Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

i will feel bad when i watch any of this, but i know i'll watch some of it

― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Replace any for 'most' and that's me.

Sad that Mane is out. I can see Qatar getting out of the group (to face England..). And if not Senegal, hard to see any African team progressing without a major upset.

No real big games in the first week but a few intriguing ones based on novelty (e.g. will Canada just collapse against Belgium or be hard to break down?). Mexico v Poland could be fun if Bobby L turns up.

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— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) November 18, 2022

i had hopes for Senegal but Mane is such a big loss

https://www.grubstreet.com/2022/11/world-cup-2022-bars-nyc.html

flashbacks of 2002, waking up at 3am to watch Rivaldo shine...
(agree about the absolute travesty it would be to see Neymar gloat and win this world cup, this imbecil, but... I'm watching it anyway 😢 )

Charlton's one player at the tournament was Ghana's first choice keeper, unfortunately as we can't have nice things he broke his finger warming up for our last game before he was to leave

Four Celtic players there but, curiously. Maeda is going but not Furuhashi or Hatate, both of whom are much better players. Especially Hatate.

dick so good he got me watching FOOTBALL😩

— tyler (@tyler02020202) November 18, 2022

not feeling this world cup but still will prob watch more than the last one which I checked out of almost entirely.
gutted for sadio mane and christopher nkunku. most excited about musiala who has been extraordinary for Bayern( even if it's choupo moting that has made the team click)

This World Cup is certainly shaping up to be a bad one for fair-skinned gay alcoholics.

— Jonathan O'Brien (@obrien_jonathan) November 18, 2022

Dunphy really good on Qatar and the game’s general attitude to gay players and supporters

‘People should be respected for what they are as human beings, not what they do in their private lives’ - Eamon Dunphy outlines Qatar’s attitude towards homosexuality on @RTELateLateShow ahead of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/vXseEhLLZG

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 18, 2022

For those of you wondering which thread to follow, this is the one I'll be posting to

*removes bookmark *

SORRY IT WAS TOO EASY

“Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker.”

today I feel like a cantaloupe beetle, gorging on dung.

Don't worry imago I'll monitor both.

Lmao Tracer

truly the world cup brings us all together

No I’m glad you’re also posting itt

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

this is an ILF thread isn't it? yeah thought so

anyway I'll be back on the real ILF before too long as for some of us, domestic football isn't going away. port vale this afternoon, world cup shmorld cup *snorting emoji*

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

sports threads plus the occasional irresistible swipe, it's a deal we can all be proud of

I know he posted on some loser thread by 'mistake' a day after poster imago promised he'd disappear from ILE for good. I'm just humouring you all xp

Stfu xyzzzz____ and watch the Dunphy clip

The clip this brane genius didn’t even post

‘People should be respected for what they are as human beings, not what they do in their private lives’ - Eamon Dunphy outlines Qatar’s attitude towards homosexuality on @RTELateLateShow ahead of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/vXseEhLLZG

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 18, 2022

i posted on ILE throughout an entire recent world cup in a sport gyac doesn't care about unless ireland beat england in it, WHICH HAPPENED, and she didn't even post ffs

Oh fuck this, I posted it itt a while ago, I’m on the way to the airport I’m clearly diverting everything to other functions bye

xp I was very nice to my better half in fairness (cos I don’t care). I will never enjoy cricket

That clip is cute.

Dunphy as pundit is basically you every time you decide to start a fight on here

I'd watch him.

Here’s a supercu(n)t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abj1UVNwbgY

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

also can a mod add OFFICIAL to this thread title?

Anybody not backing Brazil?

Prospect of France being the first champions to get out of the group for 20 years only to face Argentina again also v tantalising

if by "backing" you mean supporting then no, bunch of Bolsonaro-supporting cunts, hope they go out ASAP.

my preference is for the whole thing to be cancelled, however if someone has to win it, I'll be glad if it's England because

* If any world cup "doesn't count" it's this one, so bragging rights would be minimised
* we would never have to hear another new version of Three Lions
* If Rashford, Sancho and Saka can score the winning goals then it will piss off all the right people.

literally anyone but Brazil

hope they get 7-1'd again

Argentina is the romantic choice obv

I’m supporting nobody but I do hope the legendary Portugal-Netherlands card record gets broken - and I’m feeling it in the bad vibe of this tournament, lads.

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

I passed a Paddy Power ad today on the way into Dublin airport that said “At least Sterling spent more time at 10 than Truss.” I’m indifferent to the fortunes of the English national team but I can guess the discourse.

