World Cup 2014

paid for a UK VPN for this month, i mean i know itv is bad but fuck if i'm watching ESPN

getting concerned that nobody on TV seems to realise that Barry Manilow's "Copa Cabana" is not set in Rio

it is quite geographically specific about that too

i know right?

Ian Wright actually SAID it was the hottest place north of Havana. FFS, really?

Right, Pitbull's on. Thankfully they appear to have switched their mics off. I'm away to make my tea.

gonna need to get a few gifs of Pixar Rooney tho

"you can't choose your Nature" - Glenn Hoddle (sitting round a table on the beach with Gordon Strachan and Ian Wright, all three of them wearing shorts and sunglasses, on ITV, right now)

Brazil: Cesar; Alves, Silva, Luiz, Marcelo; Paulinho, Gustavo; Hulk, Oscar, Neymar; Fred.

Croatia: Pletikosa; Srna, Corluka, Lovren, Vrsaijko; Brozovic, Modric; Rakitic, Perisic, Olic; Jelavic.

anyone know 21 year old Marcelo Brozovic? he's only got one cap.

"you can't choose your Nature" - Glenn Hoddle

Karma chooses it for you iirc.

Ian Wright calling Gordon Strachan "Strachs" is an ealry contender for most annoying thing of tournament.

Bobby spirals, how do you deal with Steve mcmanaman on espn?

That Aldi advert with Graham Taylor also quite bad.

Brozovic more defensively minded than Kovacic? Maybe Kovac has thought better of fielding three creative midfielders with no holder

nevermind, guardian posted wrong lineup, replace Brozovic with Kovacic

lol

the british ppl they get for espn coverage are the barrel scrapings but steve mac is another strata unto himself. i feel bad because he is clearly actually, you know, in the imbecile iq range but yeah i have had to watch on mute in the past

It's the sound of waves crashing behind espn coverage that bothers me more than Steve mcmanaman.

I will probably try to watch England game over VPN but also I am lazy and have big, new tv

BBC are playing the 5 Live feed (currently a montage of the most famous pieces of WC commentary through history) over visuals of the players warming up on the pitch, infinitely preferable to Adrian Chiles' bullshit over on ITV

Brazil have a played called Hulk. HULK SMASH ball into the back of the net.

the World Cup thread welcomes everybody discovering football for the first time

brazil 2-1

Xp lol I was waiting for someone to post that

More excited to watch modders/rakitic playing together than any of the Brazil team.

Trying to work out how Croatia's two playmakers are going to work out against Brazil's two holding midfielders. Can see Croatia getting a load of of early possession and then getting ripped open the second they lose the ball.

btw, I assume there isn't any more opening ceremony bollocks we could be watching rather than listen to these fucknuts chuntering on?

I think they have to get all the giant LED ball segments and enormous green trampolines off the pitch before the games starts.

omfg itv player now experiencing technical problems. with a message up top saying "maintenance in progress"! are these fucking guys for real? a national tv network ffs, should be able to cope with a bit of traffic

ITV can't even get their channel to show a whole game let alone their website

"Croatia are not here to make up the numbers" puts foot thru TV screen

Brazil fielding rob green's back up

Olic on the wing, jelavic up top?

btw if you are having troubles in your area with broadcasts, check out this site:

http://www.vipboxus.co/sports/world-cup-2014.html

Oh aye, I guess so

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Nice bit of a capella there

That second verse was proper spine-tingling. David Luiz was getting particularly into it.

yeah that was p. fucking stirring. David Luiz looks to be in the mood. Thanks Frobisher btw, but it's righted itself again now

damn i missed it i think, there better be a gif of the robo dude telepathically kicking the ball or whatever

What's this nonsense?

excitement of the anthems severely leavened by the sound of andy townsend's monotone

o damn

Lovely

Lol

ha omg

I've seen enough. Brazil are shite

oooooh great start brasil

amazing

Olic has so much space.

Olic is a boss
Jelavic should score

:drains beer: