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

xp idk it'd be pretty delicious to see Neymar come up short

I suppose there is a lots of reason to dislike Brazil but I just love Marcelo and wish him the best at all times.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/23/xhaka-and-shaqiri-goal-celebrations-bring-balkan-politics-to-world-cup

Regarding the referee:

“We were robbed,” he said. “I wouldn’t give him either a yellow or red card, I would send him to the Hague. Then they could put him on trial, like they did to us.”

Krstajic also posted photographs from the match on his Instagram account, accompanied by the comment: “Unfortunately, it seems that only the Serbs are condemned to a selective justice, once (it was) the damned Hague and today in football the VAR...”

Hardly surprised at vile nationalist bollocks being present in Serbian football culture tbh and, in any case, BRAZIL OUT!

I've got a mojito sunshine and schadenfruede life is good cheers germany

sweden have to at least be in contention for worst team at the tournament

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 12:27 (four hours ago) Permalink

Worse than Panama?

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 12:31 (four hours ago) Permalink

If they do go through they will the worse team left in the competition - a ba' hair ahead of Denmark.

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 12:34 (four hours ago) Permalink

Can only assume roberto is trying to jinx Mexico out of the wc with ludicrous assertion of swedish ineptitude

― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 12:35 (four hours ago) Permalink

That was some inspired jinxing roberto, although you concentrated your juju too much on the Mexico game

was just trying to influence the bookies and get better odds before i put my bet on for 3-0 sweden

I should have put a bet on...

Can see Sweden beating Mexico tbh.

― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:01 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was v fun to see granit & xherdan stick it to serbia & the reaction was predictably ridiculous. lovren was recorded singing some sort of serb-killing volk anthem after the argentina game. all v wearisome and unsurprising

as was mentioned i think in the hype & anticipation thread, lots of brazilians have mixed feelings about supporting the national side in the current climate (hence the natty red shirts free from association with the brazilian football federation) and some are even supporting argentina. it's very difficult to feel bad about neymar losing

The World Cup is a totally fertile field for hating on vile politics and economics, anybody can take their pick tbf. Still have a softer spot for Brazil as a team than these other lads.

By other lads I mean any of the other 3 teams in this sitch.

would love to see film of neuer’s reactions from the point he lost the ball upfield onwards. did he start trying to sprint back? at what point did he give up and succumb to despair?

Then the utter humiliation of having to play the remainder of the match back in goal in case he fucked up again.

Not been a great few months for German goalkeepers tbh.

sometimes the football teams and fans are the more modern/moderate/less hegemonic parts of society and it feels unfair to boo them for the faults of the wider nation, other times you've got australian fans making monkey noises at peruvian players. the world cup is truly a playground for prejudice

he didn't spend the rest of the match in goal though!

Wtf @ monkey noises... was this at the game, or ppl watching back in aus?

at the game: https://elcomercio.pe/amp/mundial/seleccion/peru/peru-vs-australia-luis-advincula-victima-cantos-racistas-rusia-2018-noticia-530804

Feels like it's been a good World's Cup for fan behaviour but wow fuck that.

Post Options Post by groovypanda on 7 minutes ago
Perfect viewing of the earlier games. Watched the first half of the German match then switched to Mexico Sweden for second half. When Sweden went 3 nil up switched back to watch final 12 minutes of Germany's exit. Usually miss all the goals when I do that.

Second SK goal was fantastic viewing.

Just wondering, with Son scoring again today are Spurs current top scorers in this WC? Or have Real got more?

I think Real have 8 (Ronaldo x4, Modric x2, Nacho, Isco) to Spurs 7

oh wait Toni Kroos as well

Eriksen tho

Swiss one up

yeah I'm not good at this

I'm in medical school and I know a thing or two about faking symptoms, so when neymar is grabbing his leg and voluntarily rolling on top of it several times in a row, it makes me think his leg doesn't hurt that much

Him faking doesn't mean there isn't a foul (or that there is one).

does Paulinho count for Spurs

you should get a card for excessively 'making a meal of it' as you lads say, it's lame

Neymar will hurt himself with one of those rolls one day. The most hateable player in world football rn

key and peele did a good sketch along such lines

it was quite funny when he did that dramatic injury thing against colombia last time but he had actually fractured his back

Serbia not up to it tbh.

I don't give much of a fuck about theatrics, it's either a foul or not

xp I remember instantly declaring he was faking

I'd be more worried about Coutinho's back this time out. Carrying him, etc, etc

I have question marks about hating over-acting and "real man tough guy" shit tbh

lol come on

almost like the acting is done with the clear purpose of drawing calls on borderline plays

"I don't know much about soccer but they really need to do something about the flopping" is a proud american tradition NV

hehe

'actually flopping is ok'

His over-acting is awful. I also hate Neymar for his abuse to referees, opposing & fellow players and self-aggrandising bullshit

hey Kevin I wasn't having a pop about you, there's a long honourable tradition of Brit pundits doing same. I know it's great but it'd one of those gamesmanship parts of the game and every sport's got some of them as far as I can see

The only two 6-6-6-0 groups were in 1994 when it was still 24 teams, so all three went through in both cases.

One team has been knocked out of a four-team group with two wins though, but this was in the two-points-per-win era: the notorious Algerian exit of 1982.

"I know it's *not* great", sorry. Pro athletes cheat, within the specific parameters of their sport. Such is moneyball.

Neymar's incessant writhing about gets a bit much at times, star player - but an even bigger cunt than most of them are imo!

appreciate k3v's insight but holding out for a second opinion from an actual dr. morbius

Costa Rica scoring means everyone has, I think.

Serbia look more likely to equalise than Brazil to score again.