World Cup 2014

Jones has been the best American player in the WC so far for sure

crazy how the national systems are in europe just imagining something like this in the usa for basketball http://grantland.com/features/world-cup-2014-belgian-national-team-vincent-kompany-eden-hazard-marouane-fellaini

Amazing insight from Belgium's Dries Mertens:

http://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/5456/international-football/2014/06/30/4924432/usa-run-has-surprised-me-mertens

"I watched their games and they have a really good team. They have a great striker in front and the team behind is like a team, they are really good together.

So for us it is going to be really difficult to score a goal, but we are confident and want to win this game also.

I think the most important thing is to win this game, because if we don't win it we are out."

otm

how's yr flemish

You're all laughing but Mertens is otm.

Jones and Johnson are the only US players I like and that like is outweighed by my extreme dislike of Clint Dempsey so Belgium ftw.

― pandemic, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 9:30 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Extreme dislike of Dempsey" - why?

― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, July 1, 2014 10:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

battle rap beef circa 2003. don't wanna get into it.

I hate having to cheer on the US but ixnay on the elgium-Bay. USA! USA! USA!

counterpoint

http://oi62.tinypic.com/30b322q.jpg

yeah um I thought we were above such crude appeals to priapism

you might be

aeroboot loathes central europe, it's cool, he had a bad experience with a poop shelf

I've missed a load of games due to Glastonbury and ugh the first one I will get to watch in its entirety will be Belgium USA, which will surely be like a really shitty midtable Premiership game.

pandemic
Posted: July 1, 2014 at 12:06:55 PM

battle rap beef circa 2003. don't wanna get into it.

lol yes athletes rapping is one of the mortifying things abt being american

Finding it hard to be that impressed by a squad with that many Spurs players in it tbh. Though I think Chadli and Dembele have been quietly banned.

... binned that is

lol

Lloris is the only Spurs player not having a shitty tournament.

bentaleb?

love the way all u ppl are just not addressing the Congo thing

jst nancy boy Casement getting bit hysterical iirc

lol yes athletes rapping is one of the mortifying things abt being american

― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:33 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p bad for the english and french too iirc

how could you forget ryan babel

shots fired xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxSlpAHNrU

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/06/30/ian-penman/teething-troubles/

As Lacan put it, echoing Freud, the patient ‘can only refind himself by abolishing the ego’s alter ego’. Or as gangsta rappers Clipse once warned, ‘Don’t let yo’ ego trick yo’ ass.’

dempsey is annoying, constantly bitching and moaning, when he's not perfecting his nut tap technique.
http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CLINT-DEMPSEY-NUTSHOT.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MSNRfDKEQ

^^^ Banger, even if Asamoah Gyan's verse is mostly just a list of girls' names.

song is about girls tbf

amazing
Chile striker Mauricio Pinilla gets tattoo of last minute shot against the bar....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrcmKA0CUAAURKY.png:large

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4aDJL3heA

(Embarrassing rap at 2:30)

Genius ftw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8xwXUk_bY

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

dogs should be obligatory in a football match

ugh the first one I will get to watch in its entirety will be Belgium USA, which will surely be like a really shitty midtable Premiership game.

That is like some unintelligible line from The Goon Show, or Performance....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMC6xib6bo

there are two words in that sentence you could reasonably claim not to understand. Give it a rest

yes, the two crucial ones, apparently

nice dive

the most interesting thing about this game is bad refereeing

Wtf was that?

The ref's a multi-millionaire who does this as a hobby, apparently.

worst shot ever?

fuckin horsewhipped

Drmic shot vmic

ixnay on the elgium-Bay

I saw that, Aerosmith.

Chances are that they're going to score in 2 minutes, but Argentina has been vv underwhelming this first half.

the whole half seemed...restrained

Apologies from Wales for inflicting JaMo on the rest of the UK and anyone else watching the BBC coverage