# World Cup 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 7, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615 "2018-06-07T18:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/801 "2018-06-27T05:23:38Z")
> **[Why the World Cup is better on Telemundo](https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/im-watching-world-cup-telemundo-loving-every-minute-20180617-CMS-244913.html)** > > After watching FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 World Cup for the first three days of the tournament, I've given up on their poor, dumbed-down coverage. Instead, I've switched to watching the World Cup games on Telemundo, and I'm loving every minute... Thus far, I’ve only watched the World Cup on Telemundo, in Spanish. Why? Because I know that Fox is going to saddle us with douchy American announcers. Say what you will about the ESPN coverage; they used awesome British announcers. How are you watching and how are you enjoying it? One huge difference between Fox and Disney is that Fox airs many more matches over the airwaves for free. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/802 "2018-06-27T05:37:16Z")
Most Fox matches being called from a studio 2 miles from my apt in West LA. English language broadcasters are misjudging the market and some of us won’t go back. > **[Column: Telemundo is going all in on World Cup coverage](https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-telemundo-world-cup-20180602-story.html)** > > As Ray Warren makes his way to his second-floor office in Telemundo’s South Florida headquarters each morning, he passes a giant digital clock counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the start of the World Cup half a world away in... ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/803 "2018-06-27T07:43:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If I kick the ball and it hits an opposing player’s butt before going out, that is our throw-in/corner even if the other player had no idea the ball was going to hit him – do I have that right? If it works that way, _any_ hand ball, even if it is unintentional, should count as a foul. I would think. No, a foul needs to be deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/804 "2018-06-27T08:20:46Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Most Fox matches being called from a studio 2 miles from my apt in West LA. English language broadcasters are misjudging the market and some of us won’t go back. > > [Column: Telemundo is going all in on World Cup coverage](http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-telemundo-world-cup-20180602-story.html) I thought I heard to same announcers calling games at different sites, but I hadn’t been paying enough attention to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/805 "2018-06-27T09:29:27Z")
There are some good match-ups going on today, and pretty much every match has some sort of effect on the next round. I am going to try my damnedest to miss the results over the course of the day and I’ll try like hell not to tune in at half time of the later matches. I only wish I could picture-in-picture this shit. I may have to break up my DVR viewing - half of one game, half of the other game, back and then back again. I don’t know. I’m in a quandary. I’m telling you, the medication is not working. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/806 "2018-06-27T09:51:18Z")
I think Argentina has a good chance of another final defeat. They have a tough route, but frankly nobody on their side of the R16 has shown great form. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/807 "2018-06-27T11:30:37Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I think Argentina has a good chance of another final defeat. Well, thanks… I guess… 😛 “The eternal Second (place)”? like my team River Plate, from 1958 - 1974 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/808 "2018-06-27T12:59:27Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I think Argentina has a good chance of another final defeat. They have a tough route, but frankly nobody on their side of the R16 has shown great form. Uruguay? And its still possible that Brazil finishes first and is in that half of the brackets. Plus either England or Belgium. And France will be much more fast and athletic than Argentina. But they haven’t been putting the ball in the back of the net either. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/809 "2018-06-27T13:06:31Z")
Argentina v Brazil haven’t met in the World Cup since 1990. Wow. The top half of the bracket might be a South American shootout if today’s results play out that way. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/810 "2018-06-27T14:31:42Z")
Mexico-Sweden…interesting yellow card there. Both Swede and Mexican jumped to receive (or head) a high ball, each with one leg high in the air, entangled. The Swede was carded because his leg is longer, and so connected with the Mexican’s _cojones_. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/811 "2018-06-27T14:35:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Mexico-Sweden…interesting yellow card there. Both Swede and Mexican jumped to receive (or head) a high ball, each with one leg high in the air, entangled. The Swede was carded because his leg is longer, and so connected with the Mexican’s _cojones_. I agree. Should of been both or neither. Sweden look better but its still early. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/812 "2018-06-27T14:41:51Z")
Not a fan of the German green; it just does not seem like a German color (as a non-German, I will be quiet now) ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/813 "2018-06-27T14:49:59Z")
We have finally reached the point in the WC where every touch matters and the intensity is off the charts. Both Sweden and Mexico deserve to advance but life isn’t fair. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/814 "2018-06-27T14:56:09Z")
So if SWE-MEX and GER-SKO both end in scoreless draws (or draws of any sort,) Mexico and Germany advance? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/815 "2018-06-27T14:56:09Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Not a fan of the German green; it just does not seem like a German color (as a non-German, I will be quiet now) Probably Argentines favorite color. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/816 "2018-06-27T14:58:37Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > So if SWE-MEX and GER-SKO both end in scoreless draws (or draws of any sort,) Mexico and Germany advance? According to Andres Cantor, yes. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/817 "2018-06-27T15:09:48Z")
Goal Sweden. Germany out atm. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/818 "2018-06-27T15:19:15Z")
Koreans are holding on better than I thought. I was thinking a 3-0 game for Germany. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/819 "2018-06-27T15:21:00Z")
2-0 Sweden ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/820 "2018-06-27T15:22:01Z")
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