Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

we might as well have a thread

let the shitposting begin

i will feel bad when i watch any of this, but i know i'll watch some of it

the people must know who is ready

My younger son is heavily into football and I probably won't be able to avoid it entirely, though I'll try my best.

tfw you're looking for some value in the margin betting on number of players to collapse and die of heat exhaustion during the 1 pm KO's

Really feels like Brazil's time again even if they're maybe overrated. As ever tho particularly interested to see how Mexico and Spain fuck it up.

Mexico could presumably continue to flog a grossly unfit Jimenez for starters

i will feel bad when i watch any of this, but i know i'll watch some of it

OTM. It's inevitable.

the laughs keep coming tho

🚨 Beer is out at the World Cup.

After all that (alcoholic) beer will now not be sold inside the perimeter at all eight of Qatar’s World Cup stadiums.

Big about-face means FIFA now faces contractual nightmare with Budweiser.

— tariq panja (@tariqpanja) November 18, 2022

damn how will fans cope without garbage beer at $9 a cup

Brazil and Argentina seem most likely to meet before the final but either way it's high time they met again in a WC.

I'd rather not see Neymar anywhere near a World Cup final.

i concur about the beer but it's going to outrage the kind of people who will get outraged by this and not mass slave labour deaths

I was watching a thing about this on Prime Time (RTÉ) last night. I’ll post a video if it gets uploaded. Anyway they interviewed several migrants who lived there - an Uzbek fella and a Kenyan, both got a good bit of time to talk. The item also mentioned the almost seven thousand people who died building the stadiums and the labour camps. Between the fact that beer cost €20 and the mid morning temperature reaching 35C it seemed bad for the poppy lovers. They should never have had this there. No sympathy for anyone going.

no sympathy for anybody going is definitely my take

i concur about the beer but it's going to outrage the kind of people who will get outraged by this and not mass slave labour deaths

― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague)

If ive learned anything from andor (slum village) it’s what we all fight for our own reasons

The Football Supporters Association have released a statement following the decision to prevent beer sales at World Cup stadiums.

Those in corporate areas of stadiums at the tournament will still be able to purchase alcohol.

📲 Get involved using #BBCFootball#BBCWorldCup

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) November 18, 2022

No beer make homer go crazy

i will feel bad when i watch any of this, but i know i'll watch some of it

― Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Replace any for 'most' and that's me.

Sad that Mane is out. I can see Qatar getting out of the group (to face England..). And if not Senegal, hard to see any African team progressing without a major upset.

No real big games in the first week but a few intriguing ones based on novelty (e.g. will Canada just collapse against Belgium or be hard to break down?). Mexico v Poland could be fun if Bobby L turns up.

pic.twitter.com/96n8pL4Ney

— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) November 18, 2022

i had hopes for Senegal but Mane is such a big loss

https://www.grubstreet.com/2022/11/world-cup-2022-bars-nyc.html

flashbacks of 2002, waking up at 3am to watch Rivaldo shine...
(agree about the absolute travesty it would be to see Neymar gloat and win this world cup, this imbecil, but... I'm watching it anyway 😢 )

Charlton's one player at the tournament was Ghana's first choice keeper, unfortunately as we can't have nice things he broke his finger warming up for our last game before he was to leave

Four Celtic players there but, curiously. Maeda is going but not Furuhashi or Hatate, both of whom are much better players. Especially Hatate.

dick so good he got me watching FOOTBALL😩

— tyler (@tyler02020202) November 18, 2022

not feeling this world cup but still will prob watch more than the last one which I checked out of almost entirely.
gutted for sadio mane and christopher nkunku. most excited about musiala who has been extraordinary for Bayern( even if it's choupo moting that has made the team click)

This World Cup is certainly shaping up to be a bad one for fair-skinned gay alcoholics.

— Jonathan O'Brien (@obrien_jonathan) November 18, 2022

Dunphy really good on Qatar and the game’s general attitude to gay players and supporters

‘People should be respected for what they are as human beings, not what they do in their private lives’ - Eamon Dunphy outlines Qatar’s attitude towards homosexuality on @RTELateLateShow ahead of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/vXseEhLLZG

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 18, 2022

For those of you wondering which thread to follow, this is the one I'll be posting to

*removes bookmark *

SORRY IT WAS TOO EASY

“Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker.”

today I feel like a cantaloupe beetle, gorging on dung.

Don't worry imago I'll monitor both.

Lmao Tracer

truly the world cup brings us all together

No I’m glad you’re also posting itt

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

this is an ILF thread isn't it? yeah thought so

anyway I'll be back on the real ILF before too long as for some of us, domestic football isn't going away. port vale this afternoon, world cup shmorld cup *snorting emoji*

I was told you wouldn't post here anymore, but ok go off.

sports threads plus the occasional irresistible swipe, it's a deal we can all be proud of

I know he posted on some loser thread by 'mistake' a day after poster imago promised he'd disappear from ILE for good. I'm just humouring you all xp

Stfu xyzzzz____ and watch the Dunphy clip

The clip this brane genius didn’t even post

‘People should be respected for what they are as human beings, not what they do in their private lives’ - Eamon Dunphy outlines Qatar’s attitude towards homosexuality on @RTELateLateShow ahead of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/vXseEhLLZG

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 18, 2022

i posted on ILE throughout an entire recent world cup in a sport gyac doesn't care about unless ireland beat england in it, WHICH HAPPENED, and she didn't even post ffs

Oh fuck this, I posted it itt a while ago, I’m on the way to the airport I’m clearly diverting everything to other functions bye

xp I was very nice to my better half in fairness (cos I don’t care). I will never enjoy cricket

That clip is cute.

Dunphy as pundit is basically you every time you decide to start a fight on here

I'd watch him.

Here’s a supercu(n)t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abj1UVNwbgY

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

also can a mod add OFFICIAL to this thread title?

Anybody not backing Brazil?

Prospect of France being the first champions to get out of the group for 20 years only to face Argentina again also v tantalising

if by "backing" you mean supporting then no, bunch of Bolsonaro-supporting cunts, hope they go out ASAP.

my preference is for the whole thing to be cancelled, however if someone has to win it, I'll be glad if it's England because

* If any world cup "doesn't count" it's this one, so bragging rights would be minimised
* we would never have to hear another new version of Three Lions
* If Rashford, Sancho and Saka can score the winning goals then it will piss off all the right people.

literally anyone but Brazil

hope they get 7-1'd again

Argentina is the romantic choice obv

I’m supporting nobody but I do hope the legendary Portugal-Netherlands card record gets broken - and I’m feeling it in the bad vibe of this tournament, lads.

