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

xpost p sure the 2nd goal against Uruguay already has that won

luck != professional missing that

croatia are pedestrian, russia are a rabble

surely only a matter of time for Croatia

their system not to your liking lj

moment of magic from luka will do it

Croatia need to get the finger out here.

the more I watch football the more luck is in evidence. ppl on twitter pointing out that were it not for a journalist buying big sam a pint of wine we'd be listening to joe hart announce his retirement from international football about now

And England would be relying on set pieces to win games... errrrrrr

and not rooneys

Russia are better than Sweden but that's about as far I'm prepared to go.

I don't watch real madrid basically ever but: is modric playing deeper than usual?

croatian system dull but effective-ish due to proficiency of midfield personnel

russia do not have a system

big sam is the world cup's raoul moat

what was raoul moat the raoul moat of

arry limey

fuck that was close.

A bit lackadaisical from Croatia still.

fuck this ref putting a stop to the play there

sigh

ruh ohhhhh

Lots of itches not being scratched by the croatian side

5-6 mins of stoppage at min

muscle agent snuck into his drink

amirite

if this goes extra time England p much has this one. gonna be playing an exhausted opponent

next week I mean

RUS obviously happy with pens, so get it to-fuckin-gether CRO!

I suspect Russia is gonna play way back in these two periods

Is putin in the audience or negotiating from below the stadium?

please eliminate the boring

Russia shouldn’t be happy with penalties given how good all three of Croatia’s keepers are at them.

Russia don't have another game.

Croatia would have enough in the locker to get past Eng. They can only beat themselves - as they are attempting to do here.

I feel like Russia wouldn't be too confident on penalties but their so-called "counterattack" was easily nullified in the second half, I figure they'd rather have something that gave them a fighting chance than getting forward and getting toasted on the other end.

this one's gonna end on Subasic falling over on a back pass and watching helplessly as the ball rolls into the goal, innit.

Croatia playin with fire a bit here

They can only beat themselves - as they are attempting to do here.

And as they tried to do against Denmark.

do ppl who aren't my age remember who red adair was?

the fireman?

yes. specialised in oil wells.

mark s' age = 683

yes i guess, the oil-fire capper or whatever -- uk commentary just described something in reference to him, he was last active in the early 90s i think

great run Modric

one of my classmate's dads wrote an obscure biography about him in the 80s

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Croatia gonna spain themselves out. Can't see russia pulling this off a third time

what a fuckin abysmal giveaway. Croatia damn lucky

There we go

Croatia nearly upgrading to suicide

HAHAHAAHAHAHAH