World Cup 2014

i had germany 4-0 at 45-1 i didn't think this was the way for me to not win it

number none ref was mexican

they weren't knocked out by brazil to be fair

my god

I just want drama

― ogmor, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 3:59 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Germany otm this is a shit team of cunts that deserves humiliation

― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:26 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i was Big Phil i wdn't say a word throughout the break

― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:47 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good posts

http://screamer.deadspin.com/all-of-brazil-is-crying-right-now-1601949129/

god this is brutal

Google Translate on this story out of Brazil makes it even more of a howl from the void:

One day July 16, 64 years ago would make Brazil crying his greatest drama, Maracanazo. For this July 8, 2014 he is gushing tears for most of his humiliation. On your knees! The most shameful defeat the country celebrated worldwide for being the football. The stadium Mineirão saw the sad chapter 50 be dimmed, at least for now, in history. Will be difficult to remember that 2-1 to Uruguay in front of what Germany did in this semifinal. An incomparable torture for lovers of canary team. The Germans, in 45 minutes, made mincemeat national dream, finally win the trophy in their territory. A 7-1 which leaves no room for snags, caveats and palliative. There are possible reasons to explain the result size. Absences of Thiago Silva and Neymar, who would reasonably justify a defeat, not fit to explain what we saw. The worst defeat of pentacampeões throughout its glorious history!

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EoCPiETf--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/lqv4gmbr1pjbrr7om5dy.jpg

best

too late now hulk

not sure i remember another match where one team goes off weeping at half time

"One doesn't win the cup with nice football"

such a Matthaus quote

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What does Matthaus think now?

"Well, with the greatest respect, who cares?"

Indeed.

You would say an Arg win would be even worse but I don't think Brazilians care.

I notice how the columnists who were all prissily opining that EPL audiences "don't appreciate David Luiz" are suspiciously quiet today.

The man is just too stupid to play football at the highest level. Like at some point during his ridiculous forays forward the question "will I be standing there crying in front of a booing stadium by the final whistle?" might have occurred to him but apparently not.

Feel like adventuring central defenders will have gone the way of tiki-taka by the start of next season, can't see many managers continuing to tolerate it.

there's nothing wrong in principle with players who roam, the point is to have a system that accomodates that, maybe don't have 8 or 9 guys all getting forward at once

P sure the CL and Confeds Cup are "the highest level" and he's won both.

roaming CB's are a problem if your FB's bomb on sure but Hummels going frwd made one of the goals last night and I doubt if tiki-taka is dead.

dom destroyed twitter last night, favs/rts off the chain

Doesn't matter what system you choose or not choose to play. You can choose tika-taka but if you can't defend corners (as Bayerns failed to do so agaist Madrid) you are stuffed.

Similarly if you are going to not even attempt to tackle or close people down in any way whatsoever...

What happened between goals 2-5 will take a long time to digest.

One thing that could go the way of the dodo is psychologists for team sports. They have been quite successful at getting out of sorts individuals to perform well by managing the noise outside. Brazil and England used one but it appears their methods do not work with a collective unit.

This was almost the greatest 7-1 victory in the history of football, but still the best.

Despite their personal quirks, Luiz and Maicon played in two of the best-drilled defences in Europe last season. Dante and Marcello can both play disciplined football when they need to as well. Fernandinho was solid and reliable all year. It looked nothing short of collective madness last night which, as a Spurs fan, i'm fairly used to.

lol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28223138

Feeling incredibly satisfied. I hated the way Brazil has been talked and idealised about even after the defensive performances in '94 (not by Tim Vickery though, who has been the best thing on either ITV or BBC, not that he had to try). At least that is done for. xp

One of the most irritating things in football is the romanticized bilge that's spoken and written about Brazilian football, I hope this has put the kibosh on that for a while, a long while.

Heard Stan Collymore (I know, apologies) after the game saying, "Brazil imports more quality players to leagues around the world than any other country", which is garbage, it imports a lot of players but, population-wise, it's easily the biggest totalling nation in the world, so big deal. It's been commented on amongst my Celtic supporting chums that you'll be playing the champions of Latvia or Cyprus or Armenia or wherever, and they'll have some Brazilian (sometimes two, sometimes three) playing who earns 10 times as much as anybody else in the team and is total mince.

At the time of Scheidt there were strong rumours that Luxemburgo was taking cash from clubs to cap player in friendlies and drive their value up so they could be sold to Europe, and there was a scandal involving Leomar where the coach of Sporting said he paid to get him capped while Leao was manager. And let's not forget, Scolari "discovered" Scheidt while he was manager at Gremio.

The Brazilian FA started investigating the Leomar case 18 months ago, I don't believe they've done anything yet.

Thanks, I was trying not to think about Rafael Scheidt, 'twas ever thus.

Nominative determinism in a nutshell.

So if van Persie is unfit for tonight's game can we expect to the Dutch team bringing his jersey on field for the singing of the anthems?

no they'll be well used to him by now tbf

Is there any way that tonight's game can be anything other than an anti-climax?

Strictly no, but I'm pretty intrigued by it. Kind of feel that either side might also be ripe for a shoeing, albeit to a lesser extent, but I couldn't say who's more likely to do it to whom.

No no, I'm looking forward to two teams playing football tonight instead of one and a knockabout comedy troupe rehearsing for a stint at the Edinburgh Festival.

http://i.imgur.com/ijXj209.gif

Fun fact: the Belgium girl from that GIF, Axelle Despiegelaere, has signed a model contract with L'Oreal, having been 'discovered' this WC.

Everything's possible people!

yeah, I'm over her

should be on the transfer thread

Something good has come out of this WC. Glad to see!

Job at centre back for loleção if she wants it.

maybe L'Oreal would be up for a swap deal with Luiz

Had it with hype over this so-called golden generation of Belgian fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86j4khRnwY

sick of this corrupt fifa system, mythic oil does not produce those results

he messed up the chance to make it 8-0, certainly

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/rihanna-girl-crush-star-tweets-3813165

riri > comolli

I thought we had a moratorium in place on "tiki-taka" as a symptom of poor journalism, esp now ppl speak of its demise. Awful lot of quick one-touch passing fron germamy last night, particularly good game from lahm running things in his guardiola role

Khedira was the man last night

Isn't he another one of Arsenal's imaginary signing targets?

Dutch will be making subs at the hour mark tonight to stay fresh for final

eh, especially when you get to the tail end of the tournament, i find it hard to imagine a european team beating a south american team in south america