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

I passed a Paddy Power ad today on the way into Dublin airport that said “At least Sterling spent more time at 10 than Truss.” I’m indifferent to the fortunes of the English national team but I can guess the discourse.

ah c'mon he was otm about FIFA

by that I mean players are generally better at not doing things that get them sent off, would guess that red card numbers this and last EPL season are down on the average

THAT SAID this last AFCON was an absolute red card bonanza, every time they went to VAR someone was sent off for some nonsense, so maybe, hopefully that'll be the case here too

in the VAR age it's harder to get away with anything so it would have to be just a total fuck-it brawl

xpp i was referring to cuntathon

oh sorry supercu(n)t, i wondered why cuntathon didn't work with parentheses :/

I got into baseball this year and in baseball any time there’s a brawl there’s an understanding that everyone has to run up and involve themselves. FIFA should make that a rule for this WC. Game needs a goalbrawl.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2017/05/ap_nationals_giants_baseball.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C3059px%2C1834px&resize=1000%2C600

too many cowards avoiding the pile-on

I suppose I should support Japan as there's so many Japanese players at Celtic these days, in reality I don't give a fuck who wins it - as long as it's not Brazil. A team with as few Premiership players as possible would be welcome though.

our Japanese international, Yuta, had a season-ending ankle injury just a couple of weeks back. Our only other international is the mighty Sorba Thomas in the Welsh squad, but he won't get a start or if he comes off the bench he'll likely be played in an unfamiliar position and not let near any set-pieces.

feels absolutely wide open this time, every team has big flaws and nobody is really putting forward a compelling case ahead of anyone else. France clearly the best squad but aside from the strong suspicion that they'll implode again their biggest problem is their central midfield being ripped out. my money is on Spain and Argentina with a small each way on Uruguay but like everyone else I feel like I could come up with better reasons why they won't win than why they will

Helpful Hint: Qatar is pronounced "cutter", like in the Echo and the Bunnymen song I could never figure out

— Rachel Dratch (@TheRealDratch) June 10, 2017

☝️🧵

Qatar-mess and the Kit /rejected thread titles

"if by "backing" you mean supporting then no, bunch of Bolsonaro-supporting cunts, hope they go out ASAP."

Lula won the election you know.

I'd much rather South America (Brazil or ARG) won it or an African team got in the semis-/final/won than fucking Europe again.

Also this might be the first of many winter world cups, given climate change.

Yes I know Lula won the election, thanks. I mean many of the more famous players on the team publicly support Bolsonaro, including Neymar who is apparently going to dedicate his first goal at the WC to him.

xp he means that most of the players supported Bolsonaro

Richarlison an honourable exception iirc

This thread seems to be going fine everyone just enjoying the camaraderie of a little sporting action “innit”, anyway when’s the real World Cup (women’s)

Players I want to have a bad WC:

Neymar
Ronaldo

Hi silby!

Seems like this would be a good event to do terrorism at is anyone taking bets

Or maybe someone will get renditioned by the CIA what a ludicrous display

just checked and Ramos wasn't picked for the squad, so ok for Spain to progress then.

Yes I know Lula won the election, thanks. I mean many of the more famous players on the team publicly support Bolsonaro, including Neymar who is apparently going to dedicate his first goal at the WC to him.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

I know you know this. My point is the people backing the team voted the other way.

the "dedicating my first goal to Bolsonaro" thing is the vital factor here, for me at least, if he could score 0 goals that would be ideal.

At least Eng aren't winning it.

including Neymar who is apparently going to dedicate his first goal at the WC to him.

This will be great if Bolsanaro dies in the next few days and then Neymar has to point solemnly at the ground after scoring

and then it's disallowed anyway

neymar can take off his pants in solidarity

This will be great if Bolsanaro dies in the next few days and then Neymar has to point solemnly at the ground after scoring

LOL remember this? They can maybe repeat it with a pair of Bolsonaro's underpants.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmwJtyzXgAAd7Ax.jpg

Jail Bolsonaro (I wish)

Brazil can win if Neymar chokes and has to be benched in disgrace and they win in some style without him

IMO I can be satisfied if the first time Neymar dives, the opposing team's coach picks him up and body slams him to the ground, earning a well-deserved tournament ban

congratulations NV on putting the 1975 song into my head MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY

happy to help 🙂

Easily one of the worst pictures I’ve ever seen, cunt quotient off the charts

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have just come together to take the best picture of 2022. pic.twitter.com/w5RoCsFYhI

— SPORTbible (@sportbible) November 19, 2022

I take that back about Argentina

would like neymar and messi to both have a great world cup and mario gotze to score the winning goal in the final.

lol

oh shit what are they planning

Tomorrow.

— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) November 19, 2022

Harry Kane execution

🤔🤔🤔

As a New Yorker, I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body. We are one New York​. pic.twitter.com/peOL9x2ltl

— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 29, 2017

wow Benzema's out

It is pretty funny that Qatar bribed their way into setting up the World Cup Fyre Festival https://t.co/WgXWQJJnhs

— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) November 20, 2022

always reassuring to see excavators are still at work when you arrive at your brand new shiny "fan village" , lol

wow, feel the vibes

you can recreate that unique Qatar experience by plonking a steel storage shed with a camp bed in the middle of a demolition site in Sheffield next time there is a heatwave

looking forward to the photo spreads of derelict stadium ruins 6-8 years from now

the “fan sites” are one step ahead of them obv

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b3ff1600598ef8a2e0a93702e822a71dacd9b4ce/0_466_7651_4591/master/7651.jpg?width=700&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none

always reassuring to arrive at the brand new shiny fan village and see that the electricians are still on site

Cheer Up

They obviously ran out of migrant workers to work to death to finish the place.

Qatar 12-1 to make the quarters

i'll pass

they might need some bigger envelopes

Can't wait.

The 8 stadiums at the Qatar World Cup will have gigantic air conditioners that will blast cold air across the stadium and onto the pitch to combat the desert temperatures.

