2022 World Cup knockouts: RIP four games a day

[Waffdon]

Luka Sucic not getting on ahead of some of these is a bit dumb. He looks great for Salzburg in the CL. Better than fucking Vlasic anyway.

Surprised he’s taken off 80% of his experienced players as well ahead of pens

[Waffdon]

Lovren is definitely stepping up for a penalty and doing the most bog standard penalty to his left at keepers height nowhere near the corner

[Yevrah]

G'wan Japan

[Giggles]

Got home just in time I see.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

ffs Minamino.

[Yevrah]

Oh Jesus.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck me.

[Spikey M]

:D shambles

[Yevrah]

Ok, you can go home.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Some serious lack of bravery in those Japanese penalties.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Even England would batter them in a shootout ffs.

[Spikey M]

Lol. Twat.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Another dogshit pen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hit it hard you wankers. 12 yards is the optimum distance for THE BALL.

[Giggles]

Comeback’s ON!

Edit - off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Japanese are still bottling this though.

[Ben]

This is horrendous.

[Bernanke]

:lol: This is some effort.

[Giggles]

Croatia :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That might be the shittest shootout there has ever been.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon the ball was genuinely in their head there. There is no other explanation for no attempt by any Japanese player to hit it with power.

I'm afraid you deserve to go out if you lack the courage to strike a football properly.

[Ian]

All that effort just to fart you way through a shootout. Useless.

[7om]

Fucking horrendous. Just blast the bastard thing.

[igor_balis]

Just put your foot through it ffs

[Waffdon]

Reece James back in training already. England could have had someone to completely dominate Mbappe after all.

:cool:

[Yevrah]

Rio Ferdinand might well be the worst pundit, he's so shit.

[7om]

Rio Ferdinand might well be the worst pundit, he's so shit.

It’s almost worth England getting knocked out every time in the quarter finals just so I can revel in Lineker, Shearer and Ferdinand getting a reality check.

[Shindig]

That won't do it, though. Going out to someone proper doesn't wobble any heads. Losing to Iceland does.

[Pepe]

Just watched the penalties. Each and every one of those were terrible. What the fuck is wrong with them?

[Lewis]

Rio Ferdinand might well be the worst pundit, he's so shit.

Even by footballer standards he seems to be a legitimately unintelligent person.

[Don]

Proper goalfest incoming now, none of that negative European tactical gammon shite on display.

[niko_cee]

Both coaches are archetypal negative European types, even if they lack the clammy pale flesh. Work rate over quality.

[Manc]

Paulo Bento coaching SK is proper FM stuff.

[Giggles]

Proper goalfest incoming now, none of that negative European tactical gammon shite on display.

Gammon gammo ngamm ongam mong.

[niko_cee]

:D

That's quite good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hopefully Neymar gets a good kicking.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Can't help but feel Korea might feel some refereeing favours from 2002 spat back at them if it gets close here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This could be a battering.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That set of celebrations should see the goal chalked off and then Korea awarded one on top.

[7om]

Great goal clive

[Giggles]

Probably one by the letter, but that’s harsh.

[Shindig]

Well and truly over already.

[Yevrah]

Weird one that, but game over you'd imagine.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not a pen for me.

[niko_cee]

Henry on the BBC livetext:

South Korea vs Brazil, before this World Cup it would seem obvious, now anything can happen. What a strange World Cup it’s been.

I think me and Henry have been watching different World Cups.

South Korea should have never been in the last 16 anyway so no real sympathy if they get roasted [they won't, they'll probably be dispatched in an incredibly prosaic and dull way].

[7om]

Cricket score incoming here

[Giggles]

There is far too much time wasted faffing before a penalty these days. Can the referee not say all that gubbins to both teams before the game starts?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He should be shot for that run up.

[Lewis]

That was a cocky penalty. Would love to see that go wrong in the final.

