!!!! GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!
ZOMG
OMG GOAAAALLLL USA
England and USA in the next round!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!@
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