👏 pic.twitter.com/NeheJzcGN3

— Football Away Days (@FBAwayDays) November 19, 2022

It's high 20s in Doha ie normal World Cup climate.

they might need some bigger envelopes

They won the Asia cup recently, they have home advantage, and a weak group including Senegal without Mane. I think the mighty envelopes could surprise a few

they'll love this afternoon and cancel the tournament in a strop

xp: they also have a lot of money to buy refs big houses

Yeah Qatar have a chance - and they could certainly beat Iran if the latter play as well as they have in the last two tournaments to squeeze through (again assuming England don't struggle like they did in 2010 but that's just as plausible really).

True! The mighty envelopes are adept at finding pockets which can give them an extra man going forward

Let the cringefest begin. pic.twitter.com/OONjIjti8e

— Juraj Vrdoljak (@JurajVrdoljak) November 19, 2022

I love it when they kick off before the countdown finishes.

Send im off!!

I'm watching this in a brewery taproom already pished obv

ok maybe Qatar are tanking after all then

Yes lads!

Please be 7-0

Oh fuck OFFFFFFF

qatar must’ve negotiated a first game victory

Here we go. Fuckin cunts

Lmao

they did find some bigger envelopes then

Finally some on-pitch controversy it's been a minute.

Perfect start to such a rotten tournament

That's corruption

That is absolutely corruption

offside trap from the flapping keeper played perfectly

nothing to see here lads, move on

good start for the keeper

wonder if we'll see even more penalties than in Russia hope not

Let's see this get overturned

Great start to the Penaltyball Cup

that felt good

"New strategy. Give Ecuador a penalty to show we're not corrupt. Then give Qatar everything"

Almost got the fabled ‘bad injury which could have been avoided if the assistant flagged’ there

Qatar will need to buy teams at this rate.

After the tournament PSG is repossessed by the French state

that's it kids, tournament's off

Nice header, Qatar are shite

Goal disallowed for heading, which is now illegal for the tournament

Has a real 'Isthmian League side somehow get to FA Cup Third Round and draw Man City' about it.

"okay they're shit, whatever"

first time Ecuador have scored 2 this year

No way this is finishing with 22 on the pitch.

Yeah they'll let Qatar have 13 men in the second half

enjoying this

All round envelope game has been surpisingly poor. Its all well and good finding pockets of space, but they really need someone that can connect the envelope into those pockets more effectively

Not watching this but I assumed the Qatar team would be full of imported African players with perhaps a Brazilian or two.

Can anyone point me to a stream to watch? sp0rtsµrg3 surprisingly doesn't have anything.

Sorry but Qatar being eliminated early in the tournament would be great

Don't be sorry you are correct. And it would be comedy too.

Wm try here: worldcup.soccerstreams.net

In all honesty I would suggest not bothering

NV, thanks!

Qatar 0:2 Ecuador

The Ecuador national team is leading in the match with Qatar at the World Cup.

Ecuadorian fans chant "Queremos cerveza", which means "We want beer" in Spanish. pic.twitter.com/DD929Y0bmd

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 20, 2022

Lol otm

Qatar so bad this couldn't even have been fixed. Clear downgrade on Korea 2002

top bantz from the Ecuadoreans

not as top as this tho

Eric dier doesn’t have to sit and watch himself attempt to play football for 90 minutes https://t.co/XYogA06BNR

— Bald Eagle 🦅 (@TrueBaldEagle) November 20, 2022

This is how the empire was built.

this is unreal😂😂 pic.twitter.com/dxObdexKMx

— Haz (@pubIad) November 20, 2022

nice

Scousers supporting England >:(

Wools surely

3 lions on a shirt, one on the lap

This is pathetic.

Breaking: England and Wales won’t wear One Love armbands

“we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play.” pic.twitter.com/6ySojM4Jas

— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) November 21, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiCADhpXgAMN5gF?format=jpg&name=large

Vladimir Vladimirovich's at the wheel

Big up that little fella at the back

Budweiser will give the winning country all the beer prepared for the #QatarWorldCup2022 worth of €75 million.

It is also expected that the company will sue FIFA for breach of contract - the sale of beer was banned a few days before the start of the championship. pic.twitter.com/x5uq1GhMIM

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 21, 2022

75 million euros worth, so that's one of those cases then?

imagine if the winning country had to pick up the shipping costs of 75 mill worth of Budweiser!

far as i know they're still allowed to sell the alcohol-free, so i'm getting strong "Duff spokesman when Springfield introduced prohibition" vibes from these lads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sLHXYQUpM

ooooooof

gonna be a long half...

ludicrous from the Iran coaching and medical staff

hey jude

Such an easy header. Excited to see what happens with Bellingham, he seems like such a talent but I don’t really keep up with German football anymore.

Fair play to England, haven't seen this kind of performance from them in an age

Sakaaaaaa!!!!

Raheem Sterling’s hairline gets further away from view every time I see him

That was a beaut, my Bad Raheem

Much better than I expected. Particularly delighted about which players are scoring (and assisting) these also.

I wonder what extent this occurring mid season means that in form players are still very much in form and replicating their club best

There is a good fluidity about the team, more direct when they need to be too. Iran's heads dropped early tho tbf

Doesn't help when you fuck up a clear chance like that tho

first time I've seen the clock tick over into the 59th minute during the 1st half

Wonder if Iran have also been demoralised even before kick-off given what's been happening.

That’s all very well for them but I’d like to see them demonstrate such dignified bravery in the face of a possible yellow card https://t.co/CyfRWsAnif

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) November 21, 2022

Belgium's away shirt had the word "LOVE" on it:

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2022/08/blog-post_677.html

It won't be there anymore.

I like that second kit and hope they wear it but the flames remain dreadful.

they're inspired by the Tomorrowland dance festival's fireworks apparently

well well

nah. 'well well' if they score two more

well well worked at least

RASH

GREALISH

6-1 and Maguire injured. Doesn't get much better.

GudVar time!

Excited for this VAR lottery at every set piece for the rest of the tournament

dive. but the shirt pulling gave him an excuse

(xp) Also for each game to last two hours.

