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    [World Cup 2018] Semi Finals

    France v Belgium (Tues, BBC, 19:00)
    Croatia v England (Weds, ITV, 19:00)


    It's coming home etc etc.
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    I'm not sure what will happen in the games tbh.

    France and Belgium should both go for the jugular and it could be a mental game.

    Croatia on paper are stronger than England but two penalty wins will take something out of them. Plus England look deadly with set pieces.

    Should be a fun set of games.

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    Croatia have to be on their last lags after the last few games. I think if England play with a bit of confidence, they could probably put the game to bed early and find Croatia with nothing left. It won't happen though.

    I can't call France Belgium. I think France should be the favourites but they are the French.

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    Croatia don't look anything special but I suppose Modric is bound to hoof one past us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    England are statistically likely to win a world cup in our lifetime and there's nothing anyone's relentless pessimism can do to stop it.


    I'm marking this up as a HUGE e-victory whatever happens next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    I'm not sure what will happen in the games tbh.

    France and Belgium should both go for the jugular and it could be a mental game.

    Croatia on paper are stronger than England but two penalty wins will take something out of them. Plus England look deadly with set pieces.

    Should be a fun set of games.
    Are croatia stronger on paper? I know very little about football outside my little bubble these days so it's a serious question.

    From what I've seen in the tournament we both have one standout player, they have a far better midfield but we seem better everywhere else.

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    France I think will just edge Belgium, hopefully a really hard fought game that goes the distance.

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    I don't think Croatia are stronger on paper. Modric and Rakitic give them some creativity in the midfield but, aside from that, it's a target like Mandzukic providing the threat. In contrast, our creativity is in the width with Sterling bringing play up the pitch. It's not like for like.

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    Perisic pisses over any English wide player. Croatia dominate the midfield in all areas and that’s about it. Both keepers and right backs are about par.

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    If the game isn’t settled in the first 70 minutes Rashford and Vardy have got to come on.

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    It will be interesting to see how ape shit the country goes if we win on Wednesday. And I actually mean interesting. None of us have ever seen England in a World Cup final, so whilst people will be buzzing Wednesday night you would expect the place to come to a standstill on Sunday, like a royal funeral/wedding double-header.

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    It's got me interested in viewing figures in a weird way. 32m watched '66.

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    Belgium and England final boys.

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    It doesn’t get more Brexit than that.

    We should throw out the referendum result and decide if we leave or not based on the game. Jamie Vardy would have to start then, he’s the most Brexit cunt in football.

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    That be nice but I'd settle for a bonus bank holiday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    It will be interesting to see how ape shit the country goes if we win on Wednesday. And I actually mean interesting. None of us have ever seen England in a World Cup final, so whilst people will be buzzing Wednesday night you would expect the place to come to a standstill on Sunday, like a royal funeral/wedding double-header.
    One thing's for sure, this sort of fuckwittery will be off the scale.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44756829

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    The weather does it to people as much as the football. I was in London on the May bank holiday Sunday (the one when the weather was like this) and it felt genuinely dangerous with the amount people had drunk and how many of them there were. I'd never seen the city like that before and if you add the World Cup final to it I would fear there will be deaths.

    I went past the big McDonald's in Wandsworth and there were a dozen security guards at the door just to keep a braying mob of around 50 people out.

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    I mean, it's all on the idiots involved themselves, but no way does good weather create an environment where these twats run wild as much as England doing well.

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    Wouldn't happen under cloudy/pissing with rain skies.

    London riots were in a similar period of weather, weren't they? It does things to people.
    Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 08-07-2018 at 09:56 PM.

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    Belgo razed to the ground by angry mob!

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    If they take out every branch of Paul in the event of a win over France then I'm fully behind it.

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    Kiko would be devastated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Wouldn't happen under cloudy/pissing with rain skies.

    London riots were in a similar period of weather, weren't they? It does things to people.
    Every violent shithole country is a hot one as well. Jimmy’s on to something here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Kiko would be devastated.
    Fuck off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Fuck off.
    It's alright mate let it all out

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    I think Croatia-England will go to extra-time and be a nervy game.

    Haven't actually seen France but I can't see Belgium not scoring after what they did to Brazil.

    Jim's right about the weather. At least the temperature has dropped a few degrees.

