Whatever about trying to win a free kick, you’d wonder how embarrassed they must actually be when they pretend to be injured for so long like Mbappe did there.
His every touch of the ball brings a tremble to my nethers
I like him a healthy amount and think his career is worth a World Cup win
I like him but sod Argentina winning
He's great, obviously, but I don't care if he succeeds or fails
He's great, obviously, but pundits need to settle down
I'm a racist and that's why I hate him
I'm an idiot and will argue he's actually not all that good
Whatever about trying to win a free kick, you’d wonder how embarrassed they must actually be when they pretend to be injured for so long like Mbappe did there.
The slaphead who just nailed Mbappe has been the Player of the Tournament, but he can't win it because they had it engraved a month ago.
You're clearly watching a different match.Originally Posted by Giggles
Yet here we are.
I was drafting a team of the tournament just now and you could get five or six Moroccans in if you wanted. Amrabat and Ounahi surely lock out the midfield.
‘Making the most of that again’ Danny Murphy says as the Moroccan stamps on him.
Mbappé's general demeanour reminds me of that scene where Nigel Tufnel complains about the bread being too small.
Griezmann is fucking everywhere
Hamdallah needed to hit that, wanted far too many touches.
Job done.
He's been their best player in this tournament, not baps.
Macron can do one.
Balls.
This one is lucky of course. If it had been last night we’d still be wiping media jizz out of our eyes.
Seems odd to say this given he's a good chance of winning back to back World Cups, but Deschamps is basically the French Southgate, isn't he?
Mbappe's footwork there created that. Outrageous.
Southgate if his balls had dropped.
Let's have a red card or something to spice up the rioting across France later.
Pretty much. Done well with subs here at least though. They definitely win in spite of him.
Kounde has looked out his depth at right back throughout this tournament
Good good, proper final on Sunday. Morocco are decent, but basically an African/Arabic Croatia and only get so much praise as they performed well above expectations.
I would say they gave France a better run than we did mind.
That 3rd place play off will be one for the ages
Lots of Messi tears in the final now please.
Me on Sunday:
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I don't mind who wins. It's historic either way.
Can't work out if Drogba saying that Griezmann 'looks like Kanté' is just questionable English, or a bullet header into the top corner.
Bald Drogba makes me feel uneasy.
I'm a twit
Is this because you remember him as a player or something?
More because France seem to be asleep for most of their games and individual quality seems to win through for them. Although I suppose with that talent at his disposal he's probably doing enough if he's keeping them all happy.
I look at his CV and it does feel like a binman's legacy. He pissed the board off at Juve but seems good enough to land a couple of Ligue 1 titles. This French job is the one for him, it seems. Much like how Southgate has stumbled his way into Greatest living England Manager status.
By rights he should have been sacked and exiled after Euro 2016, so let's not push that comparison or we'll never be rid of Southgate.
I posted it before, but there is a good counter-factual where his Monaco win the 2004 Champions' League, he gets the Chelsea job, and Mourinho has some proto-Unai Emery career trajectory without Premierships getting him the Inter job.
Nah, he'll still leave after 2024 to focus on life with his .... I presume he has a wife and kids. Or a punditry career.
His Monaco were utter dogshit (as they showed in the final) and Chelsea's first leg display to lose 3-1 to them was an utter disgrace. The tinkerman, having donned Wenger in the quarter-finals, first of all brought on a past it Veron at half time, then decided that 1-1 away against ten men (Zikos red card) was a good result and brought on Robert Huth to protect it for the last 20.
Probably the last farcical result of the Ken Bates shambles Chelsea era before Abramovich Proper kicked in over the 2004 summer.
Mbappe's move for the second goal was better than Messi's yesterday.
I think the final might be good. Hopefully for France that Upamecano lad is still out.
Surely who wins it will be decided by who of Messi and Mbappe scores more and/or lifts the trophy in the final, right? Or will Messi get it no matter what>
Speaking of, I still think that Cannavaro winning it over Zidane was criminal.
Mbappe possibly has the star power to win but they'll be keen to give it to Messi like they did in 2018 when Messi wasn't even Argentina's best player in the tournament.
It was, but in the end he just got lucky with the deflection.
Last time 'FIFA World Cup' tweeted that Modric was the winner at 6.23pm on the day of the final. I'm hoping this means it still gets announced before the final (as was notoriously the case with Ollie Kahn in 2002) and that Messi is therefore a certainty.
Deschamps is clearly Southgate's model - ie negative pragmatism over anything else - Didier just has way better attacking resources to make a difference/has actually picked said players consistently [in fairness France have been quite attacking with their selections at least in this tournament which is probably why they look like they have stolen their way through every round].
This has to rate as one of the all time bad managerial calls. Chelsea went from being a man-up to looking like they were playing with 9.
France have got through because they are solidly set up and Griezmann and Mbappé are brilliant. Same with Argentina/Messi.
England have the solidly set up bit but we don't have a player of that elevated quality to make things happen. Just an array of really good players. Which is why we should ditch the solid and go all out attack.
All Messi NARRATIVE-based conspiracy lols aside, why would FIFA allow Argentina to hand-pick their referees, and what exactly are the Argies looking for in a referee other than cowardice?
Poland in the World Cup final
No one cares man, no bald plumber is gonna stop those twats from getting raped.
It's finally happening, white midget and all.
Wait until we find out that THE BALL was designed to Argentinian specs to ensure that Messi would be able to score all of the goals.
:d
Seven European refs in a row (including two instances of the same one returning) is basically impossible via the usual rules for appointments. I think in all likelihood their FA have some desperate clingy fucks who have a back channel into Collina or the committee around him and make it clear that they will only accept 'top' refs for Argentina matches. Collina/FIFA's choice is therefore either to accept this, or knowingly piss off the Argentine FA, and they've gone for appeasement.
Can't imagine a European nation bothering in the same way.
Bear in mind that the context for this is the very real threat (if not racing certainty) that CONMEBOL are going to marry up with UEFA and play in the Nations League from the next edition, which would be a huge blow to FIFA in the ongoing turf war for football's billions.
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