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

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.

that needs to go on his wiki xp

that was a cracking match, too many lols to single out De Gea. nah, lol De Gea.

so portugal have still never lost a world cup match in which they scored first

stats don't lie baby

Pope splits World Cup between Spain and Portugal.

“The paths to scoring a goal are infinite and they’re all valid,” he said

Didn't really miss anything with last nights match did I

it was like watching Stoke vs W Brom in disguise!

with more ropes and gags

as for the football

'ronaldo produced one of the great world cup performances', 'one-man show', blah blah

fucking nonsense from the bbc as per

it's certainly the most complete performance I've seen from him in recent seasons. Much more involved than he typically is for Madrid

won & scored a soft penalty, won & scored a soft free-kick. basically a scoundrel

Ur right he was shit lol

it is not like he orchestrated open play particularly brilliantly - spain were much better in that regard

idk i hate him, so i'm based

it is not like he orchestrated open play particularly brilliantly - spain were much better in that regard

no shit, Portugal played on the counter

It was not a one man performance, for sure.

Refreshing to see somebody hate Cron

this is prob an opportunity for growth for u lj

Looking at Portugal last night we were kind of staggered and amused that Neves and Jota weren't deemed good enough for that squad, maybe Costa and Cavaleiro too. My one question mark with Ronaldo is that the team is still built around servicing him in a way that is ceasing to be healthy and at some point they'll have to bite the bullet and start to move on.

Kinda love everybody on last night's hate list tho, was arguing with my bruv about Costa's first goal and tbh the "did he jump all over the defender" decision was 50-50 but I love the guy so I don't care

everything about that Costa goal was brilliant

The only way we learn anything about France today is if they fail to batter Aus imo

xp as I said last night it was a supremely Costa-esque goal

I'm just shamelessly Mooy-watching today, and hoping for an upset.

"Griezemann has some dead hair"

- my son