[Don]

If this wasn't a bunch of favela cunts we'd be watching them "show patience" and be "in no great rush" as if everyone's paying out the arse to sleep in shipping containers and tuning in to the greatest show on Earth to watch a couple of lanky fucks make 5 yard passes across the backline whilst looking forward to microwaveable Sheperd's Pie for dinner.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Right, I've decided. These cunts are far worse than Messi. Las islas - malvinas - son argentinas.

[Danny]

Is Son crying yet?

[niko_cee]

The semi on this side of the draw is going to be quality.

Unless it somehow ends up being Holland v Croatia.

[7om]

If this wasn't a bunch of favela cunts we'd be watching them "show patience" and be "in no great rush" as if everyone's paying out the arse to sleep in shipping containers and tuning in to the greatest show on Earth to watch a couple of lanky fucks make 5 yard passes across the backline whilst looking forward to microwaveable Sheperd's Pie for dinner.


:lol:

[Manc]

The state of Ghana & Uruguay letting these manlets get out of the group.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm now bitterly regretting that tonight's entertainment isn't a Uruguay-induced bloodbath. Throw Asia out of FIFA based on the last two hours.

[niko_cee]

The state of Ghana & Uruguay letting these manlets get out of the group.

It was mostly Portugal's fault, in fairness.

[niko_cee]

I'm now bitterly regretting that tonight's entertainment isn't a Uruguay-induced bloodbath. Throw Asia out of FIFA based on the last two hours.

No [no-hoper] minnows stinking up the latter stages of the tournament is refreshing. Cue Switzerland winning the whole bastard thing now, Infantino wildly whirling his shirt around whilst simultaneously handing out suitcases of cash to the officials in celebration.

[Yevrah]

That was class.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was lovely.

[Yevrah]

Although with Jim on these celebrations. Hideous.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Throwback to Kerlon and the seal dribble :cool:

[7om]

Imagine Harry Maguire trying to handle that passing and movement.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well I don't know about you lot, but my living room is lilting to the samba beat. I've started blowing a whistle and everything.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Think this might be done.

[randomlegend]

https://youtu.be/RAW8Tzt28Ts?t=16

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is this the first time they've actually played 'Brazilian well' since, what, the mid 80s?

[7om]

Don’t like seeing anyone get battered like this. Must be absolutely horrible for the players.

[Lewis]

Proper kamikaze defending from the Chinamen this.

[Pepe]

I leave for twenty minutes and miss four goals. :face:

[Don]

The styles of these two will always just match up like this and god bless them both for it. Great world cup scenes.

[Lewis]

Is this the first time they've actually played 'Brazilian well' since, what, the mid 80s?

This could also be a classic set your credentials out and then lose to the first organised team you play performance (1982, 1986, 1990, 2006, 2010).

[Boydy]

I leave for twenty minutes and miss four goals. :face:

Same. Missed most of the first half and all the goals ffs.

[Giggles]

The styles of these two will always just match up like this and god bless them both for it. Great world cup scenes.

Yep, a classic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This could also be a classic set your credentials out and then lose to the first organised team you play performance (1982, 1986, 1990, 2006, 2010).

If they lose to Croatia after this it should be a two-tournament ban, minimum.

[Lewis]

Croatia no chance. Louis van Gaal...

[Don]

Yep, a classic.

Go easy on the mayonnaise with your supper tonight, you wild cat.

[Don]

Roy Keane :lol: This is the sort of shit that had Vini up in arms about racism this season.

[Shindig]

"Do your little jig and fuck off." I bet Mick McCarthy said that to him once.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dani Alves? Why don't they just get Bobby Carlos out of the stands to try one of his famous 'banana kick' dead ball strikes (so-called because the spin applied to the ball made it swerve voraciously in flight).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Comeback - ON.

[Waffdon]

Too many teams have respect these days. The amount of times a team are up at half time and then take their foot off it is sickening

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's not respect, it's preserving the energy of your own players.

They would have chalked that off if it wasn't a consolation. VAR itching to get in the action.