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

by that I mean players are generally better at not doing things that get them sent off, would guess that red card numbers this and last EPL season are down on the average

THAT SAID this last AFCON was an absolute red card bonanza, every time they went to VAR someone was sent off for some nonsense, so maybe, hopefully that'll be the case here too

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

xpp i was referring to cuntathon

oh sorry supercu(n)t, i wondered why cuntathon didn't work with parentheses :/

Yeah, yeah, 1994 made a particular impression on me because, as I say, I was outside the U.S. to see it. I had never seen that level of universal interest in any sporting event ever. And its coming down to penalties, with a spectacular miss by Baggio, had a similar feel to yesterday's ending.

as far as the knock out rounds went argentina were the clearly better side in all 4 of their games even though they only 'won' 2 of them whereas france were probably only the better side in one game out of four.

still think 2006 Italy vs Germany is the top standard of what international football should be.
as far as finals go 1982 was very satisfying.
1990 probably the worst final I've seen.

But the match was so so bad, and I speak as a Brazilian, who watched the team get that 1st WC...that was wonderful at the time and I am no complainer though I'd wish it was more exciting. The excitement really came from Bulgaria and Romania in that WC.

Having watched every final since 1990 I'd be say my faves were: 2022, 2010, 2006

2010 was amazing -- though everyone hates that -- as the Dutch were trying to batter the Spanish, and it nearly, nearly worked. It was a contest.

2006 was Zidane headbutt!

2022 is the big winner. Most intense from about 75 mins to the end. Unforgettable extra half hour.

xxp

Wasn't 94 Brazil's fourth Cup?

Yes but the first I saw them win love.

Live.

2006 was great, my second team playing my third team except I wanted Italy to win that time. I really wanted Maldini to get a winners medal. The Germany-Italy last semi with the two super late goals was absolutely classic though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkXvK6mX0A49ZtH?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkXvK6tX0AgH3g7?format=jpg&name=large
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Yes, 2006 was great.

I remember the 2018 final being a whole lot of fun. Very eventful anyway!

Yes it has the novelty of being the first final I watched with more than five goals but France were always in control.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkTz8WSXoAATK6K?format=jpg&name=large

king

king dick with his John Terry impression and the Camavinga goading he posted

Looking ahead a bit...what:

The 2030 men’s football World Cup will be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with one match each taking place in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, FIFA announced on Wednesday.

lol play your opening game in south america, your group stage in europe, and a knockout match in africa. v sensible from fifa.

if you can't create the most irresponsible environmental impact possible is it even really a World Cup?

Final match on Ascension Island.

do you ever get the feeling people are just taking the piss nowadays

Well...I kinda like this. I mean, it is the 100th anniversary so it's kinda alright there are a few matches in South America.

Having matches in Morocco looks to a future (of a burning world).

You'll be pleased to hear that the odds are that 2034's Cup will be in Saudi Arabia, then.

In the future all football games will be played in Saudi Arabia.

xp they are seen as favourites but we'll see. Australia and Indonesia are putting in a bid too.

Possibly China.

Don't see " carbon neutrality" as a big deal. Climate mitigation goes beyond what happens in a month across three countries.

I mean if covering vast distances via air travel is an issue you wouldn't have a WC in the US would you?

it's low down on "things that are wrong with the World Cup" yeah, but it's very FIFA to not even bother paying lip service to it

Agreed.

End-state climate extermination events dictate that petrostates dominate world sports. It’s how sportswashing works i guess.

I mean, i’m a cycling nerd— UAE Team Emirates, Gazprom, Bahrain Victorious, Total Energies, more

Some chilling scenes from Brasil-Argentina.

Match delayed due to "riot" in the stands, but police were beating fans with batons. Messi took his team off field

I recently learned that Argentina did away with away game spectators about two decades ago.

Absolute joke to play this. 21 minutes, maybe eight minutes of play. Three cards, every foul the ref has to beg the players not to fight

Brazil struggling in qualification for the first time in a long while but they waited until there are six berths (plus a likely seventh via play-off) to qualify.

Brazil just never ever struggle in qualifiers. Three straight defeats 😱

The match was called very one-sided in Argentina's favor but that ain't why Brazil lost. They had zero ideas. Lots of balls played to prospective runners who never made runs, poorly weighted balls, bad first touches.

Argentina weren't much better, didn't even score until after Messi subbed out