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

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There’s probably a debate to be had here about sports culture that is beyond the scope of this thread lol

True, it just depends on the sport. If hockey players tried playing rugby and spoke to each other and/or the referee the same way they do to each other and/or the officials during hockey games, the match would be abandoned within about the first five minutes with everyone having been sent off.
 
A lot of sports with the regular season - playoff format have a lot of players who are just out there for a check. The dynamic would probably greatly damage sports leagues if the fans were fully aware of this.
 
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Ok so what happened in a Champions League game, and not for the first time, was that a player covered his mouth and repeatedly called a player a monkey. Everyone except the referee heard it. The player was not punished during the game.

So now if you are directly in a confrontation with another player and cover your mouth to say something, you are red carded. No ambiguity to it. It has to directly be this kind of situation. If you don’t want a camera to see you saying it, then there’s obviously something wrong with it.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of the backstory or the necessary circumstances.
 
True, it just depends on the sport. If hockey players tried playing rugby and spoke to each other and/or the referee the same way they do to each other and/or the officials during hockey games, the match would be abandoned within about the first five minutes with everyone having been sent off.

The greatest cultural moment of all-time in hockey was Aliu whooping Downie's ass for trying to put him in a bathroom naked and racially abusing him.
 
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But trash talk belongs to football culture..I played youth football and I remember constant insults flying back and forth once a certain level of physicality was introduced to the match. The first time someone gets mowed down it tends to spiral pretty quickly.
 
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But trash talk belongs to football culture..I played youth football and I remember constant insults flying back and forth once a certain level of physicality was introduced to the match. The first time someone gets mowed down it tends to spiral pretty quickly.

I played football competitively up until I was 18 in 2010 and racial abuse was often automatic hands because we weren't professionals so no one would eat it.
 
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But trash talk belongs to football culture..I played youth football and I remember constant insults flying back and forth once a certain level of physicality was introduced to the match. The first time someone gets mowed down it tends to spiral pretty quickly.
Trash talk does belong to it, but if you have to hide your mouth, you're saying some shit that doesn't belong to the pitch
 
So we got people in this thread from:
Kanada, Suomi, Sverige, Deutschland, Polski, USA and.....Florida, right? Did I forget anyone?

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Trash talk does belong to it, but if you have to hide your mouth, you're saying some shit that doesn't belong to the pitch
Yeah. Pretty simple, just don't say racist or homophobic shit. That might have been the norm a lot of us experienced playing sports growing up, but the world is different now and it's not acceptable now (not that it ever necessarily was).
 
But trash talk belongs to football culture..I played youth football and I remember constant insults flying back and forth once a certain level of physicality was introduced to the match. The first time someone gets mowed down it tends to spiral pretty quickly.

We live in an age of high definition and everything being recorded in real-time. It's pretty intrusive surveillance of every single moment on the pitch.

Players used to get away with stuff in the heat of the moment. Not anymore.
 
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Of the three broadcasts that I've watched this World Cup on so far (FOX, BBC and TSN), TSN is the only one showing the jersey colors. At least I haven't noticed it on the other two.

In the last match, Brazil was almost entirely in blue, even though blue is only a minor color in their flag, whereas it's half of the Haiti flag.

Fox does it too. There’s a band around the black tile with the team names & flags that’s the color of the team’s kits.
 

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