I can’t stand Brazil, they’ve done even more to ruin this World Cup than Suarez, the absolute shitbirds. As well as boring the arse off us all, they only went and dumped out the most refreshing, exciting team in the tournament. Chile were so, so unlucky and that penalty shoot out was just heartbreaking.
The sooner someone dumps these fucking frauds out the better. They’ve got Colombia next, who are basically Chile in a yellow kit. Everyone loves watching them, so expect Brazil to spawn their way to another undeserved win. Pricks.
I’m not sure what’s worse, Fred’s performances or his muzzy. He was shite once more against Chile and was replaced again by Jo, who was also shite. Bert & Ernie >>>>>> Fred & Jo.
Then there’s the Abominable Hulk. Shite. And Oscar. Shite (I actually completely forgot he was even on the field against Chile until suddenly out of nowhere he had a shot. I hadn’t seen him for about half an hour!) He was dragged off and replaced by Willian, who’s also shite (works hard though).
Neymar was a bit disappointing on the night but my opinion of him has changed during this tournament. He’s still a complete wanker, obviously, but he’s winning me over in terms of his play. He’s essentially a one man attack, carrying the expectation of a nation on his shoulders with no help at all. Showed real bottle in the penalty shoot out too.
Poor Chile though, I’m proper gutted for them. They almost won it with the last kick of normal time when substitute Pinilla crashed a shot against the bar. He's actually had a tattoo made to commemorate it. Presumably he'll have one made of the pen he missed in the shootout too, the easily pleased wanker.
So many heroic performances from Chile though, none more so than Gary Medel who was once again brilliant at the heart of the defence. He may be a poor man’s Mascherano as a midfielder, but he might just be a better centre back than ‘El Jefecito’.
Alex Sanchez is fucking ace and is my favourite (non LFC) player in this competition. Signing him might just be the only way to soften the blow of losing Suarez, there are a lot of similarities in how they play and how they fight for every ball. And guess who had a tenner on him at 8-1 to get the first goal against Brazil? Yep, this guy. It was looking a little dodgy there for a while when Sideshow Bob tried to claim a goal he didn’t touch, but thankfully the bookies paid out on my boy Alexis.
A real shame he had to be one of those who missed a pen in the shoot out, but now he’s on his way home let’s sign the fucker. If he signs for Arsenal I might have to cry, and no-one wants that.
ITV had the Colombia - Uruguay game and… I can hardly type this for all the harrumphing I’m doing, but Clive Tyldesley was calling James Rodriguez “James” and not “Hamez”, the disrespectful prick. That’s like calling Thierry Henry “Terry Henry”.
The brilliant young Colombian was the star of the show as his double saw off a disappointing Uruguay who badly missed a certain suspended striker. His first goal was incredible, have that Tim Cahill you corner flag bullying blueshite turd. That flukey goal of yours will be consigned to the obscurity you deserve now. And guess who had a fiver on his boy “Hamez” at 6-1? Yep, this guy.
Uruguay can fuck off though, the Suarez enabling wankers. It’s all moot because he’ll be fucking off to Barca (who will be able to do what we wouldn’t have had a hope in hell of pulling off, and that’s get the ban reduced), but say they weren’t in for him, or if it falls through, we’d be looking at our star players missing 13 games because Uruguay risked everything to try and keep him in the competition.
And then loads of fans showed up at the airport to welcome him back home like some kind of conquering hero. How’s he supposed to learn when he’s got so many people telling him he’s not the problem and he’s being picked on?? It's not going to be our problem for much longer, unfortunately.
My mate Julian summed it up best I think. “Uruguay are like Renton’s mates in Trainspotting. Rodgers is trying to get him off the smack then he goes off with them and he’s diving down toilets”. Quite. Fuck off Uruguay.
Mexico’s exit at the hands of the Dutch was almost as sad as that of Chile. They had Holland right where they wanted them thanks to a cracker from Dos Santos, but blew it by conceding two late goals to go out at this stage for the fifth consecutive World Cup. The otherwise mediocre Sneijder finally did a thing by rifling in a shot from 18 yards to equalise and then substitute Huntelaar kept his cool to slot home stoppage time pen to break Mexican hearts.
The defeat was harsh but they were skating on thin ice all day with Robben and had survived several penalty appeals before the ref eventually gave one. It was a dive by Robben, no question, and he’d dived on a couple of other occasions too (although he did get flattened in the first half and should have had a pen for that), but they kept dangling their legs out at him and eventually paid the price.
Gutted that we won’t see the Mexican coach any more, and gutted that we’ll be seeing more of Van Gaal and his piggy face and having to listen all kinds of fawning mancs in the media kissing his arse. Holland aren’t very good, but they’ve got Robben so they’ll always have a chance as - like him or not - he’s simply phenomenal.
Costa Rica v Greece was exactly what everyone feared it would be. Dire. Until it suddenly got lively late on when Greece had to chase an equaliser to cancel out a strike from my old boy Bryan Ruiz. Just when it looked like the ten man Costa Rican’s were home and hosed, Greece did what Greece do and somehow summoned up a goal against the odds in stoppage time. Whatsmore, they nearly grabbed a winner with the last kick of the game, it needed a fine save by Costa Rica’s impressive keeper Keylor Navas to deny the otherwise once again woeful Mitroglu.
Greece must have fancied their chances once it went to extra time as the Costa Ricans were absolutely fucked. I’m not sure I can ever remember seeing a player as completely goosed as Joel Campbell, he looked like he had nothing left from about 70 minutes. Against any kind of decent opposition they’d have gotten dicked, but Greece are far more comfortable with their backs to the wall, always have been.
