It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Another England win which was never in doubt.. onwards and sideways 😀

We’ve even picked up at least one Welsh fan on the journey as well..welcome aboard Dill 😂

Raheem's gun got jammed when he went to pull the trigger from all of 6 yards out.

Sterling is like a number of very quick players in that his strike rate is quite poor relative to chances.

Theo Walcott springs to mind. Huge potential, but somehow never quite got there.

"Polish football fans on a rampage in Moscow. Police say over 300 cars have been washed,waxed and hoovered".

Very good Skinny I like that 😃

Yes Walcott’s in the same mould.

Lol skinny.

Stan , lets not get carried away shall we. I said England played well and deserved the win but I was supporting Tunisia and will be sat in the pub Saturday with my Panama colours on :-)

And can we have Heaton back please.

But Dil being carried away is what England fans do you should know that by now...I’ll have a word with Tom but don’t build your hopes up 😄

Portugal are relying far too much on Ronaldo I fear...….crazy situation where their team is not really that good but they have this extraordinary goalscorer that pulls the rest of their team along.....if the situation arises where he gets injured or has a bad day they could exit the competition….

And yet they won the Euro's without him in the final , don't make sense really does it rf .

Argentina were pathetic despite all that talent available. The coach resembles a bovver boy and Maradona was in the VIP section, with his nurse (or dealer), watching it on telly. Doesn't improve viewing it that way. Maybe he should have sent a pickmeup down to the bench.
Looking good for Iceland since Croatia are likely to rest players for their game.

Best part for me was watching Primadonna suffer. Never liked the arrogant little tw@t. Come on Iceland !!!

Apologies. I have since learnt that the guy sitting next to Maradona was there to put him back in his high chair as he has the habit of falling out.

I was wondering why Maradona needed a sizeable gold wrist watch on both hands. One presumably contained a little powdered pick me up!

Two watches - time zones, or doesn't have to remember on which arm he put his watch.

Still the best player of his type I've seen.

An awful lot of rank bad bone crushing tackles in this game should have red carded At least 6 players mainly Argentinians.

Well deserved win by Brasil. They have a pride in their shirt that the Argies seem to lack. Referees are still too lax in cutting out cynical fouls, in my opinion.

Are we having VAR in the Premier League this season ?

There were two excellent examples of VAR in use , the penalty awarded for Neymar then taken way rightly so and the non penalty for Iceland against Nigeria which was then given quite rightly , so i think when it gets more common it will be a credit .

I'm still trying to get my head around how VAR works.

I think, and I could be wrong, that any interventions towards the referee's decisions, or lack thereof, are all down to the four appointed and uniformed referees in the control room. No one else has any say.

What I would like to see, are players allowed to pressure the referee and make him have a look at the VAR.

In England's last match, Harry Kane was deliberately fouled and brought to the ground twice and in the penalty area. Pundits thought both fouls on Kane deserved a penalty - but one might have been an exception when, at the same time as one of these fouls on Kane, one of the England players also brought down a Tunisian opponent, thereby creating a 'tit for tat' and a foul neutralisation. IMHO, the England captain had two legitimate claims for a penalty with these but for some reason, the Colombian official Wilmar Roldan, waved them both away.

Here's a Tunisian, facing the wrong way and grappling Kane to the ground:



I would have hoped to see Kane make some sort of an appeal for a penalty himself. No doubt it's because he is a true and proper gentleman and doesn't even have ANY tattoos. :-)

I didn't know about 'foul neutralisations'. I always thought a foul is a foul and is always deservant of a free kick.

Please correct me if I've got this wrong.

Have a look at: https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/var-england-tunisia-harry-kane-foul-penalty/