World Cup 2014

Hart is fucking insane

There are a number of players who are always referred to by their full name, some are explainable, like 'Joe Cole' is a lack of vowels. I also have friends who are always referred to by their full name, it's weird.

Some names just sound better when you say both names

why does hart kick the boards? he full on kicks the shit out of them. what's that gonna do?

I didn't mean vowels I meant syllables. Xxp

, it is a v striking stat

very good

one word surnames invite fullname i think (esp with one syllable first name)
joe cole
joe hart
ashley young
taribo west
ken chu

one syllable surnames, i mean

excellent post ogmor

I'd add Valbuena to Dos Santos and Candreva as players who have drifted laterally to good effect (admittedly vs the worst team of the tournament so far)

that post should have read - "In 2010 there were also some narrow teams..." - in case it's not clear, and "quite some fairly shit goalkeeping" doesn't make much sense either but idk, I can barely form thoughts, no shame

on subject of names. was looking for the name of the brazilian who they were calling one name in the commentary but who had an entirely different name on the back of his shirt, something english and old fashioned iirc

but the i found this:
http://www1.skysports.com/football/player/8198/hulk

xxp france seem quite fluid in general, but I haven't seen them play for a while so I'm not sure how much of that was the honduras effect. interested to see how mikel does against iran today or what the nigerian midfield does in general

xp you might be thinking of wilfried bony for cote d'ivoire who had b. wilfried. altho that does happen fairly often so just as likely someone else i don't recall.

bernard and fred both have those names on their shirt iirc

Germany v Portugal

Germany starting XI: Neuer, Boateng, Hummels, Mertesacker, Howedes, Lahm (c), Khedira, Ozil, Muller, Kroos, Gotze.

Portugal starting XI: Patricio, Alves, Pepe, Veloso, Coentrao, Ronaldo (c), Moutinho, Almeida, Meireles, Nani, Pereira.

Germany 4 CB's and a false 9. Oh brother.

gonna be dancing round a non existent beanpole seeking bounty

I Schweinsteiger unfit or was Lahm always gonna play MF regardless I wonder? Might be an idea when up against the best left sided forward in the world to play the best right back in the world in position to combat him.

No Postiga? Not sure I've ever seen Portugal without Postiga and that including news footage from '66.

You are suffering from Postalgia, that's what they call it

OK guys, I am watching Adrian Chiles thanks to VPN and this shit is still way better than ESPN. Adrian Chiles! Seriously, you don't realize how good you have it. There's actually a few nuggets of half-intelligent football talk here, every 5 mins or so.

"on subject of names. was looking for the name of the brazilian who they were calling one name in the commentary but who had an entirely different name on the back of his shirt, something english and old fashioned iirc"

columbian player james rodriguez?

No Carvahlo is a bummer

Germany aren't particularly scary

Wow is Joe Hart roid raging there?

need to get Head and Shoulders submitted to the lab stat

I really thought Reus was gonna be brilliant this tournament. Thought it was perfect for him :(

can't get used to pepe with hair, he looks better bald

viera says that pirlo is the only italian player who would make the england team!!!

> columbian player james rodriguez?

i think it was, yes. they were calling him rodriguez when he had plain old 'james' on the back.

Ronaldo's hair kind of perfect tbh

Viera really needs that BBC paycheck eh?

cannavaro looked singularly unconvinced

germany wanna tiki taka but none of their defenders can pass so good luck

well except hummels

Portugal playing in sunglasses, lovin this so far

best game

ah fuck

was patricio having a drink on the right side of goal when the ball first came over?

Them goalies... what are they like?

a fuckin Martini I'd say this has been a nuts opening.

Portugal v far from the

penalty

lovely stuff there

nuts, nuts game. playground in the best way.

quality pen

yellow card fair enough

fucking hell I'll have nightmares tonight about goetze's face there

just one game goalless at the half so far and that was the mexico game where they scored twice but had both incorrectly ruled out. Nuts game, nuts tournament.

Yeah, it's unlikely this game stays at 1 - 0

if the remaining 75 mins is played like this it'll be 10-8 with only Mani left on the field

Has anyone ever won back to back Golden Boot's?

This ref seems to be getting the calls right.