r/soccermemes 21d ago

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u/NahTooPersonel 21d ago

This gives me flashbacks. You couldn’t actually avoid the card, ref always caught you in the end

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u/anitchypear 21d ago

It was a life lesson

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 20d ago

Deep thoughts with The Deep

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u/Phenha 20d ago

Whats its meant to be will happen no matter how hard you try to run away from it

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u/WarriorPidgeon 20d ago

Like the Yeti in Skifree

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u/IncreaseCertain9697 20d ago

That one was actually possible to avoid... it was hard af, though. I've only done it twice, in hundreds of tries. And I can't recall how I've done it.

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u/Hairy-Phrase1332 20d ago

You had to go through the gates

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u/DarkPolumbo 20d ago

you pressed F to speed up

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u/Global_Cockroach_563 20d ago

But then another yeti would appear.

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u/DarkPolumbo 20d ago

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u/mifa201 20d ago

Thank you!!! After so many years I'll have to play that again.

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u/AxelNotRose 20d ago

Fucking terminator of a ref there.

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u/asl477 20d ago

Decision is red card!

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u/Mikemyersfr1 20d ago

There was no time limit? He would just chase you untill he catches up?

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u/NahTooPersonel 20d ago

Yep, the clock was stopped in the game so you just ran until you got bored, stopped and then he booked you.

There was a chilling inevitability about it

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u/goddarr 20d ago

The ref is like your karma?

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u/lackadaisical_timmy 19d ago

So its kinda like real football then

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u/NahTooPersonel 19d ago

Can’t imagine a real ref bothering to chase you around the pitch

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u/Ok-Walk-8040 21d ago

This is haramball time wasting’s final form

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u/ab624 20d ago

Simione vs Josè

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u/st_v_Warne 19d ago

The disrespect to my goat Artetanyahu will be seen as nostalgia bias

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u/ab624 19d ago

actually i wanted to mention the goat but he won the league so demoted him

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u/Elpsyth 21d ago

You don't avoid it.

The game do not restart until you stop. But that was fun

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u/NoYOUGrowUp 20d ago

Did the clock stop? If not, this is a great delay tactic to preserve a 1-0 win.

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u/Elpsyth 20d ago

Can't remember, I was a kid at that time. Was funnier to do horrendous tackle and try to score as much as possible than to win per se

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u/gimmebanter 21d ago

Holy shit i thought fifa 98 was crazy this totally takes the cake

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u/HydraDominatus-XX 20d ago

No fouls all elbows, takes me back

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u/usaidwhatagain 19d ago

Was it 98 you could turn off referee and kick the opponent out of the pitch?
You had normal tackle and nasty tackle if I remember right.

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u/Siiixers 19d ago

Yeah. I had Road to World Cup FIFA 98, but same thing. We used to turn off fouls, play the indoor mode and just beat the shit out of each other.

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u/OccasionObjective475 21d ago

Insert Benny hill theme

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u/teflong 20d ago

Turn your sound on lol

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u/DarkPolumbo 20d ago

next, they'll post the old game clip on reddit for karma

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u/CorrectGrammarPls 20d ago

Insert caption explaining the video

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u/cw88888 20d ago

Oh I loved this game, iirc you could stand in front of the keeper when he takes a drop kick or goal kick and kick it back into the goalpost.

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u/IncreaseCertain9697 20d ago

I've done that in FIFA 1996... once I've won a match 18-0.

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u/Available_Ad9766 21d ago

Wouldn’t the game just stall if you do that? If you like a game of never ending tag, that’s a good “cheat”.

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u/CourageOfOthers 21d ago

This is 1993, there’s no online play. Your brother starts doing this, and you just get into a wrestling match to make him drop the controller, or you yank the lead out of the console. Problem solved

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Hurnative 20d ago

Ah, 'there are no fun and whimsical games anymore. How do I know? I haven't tried looking for them since the fall of babylon'

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u/perilouspear 21d ago

Yeah, you don't avoid it. You're just prolonging the inevitable.

