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

xp i think i meant the opposite of immutable earlier lol. maybe malleable was what i meant. like, built of a de facto cultural rather than a consistent logic applied to situations throughout.

@daragh: i am not a kyle walker or england fan. i thought they were extremely hard done by on the decisions yesterday. i don't think they are particularly good at all, as minutes 45-80 showed yesterday, but i thought their last 5/10 minutes yesterday was commendable; compare with Russia/Slovakia/Iceland 2016, Algeria/USA 2010, entire 2014 campaign

looking forward to actually be able to watch more midweek games now

fair enough. the kane wrestling was a shocker def

srsly tho how bad must egypt be when not even mo salah can drag them any higher than 3rd

°=°

Has anyone in this thread made any straight up calls as to who is going to win this thing yet?

Think it’s time for people to put up now

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france

je regrette tous

je pense que je regrette spelling it with an s nest-ce que pas trevorre

after the first round I'm sticking with my pre tournament rankings at least for the top 10 or so, so: spain

yeah I’m feeling spain too tbh, though a belgium win would be great and not beyond the bounds of possibility

Denmark

Such bias

Well, y'know, with a little bit of luck...

Brazil will actually win but willing to bet on BEL

Spain ftw

Russia is winning this thing and the trophy will violate the rights of everybody in the stadium

Can we start talking about how the russians are fixing matches/the world cup

Senegal ftw

If russia come up against spain that's them done for sure. Portugal however, I'd give em a chance. And no-one in groups c or d has looked shit hot yet... heh, nah, not going to happen. They'll get a narrow defeat in the second round and be pleased with it i expect. Contra Jonathan Pearce who seems to have a real hard on for putin, the success or otherwise of the russian team will have zero political effect on presidential popularity or anything else.

lol @ pat nevin, the thinking man's footballer. Liverpool shd have not player Salah in champions league final out of respect 4 egypt imo, he was always likely to get roughed up

not played

sticking with Germany to retain

He’s unstoppable.

Bloody hell.

James won the GB last time with 6 goals and Muller in 2010 with 5

Was about to say - he could equal James two games in.

As it stands, morrocco going out with this result.

Morocco even

Glad that before the tournament i never voiced my generic football hipster hot take that this could be the year the north african teams break through lol

Morocco look like the better team tbh

Someone is going to absolutely destroy Portugal at some point. Unfortunately I don't think England can get at them until the semis

the delay on bbc i-player is such I thought xxxp meant an equaliser.

France revenge narrative actually. Yeah, it can be them

xp Just be thankful it's not ITV Player

Argentina to hump portugal in quarters with messi scoring four goals, ronaldo sent off and vince macmahon coming on the pitch and getting powerslammed

Started watching after the goal but frankly this has looked more like Morocco’s game the whole time.

ok yeah or argentina haha

Morocco have the look of a hard luck story here

Or Denmark!

watched three minutes and already've seen at least a dozen players dive smh

are denmark in the world cup

morocco knocking it about v nicely which seems naive now that games are all settled from set plays

we've found another Bad Ref

xp or big lumpy backpasses from polish defenders lol

Really want Morocco to do well and progress. I believe they could grow into the WC.

ziyech has been everything I hoped for & it wld be nice if he got a goal

Ziyech not near his usual standard tbf

Morocco look like they shd get on the scoresheet, but portugal look like they've another goal in them as well. 2 or 3- 1 Por I think

moroccan press in effect and very furious