[Giggles]

Too many teams have respect these days. The amount of times a team are up at half time and then take their foot off it is sickening

They’ve been asleep. This sort of messing is a bad habit to get into going into the next game.

[CJay]

Dani Alves? Why don't they just get Bobby Carlos out of the stands to try one of his famous 'banana kick' dead ball strikes (so-called because the spin applied to the ball made it swerve voraciously in flight).

Pretty poor effort to be playing in a World Cup at 39 for Brazil and it only being your 3rd tournament. Was Cafú still playing in 2006?

[Spikey M]

Too many teams have respect these days. The amount of times a team are up at half time and then take their foot off it is sickening

It's either that or have Roy Keane cry about your celebrations.

[Pepe]

Bring back the group stage.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pretty poor effort to be playing in a World Cup at 39 for Brazil and it only being your 3rd tournament. Was Cafú still playing in 2006?

Yeah he was. During a language trip to Seville I watched Dani Alves live in this game: https://m.football-lineups.com/match/1453, remember him tracking up and down the touchline in front of me all night. Playing the World Cup 17 years later. Ridiculous.

[Don]

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[Boydy]

There's no December football thread so this can go in here:

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:lol:

[Ian]

Yeah I thought these may as well serve as the thread until I make one when the tournament is actually done. It'll only get lost due to the three posts it gets.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was in the work kitchen this morning, making coffee, and a colleague walked in. He's not much of a football fan (World Cup England games only) but knows that I 'follow the game'. He said to me, by way of making conversation: "They're saying this could be the last World Cup for some of the superstars, like Messi and Ronaldo." I had no idea what to say. What do you say to that? So I said: "Football heritage." He said "Too true, too true," and walked off.

Spent the next half hour gutted that I bottled dropping the h.

[randomlegend]

You didn't actually say "football heritage" right?

[Spikey M]

The thing about England is they always try to walk it in.

[Offshore Toon]

This place is really dialing up the autism over the World Cup.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You didn't actually say "football heritage" right?

I did. At 8.40am, no less.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This place is really dialing up the autism over the World Cup.

What were you expecting from us, detached worldly cool?

[7om]

The thing about England is they always try to walk it in.

Just get it in the mixer.

[Manc]

You should have explained the offside law with UHT milk pods.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The number of UHT milk pods we have in there, I could have explained the entire tactical history of football from Chapman's W-M to the advent of the false nine.

[ScousePig]

I was in the work kitchen this morning, making coffee, and a colleague walked in. He's not much of a football fan (World Cup England games only) but knows that I 'follow the game'. He said to me, by way of making conversation: "They're saying this could be the last World Cup for some of the superstars, like Messi and Ronaldo." I had no idea what to say. What do you say to that? So I said: "Football heritage." He said "Too true, too true," and walked off.

Spent the next half hour gutted that I bottled dropping the h.

The equivalent at my work place told me that Man United simply have to accommodate Ronaldo as he's the best player in the world, and build their team around him. This was a month or so ago. The other day he said that Messi is overrated and Phil Foden is better.

[John Arne]

The equivalent at my work place told me that Man United simply have to accommodate Ronaldo as he's the best player in the world, and build their team around him. This was a month or so ago. The other day he said that Messi is overrated and Phil Foden is better.

1 out of 2 isn't bad.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I might take 22 year old Foden over 35 year old Messi, maybe, but then, I'd fancy myself to be of more use than Pele, so it's all relative.

[Giggles]

Always amuses me how Offy somehow thanks an internet message board about a computer game full of 40-60 year olds is somehow not full of autists. Then again isn’t he king wigger on the board? So there’s definitely a large disorder in there somewhere too.

[randomlegend]

"King Wigger" :lol:

[Pepe]

I was in the work kitchen this morning, making coffee, and a colleague walked in. He's not much of a football fan (World Cup England games only) but knows that I 'follow the game'. He said to me, by way of making conversation: "They're saying this could be the last World Cup for some of the superstars, like Messi and Ronaldo." I had no idea what to say. What do you say to that? So I said: "Football heritage." He said "Too true, too true," and walked off.

