World Cup 2014

felt for the players huddling and getting booed tae fuck

Schweini!

Are players as superstitious as fans cos if I was a German player I'd be thinking shit the final is gonna go wrong now.

dude i know says he put money on Germany to win by six or more, netting him £480. which presumably means an outlay of £2 or something?

rioting has started apparently :-(

http://i.minus.com/igmHcJj0OHmzB.gif

gary lineker has become unmoored from the everyday workings of the world

rioting has started apparently :-(

― StanM, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 10:56 PM

Says Twitter or an actual real news agency?

seeing lots of police out through the window of the bbc studio on copacabana

Dixon at HT:

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or maybe it's just tail lights xps

Gonna try and work this out using transfermarkt.co.uk xpost

G
12 Júlio César 3m to Inter
D
4 David Luiz 50m to PSG
D
6 Marcelo 5.7m to Real (worth a lot more now obv)
D
13 Dante 7m to Bayern
D
23 Maicon 12m to City
M
5 Fernandinho 28m to City
M 8 Paulinho 10.5m to Spurs
M
7 Hulk 48m to Zenit
M
11 Oscar 22m to Chelsea
M
17 Luiz Gustavo 14m to Wolfsburg
M
20 Bernard 22m to Shaktar
F
9 Fred 13m to Lyon
M 19 Willian 31m to Chelsea

Gets me at 266m. Most football teams in history have never cost that much. Neymar (to Barca) and Silva (to PSG) must add 100m to that, obviously.

I could be wrong but I think the whole back 5 had also won the champions league (cesar and maicon at inter, luiz at chelsea, marcelo at real and dante at bayern) and i'm unsure whether oscar was at chelsea when they did it. So maybe 6 CL winners?

And I don't think I've seen many teams ever perform worse.

oh i presume gustavo was a cl winner with bayern too? making it maybe 7.

A least the average goals per game in this wc corrected itself again

The hige average

feeling really bereft that brazil scored. that wasn't supposed to happen. :(

remember when ilf came together to watch the 78 wc final? did we ever do another *live* viewing of a classic game or was that a one off?

Unless the BBC's table hasn't updated, Hamezz is still top of the Golden Boot standings.

yah one ahead of muller iirc 6 over 5

David Luiz.

germany must be feeling pretty good. germans in brazil should leave just to be safe. also, polish in poland should leave just to be safe.

The rioting thing was mentioned by the belgian commentator btw xposts

xps 78 final was a one-off, yeah. If we ever do another, how about doing the 2014 semi-final?

There need to be 6 goals in the last games for this to be the highest scoring WC ever

not sure if 3rd place play off counts because it's a friendly and nobody cares

for it to be the best world cup ever however, all that needs to happen is for tonight's result to continue to have happened

It counts for the golden boot anyway

If Holland get through and play the way they've played up until now then Germany will absolutely destroy them as well. Argentina keep their shape a bit better and don't pour forward in the same way but either way it could be am incredible final.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/WC-2014-Brasil.svg/160px-WC-2014-Brasil.svg.png

The clue was in the facepalm

Piers Morgan ‏@piersmorgan 2h
David Luiz will drive Brazil to victory tonight. He's been my star of this World Cup. Such passion/commitment/determination. #BRAvGER

what a fucking eejit

RTE playing Garth Brooks "the dance" over the German goals. nicely done.

lol, perfect punditry by Piers

I honestly don't know how anyone could think that. He scored a nice free-kick. That's it

http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/photos/2014/07/08/distraught-brazil-fans#6

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

It's going to be hilarious when Germany loses 1-0 to Argentina with a late Messi goal.

― Van Horn Street, Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014 23:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This will inevitably happen now.

there's gotta be a zing about getting waxed in here somewhere

the whole world and twitter besides and i've seen approx zero funny joeks about this

fernandinho played as bad as a soccer player can ever play basically?

so happy brazil was eliminated, especially as a host

Jesus Christ I feel like I've waited my whole life for a pack of deliberately non playing cynical fucks to take that beating

ref wasn't buying any of their shite tonight either

i had germany 4-0 at 45-1 i didn't think this was the way for me to not win it

number none ref was mexican

they weren't knocked out by brazil to be fair

my god

I just want drama

― ogmor, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 3:59 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Germany otm this is a shit team of cunts that deserves humiliation

― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:26 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i was Big Phil i wdn't say a word throughout the break

― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:47 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good posts

http://screamer.deadspin.com/all-of-brazil-is-crying-right-now-1601949129/

god this is brutal

Google Translate on this story out of Brazil makes it even more of a howl from the void:

One day July 16, 64 years ago would make Brazil crying his greatest drama, Maracanazo. For this July 8, 2014 he is gushing tears for most of his humiliation. On your knees! The most shameful defeat the country celebrated worldwide for being the football. The stadium Mineirão saw the sad chapter 50 be dimmed, at least for now, in history. Will be difficult to remember that 2-1 to Uruguay in front of what Germany did in this semifinal. An incomparable torture for lovers of canary team. The Germans, in 45 minutes, made mincemeat national dream, finally win the trophy in their territory. A 7-1 which leaves no room for snags, caveats and palliative. There are possible reasons to explain the result size. Absences of Thiago Silva and Neymar, who would reasonably justify a defeat, not fit to explain what we saw. The worst defeat of pentacampeões throughout its glorious history!

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best