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

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

KSA have another go.

Second penalty to Saudi Arabia

Or not, who knows?

Can you give a yellow you personally missed the first time after checking VAR for a penalty?

No heroics from the 45 year old this time. 1-1

Stopped watching but KSA have had 82% in the second half?

Wow are Egypt really that bad?

Russia lose 3-0 and qualify from one of the worst groups of the world cup (the other being England's).

lmao Saudi Arabia scoring in the last min of the game

KSA win at the death.

so that's likely to mean that russia face spain in the next round? xp

Yup

saudi arabia inverting the pyramids

oh nick

Unless Portugal can win on goal difference, reckon they'll have a tougher time with Iran tonight (reckon they could even lose that).

So apparently there was a VAR related fiasco in the Saudi Egypt game?

more of a stramash, not quite a farrago imo

yeah that first pen shouldn't have been awarded really. apparently took 3 mins to award the other pen lol.

If Iran win tonight it will be the greatest

beaten by Saudi Arabia ;_; :D

the whole non-Portuguese world is behind Iran.

ok, maybe not Israel.

Al Dawsari to be awarded 12 Rolls Royce cars.

Uruguay were not fucking about today. They'd be favourites against Portugual or Iran for me, and have a good chance against Spain.

No punishment for Xhaka, Shaqiri or Switzerland is the shock announcement from FIFA’s Zurich HQ.

shame xhame chame imo

If Iran win tonight it will be the greatest

― imago, Monday, June 25, 2018 6:08 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aye. If Iran win I promise I will not again re-post the by far greatest post of this thread again:

The entire tournament is ruined.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9:24 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AjTidjWMk

Never forget: Salah letting himself be abused as a propaganda prop by Kadyrov

Footballers who really don't need to let themselves be abused as a propaganda prop

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/25/football/mo-salah-quit-egypt-national-team-reaction-spt-intl/index.html

tbf I don't know how much say he has in it. the egyptian FA decided to put their base in chechnya and when kadyrov realised salah wasn't at training he apparently personally drove to the hotel to fetch him.