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

I'd argue that football has a pretty huge impact on the standing of the UK (or England at least). The Premiership is one of the few things that people round the world actually like about this country.

― Matt DC, Thursday, July 5, 2018 11:57 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most def. Success or otherwise of England team has little to do with that though?

hoo is clive and wat is nick b's reference pls

oh wait, clive tyldesley? doh

nick's reference is a david squire cartoon

*squires

Images from England v Norway set to the lyrics of 'The Dead Flag Blues' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor: pic.twitter.com/8rcbkP1lia

— David Squires (@squires_david) September 6, 2014

haha, I hadn’t actually seen that before

ilx has mocked squires for stuff like that iirc but some of his stuff is p good and ilx-y. narcissism of not having a guardian deal

phitch is right: patriotism is clearly unnecessary to get behind the team

squires did a lovely shawshank wenger one

now quite interested to remember which dweebs hated on him

I didn't know that cartoon (just knew the GY!BE lyric) but that's ace

TWP panel is amazing

now quite interested to remember which dweebs hated on him

― imago, Thursday, July 5, 2018 11:27 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

turns out it was nakhers and myself

-_-

I'm going to go out on a limb and say his output might be varied enough to merit a few different reactions

So we had a sweepstakes in the work, £5 a pop, 32 teams picked, sealed in envelopes till the quarter finals. The envelopes have just been opened... guess who I got? Here's a clue, they're still in it.

sealed in envelopes i can understand, but until the quarter finals?

(here everybody was saying which team they had before all the tickets had been picked, which just seems wrong)

Good idea waiting till the QFs I think. Everyone is excitedly going round, asking who got Brazil, who got France, who got er ... England.

would be great if tom now had to support england tbh

Wouldn't it just...

Tom's attempts to jinx already have him sounding like a belligerently overconfident hackett shirt inglan guy tbh

lol tom. my advice - try and sell your team for a tenner, if only to keep your dignity intact

lol i actually kind of agree with phitch?

viz
1: supporting ENG is in no way an index of patriotism (as an internationalist i naturally think patriotism is bad not good,but that doesn't invalidate his argument)
2: the nation's "standing, liberty, wealth and security" are p much unrelated (the premiership is much more important to standing and wealth, the latter being the only really daft bit of his claim re the WC -- and even then it's surely largely an indirect effect)
3: "covertly violent game full of cheating, ham acting and sneaky assaults" how is this inaccurate? it just made me think THIS IS WHY I WATCH IT, I LOVE THAT STUFF

obviously he's a hateful weirdo who shd go away, but it's not as if he has a high opinion of the politicians who currently "represent" the country either, he utterly despises them and hates the direction everything is headed

There's been no violence at this World Cup - either off the pitch (thankfully) or on the pitch (sadly).

Imago if you could get Nilmar back for the QFs it would be appreciated, I'd be interested in his take on this England generation.

(On that note I looked up the 2012 squad yesterday and dear oh dear)

The papers always babble about an economic boost as a result of England doing well in a tournament. Last ten years, do that math.

There's been no violence at this World Cup

the tournament is ruined

Also I'd guess that England are reasonably well-supported and followed in quite a few countries that never get near the World Cup? I'd guess that eg Brazil are way in front (and god knows why you'd choose England in that scenario) but the Premiership factor must come into it.

The England team in general and England fans in particular are almost certainly detrimental to the standing of the UK.

Not convinced that Tuesday's result did much for productivity yesterday.

English football teams and footballers were popular abroad, long before the EPL, of course.

the difference between this england side and all predecessors is that kieran trippier vaped before the penalty shootout pic.twitter.com/EPKrg2pJsb

— hua hsu (@huahsu) July 5, 2018

(^^^hua hsu the only person as far as i know who's written for the wire AND the new yorker)

that's our boy

Aaron Mooy is another confirmed World Cup vaper, not that it did the Aussies any bloody good!

One of those working class lads whose culture Corbynistas refuse to acknowledge or understand...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/son-former-royal-aide-forced-apologise-england-graffiti-moscow/

my local district league club is the type of thing Stuart Maconie would probably think is grass roots and working class because the mostly m/c gammon that frequent it's sports bar swear and have regional accents, tribal tats etc, after they have parked their £20 g cars, working class culture my arse!

lol £20 k cars, obv a £20 would be very w/c!

Rufus Hall, 20, a business management student, was on his way back to Britain last night after being fined £35 by a Moscow court for scrawling ‘England’ in red face paint over the statue in honour of a dead Russian footballer.

Hall appeared in a video apologising for the graffiti.

“I love this country for the two days I've been here,” said Hall, standing in what appeared to be a stadium corridor, while still wearing his England shirt and with a flag tied around his head. “I would never disrespect the country. I respect the history and had I known this would offend people I would never have done it, and I wholly apologise.”

poll. options:

rufus
business management student
£35
with a flag tied around his head
had I known this would offend people I would never have done it

+ I wholly apologise

remember ppl complaining about our discussing a belgian footballers performance in a game in this world cup itt

now its just ppl rightly unbothered about uk politics thread doing it here instead

it's fifa's fault for not organising games on all days

if i had my way this would be the only thread on ilx

ever

is marouane fellaini doing enough to promote england and english values during this world cup?

Today I discovered that Fellaini has an identical twin and I just don't know what to do with this piece of knowledge.

does he play football? even if he doesn't, you could still throw him on in the 80th minute to stand in the box if you need a plan B. for a fraction of the price i'd imagine.

Maybe he sends him to matches in his place on occasion

Doppelgängly.