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

after that goal some ppl are already calling luis suarez uruguay's harry kane

Yet another set-piece goal, and yet I've seen no criticism of the widespread "man-marking" system that keeps costing teams

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) June 20, 2018

lol

Still true, 19 games in, that no losing team has scored via anything other than a set-piece / dead ball, which is weird.

Well this is dull

Feel like the matches have gradually declined since Japan-Colombia ended

just like in their previous match, you get the feeling Saudi-Arabia has played a little too much FIFA in their penthouses.

uruguay are the anti-morocco, doing nothing to good effect

Time to shut up shop for uruguay maybe. They shpuld be confident of keeping saudi out, and they're not going to match russia's goal difference in the remaining 20 minutes, so 1-0 is fine

Uruguay have lacked any creativity across both games tbh. I appreciate their objective is to score precisely one goal, and they’ve done it, but they haven’t been remotely impressive.

I'm at work so not seeing this but apparently Phil Neville has just said something along the lines of Uruguay fans not being too bothered about their style of play because "all they're interested in is seeing Uruguay progress further than they've ever been before".

Yep. That's my boy

christ almighty

Garbage performance. Hope Uruguay gets annihilated in the 16

they'll have either spain or portugal in the next round iirc

Portugal v. Uruguay, that should be an exciting game...

Maybe Ronaldo can just face off against Suarez 1 on 1

An even worse game there.

portugal-uruguay would be perfect but it's doubtful uruguay's confidence will survive an encounter with the tournament's premier exponents of attacking football, russia

"If anyone can dim that Russian flame it's the canny Uruguayans". <----- expecting something like this from Nult.

https://d2x51gyc4ptf2q.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2018/06/20082123/Harry-Kane-Daily-Mail-1.jpg

... and he's white too. Huzzah!

i'm sure that thought never crossed their minds

who are these "football heroes" he is being compared to even?? headline just need the first two lines tbrr

i was thinking the same (tho diluted by "as if i know who any footballers are")

I read it as a not very subtle dig at Sterling

brb, I'm off to get a gun tat.

"engaged to childhood sweetheart" is the strangest credential. a nation of people still pissed that their childhood sweethearts kissed and left them in the 6th grade.

sick of these jumped up prannies marrying spice girls and actresses off emmerdale

Criticising Iran for putting the ball out of play so their captain (who went down holding his thigh unchallenged) is a new low, maybe.

Missed out "can get treatment" somehow.

"never met new people or evolved. maintained evil alliance with whomever happened to be around when he was young. a football hero england can be proud of."

Jeez this match is getting testy.

If Iran get something out of this game then the narrative for that final group match against Portugal is going to be off the scale. Queiroz could send them home.

Are these the first vuvus of the tournament by the way? I've kind of missed them.

Ah, I still chuckle whenever I heard 'Isco, Busquets'.

They had them against Morocco too.

My main take from this so far is that Iran are better than Portugal

yeah they've definitely put in some appearances already. they do feel v world cup now, part of the tapestry

heard vuvus before, maybe at the previous Iran game.

anyway Iran is like the WWF. ultimate badness. :-)

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— The Vuvuzela (@livevuvuzela) June 13, 2010

FIFA straight fucking insane with these kit rules. Never gonna see Spain in red and blue ever again.

yeah it is shit

There's a whole FIFA subcommittee that spends all its time brainstorming petty niggling ways to spoil every tournament

brazil not wearing blue shorts hurts my feelings

Kind of rooting for Iran but a Spanish goal is starting to feel inevitable

good save and should be yellow imo

spain wont be long scoring tho

the headline for the online version of that mail piece is 'A football hero England can be proud of: How magnanimous, gentlemanly Harry Kane conjures up memories of Bobby Moore rather than his scandal-tainted predecessors as captain':

In interviews, Kane — not even born when Bobby Moore died in 1993 — says he was inspired by two past England captains when making his way in the game: Wayne Rooney (who, somewhat ironically, gave him advice on the company he should keep) and David Beckham, who hails from the same East London manor, and attended the same school.

However, Google the names Rooney and Beckham along with ‘scandal’ and you will find all manner of lurid allegations, playing away from home being the common denominator.

Do the same with Kane and one finds only one slur: that he once teased Liverpool supporters over a dubious penalty decision.

When it comes to romance, Harry is strictly a one-woman man. In his teens, he began dating Kate Goodland, an apple-cheeked fitness instructor whom he has known since primary school, and says he could never countenance going out with a lingerie model or C-list celeb.

it's basically the usual hypocritical clutching of pearls from the same paper that gives you a sidebar full of salacious garbage. not really anti-sterling though

Fuck! Thought they'd scored then

there is such a pleasure to watching games when you're truly neutral

Bobby Moore himself no stranger to the clutching of pearls, emeralds, etc. Xps

And now Spain have