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[Football] Brazil v Argentina — chaos
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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The NSC time wasting police would have gone into meltdown if that had been a Brighton game. Martinez was OUTSTANDING in his time wasting. By the end of the game he was catching crosses and not releasing the ball for 30 seconds. Multiple times.
Argentina certainly made the most of any Brazilian tackle. Unfortunately Brazil made it difficult for the ref by also agriculturally chopping down the Argentines at regular intervals so it couldn't have been easy to know which were the fouls and which were Argentina taking the piss.
Argentina certainly made the most of any Brazilian tackle. Unfortunately Brazil made it difficult for the ref by also agriculturally chopping down the Argentines at regular intervals so it couldn't have been easy to know which were the fouls and which were Argentina taking the piss.
Justice
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With football fans time wasting only works one way you should know that by now
Just waking up to hear about this. Blimey...
Proper hold me back behaviour
a professional footballer that can’t pull himself over that wall
Some of the police were enjoying that far too much. 
This looks like what Palace think Sussex police do to them when they turn up
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Messi should’ve stayed out of it.
I don't think he was trying to do that - he was making a grab for the baton being wielded by a thuggish Brazilian cop, who let's face it are amongst the worst police in the world.Proper hold me back behaviour
Justice
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Coldeanseagull
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If they can't control their fans or police forces, throw them out of competitions. South American football needs a serious head wobble
What is funny is that the Conmebol qualifiers are designed so that it is virtually inpossible for Brazil and Argentina NOT to go through as the top 6 out of the 10 teams in the league go through automatically and 7th place goes into a play off. Yet Brazil currently sit 6th, behind Ecuador and Venezuela and just 2 points ahead of 7th and 8th place Paraguay and Chile.
I think players from both teams had families in the stands.
Brazil captain Marquinhos, who could be seen interacting with Messi and the Argentinian players as they tried to calm the situation, shared the concerns.
"We were worried about the families, women and children, that we were seeing in panic up there in the stands," Marquinhos told reporters.
"Down on the pitch it was hard for us to understand what was going on, it was a very scary situation."
Nothing new in Brazil though. Two weeks ago Fluminense ultras attacked Boca fans in Copacabana before Copa Libertadores final.
Brazil captain Marquinhos, who could be seen interacting with Messi and the Argentinian players as they tried to calm the situation, shared the concerns.
"We were worried about the families, women and children, that we were seeing in panic up there in the stands," Marquinhos told reporters.
"Down on the pitch it was hard for us to understand what was going on, it was a very scary situation."
Nothing new in Brazil though. Two weeks ago Fluminense ultras attacked Boca fans in Copacabana before Copa Libertadores final.
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