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

Tunisia score

If they're so polite how come they even had to even clean up after themselves at the grounds.

Ben Yousseff one of the more scottish looking tunisians

That kick to his own face is the highlight of the World Cup so far

omg

Lol Batshuayi 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/G8YmyqW6kw

— Ouney (@Ouney86) June 28, 2018

Bad Rashford

omg=o ma goal

Pleased for Adnan. Seems to be carving a respectable career out for himself at Sociedad - and he's still only 23

...is there a band playing a riff from 'september' ??

yes

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/23/terrace-tunes-viral-source-september-chant

I had forgotten the state of utter contentment that only an interminable game of football can inculcate. i am totally empty and the football is happening. i want this game to last 4 hours

apparently they’re singing this:

Woaah, England are in Russia
Woaah, drinking all the vodka
Woaah, England’s going all the waaaay

it is not good

Vastly preferable to the national anthem though

this game is pure lack

Lol at the state of this defence

The worst one I heard this season was Motherwell away and two absolute jakies were shoehorning Hearts players names into The Jam's That's Entertainment . "Harry cochrane and Steven Naismith, that's entertainment yada yada", viciously off key and in by far the least watchable game of the season with no hint of irony.

That was a clusterfuck right in front of the goal.

Lucky that at least half of this side won't be playing the next match.

What is the point of having these friendlies? You don't learn anything from them.

So England's second string are utter cack.

Pure waste

I don't get this - Eng were more likely to beat Japan, a side really lucky not to lose all their games!

Can't wait for Falcao to get hold of this defence man

They obviously think Colombia are no problem.

falcao has looked sort of useless the two games i've seen

England did try after they went a goal down, just not v good in this situation. Should be a better game v Colombia than England v Japan would've been.

You've been drinking in pubs in Eastbourne imago.

James probably isn't going to play

they're playing some triumphant snare intensive version of Jerusalem in this bar while I take a leak. feel very patriotic/confused

thought dier was rubbish tonight

As I won't be here for a week to enjoy the last 16 and two of the QFs lets do some predictions:

Fra - Arg: The tie of the round. France haven't had to play and I think that might go against them. Argies toughened up and even though France could win in their midfield (they should!) they are undercooked here.
Uru - Por: Another good tie. Expect a lot of yellow cards, maybe a red. 22 shitheads in a field. Great. Uruguay to edge it. Might go pens.
Bra - Mex: Brazil will do enough - but only just. Mexico will be intense, think Brazil to win in extra-time.
Bel - Jpn: England are stupid. Belgium.
Spa - Rus: Russia to get a goal as they bow out of the competition they are only in because they host it.
Cro - Den: Apart from Japan Denmark have been the most useless team! Just nothing. Once Croatia beat them can we celebrate by banning Fred B?
Swe - Swi: Really like Switzerland and the way they trolled the war criminals. Want them to beat the tall blonde people who can't fucking play.
Col - Eng: Watch Colombia beat Eng and then all the hipsters adopt them. London will be insufferable.

Dunphy eulogising Fellaini - "a warrior"

bitshitwahey

Dunphy eulogising Fellaini - "a warrior"

― Number None, Thursday, June 28, 2018 1:12 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never change

New thread for the next round(s) maybe? This one is pretty enormous.

Fra - Arg: The tie of the round.

bold take. two shiters meet for a shiter

fra - arg. fra win
uru - por: could go either way. tough to call
bra - mex: mex win
bel - jpn: bel win
spa - rus: rus win
cro - den: cro win
swe - swi: swi win
col - eng: who knows. eng win? hope it's col win

at one point one of the telemundo lads said "big sam" in the middle of a string of spanish. other than that, i've already forgotten everything else about the game.

col v eng seems p well matched, all lols aside

Fra / Por / Bra / Bel / Spa / Cro / Swi / Eng

Oops, very European.

i got
FRA
URU
MEX
BEL
SPA
CRO
SWE
COL

Ahahha I knew I would be f*cked the minute I come to my mentions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 why am I so stupid bro 🤦🏾‍♂️ shit hurts

— Michy Batshuayi (@mbatshuayi) June 28, 2018

Fra - Arg: france ought to win this, but i think arg will pull it out
Uru - Por: def going to be chippy -- uru
Bra - Mex: would like v much for mex to pull it off, but i think the bra ppl have been expecting will show up
Bel - Jpn: bel, c'mon
Spa - Rus: rus to be disgraced at home imo
Cro - Den: cro, easily (...I may have them going to the finals tbh)
Swe - Swi: swi, also pretty handily i think
Col - Eng: if james is going to be out, i think i might have to give the edge to eng tho i'd prefer not to -- kane wants the boot

the results i'd LIKE would be
FRA
URU
MEX
BEL
SPA
CRO
SWI
COL

more like Gashford

Think Russia could surprise Spain. Apart from their opening game (and they didn't even win that one) Spain have looked fairly average.

Looking at the results from the last one and I'd forgotten all about that Netherlands Mexico game

Fra / Por / Bra / Bel / Spa / Cro / Swi / Eng

Oops, very European.

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 June 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stop it :)

Even if James is out Colombia have more than enough in the locker for this England side.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/28/england-throttle-misreading-draw-colombia-world-cup

"England have every chance of beating Colombia." -- No reasoning for this. Just left this in mid-air.