World Cup 2014

don't understand the Brazil hate at all but i wd prefer Chile to win

― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:44 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because they're terrible? Brazil deserves a better team than this team. All the same would be bad to see the host nation getting turfed out in the second round so I'm undecided who to root for

Well done Howard Webb

That wasn't sarcasm btw

Brazil have hardly been terrible, merely underwhelming in the group stage, like plenty of tournament winners before them. just seems an exaggerated dislike to me, as if it's their fault for being the home team

from what i remember 94 Brazil were uglier than this for the entire competition

brazil might be terrible at fulfilling the platonic ideal of a brazil side but they're pretty decent at playing football

basically there hasn't been a platonic Brazil side since what? 1982?

the only reason the cheer for Brazil imo is for fear that the country will go up in flames if they get knocked out

otherwise fuck em

welp

urgh feel this is going to be brutal for Chile

Luiz

looked like an own goal?

Def an own goal

That's what we thought

This could have been a mess by now if the ref hadn't been Webb.

http://iaanhughes.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/webb_pierce-cross_country.jpg

i don't want to disagree with ilxors who may not catch his work on the reg but Howard Webb is fucking shit

Ippon

One bottle?

cmon chile you're fuckin this up

yessss

Sanchezzz

that was my idea

Chi chi chi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63YxKsR5-A

Hulk did not smash

brilliant awareness by vargas

wait brazil's goalie is from the MLS?? o____o

brazil have had one competent goalkeeper since the 60s and he was a blond white dude so shouldn't even count

that seems especially shaky though

i'm surprised brazil hadn't hijacked one of their teenage basketball players and forced him to learn to play goalie

How does Howard Webb get selected for these international gigs if he's crap in the Premiership? Or do only Liverpool fans think he sucks? (a quick googling session seems to point in that direction but I really don't know)

2002 was platonic ideal Brazil side, and everybody yawned

Chile really shd've gone in front at the end there, pretty sure Webb will manage to give Brazil something in the second half if they're still struggling at 70ish minutes

basically webb is the most experienced english ref, and he has a bearing that inspires confidence the first time you see him

he's legit bad though

I think he's a pretty average ref overall but his on pitch presence & the way he interacts with players gives him the aura of a really classy & in control one

god that chumminess is one of the things i hate most

he has a bearing that inspires confidence the first time you see him

― caek, Saturday, June 28, 2014 12:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

He looks like a colonist

Does look like the sort of fellow who'd take everybody on a lap around the field and then ask everybody to drop and give him 20

an empire builder

he was a policeman before he turned pro as a ref

2010 World Cup final was a masterclass in allowing one team to try and kill the other tho

Apparently, Luis Suarez has claimed that he didn't mean to bite but he fell on Chiellini's shoulder.

Same thing happened way back when, in the Uruguayan Youth League, he didn't mean to headbutt the ref, he fell.

also, jaws fell on boat.

Loooooool

HAHAHAHAHA

hmmmmmm

I think ref got that one wrong

Shit call after a shit finish.