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

That’s a great story if nothing else.

he hooked that finish impressively

now they're dusting off tim cahill

Getting through because Peru wins is pretty much perfect.

And now here's Cahill's swan song

Nice deflection - anything to make aussies suffer more.

Won't be sorry to see the back of this group. It might actually be worse than Group A.

xp ah was that what it was, ok. australia have been as expected this tournament but arzani looks good

Yeah weird little deflection.

Real shame Peru never had their finishing boots on against Denmark. My only joy out of this is seeing Aussies finish bottom.

Peru should be given a wildcard "moral victors" pass to the next round

hope Nigeria win the group if they still can, then beat Denmark (98 revenge)

why is the Aussie kit all yellow? There is no yellow in their flag I don't get it.

Nigeria would have to overturn a five-goal deficit on Croatia, which seems unlikely unless we are due the most hilarious night of our football-watching lives.

Yellow and green are Australia's sporting colours - football, rugby, athletics...

... no idea why.

Tom D - just thought you'd be interested in this:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/26/the-surprise-team-of-the-world-cup-jon-champion-and-ally-mccoist

Many xps All Platini admitted to was keeping brazil, champions, and france, hosts, apart until the final assuming both won their groups. I didn't realise any rigging was required, i thought it was standard operating procedure. Mexico 86, Italia 90, USA 94, euro 96, euro 2000, euro 2004, germany 2006, south africa 2010, euro 2012, brazil 2014, euro 2016 were all similarly rigged. I mean i could go on. The only times it hasn't happened have been when co-hosting has meant its been rigged to keep the hosts apart

nigeria-argentina is the game I've been most looking fwd to since the groups were announced and now it's even spicier

ok in Test match cricket its all white so you only notice the cap I guess.

This kit is such an eyesore.

I was literally just thinking that as commentary teams go these are far from the worst. Still pretty bad objectively, but it's much more tolerable than your Pearces and your Lawrensons.

Peru hit the post btw, shame.

why is the Aussie kit all yellow? There is no yellow in their flag I don't get it.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:35 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like it when teams that use colors not in their flag, there'a few
italy
netherlands
japan
venzuela

no blue in the English flag, but their home kit always has some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_colours_of_Australia

Italy, Japan and Netherlands have white shorts?

no white on the german flag

Peru really should have had a third here

But Germans have some black in their kit. The aussie kit has nothing to do with their flag its fucked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_colours_of_Australia

― mizzell, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, but why isn't it in their flag?

Was hoping France would avoid a 0-0 in the group for the first time since 98. At least an Argentina win means they play each other for first time in the World Cup since forever

boo to these goalless gauls

some use flag colours, some use the colours of royal houses, some i guess other, there's no set must

things i learnt today: australia wear yellow because of golden waffles

England use the colours of the British flag, of course.

I was literally just thinking that as commentary teams go these are far from the worst. Still pretty bad objectively, but it's much more tolerable than your Pearces and your Lawrensons.

― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah its not too bad. I don't expect commentary teams to say anything interesting about the football (I know) so the least they could do is bring something else - like they are positive about being at a fkn world cup, the place.

I was thinking the only positive benefit of VAR is Lawro being so relentlessly negative it will be a turn off and they can use that as an excuse to get rid of him. If a heart attack doesn't do it first.

I have to assume at this stage that a reasonable proportion of viewers hate football as much as he does.

Or at least hate the bits between goals.

football is bad and you should all feel bad

i do, i do

AUSPER total snore on the Aus front, ugh what a way to go out. Well played Peru tho.

THAT BEING SAID IM STILL FPING ALL YOU CUNCE WHO HAVE BEEN RAGGING ON AUSTRALIA

*flounces away on crying kangaroo*

baffled that ilxors could be put off by lawro's relentless miserabilism

wd still love it if the Beeb ran, say, the last night of the Proms with a commentator who clearly hated it and sniped about the twats in union jack hats throughout the show

green and gold australian colors represent green eucalyptus and gold wattle flower (wattle is national flower)

sorry, to replicate the Lawro experience the union jack hats shd be the only bit the commentator likes, and they spend the night moaning about foreign composers they haven't learned the names of and how the violins need to play faster

sorry vegemitegrrl just looking to get some education as the bad games were closing off. Good luck in next year's Eurovision :-)

*cough* Thirty years of Eurovision coverage *cough*

i heard the colours thing was actually from waltzing matilda (green = coulibah tree, yellow = colour of most billabongs these days)

Tbf SV I find it pretty insulting when the Beeb does that, too

baffled that ilxors could be put off by lawro's relentless miserabilism

Everyone is put off by lawro's relentless miserabilism, who actually likes the cunt?

Alas for Peru but the defeats weren't blowouts and Guerrero got his well-deserved goals in the end. Next time, etc.