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

A sad affliction Ospina has that he gets injured every time he saves a shot

this is the performance of the tournament

ospina looks to be in bad shape

falcao goal reminded me so much of me

Loool

That slow baaallll

wait what, "johnny rotten's guitar is in the museum of soviet lifestyle"

(sorry this is more mccoist-related cultural commentary)

(WHAT guitar?)

yeah I thought that

Unused obviously.

Sad we didnt get backheel goal

maybe it's satire: "there is no such guitar bcz the soviets didn't have a lifestyle bdum tish"

xp you got one earlier

jesus but falcao is an ugly man its lucky he has football isnt it

Colombian cafe just along from me, I imagine they're going nuts in there.

They’ll be dancing in the streets of Elephant and Castle tonight

A night of salsa and shakira

Really glad Colombia have got it together.

colombia v senegal should be great

group is so tight

Game 2. Going to plan for Poland 🇵🇱 😢 https://t.co/ebc80EdwA0

— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) June 24, 2018

All tasty fixtures:

Iran - Portugal
Nigeria - Argentina
Senegal - Colombia

Xxxxpost i missed the first goal while in transit :(

prediction: senegal to knock out colombia with a last minute goal and i get to use the phrase, chronicle of a diouf foretold

Are Colombia doing a Pierre Menard Portugal's world cup campaign of 2002? Shock slightly farcical opening defeat. Second game, dick all over Poland. Third game...

In Poland's previous two world cups, they were indeed eliminated after two games, but won the ensuing dead rubber Game of Honour, so watch out Japan

LOL posho Engerland fans.

Colombia went to quarterfinals last time w/o Falcao, and w Quintero still in diapers. I'm picking them for winner this time.

never happen but nothing wrong with a hipster pick regardless

xpost Remy! Back in action here I see.

'Missed' England but caught Colombia and they were brilliant. Dat passss.

reminder for all those competing in the ILX Hubris Cup you can update yr fantasy football teams for round 3 now.

current table update/gloating:

https://i.imgur.com/Ut1DS3l.png

I signed up but the piece of shit erased the first team I agonizingly selected so I gave up before the tournament started. No idea how I even earned points lol.

A friend of ours is in Colombia right now and sent a video of the reaction to the first goal and it was just off the scale.

the revelation of the finals so far for me is that in spanish they call the last 16 "octavos de final" so i am lobbying for english to either adopt "eighth finals" or "octavos" for this otherwise inconsistently named round of the competition.

with semis and quarters, octavos makes a helluva lot more sense than 'last 16' tbh. i'm in favor.

russia v uruguay, egypt v saudi arabia - not much at stake, would love to see salah get a goal or two though

I know #URURUS just started, but this really should, and will, be Iran's day.

Cristiano Ronaldo foi até a janela pedir para os Iranianos que estavam na entrada do Hotel para o deixarem descansar! #Copa2018 #POR #IRA pic.twitter.com/mqssUxlgiw

— Central do Esporte (@centraldesport1) June 24, 2018

Iranian fans tried to keep the Portuguese awake, blowing their vuvuzelas at the Portugal hotel. Cron responded by signing ppl are asleep, it seems. Though I've no idea why he taps on the window.

Back to reality

golazo

Ignashevich looked half asleep during the anthems and half asleep there.

Salah has his goal.

Nice finish from Salah

rip mother russia

lol Russia

Salah should have two. Misses when straight through on keeper

And an embarrassing miss in the exact same position.

He will get three at least if KSA defend like this.

Nearly a 3rd for Uruguay

Meanwhile, classic Angloballs from the Telegraph...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2018/06/25/harry-kane-found-new-level-become-world-cups-efficient-goal/

And red card, Russia down one.

Eng's own reality check coming up.

Great penalty save from the Egyptian keeper