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    England players are saying the'yre going to dye their hair blonde if they get to the final.

    This is where the train falls off the tracks.

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    why on Earth would they do that? Mexico did that and failed miserably.

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    Phonics posted it, so it probably comes from Twitter, so it probably isn't true.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    Phonics posted it, so it probably comes from Twitter, so it probably isn't true.
    Kieran Trippier has promised to “go blond” if England reach the World Cup final.
    England are in the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1990, and face Croatia for a place in the final on July 15.
    Trippier has been in inspired form in Russia, proving one of the team’s best creative outlets.
    He has promised to “pull out the hair dye” if England go one step further and book a place in the final against either Belgium or France.
    “If we get to the final I’m going to pull out the hair dye,” he told England’s Lions’ Den YouTube show. “I will. I’ll go blond.
    “I’m absolutely buzzing. The way we’ve worked to get here and the players who are not here but are involved they need a mention because they work so hard as well.
    “We’ve been working so hard before the tournament on formations and there’s the expectation as well. We just wanted to make our own history and keep doing well.
    “We know what we can do as a team and the ability that we’ve got, the youth, the pace in our side, it’s frightening.
    “We need to just worry about ourselves and nobody else and just keep performing like we have done.”

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    Yeah, go wild once the tournament's over, but not before please.

    I doubt Southgate will let them to be fair to him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Kieran Trippier has promised to “go blond” if England reach the World Cup final.
    England are in the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1990, and face Croatia for a place in the final on July 15.
    Trippier has been in inspired form in Russia, proving one of the team’s best creative outlets.
    He has promised to “pull out the hair dye” if England go one step further and book a place in the final against either Belgium or France.
    “If we get to the final I’m going to pull out the hair dye,” he told England’s Lions’ Den YouTube show. “I will. I’ll go blond.
    “I’m absolutely buzzing. The way we’ve worked to get here and the players who are not here but are involved they need a mention because they work so hard as well.
    “We’ve been working so hard before the tournament on formations and there’s the expectation as well. We just wanted to make our own history and keep doing well.
    “We know what we can do as a team and the ability that we’ve got, the youth, the pace in our side, it’s frightening.
    “We need to just worry about ourselves and nobody else and just keep performing like we have done.”
    So, one player then.

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    Trippier has a harcut that looks like it was a terrble accident anyway so no shock that he would consider something like this.

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    As long as they wheel out the dentist's chair celebration to go with it everything should be fine.

    Speaking of which, why can't we have Gazza up in the smart seats giving people the finger and generally being a total embarrassment? Maybe we should send him to sit next to Vlad if we get to the final.

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    Damn it is kinda wild how endearing Maradona's antics are but how oppositely they'd be viewed if it were literally just about anyone else.

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    If you’re good enough in your respective field you can get away with literally anything.

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    We're assuming it's an England v France/Belgium final unless Lucas Modric and co fucks up the status quo?

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    Anybody assuming England will make the final want repeatedly kicking in the genitalia.

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    They do, but at the same time, in all the cooing about Modric we seem to have lost sight of the fact that it's fucking Croatia.

    Referee: Cuneyt Cakir

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    England still have enough of a name that a team like Croatia will shit it.



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    Last edited by Giggles; 09-07-2018 at 06:33 PM.

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    Oh don't get me wrong, Croatia have done nothing special but it's also fucking England. We've played this game before.

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    Phil Neville will find a way to ruin it. Again.

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    G.Neville: We blame it on VAR if we fuck it up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Croatia have done nothing special
    Tbf their dismantling of Argentina was

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    It was entertaining but let's not forget that beating Argentina turned out to not be any good.

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    Aye, that's probably true. Carry on fellas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    As long as they wheel out the dentist's chair celebration to go with it everything should be fine.

    Speaking of which, why can't we have Gazza up in the smart seats giving people the finger and generally being a total embarrassment? Maybe we should send him to sit next to Vlad if we get to the final.
    Genuinely surprised (and glad, of course) that Gazza is still with us.

    Probably the only Everton player I've ever liked, and that includes Barmby.
    I'm a twit

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    I have no recollection of him playing for Everton. Was that before or after Scotland?

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    After.

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    Yep. Then he went to Middlesbrough.

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