FIFA World Cup

Fuck the Spaniards are pussies

So annoying to watch them flopping

Schlager has been good, the only thing stopping Austria from being 4-0 down instead of just 1-0. Spain players looking alot quicker than their opposition, but maybe won't be able to maintain the pace in the 2nd half.

I remember watching Spain play England at Wembley about 10 years ago. The gap in terms of technical ability was clearly evident. They are magicians with the ball

Portugal v Croatia

What a match

Absolute Pandora’s Box of a penalty mind

From here on in every corner should see a penalty

It’s like a Royal Rumble in the box

The Aussies have drawn level against Egypt. 1-1.

I cheering for Australia, is that wrong?

England game brought forward "because of heat". I guess we know who FIFA is backing this year...

First Aussie penalty goes way over the bar.

The Aussie youngster hits the bar.

Egypt win the shootout.

The Aussies are out.

@Bones said in FIFA World Cup:

England game brought forward "because of heat". I guess we know who FIFA is backing this year...

Reckon Starmer had a word

Zero productivity in England regardless of the result

I understand Souttar taking the first penalty, but an 18 year old centre back who was playing A League football less than 6 months ago stepping up to take a penalty at that point of the shootout? Hmmm, can't say I agree with that.

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

I understand Souttar taking the first penalty, but an 18 year old centre back who was playing A League football less than 6 months ago stepping up to take a penalty at that point of the shootout? Hmmm, can't say I agree with that.

Yeah, that was a bad call. No way an 18 kid should be asked to take a penalty.

Also, subbing the keeper (who was having a great match) back fired. The new keeper never got near a penalty.

Also, penalty shootouts suck.

@Bones

I heard it’s because of possible thunderstorms.
The new kick off time (6 hours earlier) suits me better, which is all that matters…

@westie_boy said in FIFA World Cup:

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

I understand Souttar taking the first penalty, but an 18 year old centre back who was playing A League football less than 6 months ago stepping up to take a penalty at that point of the shootout? Hmmm, can't say I agree with that.

Yeah, that was a bad call. No way an 18 kid should be asked to take a penalty.

Also, subbing the keeper (who was having a great match) back fired. The new keeper never got near a penalty.

Also, penalty shootouts suck.

Yeah the keeper sub felt like it was for the sake of it, especially as Beach's main strength is his shot stopping ability.

@Bones said in FIFA World Cup:

England game brought forward "because of heat". I guess we know who FIFA is backing this year...

It's because of predicted thunderstorms

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

I understand Souttar taking the first penalty, but an 18 year old centre back who was playing A League football less than 6 months ago stepping up to take a penalty at that point of the shootout? Hmmm, can't say I agree with that.

I’ll never be on this train.

No excuse available for not hitting the target.

@MajorStokes said in FIFA World Cup:

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

I understand Souttar taking the first penalty, but an 18 year old centre back who was playing A League football less than 6 months ago stepping up to take a penalty at that point of the shootout? Hmmm, can't say I agree with that.

I’ll never be on this train.

No excuse available for not hitting the target.

Or just have your better penalty takers step up when they're meant to.

@westie_boy @sammyc yes

Tremendous match Arg v Cabo

African teams have brought a lot of excitement to this tournament but not quite ready for the big table

10 qualified for the tournament

9 advanced to the round of 32

2 advance to the round of 16

No surprise for Morocco, they were in the SF last WC

I’ll be very surprised if Eqypt go any further

Back to 1am

@African-Monkey yeah not disagreeing but not quite the same point.

Paraguay made it hard for France but they get it done. How did Galarza and Caceres not get a YC after so many obvious and cynical fouls?

@Bovidae Glad they're gone. Played such a negative brand of football. The coach telling his team to push up the field for the last kick of the game was the cherry on top of the shit mountain. When they went behind 1-0 I expected them to at least go for an equaliser but they still parked the bus. I don't know why they were complaining to the officials after the game, they should've had multiple yellows and a probably a red.

@Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup:

Paraguay made it hard for France but they get it done. How did Galarza and Caceres not get a YC after so many obvious and cynical fouls?

Everything that's wrong with football

@canefan

yeah
kinda like scruming to get penalties and yellow cards on the opposition in a game of rugby

The ref was useless, so Paraguay took that as a green light to play the way they did.
The World Cup is better with them gone.
Well done France for keeping their composure.

Can Norway hang on..

Yep

@booboo said in FIFA World Cup:

I think it's an issue. We find it an issue on the Veldt, and Mexico City is nearly 500m higher:

Altitude:
Mexico City 2,240m
Johannesburg 1,753m
Bloemfontein 1,395m
Pretoria 1,339m

I spent some time in Flagstaff, AZ many years ago and did a lot of walking around the city without noticing any problems. I never realised that its altitude isn't much lower than Mexico City (2,079 m).

@Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup:

@booboo said in FIFA World Cup:

I think it's an issue. We find it an issue on the Veldt, and Mexico City is nearly 500m higher:

Altitude:
Mexico City 2,240m
Johannesburg 1,753m
Bloemfontein 1,395m
Pretoria 1,339m

I spent some time in Flagstaff, AZ many years ago and did a lot of walking around the city without noticing any problems. I never realised that its altitude isn't much lower than Mexico City (2,079 m).

Suppose England will be OK if they just walk around the pitch then

I've spent a fair bit of time in mexico city and am a daily runner. Running at that altitude is hard.

Apparently just stared to rain and thunderstorms predicted to continue on and off for next 6 hours... Will be interesting to see what fifa do if that eventuate.s.

Brazilians and ref arcing up like spoiled brats

They don’t like it up ‘em Mr Mainwaring

@SammyC I think England will struggle. It was just a comment about some cities having a higher elevation than you think.