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i'm already happy with this world cup, got my £20 winnings from the coral 2-1 odds new sign-up offer on brazil wearing yellow tonight!
draw it out, sorted.
This is a great World Cup tune
PS NSFW and your Missus will prob give you a slap.
World Cup madness, part 1: we've just been out for a pre-match meal at our local Italian. Very nice it was too. Pride of place on the restaurant wall is Pirlo's signed AC Milan shirt. An interesting (heated but good-natured) debate about the group was taking place. The upshot of this was an over-enthusiastic engerland fan genuinely betting 5 grand, against the signed shirt, that we top the group, and not Italy.
I don't know what happens if Uraguay win it.
I normally hate football, but I'm watching this.. And I'm going to enjoy it too.. 😀
I'm amazed at how much rolling around on the floor when a player gets an inane knock, good job they don't play rugby
I'm amazed at how much rolling around on the floor when a player gets an inane knock, good job they don't play rugby
Yes, Dear.
i'm already happy with this world cup, got my £20 winnings from the coral 2-1 odds new sign-up offer on brazil wearing yellow tonight!
draw it out, sorted.
You do know that's marketing don't you? You can't draw the money until you've placed manyfold further bets...
Oh you're joking aren't you?!?
You do know that's marketing don't you? You can't draw the money until you've placed manyfold further bets...
Really...
I've drawn my winnings already! 😀
Stay classy, Brazil.
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....keeper should have kept it out, though.
Who'd a thunk they'd have to cheat to beat Croatia
Croatia can have a lot of complaints about this game.
Cummon! Cummon! Croatia you can win! 😡
This ref might as well just bung a Brazil shirt on and have done with it!
Dirty bustards these brazilians. Hope Croatia score now
I really want Croatia to score now. So do they by the look of it.
Good of Neymar to thank the ref.
Aye, hope it's not a sign of things to come. Ref has been poor.
I think every non-Brazilian wants Croatia to score.
...well, apart from all those far eastern betting syndicates.
Edit: Ladies & Gentleman, Croatia seem to have Bruce Grobbelaar in goal. I imagine his bank balance is doing well.
That was betterer
No complaints about that one though..
Dammit! They blood scored again! Cummon! Cummon! 😡
Jesus. Goalie should have saved that. Could have stopped all 3!
Ok, so that was a good goal.
Bah.
Well at least from what I've seen so far the ball is round but not too round.
So England might have a chance.
Bah!
How did the keeper not save that?
No complaints about that one though..
Really? Keeper has lost them this game, really weak on all goals.
Not really enjoying this match. Taken a big dislike to the Brazilian team.
Really? Keeper has lost them this game, really weak on all goals.
I was getting at the fact it was goal from open play without any refereeing assistance 🙄
I think the early shot fooled the keeper. Good goal. First time I've ever heard the phrase "toe-ended" though (about 6 times)
The only plus side of this, is I have Neymar and Oscar in my Fantasy Football team.
....still a shocker, though.
On the basis of this one I don't think I'll be watching many games. Between professional fouls, simulation, silent-film acting and a dodgy ref it was painful viewing.
Keeper has lost them this game, really weak on all goals
Harsh ...you blame a keeper for not quite saving a penalty 😯
First goal hits the post and goes in as well
HARSH
weak on third i agree.
Never heard toe ender - are you new to football [ genuine Q not sarcasm]
If they keep showing those two hands with [b]2014[/b] before and after every replay, I'll have kicked the telly in before the first Engerland game! That and Andy ****ing Townsend is too much to deal with simultaneously!
Harsh ...you blame a keeper for not quite saving a penalty
Yup. He went the right way, got behind it, and let it go through his hands. He'd done the hard part.
Chris Waddle agrees with me, so there.
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never ever a penalty.
you went for a real penalty expert there then 😉
What do Pearce and southgate think? 😈
They like Pizza.
Croatian goalie put in a great save earlier on in the first half.
Decent start, not the best game but competitive, enjoyable start. Yon Croatia keeper is muck.
Brazil, not the best and very nervy but they will get out their group and grow in stature IMO.
not harsh at all he got both hands behind it. Weak as hell. And he's clearly got issues getting down quick enough, utter muck.Harsh ...you blame a keeper for not quite saving a penalty
Apparently we knocked him back after a trial, thank god.
I find watching grown men throw themselves on the ground and trying to con referees a bit embarassing to be honest. They'll strut around town being the big tough guy with tats everywhere, yet hit the deck whining like a little brat if it gets them a free kick or a penalty. And get paid a kings ransom for the privilege.
Retrospective yellow cards during tournaments are the way forward.
I think they should just inflict on them the actual injury that they've just pretended they've got. So if you go down like you've just been shot.....
Quite a sad way to start the WC. Wish Croatia had equalised.
Ok, no penalty, but good job the c players didn't have respect on their shirt when they surrounded the ref on the penalty.
The "beautiful" game!?!?!
Come on folks have you not seen it before?
This is football. By the end of the tournament there will have been goals, dives, leg breaking tackles, yellow cards, red cards, penalty saves, penalty misses. The list goes on.
