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

First game I've caught in full and this is bloody delicious

i think de gea is probably the best goalie at the tournament.

that was a fucking howler

Unbelievable stop by David De Gea! https://t.co/qBTmhO9g8y

— Eamo Salah (@EamoV1) October 5, 2014

The commentators come up with the most useless stats like 'In the World Cup, Portugal has never lost a game in which they scored first'.

I doubt the 1986 world cup will have any influence on how Portugal plays in 2018.

If Ron gets a third I think he'd double his total over four World Cups.

^ one for the commentators/pundits

The commentators come up with the most useless stats like 'In the World Cup, Portugal has never lost a game in which they scored first'.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, June 15, 2018 1:54 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is one of my least favorite sports commentary tics p much across the board, these stats are meaningless

Lovely goal.

Very.

Yes, this WC isn't going to amount to much.

This Spain kit should have a round neck instead of a v neck then it would be beautiful.

HOLY FUCK THAT WAS A STRIKE

oh my days

ding dong

Stunning!

well struck

Good lord that was great!

Shinned it

reet game is this!

yeeeeeeeeehaw

Ah there we go, some classic genteel thoughts by CR.

spain are cheating by playing modern football at international level

when did Isco get good? he's been rubbish every time I've seen him play but today he's awesome

?

One of my favourite players to watch in world football

he suits being the main man and has been great internationally. absolutely love watching spain pass teams to death like this

he'll fancy that

he fuckin did it

Lovely from Cron

that wall's never ten yards back, retake imo

Well damn.

okay, that was pretty good

oh wow

Now about that third consecutive stoppage winner...

amazing!

dang

seeing his glower before he took it you knew it had to be

Never try to defend a one goal lead vs Ronaldo.

Turns out that Cristiano Reagan is pretty good.

he really doesn't fuck about!

And the leader of the group now is...Iran!

What a majestic, perfect game of football that was. I actually feel honoured to have watched it.

Cron seems to utilise some breath technique type method to improve focus before taking a free kick/pen, whatever he does it bloody well works!

He's actually shit at free kicks, on a galactic scale

Rio referring to Cesc as Sex more than once.

arg bummed i missed it. should i watch the replay tonight? sounds like a goodun!

Yes

yeah it was a peach

:D

Giroud opened up about his greatest childhood fear in 2016, telling Arsenal’s matchday programme: “My brothers are older than me, and they used to tease me about a kids TV character called Alf. Do you know him? Alf the Alien. My God he was so ugly and I was so scared of him. My brothers used to say: 'Be careful, Alf is going to get you tonight!' They went too far.”

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/jun/05/world-cup-2018-complete-guide-players-ratings-goals-caps

indeed i accept there will be troublemakers suggesting this was a capitulation - however the scoreboard does not lie - as i have not worried to be born, i do not worry to die.

so we continue in a calm fashion with no unnecessary rabble-rousing - though in the end our hearts were on fire a 3-2 victory is worth as much on the abacus as a 1-0.

there is no need for alarm.