Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

this is an ILF thread isn't it? yeah thought so

anyway I'll be back on the real ILF before too long as for some of us, domestic football isn't going away. port vale this afternoon, world cup shmorld cup *snorting emoji*

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

sports threads plus the occasional irresistible swipe, it's a deal we can all be proud of

I know he posted on some loser thread by 'mistake' a day after poster imago promised he'd disappear from ILE for good. I'm just humouring you all xp

Stfu xyzzzz____ and watch the Dunphy clip

The clip this brane genius didn’t even post

‘People should be respected for what they are as human beings, not what they do in their private lives’ - Eamon Dunphy outlines Qatar’s attitude towards homosexuality on @RTELateLateShow ahead of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/vXseEhLLZG

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 18, 2022

i posted on ILE throughout an entire recent world cup in a sport gyac doesn't care about unless ireland beat england in it, WHICH HAPPENED, and she didn't even post ffs

Oh fuck this, I posted it itt a while ago, I’m on the way to the airport I’m clearly diverting everything to other functions bye

xp I was very nice to my better half in fairness (cos I don’t care). I will never enjoy cricket

That clip is cute.

Dunphy as pundit is basically you every time you decide to start a fight on here

I'd watch him.

Here’s a supercu(n)t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abj1UVNwbgY

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

also can a mod add OFFICIAL to this thread title?

Anybody not backing Brazil?

Prospect of France being the first champions to get out of the group for 20 years only to face Argentina again also v tantalising

if by "backing" you mean supporting then no, bunch of Bolsonaro-supporting cunts, hope they go out ASAP.

my preference is for the whole thing to be cancelled, however if someone has to win it, I'll be glad if it's England because

* If any world cup "doesn't count" it's this one, so bragging rights would be minimised
* we would never have to hear another new version of Three Lions
* If Rashford, Sancho and Saka can score the winning goals then it will piss off all the right people.

literally anyone but Brazil

hope they get 7-1'd again

Argentina is the romantic choice obv

I’m supporting nobody but I do hope the legendary Portugal-Netherlands card record gets broken - and I’m feeling it in the bad vibe of this tournament, lads.

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

I passed a Paddy Power ad today on the way into Dublin airport that said “At least Sterling spent more time at 10 than Truss.” I’m indifferent to the fortunes of the English national team but I can guess the discourse.

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

by that I mean players are generally better at not doing things that get them sent off, would guess that red card numbers this and last EPL season are down on the average

THAT SAID this last AFCON was an absolute red card bonanza, every time they went to VAR someone was sent off for some nonsense, so maybe, hopefully that'll be the case here too

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

xpp i was referring to cuntathon

oh sorry supercu(n)t, i wondered why cuntathon didn't work with parentheses :/

I got into baseball this year and in baseball any time there’s a brawl there’s an understanding that everyone has to run up and involve themselves. FIFA should make that a rule for this WC. Game needs a goalbrawl.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2017/05/ap_nationals_giants_baseball.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C3059px%2C1834px&resize=1000%2C600

too many cowards avoiding the pile-on

I suppose I should support Japan as there's so many Japanese players at Celtic these days, in reality I don't give a fuck who wins it - as long as it's not Brazil. A team with as few Premiership players as possible would be welcome though.

our Japanese international, Yuta, had a season-ending ankle injury just a couple of weeks back. Our only other international is the mighty Sorba Thomas in the Welsh squad, but he won't get a start or if he comes off the bench he'll likely be played in an unfamiliar position and not let near any set-pieces.

feels absolutely wide open this time, every team has big flaws and nobody is really putting forward a compelling case ahead of anyone else. France clearly the best squad but aside from the strong suspicion that they'll implode again their biggest problem is their central midfield being ripped out. my money is on Spain and Argentina with a small each way on Uruguay but like everyone else I feel like I could come up with better reasons why they won't win than why they will

Helpful Hint: Qatar is pronounced "cutter", like in the Echo and the Bunnymen song I could never figure out

— Rachel Dratch (@TheRealDratch) June 10, 2017

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Qatar-mess and the Kit /rejected thread titles

"if by "backing" you mean supporting then no, bunch of Bolsonaro-supporting cunts, hope they go out ASAP."

Lula won the election you know.

I'd much rather South America (Brazil or ARG) won it or an African team got in the semis-/final/won than fucking Europe again.

Also this might be the first of many winter world cups, given climate change.

Yes I know Lula won the election, thanks. I mean many of the more famous players on the team publicly support Bolsonaro, including Neymar who is apparently going to dedicate his first goal at the WC to him.

xp he means that most of the players supported Bolsonaro

Richarlison an honourable exception iirc

This thread seems to be going fine everyone just enjoying the camaraderie of a little sporting action “innit”, anyway when’s the real World Cup (women’s)

Players I want to have a bad WC:

Neymar
Ronaldo

Hi silby!

Seems like this would be a good event to do terrorism at is anyone taking bets

Or maybe someone will get renditioned by the CIA what a ludicrous display

just checked and Ramos wasn't picked for the squad, so ok for Spain to progress then.

Yes I know Lula won the election, thanks. I mean many of the more famous players on the team publicly support Bolsonaro, including Neymar who is apparently going to dedicate his first goal at the WC to him.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

I know you know this. My point is the people backing the team voted the other way.

You'll be pleased to hear that the odds are that 2034's Cup will be in Saudi Arabia, then.

In the future all football games will be played in Saudi Arabia.

xp they are seen as favourites but we'll see. Australia and Indonesia are putting in a bid too.

Possibly China.

Don't see " carbon neutrality" as a big deal. Climate mitigation goes beyond what happens in a month across three countries.

I mean if covering vast distances via air travel is an issue you wouldn't have a WC in the US would you?

it's low down on "things that are wrong with the World Cup" yeah, but it's very FIFA to not even bother paying lip service to it

Agreed.

End-state climate extermination events dictate that petrostates dominate world sports. It’s how sportswashing works i guess.

I mean, i’m a cycling nerd— UAE Team Emirates, Gazprom, Bahrain Victorious, Total Energies, more

Some chilling scenes from Brasil-Argentina.

Match delayed due to "riot" in the stands, but police were beating fans with batons. Messi took his team off field

I recently learned that Argentina did away with away game spectators about two decades ago.

Absolute joke to play this. 21 minutes, maybe eight minutes of play. Three cards, every foul the ref has to beg the players not to fight

Brazil struggling in qualification for the first time in a long while but they waited until there are six berths (plus a likely seventh via play-off) to qualify.

Brazil just never ever struggle in qualifiers. Three straight defeats 😱

The match was called very one-sided in Argentina's favor but that ain't why Brazil lost. They had zero ideas. Lots of balls played to prospective runners who never made runs, poorly weighted balls, bad first touches.

Argentina weren't much better, didn't even score until after Messi subbed out