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

Sucks for Dzagoev

Cheryshev is talented but a bit of an underachiever so good chance for him.

and there he is

God they've made hard work of it tho

Who is this hick fuck doing color on Fox sports

Saudis totally physically outmatched, can't deal with being pressed at all. Until the second goal I was gonna say Russia shd've made more of that half

Zobnin’s ability to go from defence to attack quickly has really helped. They’ve looked unusually dangerous breaking forward.

been some poor technique from both sides but i don't see any way this doesn't carry on being one-way traffic

this dyzuba looks like fun

Grant Holt with the goal

iirc every manager who has worked with Dzyuba hates him but he is kind of great at what he does.

probably never got over iraq war

Who is this hick fuck doing color on Fox sports

Tony Melola

grand

Russia dealt with this perfectly well but you've gotta think Egypt and Uruguay will fancy their chances to get thru the group

Boom.

that's quite a finish

Goooooolazzooooooo

4 nice goals in fairness

great hit

5 nice goals in fairness

Would have put money on that going in.

Time for the "he's already dead" vid

Salah & Suarez will make bits of the Arabians although they might go into park the bus mode for the next games

feel like a thumping opening game win for an unfancied host is good for the tournament

Yeah, even at 3-0 it felt like an underwhelming start, but those two crackers at the end have set things crackling nicely

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two despots, one world cup!

Had to miss all this due to a work crunch but I did enjoy this:

https://screengrabber.deadspin.com/when-you-ask-about-the-pee-tape-1826830925

No lanyard = ultimate alpha dog power move at these things

is Jose just pretending and hiding his?

Yeah, you can see the strap. Putin appears to genuinely not have one.

back to tony meola-- he kept referring to SA as "Saudi" which... seems like the equivalent of referring to Nigeria as "Niger" and very much one of those "no, you need to say the whole word" kinda things?

a lot of ppl do that and it's awful, compounding the obnoxiousness of prepending a country w/ the royal family's name

ffs this Griezmann thing

anyway he's staying, if anyone actually cares

my brother's in moscow sending me photos of colombians strutting about in traditional garb and recordings of drunk russians singing and my jealousy has maxed out

Can't help what the country's name is tbf xp

tell that to greece

in the highly competitive parallel group stage for risible, vacuous commentary at this world cup, "Stalin had a proper 'tache" is going to take some beating. 3 points to iTV

Looking forward to Tyldesley's show on geopolitics

lol at the griezmann thing, yr good m8 but yr not bron, and it was corny when he did it

so bad.. tbf he is a massive star in France, which is good at making stars out of people. like, he has an entire series of children's books about football, supposedly "by" him. no doubt he has a slightly inflated sense of himself.

Hey, remember Theo Walcott's kids books?

xxxxp I remember Alan Parry at the USA world cup, wondering aloud if a Saudi player named Amin was related to Idi Amin

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genre = Fantasy

celebrating world cup day by getting beat 15-0 in the civil service league \{]/

There were no winners or losers, it was how you played the game.

thats my take but a lot of the lads are a lot more upset than is frankly seemly given our ability

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feel like they may share a ghostwriter

xpp

it's about the long game

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a footballer pictured yesterday, putting on his thinking cap in preparation to try and sign the x that represents his name correctly, onto a ghost written children's book.

According to The Guardian, there are 35,000 Peru fans there, not 15,000. Most of the reports from Muscovites I’ve seen suggest they’re the largest / most visible fan contingent by far.