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

obv best outcome in that scenario is foul against tackle and yellow card for dive but PLANK FIFA will not ACCEDE to my VISION

ok but it's an indirect free

even if it's in the box

Just dropping in from a busy day to say Darragh is wrong about everything.

Also Croatia may not have stretched themselves as much early in the 2nd half were they not chasing the game. VAR wot won it.

you can complain about diving and refuse to dive. you can also complain about rewards credit cards, refuse to get one, and pay a small portion of the worst humans' vacation flights.

the world cup is over

but we have yet to read all the world cup emails on wikileaks

"VAR won it" is nonsense.

I know.

But it did have an effect, it's mostly been used well but it came up short in the biggest match. Humans.

i think the Pen was correct

Cool.

The small nation almost always gets robbed (Uruguay got their wcs in time). I know there are a lot of fascists in Croatia but still..

the world cup is over

And still it's ruined.

Today Pogba led the team in La Marseillaise on the steps of the Élysée. This is one way we beat the fascists.

Unbelievable scenes outside the French presidential palace as Paul Pogba breaks out with the now famous N'Golo Kanté chant, Deschamps giddily joins in: "N'Golo Kanté, he is small, he is nice, he shut down Lionel Messi..." pic.twitter.com/7vAcUerZWD

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) July 16, 2018

omg

love it! The French have all the best songs.

I guess it rhymes in French

Was this mentioned?

I want everyone to know that the #CRO team @HNS_CFF #Vatreni is supporting #FASCISM. As #Croatian media reports, #Thompson, a fascist/Nazi "singer" who glorifies the #Holocaust, is participating in the #WorldCup celebrations in Croatia, following the fucking players' request.

— Denijal Jegić (@denijeg) July 16, 2018

A little more on all that here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_(band)#Controversy

Thompson has huge legacy / mainstream status in Croatia. The lead singer is basically a fascist and one of their biggest songs is the one Lovren was singing about killing Serbs during the war but they wouldn’t automatically code as right-wing (vs ‘patriotic’) to a domestic audience necessarily.

The fact that fascists code as mainstream instead of right-wing in Croatia is a pretty good reason not to support them, tbf

If a Fascist polls in low single figures in the next French presidential election, as they did in the last Croatian one, I’m sure we will all be surprised and delighted.

You don't need a fascist party when fascism is mainstream.

This is the kind of not-particularly-useful reductionism people (correctly) push back on when Ukraine and the Baltic states get called fascist. The history of how the war, the founding myths of the nation, music and football combine is a hugely interesting subject - the academic Catherine Baker covers it brilliantly.

False equivalence. Latvians didn't commit genocide in the 90's.

Also I don't have a problem if ppl say that fascism is worryingly mainstream in Ukraine and the baltics

Politically, I h8 what the Croatia team all too often seems to stand for. Football-wise, I really like them as a team. So I just end up with a kind of neutral shrug lol

x-post: Neither has ShariVari ever had? This is such a weird conversation.

Thought he was calling such talk not-particularly-useful reductionism?

In conclusion, Croatia is a land of contrasts

Yeah, but I've definitely seen him write about all the fascists in Ukraine several times.

lol xp

“Fascism is mainstream” and “there are fascists in X” are different.

One of the elements that Croatia, Ukraine and the Baltic states share is the gradual rehabilitation of historical fascist-aligned organisations and their incorporation into nation-building mythology (Forest Brothers, Banderites, Ustaše, etc) but this is more complicated than straightforward co-option of Fascism as a political ideology or the mainstreaming of fascist ideas.

so did anyone else follow the rolling les bleus dance party on instagram stories throughout the tournament??? it made me so happy. spotify playlist 'Enceinte bluetooth de Kimpembe' has pretty much all the songs

Oh yes I loved it ! The Naza tracks make my summer,

The past couple of weeks have given me time to reflect, and time to think over the events of the last few months. Consequently, I want to share my thoughts and feelings about what has happened. pic.twitter.com/WpWrlHxx74

— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) July 22, 2018

stealing a forgiving

Wanna see this pos live in turkey and not be able to get out

It can be hard to tell when sports figures make a PR gaffe because they are genuinely naïve and when they pretend to be naïve to improve their public relations after a PR gaffe.

do we really think ozil is a secret erdogan fan

I once read an extended portrait on Ozil, when he was up and coming star and already called a role model for immigrants blah blah, and he was described as 'not very bright'.

One thing that would have solved everything, was the same photo, with Erdogan, holding a German mannschaft shirt.

oh well.

are we srsly having a go about this

srsly guys

the other two parts of that latter are more interesting

Oh yes I loved it ! The Naza tracks make my summer,

I had never heard of him before but those are catchy as hell - i was like, the whole refrain to this song is "putain de merde"? looool

#WorldCup winners having fun. #Pogba #Griezmann #Mendy #Dembele. You have to love them. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/QvKR5HyRdU

— Bolarinwa Olajide (@iambolar) July 19, 2018

😂😂🔥👑 pic.twitter.com/ASgnaewGMA

— Aya Nakamura (@AyaNakamuraa) July 18, 2018

finally watching les bleus documentary on youtube - now i know where this clip is from! i LOVE this song

I don't generally like anything an Arsenal player does, but I think Ozil's statement is quite good.

I am impressed at how he can write in a long series of proper sentences.

“For me Mesut Özil has been a poor excuse of a footballer for years...”

“...Should ask himself when was the last time he won a tackle.”

“...His 35 million follower boys that don’t really exist in the real world”

Bayern President Uli Hoeneß’s response to Mesut Özil’s statement.

— Archie Rhind-Tutt (@archiert1) July 23, 2018

“He has played shit for years.”

“Every time we played against Arsenal we’d always go through him because we knew he is a weak point.” [BILD]

“Last time he won a tackle was before the 2014 World Cup.”

Bayern President Uli Hoeness with more on Mesut Özil and his statement.

— Archie Rhind-Tutt (@archiert1) July 23, 2018

rating one of the worlds top creeative talents by his defensive abilities is a sign of PFM absolute moronic 100% mental deficiency

imo

He has played shit for years though, fam.

uli h otm