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...

"England knock Colombia out of World Cup in penalty shootout."

Pardon?

"England knock Colombia out of World Cup in penalty shootout."

Amazing! Poor Columbia. It couldn't have happened to a nicer team. Tee hee hee.

:-)

They cheated so much....England deserved to win.....fabulous moment.....

Q. Do penalty shootout goals count towards the 'golden boot competition'?

A. No. Balls successfully kicked into the goal during a shoot-out do not count as goals for the individual kickers or the team, and are tallied separately from the goals scored during normal play (including extra time, if any).

England go through on penalty shootout shock...never a moments doubt here of course 😂

Some happy little bunnies on here tonight ?

Anyone fancy a rematch with Belgium in the final game ?

Thought we were poor after good start , still well behind top countries in play , unable to run with ball at speed , top teams much slicker more inventive more variation and nous in attack , Lindgarde , Alli , Sterling , not world class . Sweden may suite us better .

Didn't realise Sweden were responsible for our accommodation VIC. What's wrong with the place we have?
On a serious note, Sweden look strong and well balanced. No team is a pushover in cup football but Dil may be right. Belgium v England looks a good possibility.

Awful refereeing last night - but my god how filthy were those south american coke heads

Come on FIFA - do something about it

Well said Joe and how the hell do so many fans from these third world countries afford to go to the World Cup ?

Colombian marching powder.

The Colombians interpretation of soccer on the field and off (Sterling being shouldered by Colombian coach) must be punished by FIFA because that game was not enjoyable at all except for the final result of course, Sweden will be difficult but they don't do sly things like last night, England will need to be far more clinical in the next game !...….fantastic opportunity to progress to the semis !.....

Yeah they crossed a line , i mean they crossed the line .

Very weak refereeing throughout this tournament has just sent the message to certain teams that they can get away with it, and they have sadly.

What VAR has done for the game is unclear and has only confused the issue.

There's something strange going on in some camps , if you remember the Panama team were in total disbelief the Ref was booking them , a bit the same as others like last night , told not to wrestle and seconds later obvious and stupid penalty given . whether they think VAR is there to aid them in their tactics , don't know . But why the Ref stood arguing with them for nearly five mins , don't know that either .

Hot headed latin blood....it's in their nature to argue with everything!
How good of Rashford to step up and coolly take a penalty. Not sure why some of the other senior players didn't volunteer.
VAR is still subject to modification, but in general I think it has improved the game. The major complaint was the delay between offense & VAR review. That has now almost been resolved.
England v France final would be a win, win for me......with England victory, of course!

VAR is still subject to modification.

Harry, the 1st big mistake was to trial VAR at a major tournament, other trials have normally been tried in the lower leagues first. Probably not practical with this particular piece of gear but certainly paying the price now.

Maybe Stan, but do you really want a system which is absolutely infallible.
The game is played by humans and refereed by humans, all of whom make mistakes.
You could say that the Colombian players who deliberately tried to damage the penalty spot before the final shootout are subject to a yellow card.
In my opinion, there is always going to be a certain amount of bending of the rules. Human nature!

Not a case of bending the rules Harry more like tearing them up in front of the ref. and getting away with it, contact sports have never been easy to ref. but if you don't crack down on the basic laws broken then as we can see its a slippery slope downhill.

Huddersfield and District League back in the 1960s was peak of my playing days. Refs only stopped the game for an obvious broken leg and any arguing with the ref was met with a sending off (no cards in those days). Funnily enough, it did not happen very often. Time wasting antics these days a disgrace. Disappointed when Dier (not Rashford) came on for Dele Alli, inviting them on to us, but reconsidered after the final penalty!

Indeed a form of zero tolerance with some.. and I do mean some small flexibility.

Ed: Apparently goal line technology is separate from VAR which I had thought was now included in VAR.

Ed: I was wrong about VAR not being used first in the lower league, as it was used in some early FA Cup games last season.