Good save from Pickford just before the penalty. Could easily have been 8-3 the way the game went.

total of 26 minutes added time in that game

that's a lot...

imagine that in the turgid 0-0 I thought this had a real chance of being

Poor Cody Gakpo they got his name wrong on the official line-up graphics

go Senegal!

Really good game this

very open

2nd half a bit low energy. 0-0 all over this.

I fear the Dutch will steal this late on - just a feeling (not really sure what I want here as an Englander but will be interesting to see how both do vs Ecuador).

there it is

And so they have

Just saw an ad for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7zKV3D_N4

And now a commercial for some phone with El Pibe Valderrama. How did they know?

Don't know about Pirlo running around the sands of Qatar though.

USA v Wales predictions?

Already seeing some "Wales? is that a country? how dare they be here instead of Ukraine!" on Twitter

during the meeting between the Belgian football federation and fifa about the rainbow armbands Belgium's colonial history in the Congo was dragged into the discussion by a Senegalese fifa boss. Why are we still there?

US anthem truly the worst. Fuck "To Anacreon in Heaven"

Wales's is beautiful otoh

FIFA standing up bravely against all forms of love now.

FIFA have demanded that the Belgium team remove the word "love" from the collar of their away shirt, sources have told ESPN.

More: https://t.co/I1rMfeZQmS pic.twitter.com/cvBGFRjbSs

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) November 21, 2022

God

Just do a heart icon ffs lads

Predicting a draw here

fuck this thing

euro homophobes are fucking loving this btw

Fuck It, Fucking Assholes

Pretty cagey so far?

Wales are rubbish, they're lucky to be there tbh.

this is kinda how the US plays in general, rely more on athleticism than technicality, though they've gotten better at that in recent years.

I'm sure some of them are afraid to give up a goal and break Elon's Twitter

I’m pretty sure I read that Pulisic was a Trump guy so I’m cheering on Wales, unfortunately they are shite

USA all the way for me. It's a travesty Wales qualified ahead of Ukraine.

fuck this thing

― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 21 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

This is me, I'm the guy who's not doing revolution because the big game is on pic.twitter.com/7f8d7iEwhS

— Men's Rea (@InternetHippo) November 21, 2022

the USA chants are so fucking nauseating and Sorbz is on the bench so I'm cheering on Wales as well

Ooh well taken.

Yeah pretty good.

welp

yeeeeeeee hawwww

I hate how the VAR age of soccer has me eagerly waiting for the replay to see if the guy was onside before mentally counting the goal

That's George Weah's son btw..

When he was active, Weah was eligible to represent both the United States and Liberia.[1][11] He played in two friendlies for the United States under-20 side in 2004.[12][13] More than a decade later, he was called up by the Liberian senior side for a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Togo in June 2015, despite not having played for a club in nearly a year.[1] He was named to the bench as Liberia lost 2–1.[14]

let's see if Twitter crashes

weah is also an anti-vax dipshit but we can talk about that tomorrow

Yeah but at least he hasn't got a stupid Gareth Bale hairstyle.

bullshit booking there

Sorry wrong son.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Weah

its not so much bread and circuses as the fact that these events are literally a form of counterinsurgency xps

Ok

Christ, I'd totally forgotten Weah played for Celtic for a while.

Rob Page had a spell at Hudds (and somehow looked even balder back then) and the US manager had a trial period with us in the Brian Horton days.

ahh george weah's goal back in the day in serie a where he dribbled from the edge of his own box was a thing of beauty.

want usa to win this. was a lovely goal.

definitely the type that 2010-2014 US was incapable of.

That's an interesting point as I'd just been assuming this US side were still getting back to that level tbh.

they're definitely greener than those squads, which brings some disadvantages, but the way they create is much better. not really sold on Berhalter as the coach though

need to put in Gio Reyna, and Yedlin for Dest due to the Yellow

slowest counter attack ever right there. had 4x4.

Kind of hoping there's a penalty in this match so we can hear John Hartson trying and failing to pronounce "penalty".

holy shit

last 15 minutes has been all Wales

Aaronson in

Pulisic dead

of course right after he tied bale in knots

how did Aaronsson miss that

looking at 5 mins of stoppage due to all of the injury stoppages and subs, I would guess.

lol fucking awful defending

there's yer pen

The ref has been very quick to blow the whistle so I assumed it might have been soft, but nope totally brainless lunge. Great pen

hoo boy

yeah completely dumb of Zimmerman then.

I have never watched the USMNT win a WC match live, so perhaps the curse continues. will completely change complexion of the group if it stands.

6-7 minutes stoppage i think

I do not understand that sub but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

should have been a yelow there, tactical foul

NINE MINUTES

wHo wIlL bE the sToPpAge tImE hErO?

Sorba Thomas coming on, about fucking time

Good new directive to stop the game any time anyone sits down

^disrespectful to players w/ hemmorhoids

On the evidence of this game England don't have much to worry about.

fitting that the US match starting to now resemble American Football

USA much worse than I was led to believe

they were better in the first half

USA have played better overall, but seem to panic & slip up when Wales do anything unexpected, does not bode well for them when they face a decent team.

Over 10 minutes extra time now. Ludicrous.

one of the drawbacks of having such a young team, with only one player who has played in WC for the US. don't know how to close out matches.

sigh. I still haven't seen the USMNT win a World Cup match live (every tiime we've won I've missed it in years past). must be a curse.

Iran a must win now, and might come down to goal differential unless US can force a draw or better against England.

Qatar paid a lot of money for this tournament, good to see they've demanded value for it

Players have been warned to prepare for more stoppage time at the end of each half in the World Cup, including time to make up for long goal celebrations.

‘Celebrations might last one or one and a half minutes,’ said Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA referees committee. ‘It’s easy to lose three, four or five minutes, and this has to be compensated at the end.’

FIFA want to crack down on time-wasting and are also pledging to add time accurately when play stops for VAR interventions, the treatment of injuries, substitutions, penalties and red cards. It will lead to games regularly lasting more than 100 minutes.

I'm in favour of it

...or until Qatar equalizes

(xp) Aren't you a Man Utd fan?

