Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

Fuck sake, Jason Cummings is in the Australian squad and he's actually been capped by Scotland. Still, who are you more likely to play in a World Cup with?

my faith in the Sockeroos holding on for 77 minutes is not very high

Michael Stipe a nice bit o dribblin there

Mooy's my fave Town player of the last three decades, as low a bar that is!

how is Mooy still this good

wijnhard slander itt obv

buncha French fans behind goal with brown pants that were white before the game started

Hernandez having a 'mare.

Les Poos

wait I meant Ndlovu not Wijnhard

calz pls confirm

and here we go

xp

Ndlovu was only with us for a freescoring short loan period, we tried to extend it but Warnock said he wasn't available - then loaned him to Brum and we got relegated.

or it might have been Trevor Francis who said he wasn't available then loaned him to Warnock .. lol easy to get 2 cunts mixed up

and we're back to normalcy

Funny reading the start of match comments after watching France hammer these for the last 20 minutes

yeah Australia scoring early seems to have knocked over a wasp's nest, they shoulda just parked the bus and tried to poke one through at 45'

Mmploppe

does anybody else hear quacking

when Giroud scores 2 on u then u know it's time to quit the match

Plenty of time for his hat trick

Another half an hour.

no they're actually playing a stoppage half

I don't believe England did start the tournament as one of the favourites but Jonathan Pearce hadn't mentioned them in a couple of minutes so what the hell.

sorry, dropped off there for a bit, are Australia still winning?

lmao I would have expected 6-0 before this, easily the worst Australian squad since getting out of Oceania

but please... some respect for Cumdog

You have to hand it to FIFA, they always find a new way to make football worse at every tournament

the knockout round is gonna be 6 on 6 indoor soccer by 2030

15 extra minutes a game, a great solution to a non-existent problem

lmao I would have expected 6-0 before this, easily the worst Australian squad since getting out of Oceania

Yeah, half the team seem to play for Hearts and they brought on a guy who plays for St Mirren late on.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiMAqshXgAE0rPu?format=jpg&name=large

young Jude Bellingham under the influence of his Irish side of the family, without the 2nd gen Irish and Afro-Caribbean players they'd be a sub-Denmark level of shite!

this is the commentary i need

Curious just how many players at this World Cup were also playing in tournaments the year that pic was possibly taken (2008ish?). A fair few.

Ronaldo was six years into his professional career already

must be odd to be playing against people who weren't even born when you started playing professionally (except goalkeepers who must have got used to this a long time ago)

Links into my theory that footballers' careers are lasting longer these days - due to higher fitness levels and players being better looked after.

John Hartson is the most boring commentator I can recall hearing, he sounds asleep. I've always had fonds memories of him, he scored the first time I went to Highbury but he is atrocious and they need to replace him asap.

how soon we forget Lawro

Hartson is probably hungover. Anyway in a world where Phil Neville and Michael Owen exist then no way he can be the most boring commentator ever.

Hartson is bad at this and should not be a co-commentator.

there was a Pearce/Murphy match the other day, truly the worst combo

oh dear god michael owen is a commentator?

we truly live in hell

Pearce drooling over France was at least a little decadent. Murphy offers less than nothing. BBC live text comms having the cheek to accuse ITV of 'hot air'

Pearce is one of the greatest surviving commentators, along with Tyldesley, who is probably the greatest still working.

I no longer think any other commentators or pundits are good, the opposite of what I thought c.20 years ago, but Murphy is above average and Keown brings unique comic value.

Murphy's similarity to Ron Atkinson vocally always unsettles me.

Hartson's insight into any given match is generally based around how effective it is to bring a big lad on upfront but I do enjoy his lovely Swansea vowels.

Murphy drives me to distraction tbh

The 0-0 seems back big time at this World Cup. Somehow we only got one in the entire 2018 tournament.