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

idg why jesus starts ahead of firmino

religious precedence

if Switzerland end up with 11 on the pitch at the end of this..

ref playing leveller here which is the worst phenomenon in football

Thought Behrami had been booked first half tbh

oh ffs

Thought Behrami had been booked first half tbh

― yes Ndidi (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2018 19:27 (fifty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ref ignored three bookable offences, one mandatory yellow, before allowing a card. cheating brazil, the fans and the game.

Fuck's sake ref if he's clearly conscious don't stop the game

Jesus is essentially useless if he's not tapping in goals from a yard out

a myth of a footballer

otoh he has the face of a whimpering toddler

ffs jesus take a shot

Yep

And they don't play a system that's built around feeding a goal-poacher so what's the point?

For those of you listening on ITV W.T.F.???

"These lads aren't just beach urchins, many of them play for proper teams in civilized Europe"

Swiss ppl rolling around the floor for the next 10 mins

glad to see bobby

the swiss fans chant embolo's name like a-wimoweh, what a stain of a country

favourites yr havin a laugh

Don't know who is atm

wonder what lee dixon has in his locker, he’s obviously been through everyone else’s

fuck me

This is, what, eleven games in and no team that has scored in open play has lost yet?

not feeling much Swiss neutrality on here!

that reminds me though: some good names this tournament. particularly fond of tin jedvaj, alphonse areola, trent sainsbury, beto pimparel, yvon mvogo, breel embolo and andy polo. we've become numb to its power but eden hazard is the only player whose name sounds like a limit break

free kick on the edge of the area to end this..

no there is a corner now

Communism now

Fuck toblerone

this is a fine result

Caught and enjoyed the last twenty minutes of that

this is a fine result

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sonntag, 17. Juni 2018 21:56 (thirty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. fuck brazil imo

team of yello cancelling out the team in yellow

brazil p cowardly tho, from setup thru execution

give it neymar or shit yrself. fine bunch of internationals ye have there.

No David Luiz, no credibility hilarity.

need a stat for total time neymar spent on the ground

Nah I agree, Brazil only have themselves to blame

Fuck preferring chocolateball tho

need a stat for total time neymar spent on the ground

just count how many times some donkey in a red shirt pulled him over and multiply by 90 seconds a go

don't expect swiss players to hug Neymar but he was kicked around.

Slaven Bilic's "to tell the truth I don't care" highlight of the tournament so far.

rte reporting that celebrations of the mexico goal set off seismic detectors in mexico city

no reds and no 0-0 sofar

WE KANE DO IT or KANE AND ABLE?

http://imgur.com/hAMPzIC

Scathing from Hummels (apols for sun link, couldn't find another). Germany still have two snoozers ahead of them but this is the first in forever they are somewhat in disarray.

I'd guess that Hector will be back for the rest of the group.

They're lucky in that they're facing probably two of the three worst teams in the competition next.

Agreed, though Sweden is solely responsible for keeping both Italy and Holland out of the WC. That must account for... something.

it's all espionage

South Korea's World Cup team responded to spying by the Swedish team by swapping their jerseys so that Sweden couldn't tell them apart.

Taeguk Warriors coach Shin Tae-yong told reporters Sunday that his team swapped around their numbers after a member of Sweden's coaching staff was caught trying to spy on their closed training session in Austria earlier this month.

"We switched them around because we didn't want to show our opponents everything and to try and confuse them," said Shin.

"They might know a few of our players but it is very difficult for Westerners to distinguish between Asians," he added.

The Swedish spy first tried to gain intel on the South Koreans by approaching the team's training base and posing as a tourist, although his plan was quickly foiled. He later convinced a local couple who lived near the camp to let him use their house and set up a high performance telescope and video camera.

"It took a long car journey up the mountains to reach the house, but it was a perfect spot to observe the Korean team’s training," Lars Jacobsson, the Swedish spy, said Sunday according to Reuters.

Sweden's coach Janne Andersson has apologized, saying that Sweden analyzes every opponent before a match, but they may have crossed a line.

"It’s very important that we show respect for opponents, always and in every way. If it has been perceived in another way, we apologize," he said.

Still, South Korea seemed unfazed by the incident.

"All coaches probably feel their opponents are always spying on them," Shin said. "I think it’s perfectly natural that we all try to get as much information on each other as we can."

In recent matches between Bolivia and Senegal, only two Korean players wore their usual numbers, Shin added.

South Korea and Sweden face off on Monday at 3 p.m. local time.

ruben ostlund's next movie should be about lars jacobsson

tip for the Koreans: watch out for that tall blonde guy on the Swedish team

a good read from romelu lukaku about his childhood https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/romelu-lukaku-ive-got-some-things-to-say