Spent the next half hour gutted that I bottled dropping the h.

'Kylie Embopper, mate...'

[Waffdon]

Always amuses me how Offy somehow thanks an internet message board about a computer game full of 40-60 year olds is somehow not full of autists. Then again isn’t he king wigger on the board? So there’s definitely a large disorder in there somewhere too.

No shot that many folk are over 40 on here?!

I’ve got a feeling Morocco might do something here but that might be because I’m seeing Spain play 2 centre mids and a back 4 and I just don’t want it to work. They’d be far better served benching Busquets and playing Rodri in midfield but what do I know.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bono needs to stop trying to pass it out.

[Waffdon]

This commentator is absolutely tragic every time he’s on a game.

[John Arne]

The Five Live commentary team is fucking awful. Some bird talking about how "cool" the Spanish players are, whilst Pat Nevin sounds half-cut.

[Manc]

Spain looking bang average.

[Waffdon]

Their team in general just looks shite. Bang average defence and a quite tragic attack given the country in question. They need to focus their development away from centre mid. It’s like Scotland but with full backs in their case

[Don]

Two pointless sides. No extra-time please.

[CJay]

Ferran Torres strikes me as a very pointless player. Doesn't seem to be good at anything in particular.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/dec/06/roy-keane-became-hate-figure-in-brazil-world-cup-qatar-2022

Julio Gomes, take a bow lad.

[Manc]

Culture. :harold:

[Manc]

Both teams look completely cooked.

[Pepe]

Can we eliminate these two?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ferran Torres strikes me as a very pointless player. Doesn't seem to be good at anything in particular.

Good at running, and at boning the coach's daughter.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Simon tried to gift Morocco the win there.

This game has been awful thus far.

[Pepe]

Our only hope is lol penalties here.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I need about 24 more penalties to go in for one of my pre-tournament bets to come off, yesterday's shootout did not improve matters. Need an Afcon special.

[Don]

Spain have got them blowing, winner in ET incoming.

[Waffdon]

Morocco/Switzerland QF incoming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That summed this game up beautifully.

[Waffdon]

Amrabat has been incredible yet again

[7om]

Why cant any of these cunts just put their foot through the ball. Smack the thing.

[Giggles]

Is that Williams lad the same one who can’t get a game for Liverpool?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Morocco living dangerously at the end.

[Yevrah]

The fucking state of that.

[Manc]

Hopefully Spain bottle this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Surely Morocco know how to hit pens, with all the great AFCON shootouts there have been.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Brought on for that :harold:

[randomlegend]

Bringing players on just for penalties is one of the most egregious sins a manager can commit (goalkeepers not included).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

Shocking pen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who are these Spanish mugs being sent to take penalties? They look like they have the fear of God in them.

[Yevrah]

This is more like the Spain we know and love. :drool:

[Shindig]

It's been a tournament for shite spot kicks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why a CB there?

[Yevrah]

Who are these Spanish mugs being sent to take penalties? They look like they have the fear of God in them.

And once again bringing a player on to take a penalty proves to be a dogshit move.

[Baz]

Bono :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Soggy Biscuits :harold:

[Giggles]

They’re even worse penalties than last night. Horrendous.

[Jimmy Floyd]

THE BALL is telling hard in these shootouts.

[randomlegend]

These penalties from Spain have all been absolute dogshit.

[Adramelch]

I don't mind bringing a player on because they are good at penalties, but surely just bring them on earlier, so they get into the rhythm and you also get something from their fresh feet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hakimi :cool:

[Yevrah]

Hakimi you absolute legend!

[Jimmy Floyd]

Viva Marruecos.

Walid Regragui, what a coach.

[7om]

All these people tapping penalties deserve everything they get

[randomlegend]

Hakimi :cool: :D

[Danny]

Was that Saiss hobbling around at the end :D

[Giggles]

Fuck sake. How can Spanish players not be able to strike a ball. Cunts couldn’t even bring themselves to run up to the thing.

