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

At yoga class last night I overheard the teacher I sometimes go to say to someone before class got going that she is being bad and cancelling her class on Wednesday to watch the match. They went on, saying what a nice bunch of lads those eng guys were, that they weren't spoilt celeb types I just wanted to laugh at this nonsense.

I really want them to get humiliated. At least so all the 5live pundit crew who have blowing copious amounts of smoke up Southgate's arse do a complete u-turn on the fucking mediocrity!

> but computers

the way that article talks about it ("made an AMP MP3 Playback Engine"), the mp3 player it mentions was software, not hardware. so computers. wikipedia says it later morphed into winamp.

Big time charlies, eh? Pay soldiers footballer's wages instead.

Kane doesn't have any tribal tats and looks like a chipper fucking 1940's conscript from Dunkirk, wot a nice lad.

they stream fortnite just like you and me

I wouldn't give them the stream off my ps

What about "I like the way they play" or "I really want to see [insert Eng player that does not exist here]" or whatever.

FWIW it's actually a good thing that these people are supporting a group of mainly black working class lads without resorting to the usual racist/classist tropes whenever they see one of them with money. Better than resorting to the usual guff about rugby players or cricketers putting footballers to shame or whatever.

I really want them to get humiliated. At least so all the 5live pundit crew who have blowing copious amounts of smoke up Southgate's arse do a complete u-turn on the fucking mediocrity!

Too late for that now, even if they do get hammered in the semis, it's already a triumph for England's brave lads. No doubt they will want to go back to the humble and anonymous lives they led before they were plucked from obscurity to carry out this great task in service of the English nation - the task of shoring up popular support for Brexit - but I doubt the media will allow that.

I think between some of the fallacious bollox being talked about brylcreem boy and Meades latest rumblings, then I might be going pro tribal tats.

Seriously though, I do think they've done well enough now that not even a tanking could dim the heroic sheen on Dele Alli and the lads.

I'm sure even if on a losing side, Dele Alli will be more concerned about upholding the Corinthian values of the game than winning, that's what is great about these lads!

Can someone who's read Fascism for Dummies or similar tell me about whether roaring success or roaring humiliation will be more likely to lead to a Brexity nationalist hell? I kind of assume it's the latter, so am happy for our boys to bring home the bacon.

I wouldn't give them the stream off my ps

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:34 (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

excellence

yes - many posts here reminding me of the great newspaper, the sun, which i read sometimes while in bolton, its title reminding me of the weather in my home of malaga. and england are winning. it is a confusing time for all.

darragh otm

One of the papers today had a front page about how Our Boys (as one?) had refused - refused! - the prospect of an open-topped bus unless they actually Bring Football Home.

I am pretty sure May would give them a full North Korean 10-hour march-past if it would distract.

One of the tiny number of things I actually like about May - possibly the only thing - is that she has never at any point even tried to affect an interest in football. Rather that than some of the cringeworthy shit Cameron used to come out with.

Cameron with his love of Villa or was it West Ham? Fuck knows, he wasn't that sure himself.

A ham lover with a villa in the West iirc.

Ousmane Dembélé's substitute role for France & the long journeys across Russia have led him to create an entirely new team on Football Manager called Winchester FC in England: "This is my new project, there's going to be a South American atmosphere in the stadium."

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) July 1, 2018

big question is if ousmane has made it into the prem yet. apparently he's gone for winchester fc bc he watches the last kingdom and is basically role-playing as a saxon

Déjà des soupçons de tricherie au Winchester FC de @Dembouz... 🤔 On va mener l'enquête ! 🧐 pic.twitter.com/G6ifzp9e61

— Equipe de France (@equipedefrance) July 8, 2018

aww <3

apart from hernandez are there any actual heels left in the world cup

"f******i" = sb

i guess vida *looks* like a heel. and dele alli has it in him

danny rose is a dick tbfttl

dele is a complete dick and not very good

modric is a tax dodger

lloris is middle class. cunt.

all white england players prob vote tory or brexit or both

lads

thought you were gonna do toby and jan next

harry kane sacrificed daughter and lovely eriksen for a goal

toby wants to win trophies and maximise his earnings over a short career.

execute him

jan vertonghen scored goals once and now doesnt i hope he dies

btw i restarted ASTB and am now about 30 pages in and i am finn maccool

you are possibly sweeney

haha fair

Jan Vertonghen tried to strangle Ander Herrera once and probably has some kids in his basement iirc

hazards goal agaibst arsenal was shit also he plays for Chelsea

The current team is more interesting and dynamic, and in that sense they have betrayed themselves, as Spain did a decade ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/jul/10/england-hopes-2018-world-cup-russia (actually quite interesting range of opinions actually)

F******* not really a heel?

more of an elbow really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd38KUjmOho

Alli has definitely been more peripheral and probably less good all round than buzzing heart of the side Sterling tbf

god there's quite a few truth bombs in that Graun round-up

England have a great chance of winning the World Cup – in four years’ time. is the worst analysis in the article. How can England possibly have a better chance of winning the next World Cup than this one when they are already in the semi final? A better team, quite possibly, but by no means a better chance of winning.

Thank fuck the football's starting again if the last day's worth of posts are anything to go by.

Alli's also been injured and has missed half the games.

dying to see rom again, that last performance of his was something else

Fabian Delph went home for the Belgium game because his partner was giving birth; Andreas Granqvist played against England despite his partner giving birth

Sweden are going home, and they're going home because they DO NOT LOVE THEIR CHILDREN

Granqvist was also reportedly fined 50 grand for wearing non-regulation socks which may also have been a factor idk

Talk about a heel though jesus