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

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics

Belgian press are already going "maybe we'd better lose this one because in the next round we might have to play against..." :-/

Lose this one and your out mate

Mark Clattenburg in the 'Analysis Truck.' pic.twitter.com/DYjukOTKRy

— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) June 18, 2018

soz about Cavaleiro, NV. But I'm totally psyched!

this time last year i'd've said he wasn't Prem class tbh, but he dug in and contributed a lot last season, i'll miss him if he goes but it's not like he won't be replaced and he deserves regular game time wherever he ends up

when he's on it he totally adds excitement to the team

Armando Cooper = another one to add to ogmor's list of class footballer names

looks like the Cav deal has moved on from rumours to realness tho

Hoping Belgium will be the first team to really show it's class. It's been a classless tournament so far, at least from the big guns.

*cough* Spain - Portugal

didn't see that one tbf ;)

it's the one exception

Mexico were pretty class

Spain and Portugal had to play one another, which must've helped them to wake up.

Too many of the major countries are doing *checks notes* though I am enjoying all I've seen because its the world cup after all.

really looking forward to this one

harold cummings is on the panama bench, is he some sort of embedded poet?

Someone said it's already the longest we've gone since '86 without a red card yet. Usually had at least one 0-0 by now too.

P sure this won't be 0-0 by the looks of it

i think VAR should give yellows for schwalbes too.