[7om]

Jesus Christ, Hakimi with ice in his veins.

[Boydy]

Spain :lol:

[Bernanke]

Hakimi. :cool:

[Manc]

Beautiful. Now let's dump out Ronaldo and his band of gypsies.

[Waffdon]

Spains penalties were awful but Bono was absolutely brilliant. Psyched them right out

[7om]

Spain 77% possession and 1 shot on target. Passing it around like fannies is all very lovely but at some point you’ve got to bloody shoot the thing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Scoring 0 in a shootout should be an automatic one-tournament ban. Busquests should have some medals taken away for his effort as well.

[Waffdon]

Ronaldo dropped :drool:

No Leao still though. Fuck me.

[Lofty]

Busquets smirking before missing his is a highlight.

[Danny]

Ronaldo :harold:

[Manc]

What is this 1000 penalties nonsense?

[Waffdon]

Ronaldo :harold:

I just noticed Neves and Cancelo were dropped too. Has there been a massive falling out or something?

[Bernanke]

1000 passes and 1 shot on goal. Incredible.

[Adramelch]

What is this 1000 penalties nonsense?

Luis Enrique stated that they've shot over 1000 penalties each in preparation for the knockouts or something along those lines.

[Yevrah]

Morocco won't have it in them to beat another team and then us, the Portuguese squad will now be a toxic hell hole (if you're gonna drop Ronaldo you really need to send him home at the same time), so I think if we beat France we'll make the final.

[randomlegend]

William Carvalho starting over a certified don like Palhinha is bewildering.

Also bit harsh of the cameraman to focus on that woman bawling her eyes out for like a full minute. Even tried to follow her when she sat down :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe the analytics people are saying that bottom corner is the statistically safest place to aim a penalty (as you can only miss it wide and not high).

If so, they should all be fired.

[randomlegend]

I think you're onto something with your ball analysis Jimmy (waaaayyyyyy). They looked scared to hit it.

[Waffdon]

Morocco won't have it in them to beat another team and then us, the Portuguese squad will now be a toxic hell hole (if you're gonna drop Ronaldo you really need to send him home at the same time), so I think if we beat France we'll make the final.

If you beat France you’re winning it all

[Pepe]

Our only hope is lol penalties here.

There we have it.

Are we still blaming THE BALL?

[Pepe]

I have always thought (and still maintain) that keepers who guess are always the worse at stopping penalties. You have to force the kicker to take risks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Switzerland will win the whole thing, with Infantino coming off the bench to net the winner.

[Giggles]

Would have been very doubtful Spain could have beaten England anyway, but Morocco haven’t a prayer which is the main disappointment for everyone else.

[Waffdon]

The only 2 teams they wouldn’t smash are Brazil and France and even then I think they beat the latter comfortably.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Ballad of Group E

Group E, Group E
It was all a waste of time,
All for nothing,
Group E.

Jimmy Floyd, 2022

[niko_cee]

Jinxes only work if you believe what you're saying lads.

[Giggles]

Waff is the only one sounds like he’s trying to jinx it. Either that or he’s a massive fanboy. I’d be leaning toward the latter.

[Shindig]

Switzerland will win the whole thing, with Infantino coming off the bench to net the winner.

"There he is, accepting the World Cup from our FIFA president, Gianni Infantino." <cut to Infantino clapping in the crowd>

[niko_cee]

Does make the winner of England/France firm favourite for the whole thing. With all the shite penalties I fully expect France to score 10 in a row to knock us out 10-9.

[Dave.]

Is anyone else really enjoying having the World Cup in the winter? I think I prefer having it now to having it in the summer.

[Yevrah]

I'd give us very little chance of beating Brazil in a World Cup Final, but I have a sneaking suspicion that won't go away that we might just do France.

[Waffdon]

Waff is the only one sounds like he’s trying to jinx it. Either that or he’s a massive fanboy. I’d be leaning toward the latter.

