Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

And why not?

How come all the good games happen when I'm at work?

Wales are such fucking dreck. And Italy are at home lol

Omg that was incredible

what an ending

Cannot wait for Iran USA

Wayne Hennessey waking up today
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— george (@StokeyyG2) November 25, 2022

lol

Wales are such fucking dreck. And Italy are at home lol

Yes, they're dogshit and Bale saying them beating Ukraine to qualify for the World Cup was the "greatest result in Wales' football history" irritated me no end - the 1958 team played Brazil in the quarter finals of the World Cup you dick, a much better team than this mob, with much better players than Gareth Bale.

Klinsmann going on about Iran working the ref lol. Wales offered nothing.

That Brazil team also beat Wales 1-0 in '58.

This studio analysis is chronic fucking hell

with Pele!

xpost

Pele chronically overrated tbf, Maradona the king

I think he'd get into the Iran team though.

Might need to take lessons on working the ref

From the Guardian:

Gareth Bale's verdict
It’s gutting [boings his lips]. We’re gutted, there’s no other way to say it. It’s difficult to take but we have to recover and try and go again.

Pele is overrated is the most Normal Football Guy opinion imaginable

It’s just a lazy troll

Then I can dig it

IRN were better and deserved to beat WAL.

I like WAL in principle but this is a very limited team. They literally get excited when a player from Stoke or Barnsley is available for selection. Bale seems very off the pace and showed nothing today. They had one effort on target.

IRN scored one of the goals of the tournament and another fine goal, as well as hitting the post twice.

I like Klinsmann but he insisted on saying that Iran are emotional and also that they foul, con the referee and commit gamesmanship. I actually saw little evidence of this. IRN were the better, more skilful team; if anyone needed to commit gamesmanship to survive that match it was WAL. And the WAL keeper's foul was Teutonic.

I felt sorry for IRN after an abject opening result, after losing their keeper. I'm glad for them today. They're not such mugs as many English people thought.

They literally get excited when a player from Stoke or Barnsley is available for selection. Bale

replay of that Hennessey foul

https://i.imgur.com/F3gD91Q.gif

No. I just presumed it would lapse into racism frankly. I watch the match and turn straight off.

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 25, 2022

He's not very wrong here. Racism / chauvinism / disdain for Middle Eastern people did, I think, inform the studio discussion. Funny that, when UK soccer is so loudly committed to inclusion and no room for discrimination.

I think just one passing comment about the quality of the first goal which was an absolute belter.

is there a short answer as to why Bale is playing in LA? Has he really fallen off that much? He’s only 33!

Money

Ireland feeling very seen by this also

Tell me about it.

If you think Bale has fallen off consider Ramsey, he may as well retire now.

I'm just grateful "the likes of" Stoke and Barnsley was used rather than Hudds

in Wayne Hennessey's defence he's never heard of Denial of a Goalscoring Opportunity before, he'd love to learn about it

— Will 🚾 (@ohlookitswill_) November 25, 2022

Nice header

Senegal v Iran would be cool.

2-1!

Excitement over: 3-1

is there a short answer as to why Bale is playing in LA? Has he really fallen off that much? He’s only 33!

he essentially spent the last three years of his Madrid contract playing golf

Could be Senegal - England. Eng will be overhyped but Senegal are fine and it will be a game.

Senegal fans can't stop dancing, this BBC commentator says.

The Iran match is why I get utterly annoyed with US fans.

They were all "well let's just maybe try not to lose too badly to England on Friday, then we'll just destroy Iran and hopefully beat Wales on goal differential if they beat Iran too".

I mean not that I put a lot of stock in FIFA rankings but technically Iran is #20.

earlier when klinnsmann said Iran were playing the ref and gabby logan cued up some clips with " you could call it gamesmanship or perhaps at home you might call it something else" then they played the clips and it was just completely normal happens twenty times a game stuff. just scraping the barrel. anyway hope Wales get knocked out tho I suppose they could be playing an already qualified let's make sure harry kane isn't broken england in the last match

Klinsmann would know all about gamesmanship, of course

find the netherlands p boring to watch but I'd love lvg to win a world cup

Klinsmann is a total brown noser when he appears on British TV.

anyway hope Wales get knocked out tho I suppose they could be playing an already qualified let's make sure harry kane isn't broken england in the last match

Pretty sure we'd still lose against an English third team

neymar out 2 games with an ankle injury. thought last night even before the injury that he kinda runs like someone who's been kicked too many times.

or managing to injure himself to often while feigning injury

Case of the Bolsonaros, these fascists are always ending up in hospital.

Lol that was quick

Calzino: your Stokes, your Barnsleys.