Ask King Leonidas and his boys to defend something and you’re onto a winner, but you never saw them going off and conquering the world like the Romans or Alexander the Great. The Greek’s try and take credit for big Alex of course, but he was Macedonian. Kind of like the English with Andy Murray I suppose. Although he's back to being Scottish rather than British now he's been dumped out of Wimbledon.
Both teams held their nerve in the penalty shoot out and the only player to miss was Gekas, and it wasn’t even a bad pen, the poor bastard. The Costa Ricans smashed most of their pens right down the middle, and if the Greek keeper had stood still for a couple of them they’d have won.
It's mad that Costa Rica are in the World Cup quarter finals and their best players are a Fulham reject and a lad not deemed worthy of getting a work permit to play in the Premier League. Let that sink in for a second, and the next time someone tries telling you that England ‘don’t have the players’ hit them with that one.
France got through without any real incident against Nigeria, but the game wasn’t the walk in the park I thought it would be. Blame the French coach for that, for some reason he’s trying to shoehorn Giroud and Benzema into a three man forward line. Giroud has many qualities but he’s as much of a left winger as I am a rock star.
Benzema was atrocious throughout, and he’s one lazy bastard him. I thought he was shit going into this tournament but he made me second guess myself for a week or so due to scoring a few goals. I was right the first time though, he’s gash, I really don’t like him at all.
As soon as France hooked Giroud and sent on Grieseman they looked much more like the side we’ve come to expect, and the excellent Pogba finally broke the deadlock with ten minutes left before Yobo’s own goal made it safe. United allowed Pogba to leave and they kept Tom Cleverley. Hahaha. Mind you, they also let Pique leave and kept Johnny Evans. How the fuck were they so successful for so long, the dumb fucks?
In the night game Algeria gave Germany a massive scare before eventually the Germans came through in extra time. The North Africans were brilliant though and were unlucky not to win in 90 minutes as time and again they got in behind the ponderous Germans. Unfortunately for them, every time they did they ran into Manuel Neuer who was flying off his line like Harold Schumacher minus the murderous intent.
Germany had loads of chances of their own too in fairness, but never really seemed to be playing anywhere near their best. Arsenal have ruined Ozil, he’s crap these days isn’t he? Remember how electric he was at the last World Cup? Not so easy when you’re not in a footrace with Gareth fucking Barry though is it, Mesut?
Gotze was shite too and got hooked at half time for Schurrle, who I can’t stand but have to admit made a difference when he came on. And why are Germany playing Lahm in midfield? I know he plays there for Bayern and he’s class, but he was the world’s best full back before they moved him into the middle, and considering Germany have no full backs (they have an Everton reject at right back and a centre half at left back) but they have some world class centre midfielders, what is Yogi Loew playing at?
They had to move him to right back due to the Everton reject picking up an injury, and suddenly they looked like the Germany of the last couple of tournaments. Despite the lack of goals this was a hell of a game and I have no idea how it was goalless at full time. Not that I was complaining at the idea of another 30 minutes of it though.
No sooner had it gone to extra time than Germany were ahead through Schurrle. The otherwise shite Ozil doubled their lead right at the death, only for Algeria to immediately pull one back. They had a chance to equalise too with the last kick of the game but couldn’t take it, the plucky bastards.
They’ve shown the way for others though I reckon, Germany looked well shaky and vulnerable to the pace of the Algerians. Can France exploit that though, as they aren’t the quickest? Maybe they should start Remy up front?
I’m sick of Argentina now, they’re shite. One man team, just like Brazil. The difference is I actually want Argentina to be good, I’ve had a soft spot for them since Maradona in 86 but this team just does nothing for me. They robbed the Swiss, no way did they deserve to win that game, it should have gone to penalties as neither side did enough to win.
Di Maria’s goal right at the end was a real choker, not least because someone had a tenner on him and initially thought he’d pocketed 80 quid only to later discover that extra time goals don’t count. Who was this idiot? Yeah, it was this guy.
The Swiss still almost took it to pens when Shaqiri whipped in a great cross and some fool headed it against the post from four yards out. The rebound then hit him on the knee and still wouldn’t go in. This was like the Chile shot that hit the bar against Brazil, and I’m struggling to decide who’s jammier, Brazil or the Argies. I’m getting the feeling they’ll both spawn their way right to the final and then send us to a sleep by serving up a real shitburger.
I’m gutted USA are out too, that team won me over big time. I loved watching them, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bunch of players with more desire to succeed. They were inspired and relentless all tournament, and even though Belgium could have buried them based on chances created, Klinsmann’s side never give up and by the end they were pounding the Belgians everywhere and should have taken it to penalties.
Fabian Johnson has been tremendous but when he went off his replacement was incredible. DeAndre Yedlin is 20 years old and is on $92,000 a year. That’s half a week’s wages for Glen Johnson. I haven’t seen enough to know if he can defend, but fuck me he sure can attack. I’d sign him now and stick him in the 21s for a year to see if he’s any good. He’ll probably only cost peanuts so why not.
It was a fantastic game, not unlike the Germany - Algeria one actually as although it ended goalless it was riveting stuff. For once Belgium weren’t boring, they looked very lively going forward and Tim Howard made more saves in this game than any keeper in World Cup history apparently.
He got a call from the President to congratulate him and his team-mates, and there’s serious discussion going on in the States now as to whether Howard should have an airport named after him. They do realise they got beat don’t they? I'm not so sure you know
Everyone is going on about how great this World Cup is, and how it’s the best in living memory etc. It is, but it’s also depressing the shit out of me now as every time I watch a game and pick a team I want to win, they get beat. The only sides who got through from this round who I was actually rooting for were Colombia and France. I’m expecting the same again in the quarters too. Now that Chile are out I don’t care who wins it, I’m still tipping France as I went with them at the start, but it’d be nice if Colombia won it. Basically anyone but Brazil and I’ll take it though.
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