England have a very good team. They’ve finished Semi Finalists and Runners Up the last two tournament. I think France should and will win on Saturday because their team is just better and Mbappe just looks like he’s in that type of tournament mood where nobody can stop him.

Aside from that though, England have been the best team overall so far. Even if they do go back to their old ways and play defensive, it’s not exactly a bad ploy as they’re good at it. They have the 2nd best overall squad so I’m not sure why it’s such an outlandish thing to say they’ll win it all if they get past France.

Definitely not a fan boy though. I hope France score 12 and have Lewis crying about black people ruining his day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

England v Brazil in a World Cup final would just be comedy (Pele really needs to hang on for that or we have no chance), but England v Argentina would be fucking epic.

[Gray Fox]

Is that Williams lad the same one who can’t get a game for Liverpool?

If you mean Neco Williams then we sold him to Notts Forest for £17m this summer just gone. If it's Rhys then yes.

[Waffdon]

I think he means Nico Williams who was playing for Spain. So to answer, no, he plays for Bilbao

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjUDc4pWACEhvz_?format=jpg&name=large

Important of course that we keep politics out of this World Cup, and definitely no teams using symbolic flags that relate to unrelated political issues.

[Waffdon]

Class. Hope they win it all now

[Giggles]

What is it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is it?

Flag of Palestine (they also held it aloft after previous games).

[Giggles]

Arabs gonna arab.

[Lewis]

He's resting Ronaldo for the big games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Infantino spotted at 00:59.

[Offshore Toon]

If it means Ronaldo now has 'supersub' status it may be a very good thing for them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a finish.

Ronaldo is done.

[Manc]

21? He looks about 40.

[Waffdon]

FM legend. What a finish. Nothing better than a thundercunt at the near post

[Giggles]

Get Cronaldo on, that’s woeful.

[Pepe]

Now I want Portugal to win the cup with Ronaldo sitting for the rest of the tournament.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why did Tyldesley just refer to him as "this boy", he's 21 ffs.

[Kikó]

Clive's about 65.

[Manc]

Zonal marking should have been buried with Rafa Benitez.

[Waffdon]

Pepe :cool:

What a don.

[Boydy]

Commentator said Pepe's 10th major tournament with his country. Is that just World Cups and Euros or are they counting something else as well?

[Shindig]

Probably adding Olympics to it.

[SvN]

Commentator said Pepe's 10th major tournament with his country. Is that just World Cups and Euros or are they counting something else as well?

I wondered the same. I reckon it includes the Nation's League and Confederations Cup.

[Adramelch]

Has to be including something else for sure. There's only been 4 of each since he started playing for Portugal.

[Don]

Embolo would have about 3 ballon d'ors if he'd opted to enter EPL's brexitball instead of pissing about in Europe (see Drogba). Man has thrown Guerreiro and Dias about like a ragdoll.

[Adramelch]

That was some pass by Fernandes there.

[Giggles]

They could hardly count the nations league, would be some stretch. Unless they just mean the last 4 bit.

[phonics]

Switzerland love to achieve their exact expectations. Nothing more, nothing less.

[niko_cee]

Switzerland look terrible, but hopefully they can nick a goal and make a game of it.

[Gray Fox]

Portuguese lad there taking a long shot on despite Jimmy having proven that strike impossible.

[CJay]

Is that Williams lad the same one who can’t get a game for Liverpool?

:lol:

[Shindig]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/0177b7e8bf025dcbd08ad50b98f736e3/d1d0045d87bba6f8-58/s500x750/68a4000caba0f70b0f553cdf5c758b2f9fccb9ca.gifv

"Neco Williams? Nico Williams?"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

RIP Ronaldo.

[Manc]

Clive laying it on a bit thick.

[Lewis]

He looks like the third Giggs brother, accidentally conceived fifteen years later.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a lovely goal.

[Adramelch]

Lol Switzerland and all, but Portugal are playing some really good stuff here.

