World Cup 2014

Lol

nv making an awful lot out of basically no contact at all on that pen decision. long suspected he could be bought

dixon and cannavaro really hitting it off as you'd expect

think my response was pretty measured amongst all the "EVERYTHING IS SOILED BY MONEY" wailing

Ref is a counter-revolutionary, shoot the wanker.

Can't wait for Ghana to trounce the US. Gonna be pretty upset if that doesn't happen.

xp - agreed.

Croatia have called up eight keepers in the last twelve months so god knows what the others are like. Stipe was OK for Rostov last season but is at least five years past his best.

missed the last 15 minutes or so due to work

working during the world cup should not be allowed cmon wtf

anyway, Brazil's defending got pretty cavalier for the last 20 minutes eh? group stage looks like it shd be a procession but after that who knows

xxp the monaco guy can't be that bad surely

"Let's turn to England."

Phrases that get me radge jock every tournament.

^ me an' all. Five minutes of post-match analysis of the opening game so we can rush to watch Rickie Lambert saying absolutely nothing. Hoo-bloody-ray.

the RTE lads are going in-depth on Brazil's lack of a ball playing midfielder

My post-game analysis involves taking shots and putting on some Steely Dan.

smh at your Ghana/US rooting

That entire ITV panel were a) rattled as fuck by the protesters and b) clearly hating each other.

Croatia have a purring machine of a midfielder when in possession but good god they were vulnerable on the break.

Brazil defence bobbins as well, only Thiago Silva holding it together. Neymar will probably win the Golden Boot but they aren't winning the tournament.

soccer is extremely frustrating and bad idk how u guys do it

xxp why would anyone purposefully root for the US? And I'm saying this as someone who watches MLS.

USA USA USA

currently have two eagles perched on each shoulder

they will cry on command, don't make me!

i'm kinda curious how the US will do and god knows rooting for australia is nigh on pointless, more out of sympathy than anything so hey, why not

I was too emotionally involved in the opening match. It's only getting worse tho.

FP'd VG

no wavering

Brazil most likely to play the Netherlands or Chile in round 2? agreed on tonight's showing either one of them would have a chance

it wld be funny and sad if brazil got knocked out early and argentina won it all

still think Argentina can win this but their defence is likely as suspect as Brazil's. Brazil will get stronger and will continue to get the rub of the 60-40 decisions tho.

fp'd brownie for fp'ing me -- lack of work is making you listless, stop lashing out

:-D

I'll try to keep it under wraps.

u guys everyone here is first and foremost usa soccer fans dont let this "world cup" tear us apart

rooting for: usa usa usa, argentina, chile, ivory coast, spain i guess

rooting against: mexico, ghana, "england", germany, russia

tbh i don't even know who I'm favoring at this point

maybe I'm just gonna let the beautiful game wash over me

the only thing I know is that I'll probably root against the Netherlands, cheating bastids

no way dude ganja

plus a tradition of tolerance

not of other football teams or each other, sadly

nah tbf before they tried to kick Spain to death last World Cup they only ever fought amongst themselves

neymar off, no pen ffs obvs, Croatian second rightly disallowed, big Phil off, Gustavo off, pletikosa's feet appalling, olic pure shite after that cross.

Croatia to go further than Brazil.

cracking opening game.

Looking forward to this. Wishing there was a game on tonight.

VG onsides.

what's wrong with Ghana?

xpost cracking opening game.

It was an good game but the referee messed it up. The only thing that's consistent about refereeing at the world cup is that it's going to be inconsistent

I'm not quite at nv levels of loving that shit but I wasn't partisan enough for the Croats that the absolutely predictable joke ref didn't add a satisfying tinge of gratified cynicism tbh, most great games have the outrageous talking points.

i think a draw was the likeliest outcome for that game and thats where it was heading. this brazil team is shit but theres time for them to be found out yet.

what's wrong with Ghana?

nothing tbh, just rooting

Nothing wrong, but they're Ghana lose!

I'll leave now.

haha

accran't believe you just did that

That's just capitol.

Isn't it a rule that a player can't touch a goaltender while he is in the air (and inside the box)? I have been under this impression for very long. Perhaps an expert here could illuminate us ?