2018 Football World Cup
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Off Twitter - "Russia could have won that with one hand tied behind their back. Which coincidentally is the punishment for wanking in Saudi Arabia"
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Every World Cup has to have its whipping boys. Apparently it's Saudi Arabia this time.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
Uruguay 1
Egypt 0Uruguay stodgy as fuck. Egypt much snazzier going forward but repeatedly shat the bed when looking for goal. Salah rode the pine. Disappointed it took til 95th minute for Suarez to try to eat someone. Fuck Urugauy
Spain 3
Portugal 3Spain looked murderously good, if David Silva stays healthy I pick they win the whole thing. Portugal were shit. Bailed out by the plasticene-faced big screen checker. The claymation marionette had a penalty, then fluked one in off a fluffed De Gea save and then a deadly free kick for his hat trick. Fuck Spain. Pantomime villains at either end in flailing cross-eyed lunatic Costa and judo arm-barring fucktard Ramos
Great game. Got what I ordered off the menu too, Nacho with ease.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
ps how shit was Suarez, fluffed everything we got his barge-arse in the vicinity of, looked 10 kgs heavier than Lpool days, must be eating well in Spain, [insert "lots of practice biting, fuckit, anything will do" gag]
No cutting edge in front of goal?
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France averaging a shot on target every 2 mins. Matter of time
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God, what a boring half that was.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
@canefan said in 2018 Football World Cup:
@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
ps how shit was Suarez, fluffed everything we got his barge-arse in the vicinity of, looked 10 kgs heavier than Lpool days, must be eating well in Spain, [insert "lots of practice biting, fuckit, anything will do" gag]
No cutting edge in front of goal?
yeah, fairly toothless, just doesnt have his old appetite for goal
He's a proven scorer though; once he gets a taste he'll want to dine out on goals
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
Straya 1
Frogs 2haha, Straya went alright, gave the cossetted frog superstars a fuck of a fright. That VAR PK scenario was damn sketchy. Going the way of rugby, the more you look the more youre gonna find shit to have a cry about. In real time it looked like the frog left his back foot in then sort of belatedly remembered to go down from sniper fire, as they all do. I wouldve booked the fluffybunny for simulation.
Dunno who the players were but good things were happening for Aus down the right. Should've gone to that well more often
haha, Giroud subs on with his head already bandaged and his hair PERFECTLY already manicured around the bandage. Must be going for the rugged Parisien look on the catwalk look this spring.
Was thinking wft is the big deal about Pogba, decorates the game with a couple of ineffectual fancy dan touches then fucken vanishes for 20 minutes. Then oops hello, scythes thru to win them the match
Mbappe too, big deal. Worlds most expensive player my arse. More like Mfappe.
Giroud was taking fashion cues from this guy
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@rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:
Arg 1
Vikings 1There are 350,000 Icelanders TOTAL.
GTFO.
Incredible. I googled their population after the equaliser, and given their Euro champs ride, I still can't get my head around it!
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For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
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@siam said in 2018 Football World Cup:
For all the angst about annual rule changes and directives to clean up the game World Rugby dishes out, ol' FIFA have done fuck all to deal with diving and ref abuse in about 20 years.
It is what it is and I guess the difference between the world's most profitable game vs rugby trying to attract a larger market.
I don't think that's the big difference at all.
It's because FIFA is completely bent. Every country gets a vote, so with the right application of money the powers at the top of FIFA can ensure a steady flow into their own pockets. They just have to not do anything that might annoy people.
Fixing problems in the game is hard. Banning top players for simulation will have clubs up in arms. Having a ridiculously large tournament in a semi-dictatorship is easy.
That the international game is falling apart under club pressures is difficult to fix. Having the Champions League is easy.
This is why the IRB have a very different power structure, and why even non-RWC fixtures still have some meaning.
If the IRB ever go to "one nation, one vote", look forward to the death of international rugby, and some very rich Romanian, Tongan and Georgian administrators.
