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

xp no thats just a trope

the welsh manager is chris coleman or one of those lads

oh ffs you twats we don't need to discuss VAR before it's ruined something

court by VAR d'hors

aint even sorry its the world cup

psyched for Saudi nicking something from this game and the ensuing riots tbh

at least the bbc matches won't have these nauseating bookie adverts, amongst all the other nauseating stuff.

i'm listening to Robbie Williams talk about England, don't talk to me about bookie adverts

fuck off + die, Robbie Williams

as much var as possible pls
feed me var
i want this game to finish at 10pm

loving NV's name

and there's my first FP of the thread

ITV horrendous already.

Bilic correctly pushing back on the idea that limitations on the number of foreign players, being talked up as great for England by the rest of the panel, is a large part of why the Russian national side is terrible.

Or rather pointing it out, rather than pushing back. It is corroding my brain already.

Hope Solo will be a pundit on RTE this year. I wonder how many games in until Dunphy refers to her as "baby".

he calls everyone baby

y'know, i normally enjoy watching a commentator struggle their way thru the opening ceremony, but i'm fucked if i'm watching Robbie Williams

catch him if you can
'cause he's the england man

He is visually indistinguishable from Morrissey now.

Apparently the sound has stopped working in the fan zone outside so 20,000 people in central Moscow are having a much better time of it than the rest of us.

good grief, the Russian Federation sure know how to fuck up an opening ceremony

If Jimmy Page hasn't put a curse on Robbie Williams by now, what's the point of the occult.

He is visually indistinguishable from Morrissey now.

this.

i've got Ray Mears on, somebody give me a shout when this cunt's finished

I trust that the person responsible for digging up Robbie Williams' corpse for this is well under way to Chabarofsk.

Aida Garifullina duetting on Angels. God knows what they will make Juan Diego Florez do.

Ronaldo is going to sing, isn't he?

This is the worst Russian atrocity since Katyn ffs!

Ray made a canoe out of a buffalo skin

that went on a really long time

it only just occurred to me how much extra value calz is gonna bring to this wc because soviets

That opening ceremony was positively compelling compared to this Neville-wright-Dixon routine

gotta be bad when you're relieved to see G Neville back onscreen

Lee Dixon with a Freudian “well, what’s fascinating about me is...”

ITV pundits discuss the limits of their own ignorance in surprised tones

ok going Saudis 2-1

gone nil nil

xp Yeah I have a few pence riding on an upset here, gonna see how long I can drag out this fiver

lol Putin bikini

is this a bot translating?

The speech should finish around three and a half hours from now so settle in.

I'm more upset by the official typeface than I am Robbie Williams. And I am very upset by Robbie Williams.

On brand

Ah, "mother Russia" now is it

always nice to start with a crude oil/crude homophobia derby!

I followed @prodnose & I'm ready to go

Fizz it in the mixer, honestly.

https://comps.canstockphoto.com/world-cup-sign-drawings_csp3124663.jpg

Wow it's just like watching the Champo again

lol VAR

Oh shit, I'm watching this on Fox Sports Go and there's one camera angle (from the end behind KSA's goalie), no replays (so I can't see how that goal played out) and no announcers.