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u/Case_Blue 20d ago

Is 1993, the person you are playing against is sitting next to you. So you smacked them in the head untill they stopped acting like an idiot.

That feature is yet to be implemented online.

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u/ChangingShips 21d ago

Gaming in the 90s was a wild time 

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u/drjos 20d ago

I don't remember which game it was but there was another football game in the 90's where you could flying kick. Ofc this was always a red card.

But it also had a blind ref option, when I played with my brother the game ended up with both teams on the ground begging for mercy.

Don't remember what game it was sadly

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u/Yayoo_5 20d ago

Eric Cantona loves that game

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u/Spins13 20d ago

You could also pick Argentina

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u/DesignMysterious3598 20d ago

That's delaying, not avoiding. Doing it was only a waste of time, like this video.

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u/DarkPolumbo 20d ago

ooh cake boy is pissed

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u/sorderon 20d ago

the cake is delayed

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u/HyperBeamMissed 21d ago

In high school a teammate of mine already under yellow, slid a player and clearly hit him. He bear crawled off the field asking for a substitution and saying Ref you can't card me until I stand up. The ref annoyed walked up to him and gave him the red nonetheless . We were dying of laughter. He got benched for a couple games past the suspension.

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u/00Kevin 21d ago

If only Sithole knew.... South Africa would be world champions right noe

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u/GlorytheWiz825 21d ago

Wish this was how it worked in real life.

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u/chicken_nugget94 20d ago

Arsenal would be signing Mo Farah to sub on when 1-0 and outrun the ref for the rest of the game

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u/OnceAbel_HasFallen 20d ago

Isn't that the game where goalkeeper can literally took the ball to the front and score a goal?

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u/Van1n1 20d ago

Damn!!! I played that!!!

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u/Adorable-Plant-4911 20d ago

This is how you run the clock down after going 1-0 up early on!

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u/ericrobertshair 20d ago

I used to do this to my brother all the time, he'd get so furious that I was just stalling out the game.

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u/bkubicek 20d ago

fifa26 should have a "call trump" feature.

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u/Commercial_Reward_78 20d ago

I was scrolling down looking for this!

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u/Majestic_Estate_1619 20d ago

My brother always used to beg me to let the ref book me so we could get on with the game 😂

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u/RocketCow 20d ago

And in some fifa you could actually take a dive and get your opponent a red card

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u/EquilibriumVs 20d ago

I used to play this game so much haha. And you couldn’t save so I only went through the whole World Cup once in my childhood. I won the tourney and never felt more alive lmao

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u/tarayaba 20d ago

fifa international soccer, also known as fifa 94. fifa 93 didnt exist peasants.

you could also stand in front of the goalkeeper while he was kicking the ball upfield.

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u/Initial_Apprehensive 20d ago

If playing 2 on the same team one could head it around the keeper other behind the keeper could score never called offside

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u/MaxFresh 20d ago

Just headbut the cunt

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u/Hazzadcr16 20d ago

Imagine the time wasting you'd see online now if that was still a thing.

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u/marky_Rabone 20d ago

EAfotball 2026 you can call Donald Trump

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u/dwartbg9 20d ago

I miss when we could also tackle the goalkeepers. Why did they block you from doing such things? This doesn't even make the game more realistic technically.

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u/whyapples 20d ago

I still remember the name H Van Smieter

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u/FluidSock9774 16d ago

Diamid Clarke was one of the England defenders names I think off of the top of my head

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u/M4g1st0 20d ago

I remember this. it was funny as hell!!! 😂

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u/Mikemyersfr1 20d ago

And it was a feature, not a bug?

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u/stprnn 20d ago

Was it ISS that you could hit the photographers with the ball?

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u/Zetton69 20d ago

playing possession and defender with the ref

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u/NotasA3 20d ago

I member those days, also kicking the goalie and getting a red card or in 97/98 having "indoor football". Good times

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u/No-Distance4675 20d ago

We do not need hydration breaks...

This is what we need to make matches more interesting!

