Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

'balkan in the wars' fuckin red card this commentator my god

I'm not a fan of Sutton but tbf at least he despises Neymar

Can we take a deep dive into the state of Serbian politics?

Just saying..

Sometimes nobody deserves to win!

If we have a 'what effect would a WC win have on the politics of the country' I'd rather Brazil won under Lula than Eng under the Tories.

You and me both. Never mind the politics either.

Brazil can win as long as they leave Neymar on the big Jesus in Rio

Is Jermaine Jenas the most boring man alive?

Murphy nearly got me on the cyanide earlier..

this half has flew by

Where is angry Jesuit Roy Keane

What ye need is a bit of Dunphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MiyzlBngLQ

Like 99% of the reason I’d enjoy watching the absolute dogshit that is Ireland internationals is for the lads at each other’s throats in the break and after

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFFv8BAObk

I'd like to see Micah Richards just put everyone else in a headlock for 5 minutes each while cackling.

I've got a paperback edition of Only A Game on the shelf, never got round to finishing it because I'm half blind and can only read on kindles these days!

Why has Jenas been mentioned? KEOWN is covering this match.

I think Lula is only President-Elect and not yet in office: he returns on 1st January 2023.

Mowbray started saying that if Yugoslavia hadn't broken up they would have been a good team. Perhaps. Wasn't sure this was in good taste.

I'm a huge fan of Tim Vickery.

Meanwhile quite impressed by SER organization. Brazil haven't really had a shot on goal in the first half.

Yes, I just realized it's Keown. My point stands though.

Tim Vickery once did an astonishingly ill-judged impersonation of Ken Early on the Second Captains pod which was met by the usually genial hosts with stunned silence. just the most horrendously offensive 19th century Pat-and-Mike caricature bullshit, i could hardly believe my ears. still enjoy his insight but never really felt the same way about him since.

A Brazil victory would be of no use to Bolsanaro, politically.

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire hadn't broken up they'd probably be a pretty nifty team too, how far can you take that line of thinking?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austria

There it is!

User Sharivari absolutely incandescent with rage that he missed that goal

Goal Brazil ! - fitting that they score for the first time when a teammate just takes the ball away from Neymar

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) November 24, 2022

Fuck yeah

there's your goal of the tournament

Astonishing stuff from Richarlison

Outrageously good!!

Brazil are quite good

Brazil is playing better this half. Serbia roughhousing Neymar only worked for a little while

Well he's off the field so it did work.

Still at least they kicked Neymar's ankles a bit, so efforts didn't go to waste.

p certain we'll see better goals than that, good as it was

He got an assist in the first goal and he was subbed in the 80th minute. There's no reason to keep playing him for the entire match

i had scampered over to American football, missed most of second half :/

hate richarlison about 100x more than neymar. cracking goal tho. brazil have been bang average in their general play.

Been looking for Bolsonaro support from Richarlison but found nothing.

best way to show Bolsonaro support is get real sick and take off your pants and get hauled off in an ambo

have no idea what richarlison is like off the pitch and don't care, I dislike him for on pitch reasons.

Brazilian footballers fouling players and having dumb antics is a tradition that goes way back -- the shot of Roberto Carlos brought back memories of that, too. Fuckin' hate that PED-chugging dipshit

By the way, Neymar's "assist" consisted of running into the box and losing control of the ball - fortuitously it fell to another Brazilian player, the one who actually assisted the goalscorer.

Nice that Brazil’s first goal of the tournament is by one of their only left wing players 🙏

— Liam (@Hezbolsonaro) November 24, 2022

Hurrah!

They were pretty unplayable in the 2nd half and are easily one of the better favourites I've seen. Only France and Spain were faster off the blocks.

completely disagree. they were okay.

Tom D: I agree that Jenas has a dull and bad voice, but I don't think Keown is like him at all. Keown is the most inadvertently comic pundit on BBC or ITV - one of the few who I find worth attending to, for that reason.

Richarlison's second goal was superb, reminiscent of Manuel Negrete, who started out with the goal of the tournament but ended up superseded.

Holland and Uruguay played organised opposition so harder to judge.

Don't give a fuck about England

No confidence that Spain or England will take their early form into games against decent teams. My money’s on France grinding it out, everyone went off them when Benzema got injured but Giroud is exactly the right striker for Mbappe.

Brazil looked pretty menacing to me too. Need to see them against a team with a central midfield.

France, Spain and Brazil the most impressive after this round of games

Ok to be fair England too but what are the odds they can give two performances in a row like that?

Bloody USA next.