Yeah, sure, Argentina is the only team that fouls and gets away with it. *wanking hand motion*.
If it weren't such a pointless exercise it would be trivial to find 5, maybe 10 fouls Spain got away with, some that legitimately could have changed the game like Messi being fouled just outside the box deep in ET down 1-0. For the third or fourth time I will reiterate that Argentina was outplayed and deserved to lose the game to Spain.
Hate who you want to hate, but what rankles me is the idea that there is some moral or ethical superiority implied by your sporting preference. The Argentina hate this WC has really gotten out of hand. The New Yorker, The Nation, Jacobin have all done articles about the merits or not of supporting or rooting against Argentina for various political or racial reasons. Even Palestine got dragged into this somehow (Netanyahu supported Argentina so supporting Argentina is anti-Palestinian). The New York Post did a manufactured outrage story about that dirty Messi leading Argentina in turning their backs on Spain during the trophy presentation (of course, they did not do a story in 2018 or 2022 when the second place team had already left the field).
And as a postscript to the Paredes incident, Gavi the Spanish player who Paredes shoved to the ground (after Gavi shoved him) said that he didn't think there should be any suspensions or discipline.
Personally I think a game or three is reasonable. But Paredes is not some unique evil player. Gattuso, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, De Jong, do the people calling Paredes a thug think those guys were thugs too? (To me, and I love Rino Gattuso, they are perhaps all thugs, but also the hard man enforcer is a part of football, not a uniquely Argentinian one).
If it weren't such a pointless exercise it would be trivial to find 5, maybe 10 fouls Spain got away with, some that legitimately could have changed the game like Messi being fouled just outside the box deep in ET down 1-0. For the third or fourth time I will reiterate that Argentina was outplayed and deserved to lose the game to Spain.
Hate who you want to hate, but what rankles me is the idea that there is some moral or ethical superiority implied by your sporting preference. The Argentina hate this WC has really gotten out of hand. The New Yorker, The Nation, Jacobin have all done articles about the merits or not of supporting or rooting against Argentina for various political or racial reasons. Even Palestine got dragged into this somehow (Netanyahu supported Argentina so supporting Argentina is anti-Palestinian). The New York Post did a manufactured outrage story about that dirty Messi leading Argentina in turning their backs on Spain during the trophy presentation (of course, they did not do a story in 2018 or 2022 when the second place team had already left the field).
And as a postscript to the Paredes incident, Gavi the Spanish player who Paredes shoved to the ground (after Gavi shoved him) said that he didn't think there should be any suspensions or discipline.
Quote:"Should the Argentine players be sanctioned? I don't think they should be suspended. I understand that it's not a good image for children, but there's that part of football that's a bit more violent.https://x.com/sudanalytics_/status/20796...42458?s=20
It's all football and it has to always be that way."
Personally I think a game or three is reasonable. But Paredes is not some unique evil player. Gattuso, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, De Jong, do the people calling Paredes a thug think those guys were thugs too? (To me, and I love Rino Gattuso, they are perhaps all thugs, but also the hard man enforcer is a part of football, not a uniquely Argentinian one).