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

omg that Lukaku piece!!

incredible spurs action today

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he better be ready

absurd early yellow. gonna be a sending-off in this one

sweden more aggressive than i feared, son even got in behind momentarily

Berg still utterly useless I see.

korea keeper already a cult figure

Well Cho’s putting in the work.

this referee is kind of dreadful

that is a stonewall yellow card ffs

lee seung-woo is a bit of a unit

he's a zwei meter mann

Awful refereeing, but also kinda awful attacking from both teams.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yeah that was a muddle. Roll on the second half I guess.

that's a pen. boring.

VAR working surprisingly well, tbh.

Yeah

it's been quietly efficient on the whole, i guess i can tune out one more thing for TV people to talk shite about

still the Koreans were into the Swedish box before the ref stopped play, something ridiculous is bound to happen eventually

Let's review the review :-( xp

If they'd scored the goal would just have been cancelled, right? They got the ball and began the contra through illegal means.

i'm sure that's what would happen but it would be clumsy and stupid, especially for people at the ground. it's not very likely so i'm not that exercised by it but aesthetically i'm still not totally into rewinding after that much play

impossible to spoil this match tbf

itv commentators baffled by granqvist taking the oen revealing they've done less research for their job than ppl I know have done for fantasy football

well there's a surprise. they're only unpaid amateurs tho so you can't expect them to follow football with any seriousness.

I'd like to propose giving a 30kv stun taser to the ref, any dissent over decisions or smartmouthing and you get zapped. Saves all the fucking about with camera rooms in some secret bunker, and would add entertainment.

Granqvist 12 in a season in Holland, though I guess most people score 12 in a season in Holland at some point or other.

you could literally hear McCoist forming his opinions from a list of recent results at the start of this game btw

Korea be needin' reunification

tell you what, there's been some absolute shit technique in the tournamnet up to now, so many over/underhit passes

lee seung-woo is a bit of a unit

― ogmor, Monday, 18 June 2018 12:32 (one hour ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this wasn't lee seung-woo but kim shin-wook! BBC had wrongly matched names and numbers; clearly the subterfuge continues

there are about five Kims in the squad, but it's always amateur hour at the beeb.

Granqvist 12 in a season in Holland, though I guess most people score 12 in a season in Holland at some point or other.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, June 18, 2018 3:34 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

harsh but fair

more like Can't Scorea

this is the first game where I've bailed, I already have enough memories of L1 football to draw on without reliving the experience.

xp aiiiii

Germany could've afforded to concede 6 yesterday

Not enough European sides fucking up - so far :/

So assuming everyone beats South Korea, a SWE-MEX draw puts Germany out

Oh no it doesn’t :(

nope, not when Germany do Sweden

*becomes tv football analyst*

omg ascension to condescension

Danish commentators sure that Sweden played really well today and that Scandinavia in general is doing a great job so far. Lol.

they probs said the same in the 40's!

Penalties at World Cups:
1994 - 15
1998 - 18
2002 - 15
2006 - 17
2010 - 15
2014 - 13
2018 (first 12 of 64 games) - 7#VAR

— Andrew Beasley (@BassTunedToRed) June 18, 2018

It'll go higher

But who cares lads ENGLAND are on soon. We'll show em how its done against *checks notes* Tunisia

not sure where in wales giggsy is from but i'm gonna guess mumbles

they probs said the same in the 40's!

― calzino, 18. juni 2018 15:59 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, yeah, but Scandinavian teams did pretty well in the 40's. Helped not having all young men killed in war.