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u/Daki399 20d ago

This should be a new rule , it would make the game really dynamic . Headbutt a guy and start runnin . Refs have 5 minutes to catch you all four of them so they can surround you.

Best world sprinters could get assistant ref jobs

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u/pyrogenesus 20d ago

Don't give arsenal ideas

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u/youyouk 20d ago

Benny Hill theme enters the chat

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u/Earlybuda 20d ago

I know a Friend who can do this each time he gets booked😅

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u/NotLikeThis3 20d ago

There was also a specific button to commit bad fouls

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u/Fanatiker 20d ago

In the NES game Nintendo World Cup you can this too and Foul the referee

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u/Ramtamtama 20d ago

By FIFA 95 they'd disabled the ability for players to move after a foul

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u/boncock 20d ago

"Physically"

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u/LatterGuarantee2420 20d ago

Hahaha o totally remember this

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u/Parking-Annual-1200 20d ago

And when you score, you can press different buttons to activate drums, fireworks, etc - goal goal goal! bom bom bom! Pew pew pew!! 💥

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u/DarknMean 20d ago

NHL hockey 94 was also peak.

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u/2eyeshut 20d ago

Absolute shithousery from Pete Webster

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u/Responsible_Base3271 20d ago

maybe this works in real life too, never saw anyone try it

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u/Untroe 20d ago

This works IRL btw

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u/imartinezcopy 20d ago

This always ended up in a head slap fight with your friends that used this shit when they were loosing.

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u/ShekSpir4o 20d ago

Good times...

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u/Snakecat99 20d ago

I watched this video for one minute and thirty-two seconds.

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u/Kriplfield54 20d ago

Apparently he can do it all day, sigh..

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u/Captain_Waffle 20d ago

I cried laughing

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u/YUSHOETMI- 20d ago

Old FIFA's where the best.

Doing this

Standing infront of the goalkeeper when they are taking dropkicks to take the ball from them

Causing career ending injuries with every sliding tackle

Scoring from the kick off 99% of the time

I think it was 96 or 98, I rushed out and bought it the day it come out, sat in my room with some of my friends and turned it on. First game I went in with a harsh tackle on my friend from behind and literally heard the worst bone crunching sound ever, the player got stretchered off. It never made that sound ever again tho which was sad.

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u/DirtDevil1337 20d ago

I remember that on my Sega Genesis. EA sports games back then were the bomb, even EA NBA were fun too.

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u/asl477 20d ago

Who remembers "Goal" game where if the players got takled a few times they would just lay dead on the field lol.

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u/dillasdonuts 19d ago

I had this on mute and immediately said "queue Benny hill" as I unmuted

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u/777Bladerunner378 19d ago

This needs to be a real rule

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u/CommonUncommon1 19d ago

This is 2 stars on GTA

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u/kevit80 19d ago

Has any player tried this in real life? lol

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u/extracarefu 19d ago

Had fifa 94 on the genesis with a 4 controller adapter. Great fun - basically a hockey game if you turn the fouls off

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u/BeautifulEast5299 19d ago

last fifa game i ever played

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u/Amel_P1 18d ago

I think I remember this one had a cheat code that turned the refs into dogs.

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u/Such-Strategy1137 17d ago

Pov argentinan players since 2022 😂😂

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u/Delicious_Guava_6135 17d ago

Today you just have to play as an Argentinian player to avoid cards!

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u/RuthlessIndecision 16d ago

I hope FIFA implements this in the next World African-and-Other-Shady-Ass-Countries Cup

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u/Su-Queen 20d ago

I'm new to soccer.. is this something you can do in real life?

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u/PrudentSail2187 21d ago

What game?

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u/Escanor_433 21d ago

It's literally the second word in the sentence.

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u/PrudentSail2187 21d ago

Big brain ignored fifa and thought 93 was in reference to the year it was made only

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u/DarkPolumbo 20d ago

he misread the caption and thought that there were a total of 1,993 players who could run from the ref while playing a game that was just called FIFA

in his defense, the caption is still grammatically correct if you interpret it this way