New Posts For Thread: Best and worst things about watching the World Cuphttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cupBest - ITV's stunning backdrop is right up there with one of the best I've seen at any tournament, years gone by they would have been stuck in a studio somewhere in whichever host city they were in.Worst - The fact that we don't have the ability to mThe refereeing has generally been good, VAR use/delays seem to be fairly minimal and refs aren't giving fouls for minimal contact. The Argies seem to get away with a lot tho.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565446833#565446833The refereeing has generally been good, VAR use/delays seem to be fairly minimal and refs aren't giving fouls for minimal contact. The Argies seem to get away with a lot tho.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:07:41 -0500Best: Amazing stadiums and crowds.Worst: Players behaving like 10 year olds in the school playground, especially collapsing in a heapand rolling around in pretend agony after a foul.2nd worst: the second (always an ex footballer) commentators. They chttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445647#565445647Best: Amazing stadiums and crowds.Worst: Players behaving like 10 year olds in the school playground, especially collapsing in a heapand rolling around in pretend agony after a foul.2nd worst: the second (always an ex footballer) commentators. They cMon, 22 Jun 2026 12:46:32 -0500Best: Messi off target penalty miss.Wurst: Sausage eaters stealing a win deep into added time.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445567#565445567Best: Messi off target penalty miss.Wurst: Sausage eaters stealing a win deep into added time.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:24:06 -0500Must be a bizarre feeling for Tottenham fans to be supporting such a high quality football team in White shirtshttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445383#565445383Must be a bizarre feeling for Tottenham fans to be supporting such a high quality football team in White shirtsMon, 22 Jun 2026 11:40:53 -0500I like the fans celebrating in front of the cameras to offside goals that were disallowed 2 mins ago. Clearly a big proportion of the crowd doesn't understand the rules. There is also the excited cheerful waves to camera from fans briefly shown on thttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445367#565445367I like the fans celebrating in front of the cameras to offside goals that were disallowed 2 mins ago. Clearly a big proportion of the crowd doesn't understand the rules. There is also the excited cheerful waves to camera from fans briefly shown on tMon, 22 Jun 2026 11:32:22 -0500Worst48 Teams , 32 was ideal .Again 48 means the 8 best 3rd place teams qualifying , which gives teams in later groups a big advantage in either knowing what they need to do or if they have already qualified .Hydration breaks , i know its the same fohttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445253#565445253Worst48 Teams , 32 was ideal .Again 48 means the 8 best 3rd place teams qualifying , which gives teams in later groups a big advantage in either knowing what they need to do or if they have already qualified .Hydration breaks , i know its the same foMon, 22 Jun 2026 10:29:10 -0500Bad: very late match times, two commentators (main commentator and a co-commentator) now seems to be the norm (does nothing for me)Good: excellent pitches, good TV coverage, great overhead shots; no-hopers putting it up to the big teamshttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565445211#565445211Bad: very late match times, two commentators (main commentator and a co-commentator) now seems to be the norm (does nothing for me)Good: excellent pitches, good TV coverage, great overhead shots; no-hopers putting it up to the big teamsMon, 22 Jun 2026 10:13:47 -0500Arteta & Reyes had already introduced time outs.FIFA just formalised them for the benefit of the TV companies.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565443399#565443399Arteta & Reyes had already introduced time outs.FIFA just formalised them for the benefit of the TV companies.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:18:53 -0500Best...struggling tbhWorst, Hydaration breaks clearly kills the rhythm of the game, also one of the things the last WC got right was adding on all the time at the end of the game, remember the numerous 10 minute+ being added on, this time only a frachttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565443323#565443323Best...struggling tbhWorst, Hydaration breaks clearly kills the rhythm of the game, also one of the things the last WC got right was adding on all the time at the end of the game, remember the numerous 10 minute+ being added on, this time only a fracSun, 21 Jun 2026 09:15:46 -0500worst thing is the timezonehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31905029/best-and-worst-things-about-watching-the-world-cup?post_id=565443319#565443319worst thing is the timezoneSun, 21 Jun 2026 09:14:08 -0500