The 2014 Fifa World Cup Thread

Crikey!

The British play by play commentator is completely breathless , just like the match WOW! 

Well, Yanks have still lost! 

akamaisondufromage wrote: Bye bye USA thanks for the great entertainment almost made up for Eng being pants.

Edited by Fede - July 01 2014 at 20:56

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/01/ouch-chile-star-mauricio-pinilla-gets-tattoo-of-crossbar-shot-against-brazil-4782397/

I must admit I feel more than a pang of sympathy for the fates of Mexico, Chile and Switzerland (they didn't deserve to lose against  Netherlands, Brazil and Argentina respectively) Major kudos are also due to the Costa Rica and USA teams who showed what can be achieved with a squad blessed with fairly modest technical abilities but brilliant organisation and shed-loads of feisty zest and camaraderie. Good riddance to the pampered vermin Suarez and his apologists, Uruguayan or otherwise. Good riddance to the delusional English and their clueless bigoted media, good riddance to the cynical anti football of the Italians. France v Germany looks like being a humdinger and it's maybe a pity that both are destined to meet at the quarter finals stage. I really believe that Colombia will give Brazil the pasting they have somehow avoided to date. Belgium are starting to look like the side many predicted would do well (even though they haven't really performed to their potential until the latter stages of the USA game so far) All said, there is no overriding force trampling everything in their wake so it's really up for grabs. (and that makes it an exciting tournament)

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Don't know why you think England fans were delusional, all the ones I talked to thought we wouldn't get out of the group and that we suffered from a bad mix of lack of talent, a feww old past it players and bunch of youngsters lacking experience.

Who said fans? many of the senior players in the England team were clearly on hallucinogenics of demonstrable toxicity: Gerrard, Lampard (wtf), Rooney, Lambert (wtf) Johnson (wtf) Milner (wtf) Henderson (wtf) Smalling (wtf) Jones (wtf) Jagielka (wtf) The counter argument to the merits of the foregoing runs something like this: Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have won 114 and 106 caps respectively for their country!!! So how good does that make them exactly? as they've been for a team that has won precisely nothing for 48 years. Yes I know that many of the foregoing squaddies didn't play in Brazil 2014 but such an eventuality would have made an already bad situation even worse. You are correct that the fans expectations were very low and I thought they gave their team fantastic support throuighout. There is now a growing clamor in the media for Hodgson to be sacked. Ask yourself the question: who else was Roy supposed to select that would have enhanced his limited pool of talent's chances? (Walcott was injured but he's sh*te and I'm an Arsenal fan while Ashley Cole's experience may have provided a counterbalance to the dereliction of defensive duties personified by Rooney  - never mind Cameroon - Baines should have head butted Wayne)

All said it's been a brilliant World Cup so far and let's hope that Colombia stuff the overhyped, overpaid and over sexed Brazilians.

I certainly don't want Hodgson sacked, he picked the best players he could and they under performed as usual. I don't listen to any of the crap players say pre-tournament, its so much hot air. What I don't like is him asking Gerrard to stay on. I'd drop all the older players and play all kids for Euro 16. Get them all used to playing with each other and getting some team understanding.

To coach a club ( like Liverpool) is a different buissniss then collecting a squad as a manager for a national team squad, just saying, two very different skillsett are required.

Edited by Icarium - July 02 2014 at 18:40