Brazil - Croatia just about to kick off.
Acestream for any interested.... 3dd69997a3465c5ae565d5c51c11b5a36f47a700
Why do Brazil always pick weird captains? Thiago Silva, Fernandinho, Marcelo and Paulinho all on the pitch.. the captain... Gabriel Jesus :/
Americans really are terrible at commentating.
What the fuck is that tackle? Doing it in a friendly is atrocious.
How is Corluka still playing? Makes Razor Ruddock look mobile.
If this was a competitive match there'd have been a player sent off for each team. Mental.
Fernandinho's high foot was mad, too.
Not bad from Neymar there.
Absolutely spanked that, eh.
Neymar's hair really is horrendous.
I’m about to watch my first England game since the Euros. Do they still have that shit England Band? I hope not.
Slightly surprised and disappointed Southgate hasn’t tried Vardy and Kane together before the World Cup but I guess I’m biased.
Why are they at the cesspit Elland Road?
That's fucking brilliant from Rashford.
He can strike the ball so well.
From the right-hand side as well. If he (and this goes for Anthony Martial) had any brains he would be learning to cross and re-inventing himself as a right-sided forward.
Did Jordan Henderson just hit a spacker with the ball?
He is a spacker with a ball.
All Leeds aren't we.
Is it in Leeds? In that case he'll have struggled to miss them.
They're still piss poor aren't they?
All the England players seem to have gone two sizes up in the shorts.
I'm a twit
If the aim was to hit the goalkeeper that’s a great shot.
Welbeck should be nowhere near the England squad.
Isn’t he our (recent) top scorer or something?
That’s league 1 football there.
Ian Smith from Costa Rica? Not having it.
Also, just then when some Costa Rican bunted the ball in the air backwards from the halfway line (towards the goal), a defender flicked it with his head and the 'keeper picked it up - I'm fairly sure that's not allowed within the backpass rule.
Welbeck is dreadful, but this isn't his meta. Jinx.
Yeah that’s passed me by if not.
You can, but not if it is played to you (ie the headerer of the ball) by your own player - so a defender can't flick it up to another player on his own team to head back the 'keeper. I may be wrong, but I'm sure I looked into it a while ago and that was the case. I guess it's one of those 'intention' things, but it's never enforced on the odd occasions it does happen.
In that instance just then, I assume the Costa Rican was tying to pass it back to the 'keeper (as why else was he lofting it back towards him) and the fact that another player of the same team then touches it with his head doesn't (or shouldn't') break that chain as far as the backpass rule is concerned. I'm probably way out though, Jimmy's usually good for a fifa powerpont link.
Sounds plausible enough anyway.
Wiki disagrees, but then has this cracker:
So if you flick it up, and head it towards the 'keeper it's a foul regardless of whether he picks it up or not? Imagine being the one to find that out in a competitive fixture.If a player uses such a trick, they are cautioned for unsporting behaviour, and the opponents are awarded an indirect free kick from where the trick was performed. It is irrelevant as to whether the goalkeeper subsequently handles the ball or not.
What a fucking stupid rule.
They should really just get rid of all deliberate backpasses, including headers.
I meant to the keeper. I'm not trying to put Jordan Henderson in the dole queue.
Hey man, 'Hendo' is a master of the lateral pass.
Am I alone in thinking Navas massively spacked up for that Rashford goal? The curse of being bit of a midget, I guess.
He was in a poor position, probably because he wasn't expecting Rashford to hit it.
Concussion.
Anyone been unfortunate enough to encounter 'Ra-ra-rasputin, England's got a goal machine, he's Harry Kane and he's gonna score' ?
I feel like it might be time for Andrew 'Andrew' Flintoff to be given a quiet word about his media career.
Should have just repurposed ‘he’s one of our own’ really.
Arsenal had an Arshavin song to that tune I'm sure. A crap one.
Some Saudi bloke has just hit one of the worst penalties ever against Germany. If this game mattered he'd definitely lose at least a hand for it.
Everyone on the park in that Germany game looked shit scared to hit a shot.
Billy Gilmour, formerly of Rangers now at Chelsea, has just won 'Young player of the tournament' at the Toulon. What's that about? They're all young, it's an U21 tournament.
As an aside, forty minute halves can fuck right off in that. Utter nonsense.