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

nothing at all!

"There's the big loser"

lulz

GOODBYE RONALDO
GOODBYE PORTUGAL

Yaaaaaaaaaay

good and correct result, bye bye big loser

Pretty impeccable start to the knockouts

Havent seen france play but confident Uruguay can be a challenge for them

cavani wins!

blandford otm great matches

Two games where the better team won, can't argue so far

Only one booking in that entire game, huh

absentee ref

There was one ridiculous almost-a-red challenge from Cavani at one point but the red played advantage and then forgot about it

yep

uruguayans left the ground at every chance, ref was crazy lenient

I had to take in some of today's games on the go with my portable dab. Chris Sutton's blusterous fucking voice makes me think the ancient Egyptians were otm in castrating certain ppl and amputating their tongue etc

Sutton already had a punishment brainectomy but there was no discernible affect

I know narratives are never this simple but there was a real sense of one era of football ending and a new one beginning today. If Russia beat Spain tomorrow then it really is over.

Yeah I wouldn't worry about that one

Preemptively feeling sorry for neymar that he won't even be the best once messi and ronaldo hang em up, the perpetual bridesmaid

if this world cup is any indication he's not even the second-best striker for PSG

this was known

but he'll be off to real soon

This thread title always seems to me to be a mashup of the titles of a certain Rumour album and one of John Lydon’s memoirs.

(the latter, I thought, which was originally the sign landlords used to hang outside places they were letting. But apparently that may've been faked - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/21/no-irish-no-blacks-no-dogs-no-proof )

guardian (and indeed readers thereof) well known for undermining hibernian rights and denying any and all historical prejudices against us.

Same thing from the Irish post, 3 years later

https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/infamous-no-irish-no-blacks-no-dogs-signs-may-never-have-existed-148416

Sorry, that's not the same thing at all but a rebuttal of the guardian article

I've just found out that Mbappé isn't his surname (Lottin is apparently) so am going back to my fantasy theory his parents named him after the Hanson hit from the year before he was born.

lol

i believe i made a particularly oblique onomatopoeic post referring to this only recently

also lol koogs i made that up but also *serious academic pushes glasses up nose* it is in my experience true

In which case soz for biting yr joek but I am only skimming this thread at the moment.

Both winners tonight had the least possession - Uruguay 33% France 39%. They keep telling me possession is 9/10ths of the game - so how does that happen?

— Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) June 30, 2018

absolutely smashed that insight

you'd think that a lifetime of watching the game might have prepared him for this "mindblowing anomaly"!

just want to give a shout out to the ppl who are apparently fucking with richard keyes

9/10ths of the laws of the game trevor

France made up for that disgraceful 0-0 draw with seven goals in their next match. I fully expect Denmark to do the same, though probably without scoring that much. Sigh.

fernando what is this starting eleven all about?

I feel like Russia are about to get a serious butchering. Hope I’m wrong

about a large amount of money nah only joking

lol here we go

PWN GOAL

oops

controversial demand from Kilbane for a penalty *and* a goal.

Lol Spain should have gotten a penalty either way. Crazy looking goal.

lol @ mugging the opponent in the box and own goaling anyway

Spain looking like they might actually try to score more goals instead of just passing the game out.

I'm enjoying seeing this russian team disgrace themselves with the second bit of ridiculous wrestling leading to a goal in two games

My wife and I now giggling madly every time Zhirkov’s name is spoken.