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Hilarious the rules! Go to overtime and don’t make it sudden death 😂

Why play extra time just to end up tied again? Now that is a riveting question 🙂

Did you forget that?

Never has a team been eliminated in the NHL playoffs in a shoot out and overtime goes until one team scores. Sometimes for several extra periods. But yes, the Olympic tournament is also a farce to use the hilarious rules of the World Cup and Euro. At leas... 

Yes, hockey playoffs are sudden death but in a much smaller space, and with unlimited substitutions. Soccer is a different animal. And the world has accepted the rules the game is played by. It’s not stupid, or sad, or embarrassing. It’s the nature of the... 

3-3 for five minutes followed by penalty shots, with two points for the winner and one for the loser. I find the new system pathetic, in case you’d like to know 😂 Playing surface area is irrelevant and teams can’t bring in extra players. They play until a... 

You don’t like the game. Do you really feel it’s necessary to tell the rest of us that you don’t like soccer every time someone posts about the World Cup?

Having extra time to try and settle things through open play and only resorting to penalties if open play doesn’t resolve things seems sensible to me. I think you previously suggested letting open play continue until either party scores. That’s fair but t... 

I’m surmising that you must have had a traumatic experience that has left you with such a vitriolic opinion.

I said before, I played the game for my school and enjoyed my teammates and have nothing but fond memories of it all ⚽️ I also played on the hockey and basketball teams. Also loved individual sports like high jump, tennis, swimming, skiing and skateboardi... 

the best team, but they have that timeless Balkan fighting spirit, and that alone can clearly get them quite far........

And for the second time in a row. Exceptional perfomance. Not spectacular, I agree, but exceptional. Best, Nicolas

Most people tend to forget that Croatia was runner up 4 years ago (no matter what system they play with).

I enjoy watching them as much as anyone else. I do wish they’d win or lose in the first 90 minutes. Just for the hell of it.

I think there may be a divine law that says Croatia has to go to penalties before the game can end. Except in the Final.

...on the Neymar goal. He did a bullfighter Olé instead of diving onto the ball. And no, I am not a professional, but I did break my finger diving onto a ball like this. I broke my finger but I saved the shot and we won the game : )

Won't be easy against Argentina.... whom I predict will go all the way. Morocco and France to make it later?

However, I think the talent and experience of France, as world champions, will result in a French win. I hope I am wrong 😀! May the best team win (and not by penalties!). All the best, Jon

Harry Maguire 😅

for the second penalty in a game. Don’t give the keeper a second chance to see your approach. Even more so when the keeper is your club team mate. But that’s so easy to say now…..