World Cup 2014

iniesta the only spanish player
not fully checked out

spain australia wooden spoon match!

(Cards are wiped for semi finals. So, after 5 games (used to be 3 iirc))

"good foul"
thx koogs

finishing above the reigning champions is about as good a wooden spoon as it gets though

what's that shit?
pass it over here
Vidal Vidal Vidal

Quite liking Danny Murphy as commentator by the way, he's not very good but he strikes me as a man not fully in control of his emotions and that could be fun.

lol otm

xxp lol

six minutes dang

let the records show that Murphy said Spain don't look like scoring just before 90:00

https://twitter.com/2014WorIdCup/status/479354375265980416

Think Spain may not get out of their group, and if they do will lose 1-0 in one of their first 2 knockout games. France or Brazil to win with Switzerland or Croatia surprise semi-finalists. Not that bothered who wins as long as it's not England.

― pandemic, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 10:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first thing I've got right this World Cup and even then I hedged. This tournament has shown how little I know. Thank God I don't gamble.

Something really weird about despondent Spanish fans suddenly turning into jolly waving goons as soon as they see the camera's on them.

Murphy finally prepared to go out on a limb and say that if he were a betting man he'd put money on Spain going home.

If

xps

Read somewhere that Danny Murphy has struggled with depression.

That fat boggle eyed guy waving the Adios Spana sign is about to become a famous animated gig, I feel.

Now willing to accept that Chile are a thing. Them vs. Holland. Ooh boy.

could easily see these guys nicking a 1-0 v Brazil in the second round if that's what awaits

aye well he spent two years at Charlton Athletic so who could blame him? xxxps

Group B games have been the best.

ffs Rio reducing Chile's awesome full-press to "almost Premier League like tempo" gtfoff my tv

"If Spain had scored two goals there might have been a different result." ffs Rio, you got paid an obscene amount of money for that opinion.

its danny murphy on commentary and also sturridge has gone to chelsea

chile vs netherlands basically a fight to see who gets to play brazil in the knockout stage huh

Seedorf and Henry either side of Ferdinand stdh

Chile or Netherlands can beat Brazil.

Danny Murphy = Secret Footballer? He said a couple SFish things- the 'good foul' bit for one

he really enjoyed that foul

:D

Sharrup Windsor, quaintly deprecate yer own team

Yay tho

spain played with no identity, it was ghastly to watch. it seems that when yr options are tikitaka or nothing, you really cant notice there are a bunch of other ways inbetween to hoose from. the next spain, at like the 2020 euros, will be joyful to watch, after six years of bullshit this will lead to.

https://imgflip.com/gif/9o1ko

give me tactical purity or give me death tbh

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mRR3IYe4CJk/U6IAW_eP3EI/AAAAAAAAAZU/YCgisNIlaiY/s1600/9o1ko.gif

but they could have had tactical purity! dont tell me the likes of thiago, isco, illeramendi (or whatever his name is) couldn't have done a motivated version of tiki-taka as opposed iniesta's 'didnt i do this already? im bored and hot'

no xavi, no credibility?

(or was it really puyol who made this team what it was?)

everything beautiful has to die

Thought for a minute the BBC coverage would end with Rather Hauer releasing a dove.

Danny Murphy = Secret Footballer? He said a couple SFish things- the 'good foul' bit for one

Wasn't it agreed (or widely suspected) that the a Secret Footballer is a composite of several different players, but that Danny Mills Molby Murphy is one of them?

Strachan brilliant with Hoddle's proposed England team there:
"That's the most attacking England team you've ever picked" and "It's a good team as long as the other team don't bother having an attack..."

lotta colors going on here

yes! looks good

croatian goalie can't be as bad again, tho I thought that about iker

lol megs on ref book him ref don't take that

pranjic going full travis bickle there, commitment to character

cameroon kit is one of the all time classics (in general, not this one in particular)

yah

cameroon look 500% livelier than they did vs mexico

con job?