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

Sad for Peru but hey

Lotta folks in the pub rate Giroud more than I do

I approve of Giroud in this French attack which can otherwise be disjointed. he suits slower edgier games which you normally get in the WC & I wld have started him against Australia but this is more frantic and you cld make a stronger case for Dembele

oof

Don’t know Fred, maybe there’s an event I don’t remember?

Cmon Peru. No more almost

Tournament of crushed fairy tales

this is pathetic from france

Senegal and Mexico fairy tales still ongoing.

France has been boring and closed since Schumacher ice hockey-ed Battiston. If football champagne couldn’t win in 1982, then the world doesn’t deserve it.

Basically this world cup, first goal goes in and that's that, unless var takes a hand. Don't think there's been any come from behind wins. Euro 96, another disappointing tournament also had none, other than the final (and golden goal made that a farce)

Golden goal was 2000, no?

Even if Prue score, it'll get disallowed by var

Both. But iirc flag was up for germany winner in 96, referee bottled it

1-0 to one of the teams
1-0 to one of the teams

Wish I wasn't too hopelessly amoral to boycott this piece of shit tournament

You guys will all be proven wrong when Senegal score their 3rd goal in a come from behind victory against Mexico in the semifinals.

boo and pah

sorry that was to peru going out not aimed at VHS

save your moral outrage for 2026 when it will enable you to skip watching far more terrible teams

3 defensive midfielders shouldn't be allowed and that's almost what France is (just like the Deschamps, Vieira, Petit days oh that's probably why).

It's especially bad when you have the possibility of Dembelé, Griezmann, Fekir, Mbappé, Giroud at front.

I still want them to win and I will take 1-0 all the way to the finals because fuck the FN viva immigrants and all that, but I understand how people are frustrated by that squad and coaching.

Don’t know Fred, maybe there’s an event I don’t remember?

― Van Horn Street, 21. juni 2018 18:18 (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Clearly: The premiere of Paddington 2!!!

Ha I need more context.

Well, then watch the first one as well?

Why am I supposed to be supporting Peru? After '78? No way!

Yeah they are on my long long list, you know that it is.

you know what it is** and xpost

Paddington is from Peru, if you don't know. And wtf, those are two of the best movies of the last few years, they should at least be shortlisted ;)

peru keeper's gloves coated in marmalade

I've never really bought into the Let's Automatically Support the African/Latin American Team Over the European Team thing - possibly because Scotland have regularly lost to so many of them over the years and most of them are so much better than us I don't think they need my sympathy or support. Mexico have been at like 40 World Cups and they're about to host the thing for the 3rd time!

Also they haven't failed to get out of the group stage since 1978!

Pretty sure they got out of the group stage in 1998.

my kids, who are French citizens, and both massively into football, stopped watching this after approx 40 minutes "because it was boring"

v proud dad obv

That's exactly what I'm saying, the last time they didn't qualify from the group stage was 1978. (The same year Peru beat Scotland 3-1). (xp)

Iceland vs Argentina showed it isn’t about just cheering for non-Euro sides, it’s about resources and hoping that talent, teamwork, etc, can level the field.

They qualified ahead of Belgium and South Korea from the group stage in 1998. (The year Morocco beat Scotland 3-0).

Oh yes. Indeed. My bad.

But yeah generally the let's support african/latin american teams spirit is more for teams like Paraguay, Togo or Trinidad. I think people just like underdogs, which is far when speaking about entire nations battling each other, say you had hypothetical match between Iceland and Argentina and Iceland managed to get a draw out of it people would go bonkers over the Icelandic team.

It's not about sentimental national stereotypes for me, I just wanna see ball-playing teams win

Not the best tournament for that so far

And fuck an underdog if they succeed thru attrition. On some small theoretical level respect for maximizing your resources, I just don't wanna watch you do it

9 of 21 matches with a 1-0 scoreline in this tourney so far

Believe me, there's been worse than that over the years.

messi looked so unhappy pre-game, I wld like this WC to have some therapeutic value for him at least

that stat about messi covering less distance than any other outfield player in the first round (and less than two goalkeepers!) was depressing

1978 was the year I watched the entire world cup with my gran (from glasgow) (lol actually from rutherglen, she was quite posh, she nearly became an opera singer)

anyway she was unimpressed at the skills on show from ally's tartan army, at one point screaming "I COULD HAVE STOPPED THAT" after a particularly egregious keeper's blunder

(many xps to tom, i've been making and eating supper)

it might have been the peru match in fact

Be a surprise if there weren't quite a lot of goals now. Argentina can't defend, and we'll see whether Messi is up for this.

This match looks...promising. For all kinds of fuckups.

Maybe if Pochettino managed Argentina they'd win the thing.

Too bad Croatia has the collective touch of an elephant in the box

Couple of rough moments already - if we can't see goals maybe a couple of red cards would be nice.