World Cup: Group D: Turkiye vs. Paraguay, 6/19/2026

[Tasty Biscuits]

Game is great if you love the sound of a whistle.

 

[NyQuil]

Man, Turkey with no real ideas.

I assume they'll tie it up in the 89th minute or something.

 

[Cloned]

Yildiz and Guler have been so disappointing.

Yildiz looks like he’s been told not to hotdog it too much. But sometimes you gotta let a player cook.

 

[Live in the Now]

The commercial break better not take the heat out of this game. If anything hopefully it gets worse.

 

[Shocker]

Lmao, this is a real clownshow and i'm loving it

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Do you know of any racial slurs for Turks? If you don't, obviously you should assume that there are some. Now, if someone calls a Turk one of those racial slurs, what does it matter what the nationality of the person who said it is?

I have heard racial slurs for Turks. I've heard them used in real life more than once. And I can't personally imagine a Paraguayan using any of them.

 

[Summer Rose]

What's happening with this referee is what was termed as "losing control of the game" when I officiated hockey, and is something you never want to do (although I'm not going to pretend like I didn't have games I lost control of - they happen to everyone). You're usually aware of it happening and once it's gone it's hard (if not impossible) to get it back, and it's a shitty feeling.

The problem is when you have a referee like this who loses control of a game but doesn't think he's lost control of the game.

 

[McGarnagle]

If Turkey doesn't win this game outright, the US clinches the group, correct?

 

[Sol]

Turkey has got to get eliminated

 

[Summer Rose]

Pfft. Even they're originally from Asia.

People "originally from Asia" are actually originally from Africa.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

If Turkey doesn't win this game outright, the US clinches the group, correct?

Yes

 

[bambamcam4ever]

It's not impossible, but highly unlikely given that racial animus doesn't usually exist in a vacuum? What do Paraguayans and Turks have to do with each other? What exactly would you insult in a Turk as a Paraguayan? It's random as hell.

I assume the why is because they're racist? Really not too complicated.

 

[Takeahnase]

I mean it's Paraguay vs Turkey...what exactly do you think he could have said to Muldur? I'm going to go on a limb and say it's unlikely to be racial and more likely related to his mother or sister.

All someone has to do is put the word dirty or something in front of the nationality and it instantly becomes bad. If Mars ever gets a team and you called them dirty Martians it’s going to be bad.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Yildiz looks like he’s been told not to hotdog it too much. But sometimes you gotta let a player cook.

He keeps trying to cut inside.
He never seems to run it to the outside or outside the defender to the line and then put a ball in.

Anyways I think Turkey need the full 3 points. If they draw this I think they're probably done because I don't see them beating the US based on this unless the US goes with a full 2nd squad.

 

[koyvoo]

Have you ever watched the Turks before? They are the opposite of Scotland. Where the Scots lack talent but get surprisingly good results with great cohesion, the Turks have good talent but are a complete s***show as a team.

That’s why I make so many jokes about them looking like a Jogi Löw team.

How many managers have a run like he had

2008 - final
2010 - semi final
2012 - semi final
2014 - champion
2016 - quarter final

Then the team no longer had the same quality and his results fell off. But, how many managers have had a run like that?

 

[Summer Rose]

I have heard racial slurs for Turks. I've heard them used in real life more than once. And I can't personally imagine a Paraguayan using any of them.

Then you need to imagine harder. Being Paraguayan doesn't make someone immune from being racist to Turks.

 

[Live in the Now]

What's happening with this referee is what was termed as "losing control of the game" when I officiated hockey, and is something you never want to do (although I'm not going to pretend like I didn't have games I lost control of - they happen to everyone). You're usually aware of it happening and once it's gone it's hard (if not impossible) to get it back, and it's a shitty feeling.

The problem is when you have a referee like this who loses control of a game but doesn't think he's lost control of the game.

I lost control of a game this year, but I can’t pinpoint when during the game that it happened. I had two really stupid coaches that were winding their players up with nonsense, and didn’t know the rules either, so maybe it started there. Or it was after I ejected a kid and he told me he was gonna kill me, but I had to eject him for what happened before that. Or it was because of my partner.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

What's happening with this referee is what was termed as "losing control of the game" when I officiated hockey, and is something you never want to do (although I'm not going to pretend like I didn't have games I lost control of - they happen to everyone). You're usually aware of it happening and once it's gone it's hard (if not impossible) to get it back, and it's a shitty feeling.

The problem is when you have a referee like this who loses control of a game but doesn't think he's lost control of the game.

Yeah, that's pretty much his MO. We're probably still due for a whopper of a head scratcher/controversial call as well.

 

[Summer Rose]

How many managers have a run like he had

2008 - final
2010 - semi final
2012 - semi final
2014 - champion
2016 - quarter final

Then the team no longer had the same quality and his results fell off. But, how many managers have had a run like that?

Brian Clough?

 

[Sweetnut]

Seems like Turkiye will never score in this match World Cup.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Then you need to imagine harder. Being Paraguayan doesn't make someone immune from being racist to Turks.

We'll never know. I think it's interesting though that the default assumption is that it'd be racial regardless of how random it is rather than the time-honored tradition of sexual insults in the Latin American game.

 

[cgf]

People "originally from Asia" are actually originally from Africa.

And since some of the building blocks of early life came from other planets, we’re all just aliens…*cough cough cough*

 

[Sweetnut]

Do you know of any racial slurs for Turks? If you don't, obviously you should assume that there are some. Now, if someone calls a Turk one of those racial slurs, what does it matter what the nationality of the person who said it is?

I just call my Turkish friends at work "You're a Greek" in a lovingly way.

 

[Cloned]

He keeps trying to cut inside.
He never seems to run it to the outside or outside the defender to the line and then put a ball in.

Anyways I think Turkey need the full 3 points. If they draw this I think they're probably done because I don't see them beating the US based on this unless the US goes with a full 2nd squad.

That’s because they have no central presence. He knows crossing the ball is useless but that’s what he’s been told to do.

 

[Summer Rose]

And since some of the building blocks of early life came from other planets, we’re all just aliens…*cough cough cough*

I just call my Turkish friends at work "You're a Greek" in a lovingly way.

We are all Romans!