Lol

Wales are still unbeaten in the group stage of the world cup. 1958 they drew 3, won 1 (then lost 1-0 to Brazil in the knockout stage)

Iran’s World Cup captain: “In the name of God, creator of rainbows… I want to say condolences to all the grieving families in Iran… we want them to know we are with them and by their side and share their pain.” pic.twitter.com/WOOqMqA9k7

— Caroline Darya Framke (@carolineframke) November 21, 2022

I'm in favour of it

― Number None, Monday, 21 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

This is not basketball, come on.

VAR really flung the doors open for referees and former referees to start making significant material changes to how football works. I don’t really care if it’s ‘correct’, it’s fucking boring. These people are the cops of the sport and their power should be curbed.

(xp) I think attempts making football more like an American sport have been going on for a long time.

Pierluigi Collina: what happened? #onethread

Roy Keane there, looking like a Jesuit who secretly ministers to Japanese Christians under the Tokugawa shogunate. pic.twitter.com/I0eEinD5sn

— Fergus Butler-Gallie (@_F_B_G_) November 21, 2022

if it was an american sport the clock would hit 90:00 (or more likely, 00:00) and a horn would blow and play would be dead, right there. extra time that only the ref can clearly perceive is as non-american as it gets imo.

football time is the clock of the heart

OMG at that picture of Roy Keane. I just used a variant of that joke in another context.

he looks like one of garrett dillahunt's deadwood characters

an unsettling number of Welsh football fans look like Gunther from Friends

Roy Keane has his say on the #onelovearmband debate...pic.twitter.com/wNtzaICIc5

— Pure Roy Keane (@PureRoyKeane) November 21, 2022

Keane is good these days

That was 👍

Re FIFA adding extra time accurately -- this only just occurred to them?

The penalties will continue until defenders learn

Was that Argie goal offside?

Which one, you might ask.

The offsides will continue until strikers learn

Lol, unbelievable

is it ok to now cheer on SA, for the lols?

omfg

Allah

best world cup ever

hahahaha

except for you know, the 1000s of deaths

lads, i was watching a chess video for the first ten minutes of the half

can't help but like herve renard tbh

Saudi keeper is solid so far

Damn MEX-POL just got even more interesting

My assumption is still that injury time is too long now for upsets to happen. Fergie time standardised.

A nasty collision apparently, so this one like the three preceding games is going to top 100 minutes

Qatar just can't get a break. Now Saudi are having a great time on their patch.

They are, however, going to have hosted the most minutes of world cup football of any country ever

Oof, thought was looping in

That's it.

Well, there's the upset you wanted Bananaman. Real, uh, shot in the arm for the Wretched of the Earth, there.

Newcastle to win the EPL now

First loss in 36 matches. Beautiful.

Hilarious.

pouring one out for the diminutive chess player

That flag was late late late

Even more amusing: now getting sidebar ads for "Visit Saudi" with Messi posing with binoculars up a mountain in Al Soudah, leaning against some modern building in a tuxedo, wearing a flower crown in Rijal Almaa, etc. (Probably shot on location but so hyperreal it just looks like Photoshop).

re the armbands. if they do it in the last game of the group stage won't the tickets that follow go away for the knockout stage? does that also apply to red cards?

i think the yellows aren't wiped until the quarter finals. and coyly gaming the system would be just more insult imo

omg, common sense from a VAR call!

Don't care for Saudi Arabia, but I'm cool with Argentina losing

LOLnel Messi

Doesn't look like the Argies will have a problem getting out of the group.

Sockeroos gonna pull off an upset against France?

🙏

Haha fuck you

Haven't seen any of this game but Poland are the same every World Cup, lumbering, slow as molasses and out at the group stages.

Bobby L continues to not turn up

that was slightly embarrassing from jiminez

almost as embarrassing as not spelling it jimenez

where's king boy pato for this one

go Australia

Get in there Oz!

OMG!!!!

Souttar's Scottish so we'll take some credit for that.

Mooy still looks the biz as well

He's done fuck all at Celtic tbh.

dangerous championship side, australia

Fuck sake, Jason Cummings is in the Australian squad and he's actually been capped by Scotland. Still, who are you more likely to play in a World Cup with?

my faith in the Sockeroos holding on for 77 minutes is not very high

Michael Stipe a nice bit o dribblin there

Mooy's my fave Town player of the last three decades, as low a bar that is!

how is Mooy still this good

wijnhard slander itt obv

buncha French fans behind goal with brown pants that were white before the game started

Hernandez having a 'mare.

Les Poos

wait I meant Ndlovu not Wijnhard

calz pls confirm

and here we go

xp

Ndlovu was only with us for a freescoring short loan period, we tried to extend it but Warnock said he wasn't available - then loaned him to Brum and we got relegated.

or it might have been Trevor Francis who said he wasn't available then loaned him to Warnock .. lol easy to get 2 cunts mixed up

and we're back to normalcy

Funny reading the start of match comments after watching France hammer these for the last 20 minutes

yeah Australia scoring early seems to have knocked over a wasp's nest, they shoulda just parked the bus and tried to poke one through at 45'

Mmploppe

does anybody else hear quacking

when Giroud scores 2 on u then u know it's time to quit the match

Plenty of time for his hat trick

Another half an hour.

no they're actually playing a stoppage half

I don't believe England did start the tournament as one of the favourites but Jonathan Pearce hadn't mentioned them in a couple of minutes so what the hell.

sorry, dropped off there for a bit, are Australia still winning?

lmao I would have expected 6-0 before this, easily the worst Australian squad since getting out of Oceania

but please... some respect for Cumdog

You have to hand it to FIFA, they always find a new way to make football worse at every tournament

the knockout round is gonna be 6 on 6 indoor soccer by 2030

15 extra minutes a game, a great solution to a non-existent problem

lmao I would have expected 6-0 before this, easily the worst Australian squad since getting out of Oceania

Yeah, half the team seem to play for Hearts and they brought on a guy who plays for St Mirren late on.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiMAqshXgAE0rPu?format=jpg&name=large

young Jude Bellingham under the influence of his Irish side of the family, without the 2nd gen Irish and Afro-Caribbean players they'd be a sub-Denmark level of shite!

this is the commentary i need

Curious just how many players at this World Cup were also playing in tournaments the year that pic was possibly taken (2008ish?). A fair few.

Ronaldo was six years into his professional career already

must be odd to be playing against people who weren't even born when you started playing professionally (except goalkeepers who must have got used to this a long time ago)

Links into my theory that footballers' careers are lasting longer these days - due to higher fitness levels and players being better looked after.