You might disagree with it being the "beautiful" game but a big tournament like this is always full of drama and I love every minute.
Even if its not always fair and the good guys never win (England).
I'm all for respecting the ref's decisions, but by that stage of the game, it must have been fairly frustrating to have been a Croatian. To see a penalty given for that, when you're still in the game would make most people lose any sense of reason. They couldn't really buy a decision, some of Brazil's "50-50" challenges were bordering on the dirty side of physical. It was almost as if Scolari had told them to go out and go in hard, they were the host nation in the opening game, they'd get the home-team decisions.
On balance, Brazil deserved to win it I think, but they didn't do much to endear themselves.
It was never a penalty and I am not sure why you should respect a decision that is incorrect and just cost you the game.
Have the non spectators stopped throwing rocks at the tv studios yet? 😯
Not a great game really but Croatia didn't deserve to lose.
Great start to the tourney. Few goals,some good football,bit of controversy and the underdog stepped up + some big big noise (politics at the gate too.)
Bring on Saturday night..
It wasn't a great game but much better than the usual opening game dull cagey do not lose affairs
Fix is in.
Between professional fouls, simulation, silent-film acting and a dodgy ref it was painful viewing.
THAT SUMS JUST ABOUT EVERY PROFESSIONAL GAME OF FOOTBALL I HAVE EVER WATCHED.
OK. THANKS FOR POSTING.
Andy Townsend rap - Goldie Lookin Chain
Teensy bit sweary
Is it too early to shout "Gur...land" yet?
Well played Croatia. They wuz robbed. Certainly lots of talking points, ref was terrible aside from penalty he pinged the Croatian for a foul on the keeper which never was. If Brazil are going to win this they will have to be a lot better.
Roll on Spain v Holland.
[i]Is it too early to shout "Gur...land" yet?[/i]
Definitely not! Come on Lads, its about time we put the Pasta boys to the sword!
Will be lots of shenanigans from them tho.....lets keep our heads and do the business! Dug my England flag out for the occasion! 8)
[i]Roll on Spain v Holland.[/i]
ooh yes, when's that one? Should be a bit spicey!
tonight
jambalaya - Member
Well played Croatia. They wuz robbed
They weren't at all.
I get 2 impressions from this thread. 1. that quite a few of you don't like fitba, and secondly, there's a group getting their excuses in early before the inevitable 2nd round pumping out that England will mostly likely receive! 😆
Never a penalty.
They need to bring TMOs into football, it would end all this ridiculous diving overnight.
And the way the players treated the, admitedly poor, referee was appalling
They weren't at all.
A penalty that wasn't and a goal disallowed incorrectly ?
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last night. what seems like controversy will soon be overshadowed, never a penalty and no reason that goal should be disallowed. However the final ten minutes sums it all up, Croatia had posession and looked threatening, Brazil picked up the ball and it was in the back of the net. a clunky start from an under pressure favourite, hope that things balance out and Croatia make it out of the group too.
tonight. the spain/netherlands rematch will be a stale cagey affair after the hype, skip it, go to the pub and settle down to watch Chile v Socceroos at 11. /tipoftheday
aye penalty was soft as shite, but the disallowed goal was a foul on the keeper.jambalaya - Member
They weren't at all.A penalty that wasn't and a goal disallowed incorrectly ?
the croatia keeper not being able to save a couple of goals and being slow as hell is what got them beat.
Croatia blew their chance, as brazil where there for the taking if they wanted.
Its a game of opinions and here's mine:
The keeper was crap and should have saved both goals.
The penalty was a joke and the Ref should be chucked out of the tourney.
The adjudged fould wiping out the Croatia goal was a goal. The Ref has deemed that an attacker cannot challenge the keeper for a high ball.
In terms of Cloggy's v Spain tonight....I don't see this as a cagey affair at all. Not with that #### Robben on the pitch!
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:lol:Office Sweepstake update:
I have Iran - 1500-1 and it cost me £2.
I would like full UN support and some flackjacket or other.
Ta 😆
Officials not having a great game again
Justice done in the end, just about - provided qualification doesn't do down to goal difference...
I sometimes wonder in the group games if these referees should be involved in this level of football...
I sometimes wonder in the group games if these referees should be involved in this level of football...
In fairness, if you recall, the last world cup final didn't reflect too well on britain's top referee - you could hardly accuse Howard Webb of not having the experience to be there.
Are we ready for another feast of ticky tocky?
What's with this look up and cross your arms malarky? All the team intros do it, they even do it for f1 now. Just makes em look shifty IMO, like they were doing something inappropriate then noticed the camera and try to look nonchalant.
fastest foul?
Costa appears to be getting a hard time from the "neutrals". 🙂
Not sure about tricky tock, more like who can get the first perfect 10. FFS, this is meant to be the pinnacle of the game and Bz and Spain........???
Another ****ing dodgy penalty. FFS!
don't worry Robben will get himself a penalty if he gets half a chance
BOSH! What a blinder!