World Cup 2014

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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

Aw falcao is there

Bacca was p good for Sevilla in EL last year. How good is Jackson Martinez?

Blimey neither are starting plus Adrian Ramos on the bench and Falcao injured. Germany could use one of that lot.

Columbia 3-1 Greece.

Zonal Marking was gloriously derisive of Samoras in his preview piece.

Columbia 2:1 Samaras

Gutierrez is good as a lone striker but I'd expect to see both at some point. Sokratis' fitness could be crucial.

Mostly OTM though :-(

On the left is Georgios Samaras, one of the most confusing players in the competition. Considered a striker at the start of his career, Samaras’ international goalscoring record is truly terrible – 8 in 74, including 0 in 10 during qualification. He plays an odd role on the left, playing surprisingly deep, but bringing his centre-forward qualities to that position by relentlessly coming short and holding up the ball, which is usually followed by him either being dispossessed, or playing an unambitious backwards pass.

(and I *like* Samaras)

I really hope that all the Americans who are just getting into football for the World Cup are ready for non-stop rollercoaster that is watching Greece.

feel bad for greece theyve had a tuff go of it

Hope James Rodriguez is on it today.

Ninis was the last best hope for Greece not being grindingly awful to watch but he hasn't fulfilled much of his promise and missed the cut.

if any stinkin foreigners are curious abt the state of american footie fandom this is a real phenomenon ive witnessed

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/fashion/soccer-particularly-englands-premier-league-growing-in-popularity-in-new-york-creative-circles.html

a lot of them arent really into any american sports its weird

Yay!

hohoho

Pea rollers into the corner of the goal is a great theme for the tournament.

Obviously waiting on England for the first dull game.

Awesome celebration

Last time Greece went behind in the World Cup they continued to play with ten men behind the ball while theoretically chasing the game. But this is really the best thing that can happen for a neutral.

lol i love this game already

classic

I'm so over Americans being into soccer tbh, like who fuckin cares anymore

?

none cares i dont think

thats what makes it a funny ongoing plot

oh i didnt see the link upthread, lol

nvm

Think James Milner would improve 20% if everyone would just pronounce his first name Harmez from now on.

This game has got boring

the most soho fashionable dude i see regularly in ft greene was wearing an algeria shirt yesterday

#datascience #datadriven

Greece have just got absolutely nothing on the ball, they had about 4 opportunities to do something in that 90 second spell round the box and it ended up with the centre backs.

This is kind of a perfect morning match for me after a work heavy week -- no investment in either team, not much happening and I can just lazily watch and wake up a bit more.

Samaras's career is one of the great mysteries of modern football

I'm not sure even he could explain it.

What the hell are Greece doing?