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

Lasse Schöne might be the most gorgeous name of the tournament

Aye, a beautiful lassie.

Mooy is the most stylish slaphead of the tournament, and beats off Iniesta by being a thoroughbred baldy.

well this is gonna be a load of showboating pretty-pretty shit

Excellent goal.

yes, enjoyed that

Just came home, checked the score. Yay! And yeah, that's a good goal. How are we playing otherwise?

I thought you was bossing it Fred but unfortunately VAR is bullshit

fuck me! I was gunning for the Aussies, but this is BS!

Yusuf Poulsen bullshit.

That is....a penalty but not a yellow card IMO

i dont think that's a pen myself

I'd like to watch it again a few times but it gives the lie to the "VAR only used for clearly wrong decisions" story

Jedinak new candidate for Golden Boot.

oof misses next game too!

if you raise your arm to head level and the ball hits it you can't complain imo

Well, so far he has given away two penalties, so I hope we'll manage.

FFS, I could see us lose this now.

Xp Generally sure but different in the context of jumping for a ball imo - on the couple of looks I had I don't think he was throwing his arm to block

Glad VAR was there to clarify it tho

HI FRED :D

let's not be too chuffed too soon

just seen the eriksen goal, that was v nice

I think he's trying to pull his hand away if anything, that is well dodgy.

And O'Neill is right, the act of referring it to VAR influences the ref's decision every time.

TS: Glad its not another fucking 1-0 vs Getting sick of penaltyball

Heartily sick of penaltyball

Sick of penaltyball and not at all biased

VG joins the team, scores eight goals, Fred despairs.

What ref is going to dare to disagree with a VAR call?

I guess it takes a lot of weight of the referee's and other official's shoulders, if they're not now, even in theory, meant to see and catch everything that goes on on the pitch- if the weight of the decision is shared by the guys in the studio in Moscow, who the players can't surround and intimidate.

We don't really deserve to win, but I'm still really rooting for us, because otherwise I would kinda have to root for France tonight, and I really don't want to do that.

Denmark fortunate that scoring goals is basically impossible now

yeah they've really laboured this half

draw suits them better than Aus tho so

And now for a glorious Peruvian victory. Uh, maybe.

Deep sigh

happy with that! not over the moon, lot of almost-shots that didnt get there. we sorely need a striker to really capitalize.

Thanks for the match, VG, and wishing you all the best against Ned.

cheers Fred! It was a good game to watch! I am glad I didnt regret dragging myself out of bed at 5am

Cheers! I'll say that missing the first half hour was not optimal from my viewpoint, but oh well :)

If France and Peru draws tonight, then France and Denmark will both make it through if we draw in the final match.

Sorry Ned and VG :)

nice dive in the box there from france

Fred what is there not to like with this french team? A bunch of black muslims representing France, that’s the dream.

Sorry Ned and VG :)

peruvuvus!

don't really know much about soccer but idk why these guys don't just blast it at the goal as hard as they can when they get a look like that

did mbappé just nick that goal off griezmann?

Man rootin so hard for Peru cos they have Orlando City's Yoshi Yotun but huge uphill climb now :(

Lol i feel like it was a "just in case" tap so goalie had no shot at sVing it

man this mbappe kid is fun