No Irish, No Yanks, No Clogs - FIFA World Cup 2018

it's political correctness gone mad

This uruguay anthem is some barber of seville shit, I like it

Really not seeing the trezeguet resemblance

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."

Uruguay’s national anthem is a legit Donizetti rip-off. I think it’s Lucrezia Borgia.

Xp Fifa are unlikely to assign egypt to a different group now that the tournament has begun so lawro otm

Really not seeing the trezeguet resemblance

Always hated that greetin'-faced poacher and now there's another one of them.

“The ref has disallowed it!”

Lmao

lol. gr8 summarising from the bbc!

Stick to the robots, Jonathan.

not all that when it comes to the robots either

Lest we forget

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIj_GlvLD4

Not the robots I was thinking of.

Lol @ keown relishing the technological redundancy of linesmen just a bit more than is seemly

xp oh I know, but any excuse to watch that vid

Looking forward to him getting his teeth into VAR

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!

i thought it was in in real time tbf

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

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it's a still a bit Shitkicker FM covering Maccslesfield, these people are paid handsomely to do their job!

can still see both these teams doing Russia assuming Salah plays

I'm hoping for a glimpse of Sobhi in the 2nd half, and Mo of course!

amazing how many pundits think the manager doesn't matter LEAVE IT JIM THEY'RE NOT WORTH IT

that's absolute bollox, and our chairman knows it, that's why our manager Wagner is on more money than any of the players!

would suggest that Frankeneville wd have a lot less medals at home if it hadn't been for his manager

Pundits possibly otm, i'm generally against the cult of the manager in modern football

Altho lol frank de boer, there are limits

you only feel that way cos you've have had a succession of utterly shite managers!

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

Pearce and Keown just DIE DIE DIE FUCKING DIE sorry breathe I'll stop

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.

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.)

Two best teams in the group being cagey with each other and starting slow, not very surprised tbh

Surprised by how ponderous Uruguay have been with the ball given this new generation of highly-rated ball-playing midfielders they've got

Sobhi!!

nabbed it, moitherfuckers

Ugh

Booming header

telemundo guy delivers tho

Yeah you felt that goal was coming.

oh fuck this!

Uruguay are so evil!

I hate Pearce's habit of triumphantly stating "They've won it!" when any team goes ahead in the last 5-10 minutes - that's come back to bite him in the arse so many times.

A+ smurf cosplay from that Uruguayan fan.

Egypt - Russia should be a good clash of styles now

obv Uruguay were disjointed and slow but they'd've took a point here i'm sure

Not feeling for Egypt or anything lol, and Uruguay grind it out

Uruguay took an age to get going, Egypt didn't do anything much tho

Egypt good until the last third, Salah will start against Russia unless he's less fit than they're letting on, totally understand not risking him today

Sitting that deep is never good, all underdogs to be mercilessly put down

lol questioning whether Maguire or Cahill when Maguire is head and fucking shoulders the best centre half in the England squad