FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

[H T B]

Well played Tunisia

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Fabulous comedy moment from Australia.

Bunch of donkey league players trying to do the play-out-from-the-back-as-if-we're-world-class thing & ending up looking stupid. I wish teams would stop with this shit. Despite the obvious entertainment value when you don't have any attachment to the team in question it's getting ****ing irritating.

 

[fitz]

Fabulous comedy moment from Australia.

Bunch of donkey league players trying to do the play-out-from-the-back-as-if-we're-world-class thing & ending up looking stupid. I wish teams would stop with this shit. Despite the obvious entertainment value when you don't have any attachment to the team in question it's getting ****ing irritating.

Not seen this instance.... But totally agree with playing out from the back shit. Are there stats available for goals conceded from pissing about at the back vs goals scored from starting with pissing about at the back?

 

[parafox]

The tedious conversation about Ronaldo cuts about 15 seconds into their coverage of the second half. When will they shut up about him?

 

[Elon Bust]

This is what happens when you use sport to make cultural/social/political statements.

I've argued this point several times. From the poppy to the prostate, football is drowning in point making. Every week brings us a new lapel badge for the managers to wear. It's all ****ing annoying to me.

Footballers are entitled to say whatever they want to about issues but keep it away from the matches themselves. Football should be a game, an escape from the wankery of the world.

By entering the qualification and going to the tournament, England have bought into the thing. Pretending to be virtuous whilst doing it is pathetic. Just play your ****ing tedious matches and come home.

This is completely correct but it's the result of something that's happened over about the last ten years: the politicisation of everything and the expectation that every corporation, public body or sports team should make strong political statements on a regular basis to clarify that it's on the right side.

We now live in a country where your bank lets you know which side it supports in a war in Europe, as if we would have thought it supported Russia had it not made its position clear.

I would love it if football could become more about football and less about point-making but I can't see how this can be unravelled. The dominant narrative on certain political issues is that 'silence is violence' and therefore being apolitical is just as much of a sin as overtly being on the wrong side.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

The tedious conversation about Ronaldo cuts about 15 seconds into their coverage of the second half. When will they shut up about him?

Thats nothing. Wait til he comes back & turns Man U into title contenders.

It'll be any day now...

 

[parafox]

That's absolutely brilliant

 

[H T B]

Well played Japan, great stuff

 

[popillius]

****ing brilliant.

 

[homer]

Well Belgium look total shite

Pen to Canada

 

[homer]

FFS hopeless twat

 

[popillius]

Well Belgium look total shite

Pen to Canada

There's more pace at a pensioner's sitting down party than there is in that Belgium defence. It's like three Vestergaards back there.

 

[parafox]

Why didn't De Bruyne pass it to tielemans in acres of space? If he's off it then Belgium are hopeless.

 

[homer]

They are ****ing wank, including Tielemans

 

[Blaarev]

Booom

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Whole team is having to play 20 yards deeper to cover the ****ing zombies at CB.
Too old & too slow for this level. If Martinez can't see that then he's exactly the **** all of a manager I've always thought he was. The better teams will destroy them if he doesn't change it (which he won't)

 

[tedfoxxx]

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****ing brilliant.

‘I’ll be disguised though won’t I?’


‘Yeah but as a terrorist!’

 

[popillius]

‘I’ll be disguised though won’t I?’


‘Yeah but as a terrorist!’

One of my favourite scenes in any film.

'I disguised my voice though, innit.'
'I've got the IRA voice'

 

[H T B]

The football has been very entertaining so far

 

[homer]

The football has been very entertaining so far

You jinxed it, 'cos that last game was a pile of shite