John Hartson is the most boring commentator I can recall hearing, he sounds asleep. I've always had fonds memories of him, he scored the first time I went to Highbury but he is atrocious and they need to replace him asap.

how soon we forget Lawro

Hartson is probably hungover. Anyway in a world where Phil Neville and Michael Owen exist then no way he can be the most boring commentator ever.

Hartson is bad at this and should not be a co-commentator.

there was a Pearce/Murphy match the other day, truly the worst combo

oh dear god michael owen is a commentator?

we truly live in hell

Pearce drooling over France was at least a little decadent. Murphy offers less than nothing. BBC live text comms having the cheek to accuse ITV of 'hot air'

Pearce is one of the greatest surviving commentators, along with Tyldesley, who is probably the greatest still working.

I no longer think any other commentators or pundits are good, the opposite of what I thought c.20 years ago, but Murphy is above average and Keown brings unique comic value.

Murphy's similarity to Ron Atkinson vocally always unsettles me.

Hartson's insight into any given match is generally based around how effective it is to bring a big lad on upfront but I do enjoy his lovely Swansea vowels.

Murphy drives me to distraction tbh

The 0-0 seems back big time at this World Cup. Somehow we only got one in the entire 2018 tournament.

found a stream with oatley/barton, they're actually p good. warren barton is doing a sort of gregg wallace thing which is honestly preferable to most of the co-comms

This game has been incredibly dull. If they are all like this today I may have to give up on the whole thing.

Germany, Spain and Belgium coming up so likely to be some goals around today

love this German strip

McCoist isn't killing me as I listen to him, so far.

i like murphy from his stint at fulham and he’s excellent at getting his points across in a post-match analysis

not sure i’ve ever heard him do match commentary though

love this German strip

I think Japan's is one of the best (of a real dearth of quality this WC).

Sick of penalties already (and England haven't even got their mandatory one or two yet).

england’s strip is v bad

McCoist isn't killing me as I listen to him, so far.

McCoist is one of the better ones.

I'm just happy we don't have to hear Lawro's whinging anymore!

(The sad news about David Johnson made me look up the game where I saw him score for us (I also saw him score against us)… turns out McCoist got Sunderland’s goal that day! My dad might have seen Pele at Goodison but I’ve seen the real legends, even if I’ve forgotten).

McCoist is really happy to be there for one.

So glad that Lawro was sacked, they knew he would be way too awful.

Japan keeper nearly made up for that pen with a nice double save.

Now Neuer!

Japan had to score fuck..

ooo yes!

Yes Japan!

Come on!

Man I can taste a Japan victory.

OMFG!

whoaaah!

NANI?!??!

loving this!

Yes

lol never heard McCoist's voice go like that

Great goal but also shocking lapse from Germany.

Coisty nearly exploded there

brb placing large wager on Canada

Fuckkk

Neuer nearly got to that

Yes!!

WHAT!??!?

LOL

a fun time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXHbhnG6BHw

^ live camera in Shibuya

Great stuff

Walked straight past the pub with 20 minutes left, saw it was 1-0 Germany still, didn't go in. Always go in the pub

Happy not because I hate Germany but cos I love Japan

oh, guess this shouldn't have been surprising after all

An otter has predicted victory for Japan in their upcoming World Cup match against Germany (via @mrjeffu) pic.twitter.com/0Eu3MVmT8q

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) November 23, 2022

This is amazing. Love that Japan won!

That was a good looking Japan team, hope they do well

Needless to say, whoever wins in the Canada-Belgium match, I’m just happy Canada made it this far

I’ve supported the team a long time, when we were constant losers and when, with good reason, nobody believed in is, too. But I’m proud of all the boys and the little soccer culture being built in the country. We have teams popping up in the most unexpected cities around the country now, which is pretty cool

It’ll be bittersweet when Herdman decides to leave

lots to be proud of with this Canadian squad

though I still have animosity towards Cyle Larin for the nasty way that he left Orlando City, and his erratic behavior (DUI) in that final season.

but he seems to still be playing at a high level

Spain please annihilate Costa Rica and their bullshit playing style

done and done

that had to be offside, no?

ok on replay I don't think it is

alright ref blow the final whistle now.

Spain really impressive so far, CR have been well and truly cracked open

Ah the weird kit rules again - why would Spain not be able to wear navy blue shorts and socks against Costa Rican white?

Actually surprised Croatia could wear so many bits of red against Morocco earlier.

Spain ruthless. Taking no chances and scoring a 2nd before half time

Goal every 10 minutes so far

pre-game: "Spain will bore you by passing you to death"

perhaps against good competition, not CONCACRAP teams, they don't have to with CR's defence

classic Spain false nine is it

there's a truly infuriating combination of CLive Tyldesly and Lee Dixon "in the commentary box" for this game, it's making it a hard watch

xps hartson said the other day that hirving lozano lacked pace

Costa Rica look completely broken.

they're just not very good. not even a patch on the 2014 squad.

will probably have a double digit goal differential in the wrong direction

I think "not a patch on 2014" is my reluctant conclusion

stop, stop, can't you see they're already dead

7th the best of the lot

still plenty of time to make it 9

The only way CRC can regain possession is by conceding a goal.

When I said they were bad I didn't think THIS bad.

ref let them slink off ffs

9 mins of stoppage in a 7-0 match is what the forefathers intended

not seen such a mismatched WC humiliation since erm .. god knows.. perhaps that time Germany 8-0-ed Saudi Arabia

If they had followed their typical blueprint of parking the bus, diving, and beating the crap out of opposing players, they might have lost 2-0

landon donovan on there at the end comparing it to one of his US teams losing to Brazil 7-1 in a pre-Olympic friendly. gtfo

xp lol neando totally otm, not nearly enough concacaf shithousery

let's go Canada!

