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

Rooney-esque first touch from Rom just now.

Appearing effervescently like a young Mick Channon.

Engrossing stuff from the BBC live reporting page:

It took Terry Butcher 35 minutes to buy washing powder, milk and biscuits yesterday. He was wondering about which washing powder to buy and asked a Russia lady, who wasn't interested.

lol Lukaku - could've so easily had a hat-trick

Lol

and so he has a 2nd

Golden Boot incoming.

Maybe Lukaku could sit out the Eng game. Needs rest.

is that zabaleta enchanting my wife on bbc, like a healthy mark strong

Belgium performing as well as any team in the tournament so far?

Zabaleta seems like a lovely chap but he's not very interesting.

Belgium performing as well as any team in the tournament so far?

― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), 23. juni 2018 14:54 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, yeah, but against Panama and Tunisia, so who knows how good they really are? That said, I'm definitely rooting for another big win for Belgium in their last game ;)

As far as punditry's concerned I'll take lovely over "interesting".

Rom's performances when not managed by Mou are a stonewall indictment of Mou.

Fred fair comment on all counts

fuck is this (bbc coverage)

Halfway through laughing Drogba suddenly noticed the implication that Lukaku might be better than him and tried not to look too pissed off.

Lol same old Lampard

Stick a donck on it

"Free from Desire", sweet

Has anything been written about the weird afterlife of Freed From Desire? It disappeared for about fifteen years and is now ubiquitous.

I'm sure a back three of Walker, John Stones and Harry Maguire will keep this lot out.

kyle walker

world class kyle walker

defensive lynchpin kyle walker

Weird hearing this version or remix of Ashanti's 'Only You' before every game also xps

"how did this happen" disappointed english media ask world class defensive footballer kyle walker, june 24th, pm

If Southgate doesn't play Dier in the third game he can fuck off.

Thanks for the IRL lols

Batshuayi could've had a hat-trick in five minutes.

Play would have restarted with Tunisia in possession in the centre circle after the first goal

Well that's fucking ruined it.

finally

Ok no the hat trick is still on

This will give England confidence that they could score a consolation goal against Belgium

Incidentally how many of these dicks were playing down Tunisia when England were struggling to beat them?

England Belgium likely to be a non event tho.

In fact, if Germany finish second both teams might try to lose

Part of me would rather see England have to deal with Brazil or Germany in their current states than fuck up against Switzerland or Mexico in the QF should they get that far. Lots of permutations still though.

Let's see how Germany get on tonight first. Not prepared to write them off completely after just one game

mexico and germany should breeze these games

Tunisia looked like they were at least trying to win today.

this one's starting out as a foul fest

That's the El Tri we know

counterattacks are gonna be impossible in this environment

helluva recovery there

Didn't see Mexico - Germany. They are...not that good atm.

lol Mexico have a pen

back to penaltyball we go!

I don't think that was one?

Shitdefenderball

that was 100% a pen

I'm not shocked that Mexico doesn't look as sharp, they sat back and let Germany have 2/3rds possession and feasted mostly on counterattacks. roles reversed in this match