[Waffdon]

No more Ronaldo this World Cup then :lol:

[niko_cee]

Isn't the more likely explanation of the Ronaldo business that, in knock-out football, you'd probably want Ronaldo on at the end of it all if he has to be, and there's no way that will happen if he starts? That and the fact that his absence massively improves their team.

[Manc]

Between chanting for the rapist and the slow clap, I'd quite happily see Portugal fired into the sun.

[Shindig]

Shaqiri just sent that one back to Europe.

[Yevrah]

Ok, forget what I said about us getting to the final if we beat France, this Portugal team is a proper side.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"The Boy" isn't too shabby.

[niko_cee]

What's the deal with the Swiss defence? Have they ever met before? Or, you know, played football as a defender?

[Waffdon]

That’s another sexual finish

[Waffdon]

What's the deal with the Swiss defence? Have they ever met before? Or, you know, played football as a defender?

Sometimes teams are just out of their depth.

[phonics]

Morocco and Portugal going through means the streets of Geneva will be set ablaze with car horns for the next 8 hours.

[Shindig]

That's a mad reaction to Ronaldo coming on.

[igor_balis]

That's a mad reaction to Ronaldo coming on.

Deranged

[Waffdon]

Fucking hell, Stone Cold couldn’t even get that pop

[Lewis]

Morocco and Portugal going through means the streets of Geneva will be set ablaze with car horns for the next 8 hours.

It also means I'm the only person whose semi-final predictions can still happen. :cool:

[niko_cee]

I take issue with the idea that most of the 'true legends' of the game have won the world cup, particularly when watching Portugal. Puskas, Di Stefano, Any of that Mardid side, Eusebio, Best, Cruyff, Platini, Roger Miller, David Beckham . . .

[randomlegend]

I take issue with the idea that most of the 'true legends' of the game have won the world cup, particularly when watching Portugal. Puskas, Di Stefano, Any of that Mardid side, Eusebio, Best, Cruyff, Platini, Roger Miller, David Beckham . . .

Did Yevrah win it on the TTH FM23 save? That's the real test.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Leao is too good to be on the bench.

[Shindig]

I'd like to see these chancers try that against Iran.

[Gray Fox]

Did Yevrah win it on the TTH FM23 save? That's the real test.

In 2038, yes he did.

[niko_cee]

What is the 'keeper up to there?

So, Portugal v Argentina final, the final boss battle for all football, who's side are you on? Think I'd probably go Ronaldo. Not sure I ever imagined that would be the case.

[7om]

Ronaldo needed a humbling at some point. His body language and attitude towards his teammates, particularly over the last few years, has been shite.

[Gray Fox]

Team Messi here. Ronaldo is a complete cunt and everything about him is insufferable. However on the other side, the media coverage of Messi is insufferable however the guy himself is much less offensive.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Would Ronaldo be happy if they won the World Cup knowing he had done fuck all in the knockouts?

Could eat him up.

[Adramelch]

Ronaldo needed a humbling at some point. His body language and attitude towards his teammates, particularly over the last few years, has been shite.

I've seen a couple of clips that led me to believe otherwise when it comes to the national team. For club football it has been like that for like almost a decade though.

[niko_cee]

Would Ronaldo be happy if they won the World Cup knowing he had done fuck all in the knockouts?

Could eat him up.

He'll be on the touchline directing traffic in the same way as the Euros, he won't give a fuck. It'll still be him lifting the trophy [I would guess].

[Baz]

Need a shipping update on wullie's shirt.

[SincereTheRebel]

He'll be on the touchline directing traffic in the same way as the Euros, he won't give a fuck. It'll still be him lifting the trophy [I would guess].

Full Kit Wanker

[Lewis]

Team Messi here. Ronaldo is a complete cunt and everything about him is insufferable. However on the other side, the media coverage of Messi is insufferable however the guy himself is much less offensive.

My mother knows a woman who runs a dog rescue centre, and - this is genuinely what this woman claims - apparently it's an open secret in the dog welfare world that Messi once had his dogs taken off him for pouring boiling water on them. Something to consider.