It’s this dummy’s time to shine

Football won today. pic.twitter.com/PR0UMQ1v2v

— Kam #8🏁 (@Culturecams) November 22, 2022

Jack grealish “the encyclopaedia of football” 🤣 #england pic.twitter.com/BB0hqlYt6P

— Joe (@Joe66640705) June 17, 2021

not seen such a mismatched WC humiliation since erm .. god knows.. perhaps that time Germany 8-0-ed Saudi Arabia

Er, excuse me.

https://beta.ems.ladbiblegroup.com/s3/content/cdc69c635ee386cf3ae8c1057869e265.png

real cute how Canada keep trying to score goals

lmao Penaltyball time

oh snap

Referee took forever to organize that penalty.

lmao, terrible pen

have never felt that a penalty save was so inevitable

howler of a follow-up too

Canada came to play

Lol wtf is this

they're annoying that way xp

Canada?!

Belgium are always hideousy overrated but nonetheless...

Yeah I know but Canada?

more shots of Du Bruyne's nostrils flaring plz

how can they be so completely incapable of finishing?

Lukaku is injured atm

probably wondering if they’ll get fucked out of the tournament before he’s back

this Canada squad is fairly legit (by CONCACAF standards), not the pushoversthey used to be. somewhat ridiculous that the Sockeroos are ranked above them in FIFA rankings.

that being said, they are full of Major League Soccer players and so i expect Belgium will eventually take control of this one. but impressive start for them.

wrong pass Du Bruyne

That was a shit pass. At least Belgium are breathing.

I remember saying at some point during concacaf qualifying that this nu-look Canada remind me of the USA teams of the 00s where they had a handful of quality players but mostly relied on persistence, athleticism, etc. (Of course it is debatable that the USA team is still reliant on those traits.)

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

yeah US still hasn't quite escaped that yet, but they're more technical and probably have the highest pedigree of players they've had in a minute. whether that eventually translates into a team that can win games at the WC, we'll see.

otm - Canada is kind of a 'heart and hustle' team.

Canada full of ex-Orlando City players, Richie Laryea, Cyle Larin, Kamal Miller. I will lol at any mistake any of them make.

(we wasted Richie tbf)

Belgium are all over the place

soon might be the moment where they "find out"

yeah this is fun

lol just babbled out nonsense sounds at that last Canada move

i don't know if Belgium are toying with Canada or what, I mean, Canada's build-up play is workmanlike but they're very top-heavy in talent, you could easily force turnovers by pressuring some of the lesser players. Belgium seems to want to just score off of counter-attacks from midfield turnovers, which...is what you would have expected Canada to do in this match.

there's the CONCACAF shithousery

I woulda broke the tv if they gave that as a pen

Oh there it is.

gutting for Canada to get that close to halftime at 0-0

Kamal Miller such a shit defender.

Lol I mean..

Canada so should be 1-1 or two up.

another way they will be like the US, in that the US bottled several wide-open opportunities against Belgium in 2014 (unlike Canada, though, Belgiium were battering them with shots, hence Howard's save record).

Belgium look shit

That was awful from David

hey everyone, did you know if Canada scores, it's their first ever World Cup goal?

think it bears repeating another 20 or 30 times

Thanks for the news I can use!

Canada need to get that lad off their set pieces

Real lack of any quality in Group F

predicting 2 goals in the 23 minutes of stoppage

ffs are Canada scared of scoring or something?

out of the players I hadn't seen play before in this world cup the Canada #7 has been the standout( with the exception of set play delivery). He's been a delight.

Belgian passing is woeful.

They'll get away with it because Canadian finishing is dogshit

also from earlier today hansi flick has absolutely no business playing sule at rb, goretzka should be in mf, and ter stegen should be in goal.

and Larin is in and he's a poacher of sorts but his hold-up play sucks and he has lazy spells

xpost

lol @ Trossard

21 shots, 3 on frame....should tell you the quality of the shots right there

The two upsets we've had never looked like one till they happened. Guess what I saw 10 mins in was too good to be true.

also for once graeme souness wasn't exaggerating when he said that he could have come down from the studio and played the busquets role for Spain today such was the lack of energy and closing from costa rica

why are Canada fans cheerng this corner, hve they seen their past corners?

lol case in point

only 5 minutes!

most of Canada's shots have been unlikely from an xg pov. 4 real chances - pen, David when he should have played the square pass, David header ,and the low cross chance just before half time.

letting Belgium have maximum possession with little attempt to pressure them seems like a good strategy with 2 minutes left

Can’t imagine Croatia will let Canada play like that, shame they couldn’t get anything tonight.

stay in qatar https://t.co/bQEDlY3aly

— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) November 23, 2022

jesus can life throw anything worse at nadia nadim? so sorry for her.

Qatari authorities have started banning England fans from wearing crusader costumes in stadiums.

The attire, complete with swords and crosses, are offensive due to crusader history of rape, slaughter and occupation of Arab lands.#Qatar #Eng #FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/BoL6dnZEjz

— Robert Carter (@Bob_cart124) November 23, 2022

good

i demand swiss glasses guy to be in the crowd and found by the cameras

“He’s really done the rounds of European football, Paris St Getmain, Bayern Munich, Stoke City”

I recently saw a rugby fan getting interviewed in the crusader gear and remember thinking it was such a vile phenomenon. I know it's to do with St. George but it's not unlike a German fan dressing up in a Nazi uniform.

These cunts know what they are doing.

Cameroon should really be one up.

Excellent game so far.

barton/oatley wondering when they will see a goal, they've had the 0-0s so far, has been decent tho

xp I don't think many of the crusaders cosplayers would be able to grasp why this is different from Danes dressing up as Vikings or whatever, which is a big part of the problem

i demand swiss glasses guy to be in the crowd and found by the cameras

― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2022 09:57 (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think that was him!!!

I think this about the crusader every time I see it on the front of the Express tbh

I'd forgotten Shaqiri even exists

Had a feeling the Swiss would score. Cameroon squandered a couple of chances in the 1st half.

god help me I kinda love this year's edition of xhaka. some of his simple passes to break the lines are lovely

The guy who was born in Cameroon scores against Cameroon.

Colonialism is wicked.

— . (@Nigerianscamsss) November 24, 2022

switzerland v cool that half. put them away easily.

St George of course famous for wearing Norman 11th century armour

Btw, this is happening in a bit.

“Yo dawg, I heard you like Kims, so we put some Kims on your Kims next to your Kims, dawg.” pic.twitter.com/ZO4inzmHCA

— Shirtless Plantain Show (@theplantainshow) November 24, 2022

really hope cavani comes on and scores. beeb open the show with black pink.

oh danny murphy on co comms dampening my enthusiasm a tad.

