World Cup 2014

Although France-Switz. was entertaining enough.

Belgium probably figure a point here leaves them on 4 pts with South Korea to come which is a p strong position.

This is dreadful.

As half-expected Belgium are pissing away any affection the neutral held for them pre-tournament.

If you can't outpace Van Buyten you've got problems

and I thought England were dull

even the fouls are dull

The only high point of the day is that our Belgian king got to sit next to the FIFA Emperor himself

I'm so bored I've even got the water running to do the dishes in a minute. Go Russia!

They had such a nice qualification run, and the friendlies before the WC were impressive too. I just don't get it.

England didn't lose a game in qualifying this time or last time. Bosnia was excellent in qualifying. It is what it is.

@Fernando_Duarte: Crowd shouting "second division" to express their boredom here in Rio.

BRING OUT THE WAFFLES

hazard has woken up

80 mins too late but better than never

2 wins

TACTICAL GENIUS

Russia are paying Capello €10m a year for this.

Nice wee goal, tho.

RIP Lukaku's chances of ever playing again and lol how they only score when I'm not watching - I guess I'm the Belgian's secret weapon somehow

Belgians'

love capello

between the first 85mins of this and england-algeria he's doing God's work.

crap from miralles

some terrible counter attacks this WC cf Ghana

Yeah but also Holland v Spain.

(i.e. when you have this quantity of counterattacks then a large number of them will, by necessity, be plop)

thank christ that's over

ah, le gif juste

http://www.abload.de/img/untitled-43gkjt.gif

it's one big party in Belgium at the moment - I'm hearing car horns in the distance

Me too. Fools

Least deserved party ever.

On the other hand, this may well be the last chance they get for a party, the way this team is playing.

Vive le Manneken Pis!

Oh wait

Looks like I picked the right game to miss then

http://1.nieuwsbladcdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2014/03/07/04113478.jpg.h600.jpg

We watched the first half and then went to brunch, a far superior experience.

Is this SK game gonna be any good?

I have zero expectations, so it should be good.

if you only watch one game today, i wouldn't make it this one

Despite the grim games vs Russia and Belgium, I would say both teams are better in attack than defence and neither have much incentive to play for a draw.

Thank you - I will do some work instead while vigilantly monitoring this thread for traces of excitement

I'm taking this one off, watching us later with 1/3 of the bros

don't think 3 days of training hard is gonna improve your conditioning but i bow to the superior knowledge of algeria's manager

promising start

Am rooting for Algeria, because of this World Cup disgrace

without looking i'm gonna guess austria 1 germany 0?

That's the one.

Other way around though, the score line