It was a headbutt and the guy should have walked!! The person clearly in the wrong there is Barrios and only someone who is blinkered would think otherwise after watching the situation in its entirety.
As well as Layún who stepped on Neymar in the last match unnecessarily but got a free pass by some “spaghetti hair guy” haters. Or is it justifiable according to the sport rules? Although both Henderson and Neymar had clearly overreacted, both guys who commited the infractions are wrong and should be penalized for their irresponsible actions.
You seem happy to criticize England and the 11 Neymars, I just don't get why Colombia gets a free pass in your book.
Happiness may not be the right word, but I found, at least, intriguing how people may change their convictions so quickly when it comes to seeing a similar situation in different teams. Some people in this forum argued they wish Brazil are knocked out soon because of all those Neymar’s theatrical scenes and they even lump every Brazilian player in the same league as if Mexican players were angels and were victims of the
“unlikeable” Brazilian side. However, they just turn a blind eye to the English players’ attitudes and just blame Colombian players and the referee as though English players hadn’t tried to simulate diving and overact.
And no… I’m not getting Colombia off the hook. As I said before, both of them starred a despicable match and it wasn’t exactly a match between the dirty Colombian cnuts and the heroic English players. I’m just pointing out the differentiated treatment among the English press and some of their supporters who use one sauce for the goose and another for the gander.
And you seem precious about Neymar throughout your posts. He is lauded as the guy who will take over from Messi and Ronaldo as the world's best. No one on England is lauded as that, so naturally they aren't as highly scrutinized. But I'm failing to see all this diving, except for Maguire ( who pulled out from a challenge and immediately signalled to the referee about it not being a penalty), Henderson, whose reaction was admittedly OTT (but let's keep in mind... he was headbutted!!) and Lingard's "dive", where, Mina went sliding in with a clumsy challenge nowhere near the ball and was lucky to escape without conceding a penalty!
That’s far from being true. Speaking for myself, I’ve never put Neymar in the same league as Messi and Ronaldo and, to be fair, I don’t even think he’ll reach this threshold someday. He may just overthrow them after their downhill or if he wins this WC as the main protagonist
(and, even so, Ronaldo might be ahead of him). I’m well-aware that he isn’t a likeable guy and I criticize his individuality in his first match as far as you can see in this post:
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/day...s-mexico-brazil-vs-switzerland.439442/page-64
However, that is no excuse for hunting him desperately as when he was clearly stomped on his ankle
(I’m not sure now if it was the injured one) and almost everyone, including the English press, shouted at his overreaction and didn’t apply the same criteria when Henderson was headbutted under the chin and went down clutching his forehead. It doesn't sound right for me. But, retaking Neymar’s issue, I assure you that not every Brazilian worships him and even the Brazilian press nagged him about his selfishness by not contributing positively to the team in the first two matches. If you ask me, I'd say he should leave this acting performance to his girlfriend, the actress Bruna Marquezine, and do what he's really good for: playing football.
England's not perfect and they have players who will take tumbles, including my favourite, Rashford, and our best player, Kane (neither of whom have been Neymars yet in this tournament). But if you genuinely think England was a side with 11 Neymar's and bad andd theatrical against a physical Colombia side as Neymar is on a daily basis, or even as unsporting as Colombia was, then there's no helping you.
That’s why I’m expecting to see from English fans. I’m not saying Neymar doesn’t act on the field regularly or England always resort to filthy tactics. Far from it, but it’s fine to put yourselves in other shoes and recognize your own flaws sometimes.
NOTE: I'm sorry for answering you in a huge chunk like that instead of splitting my messages in more posts so as to make everything easier to read, but I'm saving my limited quota of posts for the next matches
(France vs Uruguay and Brazil vs Belgium).
