World Cup 2014

haha yeah, i looked it up and apparently spain was the home team so they chose to wear red, so holland couldn't be in orange as they're too similar. then fifa told spain that their red kit was dark, as was holland's so they needed to change to a light color (because of all three b&w tv viewers as stanm said), hence the white. lol fifa

Why couldn't Holland have worn orange in that case?

Yes, that FIFA rule is still in effect for the black and white TV viewers. All three of them.

^ privilege checking req'd imo

because orange and white are both light colours

I expect that's the rationale, but damn,

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1oyx2F11LWo/TClyqVq5MqI/AAAAAAAABPg/AVoDMvhTIcs/s1600/_29Jun~NethSlov439705-netherlands-vs-slovakia.jpg

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Cristiano+Ronaldo+Guy+Demel+Ivory+Coast+v+OsdiVyoJktnl.jpg

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Netherlands+v+Japan+Group+E+2010+FIFA+World+pUr3f63ftnIl.jpg

all from 2010.

Irony is, I actually really like the navy with orange trim kits, dunno why the fuck I'm complaining.

I think the final step is more likely that the 'away' team in home kit and vice versa would be somehow unfair, rather than white & orange being wrong

looking forward to the FIFA ruling on red and green

my god am i psyched for tonights inevitable bumble in the jungle

feels weird seeing last night's match described as "revenge" for a game where the Dutch spent 90 minutes kicking the shit out of Spain

being warned by all and sundry not to go out in Naples tonight, but like, how am I meant to resist? might try and kid people that I'm actually Danish or sthing

think the major danger will be people laughing at you tbh

Pretend to be Irish or Aussie and you should be fine.

I am going to attempt to stay up for Elfenbeinküste vs Japan but given that I nodded off before Beausejour scored yesterday, i'm not sure I fancy my chances.

yeah that 2 o'clock game's going to be a killer because Han will still be wanting breakfast at half 8 tomorrow

im rooting for holland because they fans r the best dressed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqF8DvLIcAAkEkR.jpg

i especially enjoyed the ones made up like they work on an airplane

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/15/article-1286568-0A07A599000005DC-787_634x407.jpg

who thinks oh im going to watch soccer lets dress like we are airline employees i am fascinated by this mentality very good very out there

Maybe they really are airline employees?

no i dont think so

i mean depends on what u mean by "real" and what is "real" anyway

I like this guy:

http://i.imgur.com/wxewm7f.jpg

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why-we-call-soccer-soccer/372771/

In May, Stefan Szymanski, a sports economist at the University of Michigan, published a paper debunking the notion that "soccer" is a semantically bizarre American invention. In fact, it's a British import. And the Brits used it often—until, that is, it became too much of an Americanism for British English to bear.

fuckin work dinners

america needs it own name for soccer! a real american name

soccer as an abbreviation for association sounds too british now

mayeb kickball

lets just call it "world cup"

How about 'short pants circus'

'Pediglobe'

'Upright checkers'

ballfoot

'No hands brisket'

kickie

'ballnetfootcorruption'

'flopson'

foreign football

foreignball

y'know to the best of my knowledge nobody comes on I Love Baseball giving it this shit

Well that's because baseball is boring.... just like soccer!!! *High fives all the Americans itt*

what if we called it 'washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG'

i agree we shd call it hatcat

y'know to the best of my knowledge nobody comes on I Love Baseball giving it this shit

― Naamloze vennootschap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:37 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cmon m8 er jus avin a lurl

just tolerantly rmde, not crying about it you facken blood sausage

nu ingerlund

sometimes i troll i love baseball, but i actually like the world cup, i just dont know anything about it, also the reffing is so bad lol

also i hate offsides what a buzzkill

otm tbf

so after being about as rong as i cd be yesterday, let's start off with um

Colombia 1-1 Greece

Going for 2-1 Colombia.

1-0 Colombia

Colombia 2-0 but my heart belongs to the Greeks