Uruguay have been excellent.

Couple of juicy passes from Jimenez.

Were Vikings historically good?

Mixed reports over time but some of them surely killed a lot of people and pillaged many territories. Unsure whether they actually colonised places or were more restless than that.

Probably reasonable to say that a Viking costume could potentially be offensive, if such things offend you.

Orlando City star Facundo Torres on the bench for Uruguay. Be nice if he plays.

Fuck. South Korea should've gone ahead..

Uruguay hit the post. Excellent half

Unsure whether they actually colonised places or were more restless than that.

The British Isles and Ireland would be a pretty different places if not for Vikings!

The vikings took all the hot chicks out of ireland and got lost and founded iceland iirc so mixed bag

Tom D - agree, big influence (Dublin, York, Newcastle come to mind), just don't know enough about what they did with places that they attacked. Despite having read numerous LRB articles on the subject!

re J-Mod, didn't Eric the Red discover America centuries before Columbus? VINELAND as I recall.

Maybe a good rule would be: If you are dressing up in a daft costume from your nation's history to support the sporting team -- make it the costume of a non-violent group which never killed or invaded anyone (monks, scholars, perhaps merchants, or indeed peasants, serfs, farmers; also most women in history, except Bodaceia / Boudicca). I don't think this will catch on, though.

I was more thinking about the image of the crusader being a current - and still potent - symbol of western colonialist oppression in a way that the image of the viking isn't, as far as I'm aware.

was just reading about the eastern Volga Vikings who traded as far as Constantinople and arguably founded Russia (but don't say that in front of Putin)
anyway this is a decent match with two good teams

scholars and merchants are some of the most violent people in history! xps

vikings are definitely symbols of whiteness and fascism these days even though neither of those things existed when they were around

Im being glib xp

I maintain that there's a palpable difference between dressing as a viking and dressing as a crusader when in the middle east

Merchants can reasonably be accused of exporting and practising forms of exploitation.

Scholars - no, I don't see it, not by comparison with other professions.

Even if it is supposed that scholars have supported and legitimated oppression (some have, some haven't), it is rare for them to be physically violent.

That cannot be said of Crusader knights or Viking warriors.

Tim - FWIW - I think your argument must be something like:

People dressed as Vikings can go to places where Vikings committed violence, colonialism and pillage, and it will be "laughed off" because those places (eg: Dublin - unsure where else) are quite prosperous and peaceful and can "look back and laugh" at the Viking violence as irrelevant.

By contrast, people dressed as Crusaders go to the Middle East, and it cannot be "laughed off" because nations in the Middle East remain wracked by violence, neo-colonialism, legacies of colonialism, exploitation, racism, etc -- thus, the legacy of what the Crusaders are doing is still present.

I think this makes sense.

However, my caveat would be that this might vary between places in the Middle east (a region I do not visit). In Iraq, plainly, neo-colonial violence remains recent and present. In Iran, a nation embattled by Western sanctions, perhaps a similar tension would exist. On the other hand - Qatar? Is this a different case, which is basically a small oil-rich nation that has made harmonious terms with the West? So the narrative of violence might no longer be viewed as one to complain about.

Unsure. I know nothing about Qatar except this World Cup and will never go there.

you can tell this game's shit lol

I learned all I need to know about vikings from that documentary on Ragnar Lothbrok

2nd half has been poorer. Fear has been winning.

Uruguay hit the post late on..

I learned it from the Maiden song
https://genius.com/Iron-maiden-invaders-lyrics

xpost

My argument is that the image of the crusader is a current - and still potent - symbol of western colonialist oppression in the middle east, including in Qatar if the story that sparked this conversation is to be believed.

If someone dressed as a viking has the same cultural weight and impact in that place, then my initial point was wrong and I'm the problem.

7 minutes stoppage time when there's been no goals or VAR is a bit  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also Vikings didn't actually have horns on their helmets, in case any Scandinavian football fans are thinking of dressing up as one during this World Cup.

a true viking charges into battle naked so as to guarantee valhalla

0-0 again! Woo

This is probably the best of the 0-0s, of the ones I've seen. Can see both getting through the group.

that game almost sent me to the land of the vikings (sleep)

Time to root against Ronaldo

That's right

cheering for Ruben and booing Ronaldo, this is gonna be hard

ideally Cron suffers a career-ending injury during the warm-up

URU and SKR, if that's what they're called, both solid. SKR held up well in first half vs a strong attacking URU. Then it evened up?

Two of THFC's best signings of the last decade in Son and Bentancur. Quite glad to see neither lose. But keener on Korea really.

POR vs THE BLACKSTARS? Today I learned the incredible fact that Chris Hughton is coaching them.

ideally Cron suffers a career-ending injury during the warm-up

― this display name blocked by FIFA (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Wanna see the cunt tackled till he cries.

Looking at how football stats are compiled.

With some stats services yeah, I remember looking something up and wondering how a team had won 1-0 with zero shots on target, it was a free kick that went in off the bar.

— ok then🐡 (@AScribbledEagle) November 24, 2022

Same as in hockey

fifa 19 does this too, don't know about subsequent ones

Ronaldo should've scored.

https://i.ibb.co/sJbT7GY/Screenshot-2022-11-24-11-14-24-AM.png

The Portugal kit reminds me of the back cover of the 12" of "Hit and Miss Judy" by Wreckless Eric, fact fans.

https://images.45worlds.com/t/12/wreckless-eric-hit-and-miss-judy-1979-3-12-t.jpg

Zzzzzzzzzz = this match

Me hungry goals

awwwww

https://i.ibb.co/d6Gd61g/Screenshot-2022-11-24-11-33-05-AM.png

I lolled the other day when Kompany said [redacted] wouldn't get into his Burnley side, because he needs players who can still run

Ghana's RB making overlapping runs only for midfielder to get easily dispossessed before he can feed him the ball = story of Ghana's attack

Christ I can't stand Portugal's antics

Penaltyball

lol never a pen

hope he skies this

cunt

he barely touched him

Really weird, because the one disallowed earlier should've stood. Not that I cared.

Cunt.

Nice to see Penaldo and Pessi living up to their names

nah that was a push

and everyone had stopped playing anyway xpost

hurray

yesss!

beautiful

Come on