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

Second time that clip's made it to this thread haha

leg-saves a thing today

Schmeichel gives me Johnny from Karate Kid vibes, i bet he owns a skeleton costume

sorry Fred <3

folks it's been a great day for international football's biggest stage

uefa rule change have we confirmed fifa adopted it yet

also lol gks can just walk up to the pen spot now apparently

Schmeichel gives me Johnny from Karate Kid vibes, i bet he owns a skeleton costume

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, July 1, 2018 4:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he did kinda get craned

i hate him

they're not rules, they're laws which are reasonably immutable but subject to varying FIFA or regional FA interpretations. i mean if you're gonna football lawyer then get the terminology down.

explanation reported from the ref was somewhat different btw, but who cares, shit football deserves shit adjudication.

right team won anyway

We didn't deserve it, but I so wanted to beat Croatia :(

what did the ref say?

"sorry guys the VAR advised me not to give a red"

can't remember exactly how ITV worded it now, i assume it's still basically what we've already said, no longer a red for that kind of foul.

no reference at all to the "open goal" law for some reason

Is it me or goalkeepers are way better than they were 10 years ago?

wheel out the whiteboards

but if you play like shit for 110 mins and you get a bad call in the last minute it's not the bad call that's fucked you really. assuming they'd actually fucked it.

loads of ppl I know have played (and scored) against kasper as kids and they are all v fond of him. he was denmark's best player this tournament... should have played for england B-)

i mean fuck 'em basically, if there's a divine justice it's not fretting about shitty interpretations of the laws, it's fucking with you for cowardice, ineptitude and being boring.

Is it me or goalkeepers are way better than they were 10 years ago?

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, July 1, 2018 4:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

10 years ago a goalkeeper would kick a ball in his own net

Is it me or goalkeepers are way better than they were 10 years ago?

― Van Horn Street, 1. juli 2018 22:59 (forty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's Kasper :)

itv (forget who) also said that it was yellow not red bcz the player was at least trying to go for the ball not the man

Bilic was clearly really fucked off they showed all that.

kinda don't matter at this point

xpost

Ref suggested it was only a yellow because he made a ‘genuine attempt to play the ball’.

Xp

Slaven Bilic genuinely pissed off at ITV panel laughing at replays of his reactions to the shootout - grumpy git but also OTM

I mean, I guess I should feel some sympathy for Croatia, since we only were at the Euro 92 championship because Yugoslavia got disqualified due to the wars. But we always lose to them, and the one time we beat them, in the qualification to the 98 World Cup, the assholes ended up qualifying anyway and making it to the semi finals :( I so wanted to beat them just once.

fair enough dude, sucks to have a nemesis

loads of ppl I know have played (and scored) against kasper as kids and they are all v fond of him. he was denmark's best player this tournament... should have played for england B-)

― ogmor, Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:01 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the chipper Manc lad had got this...but his teammates hadn't

made the right decision to play for Denmark tbh - it's the family firm after all. plus he's the vanishingly rare example of the son who's (almost) as good as his dad

like, most superstar footballer's sons are spoilt wastemen but he's turned out one hell of a keeper

more of a chipper cheshire chap

wild that one of Russia, Croatia, Switzerland, Sweden, England or Colombia will be in the final.

Are Croatia just perennially overrated because of modric and rakatic? I think probably

they did almost not qualify... still if you were ranking world cup sides by number of players on champions league teams they would be in the top 6 or 7?

Also probably the "best" team on paper outside the usual 4 or 5 contenders and I guess pundits have got to say something when they're asked for their dark horse pick

Colombia being in the final would be dope

My neighborhood will go crazy

i would love that, personally

De Gea World Cup saves compilation.. pic.twitter.com/ZoLJQjbLeL

— 😡 (@CentralWinger__) July 1, 2018

Rafa Marquez starting for Mexico lol

cant see mexico winning this one

can only hope

cant get a mex jersey in dub ffs

Bleach your hair instead

i wish

Up for this one. Come on Mexico

You can frizzle it later and tell everybody you’re Valderrama

thiago is so gorgeous but I hope he eats the goals today

Ha, have been contemplating El Pibe rug rethink myself

Lozano hattrick plz