Brazil 2014. The World Cup thread

Look into his eyes, and it’ll all be ok…

I missed the incident that led to the defender going off with a slightly wrecked looking left side of his face. What happened?

High boot from Giroud(?), accidental but he really copped it.

I missed the incident that led to the defender going off with a slightly wrecked looking left side of his face. What happened?

daftest penalty you’ll ever see…

crumby take too.

I’m going to put that one in the decent save category.

I’m going to put that one in the decent save category.

fair

Meanwhile, why so sad Senderos?

nice

Happily I was in the Netherlands for their game on Wednesday evening. What an experience!

We were in a decent sized town in the South (Tilburg) on business, but after arriving at the hotel and seeing the orange throng in the street of bars opposite we threw our bags at the rooms and got involved ASAP. Absolutely top atmosphere and we got totally smashed with the locals having a great time. No aggro, no edge, just a top piss-up.

Shame we had to go to a meeting the next day absolutely hanging, but there you go.

Noice!

Gutted I missed the first 25mins.

France playing some very nice football. They won’t win the competition outright, but at least they’re entertaining.

One thing you can say about this world cup is the stands look amazing, I’d love to be there atmosphere has sounded electric every game. Even the Iran game was bouncing. In general, best world cup ever if it can keep up this intensity.

France looking good here, may change my prediction since Italy looked gumf last game, although something left field like Chile may be considered too!

France have a boy in their team?

Garçon! 😆

It is great to get an international perspective to the half time analysis, but they really should have made sure some of them had a better grasp of the English language. Just where the hell does this Chiles blokes accent come from

2 down…2 to go.

…last of the big spenders 8)

Broken cheekbone and broken eye socket. Ouch!

This Swiss defence, like their cheese, is full of holes.

*coughs*

Aw oh! The French cheese tastes lovely though!

At last a free kick goal!

Some face saved, wall was poor but nice strike!

GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST. WC. EVER.

Wow… What. a. finish… Game on-ish…

Comeback’s on! 😆

Very strange time for the ref to blow up.

Broken cheekbone and broken eye socket. Ouch!

Nah, it’ll buff out*.

*in my case, three titanium plates and scarred retina.

Haha Martin O’Neil, brilliant!

Oh pur-leeeeeeease, let that be the last of the sad-music-England-players-looking-disappointed montages that we have to endure.

Turned it over to QI!

Moving on…

Forster

Flanagan
Stones
Jones
Shaw

Henderson
Wilshere

Sterling
Barkley
OX

Sturridge

Let them have a crack at the Euros.
Bit of tournament experience and they’ll be fine for Russia ’18.

Forster is decent, better that hart IMO. Whether good enough I dunno.

Fastest foul of the tournament from the hondurans there.

This is not going to be a classic.

nah it is not.

to lighten the mood, you have to appreciate this.. 😆

Why is Carlos Costly chewing on a biro lid?

I thought it looked like a sherbet straw. Perhaps a dibdab for the second half?

should have scored, izaguirre caught out. It’s actually no a bad game, competitive anyhow! Ecudor looking the better team though.