always nice to start with a crude oil/crude homophobia derby!
― calzino, Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
yes - it is today we begin our campaign - and this week has been a challenge for all but i urge everyone to remain calm and support spain in an orderly fashion. in this way there will be no further unpleasantness at national or local level, and heavy-handedness will not be deemed necessary as everyone smiles and enjoys a successful world cup. that is my view, signed fernando hierro.
also speaking as hierro i recall as a young player growing up in malaga where i was told to prevent goals, that is what we hope to do tonight against our great rivals of portugal, yes they have cristiano ronaldo, however we will have 10 men plus the goalkeeper - also a man. the identity of these men will be discovered on the pitch. but also in football and life we must always create many goals.
the methods of the future are not unknown to us - yes in fact this is a team which we have chosen from several electronic databases of these players which are kept on very special computers. we hope to give our friends in portugal many questions which are unanswered. our tactics will be decided in a meeting we attend with paper folders but one way or not we will play for the duration of the match and always the main tactic will be in our hearts alone.
to the fans i would like to say simply this - i threaten you to enjoy this world cup - what is certain is that spain.
now let us as a nation move in a careful manner towards the exit of the groups.
regards,
fernando hierro
― FernandoHierro, Friday, 15 June 2018 07:37 (five years ago) link
i believe in hierro and in the republic!
― tired culché (darraghmac), Friday, 15 June 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
as a nation
¡Vamos Castilla!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 June 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
we all remember another great spaniard who triumphed in russia and returned in glory to crush the snakes in our midst!
― tired culché (darraghmac), Friday, 15 June 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
Julio Iglesias?
― Tim, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
james fitzjames stuart obv ffs
― tired culché (darraghmac), Friday, 15 June 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
Salah fit but not starting.
Can Suarez make it through this tournament without getting banned?
― groovypanda, Friday, 15 June 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
yesterday i tried to find odds on him biting somebody this tournament but there was just a bunch of stories about winning bets from 2014
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
http://www.donegaldaily.com/2018/06/13/why-rathmullan-will-roar-on-peru-at-the-world-cup/
looking forward to the Football Special sponsorship deal
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
De Arrascaeta is starting today. He looks pretty exciting from the little I’ve seen of him.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 15 June 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
no odds on Suarez biting? I thought Lameo Losestone said you can 'ave millions of different jumbo-jets on facking anything you want guv!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 11:28 (five years ago) link
i'm sure you can get a bet i just couldn't be bothered navigating the bookie sites
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
I tried it and the Suarez Specials didn't feature biting, strangling or spitting type acts of villainy odds!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
it's political correctness gone mad
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 11:38 (five years ago) link
This uruguay anthem is some barber of seville shit, I like it
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
Really not seeing the trezeguet resemblance
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 15 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
Typical Lawro bullshit, starts his prediction for this game with "it is going to be hard for Egypt to get out of this group" whereas yesterday was all "two worst teams at the tournament" and even "look, they only beat KSA."
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
Uruguay’s national anthem is a legit Donizetti rip-off. I think it’s Lucrezia Borgia.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Xp Fifa are unlikely to assign egypt to a different group now that the tournament has begun so lawro otm
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
Always hated that greetin'-faced poacher and now there's another one of them.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:22 (five years ago) link
“The ref has disallowed it!”
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
Lmao
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
lol. gr8 summarising from the bbc!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
Stick to the robots, Jonathan.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
not all that when it comes to the robots eitherLest we forgethttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIj_GlvLD4
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
Not the robots I was thinking of.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Lol @ keown relishing the technological redundancy of linesmen just a bit more than is seemly
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
xp oh I know, but any excuse to watch that vidLooking forward to him getting his teeth into VAR
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
at h/t they will be showing Jonathan the difference between the side + back of the onion net, it's never too late to learn!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
i thought it was in in real time tbf
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
i'm just gonna do my best to pretend the pundits and the commentators aren't there, they're unbearable already and i don't wanna spend a tournament moaning about it
Uruguay lumpen af, Egypt no cutting edge without Salah, enjoyed that half tho
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
xpit's a still a bit Shitkicker FM covering Maccslesfield, these people are paid handsomely to do their job!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
can still see both these teams doing Russia assuming Salah plays
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
I'm hoping for a glimpse of Sobhi in the 2nd half, and Mo of course!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
amazing how many pundits think the manager doesn't matter LEAVE IT JIM THEY'RE NOT WORTH IT
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
that's absolute bollox, and our chairman knows it, that's why our manager Wagner is on more money than any of the players!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
would suggest that Frankeneville wd have a lot less medals at home if it hadn't been for his manager
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Pundits possibly otm, i'm generally against the cult of the manager in modern football
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Altho lol frank de boer, there are limits
you only feel that way cos you've have had a succession of utterly shite managers!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
i'm not all or nothing but it's a very PFM move to downplay the coach's input
transfixed by Varela's arse since he's playing on this side tbh
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
Pearce and Keown just DIE DIE DIE FUCKING DIE sorry breathe I'll stop
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
The American coverage isn't much better.
This isn't a great match but this isn't the result so far I was expecting either.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
Separately:
According to The Guardian, there are 35,000 Peru fans there, not 15,000. Most of the reports from Muscovites I’ve seen suggest they’re the largest / most visible fan contingent by far.
Yeah this fits. Long story short but besides the 'haven't been in the WC in decades' factor, Peruvians really can next level. My girlfriend's been calling up any number of clips from fans over there. (Her father lost his best friend from childhood last year to a heart attack, and they had been planning on going if Peru qualified, so emotions tomorrow at the get-together will be a little higher than normal.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Two best teams in the group being cagey with each other and starting slow, not very surprised tbh
― Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Surprised by how ponderous Uruguay have been with the ball given this new generation of highly-rated ball-playing midfielders they've got
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
Sobhi!!
― calzino, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
nabbed it, moitherfuckers
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
Ugh
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 15 June 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link