Russia World Cup 18

[El Rojo]

Maybe I missed something, but why were they booing Vida when he touched it in the first half?

It was the Russian ‘neutrals’ - he played for Dinamo Kiev and made some ‘Viva Ukraine’ type comment in a video put up on social media from the dressing room after the Russian game.

 

More offensive to me was the fact that he appeared to be drinking a bottle of Budweiser in the clip.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

West Ham fans with "Keep calm and blame Totttenham" pics all over twitter etc.

 

Just another reason why find all this "all together for ingerlund" shite so hard to swallow.

They won it in 66, dontcha know.

(It gets mentioned once or twice. A minute.)

[Anubis]

Cheers for all the answers on Vida.

[dockers_strike]

I'm torn here.

I would neg the "someone" because it makes you sound like an overwrought middle-aged woman on Facebook; but I should rep the calling out of Turdy's overused arse-flapping gif. No need, CT.

 

Apologies. I thought it was another unwritten rule here that naming a person in a post was a sign of being argumentative and I was just engaging in some banter. Or is that against a rule as well.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Been saying all tournament that Engerland rely purely on set pieces amd scraps. Zero creativity in midfield, and BOOM.

 

The best team won.

[an tha]

They won it in 66, dontcha know.

Unsurprisingly enough they are bleating on about that...

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Cheers for all the answers on Vida.

It might have been that they turned against him because they heard he was loca?

[Anubis]

It might have been that they turned against him because they heard he was loca?

Yeah, I'm gonna have to red card you on that one.

[Captain Turdseye]

Haha. Gimpo. How old are you again. 15 is it. OK.

Still waiting patiently, again, for you to put forward some clarity on your comments after it’s been pointed out that you’re talking out of your arse.

 

Dickface.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Apologies. I thought it was another unwritten rule here that naming a person in a post was a sign of being argumentative and I was just engaging in some banter. Or is that against a rule as well.

Forum politics is tricky. As long as we remember to call Stronts a cunt and Hades a mass murderer, we'll be fine.

[dockers_strike]

Still waiting patiently, again, for you to put forward some clarity on your comments after it’s been pointed out that you’re talking out of your arse.

 

Dickface.

 

Haha. 12 year old then.

[dockers_strike]

Forum politics is tricky. As long as we remember to call Stronts a cunt and Hades a mass murderer, we'll be fine.

 

OK. Noted.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to red card you on that one.

Totally worth it.

[Captain Turdseye]

Haha. 12 year old then.

Nazi lyrics. Where are they?

 

Spunk trumpet.

[SasaS]

Think it was more about the difference in quality (team and players) myself. England had no plan apart from knock it back to Pickford to kick long, and hope for set pieces. In fact I'm not sure I've seen a game plan from England in the whole tournament. Croatia had Modric who has been fantastic- England players couldn't get it off him- as well as Rakitic, Perisic others all better than England players. Even Mandzukic played really well despite being about 50 years old- made Kane look like a callow youth.

I like Southgate, and a semifinal is not to be sniffed at, even with having the easiest path imaginable, but without any coherent pattern of play I doubt if they will do as well next time.

I thought Perišić was terrible until he scored and felt Croatia were on the ropes in the first half. Didn't think they had much of a game plan themselves. They are just incredibly tough and resilient.

[Aventus]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to red card you on that one.

Good idea for the forum, shit puns get you a 24 hour ban, good puns get 24 hour membership.

[dockers_strike]

Nazi lyrics. Where are they?

 

Spunk trumpet.

 

Goodness, Your age is going down by the minute. 10 year old is it. So you admit they used them. I only said allegedly.

 

Anyway sonny I am not going to tie up a thread with an argument with a child. I will send you a pm.

[El Rojo]

They are just incredibly tough and resilient.

Even more so than I thought before the game. Can only applaud them, proper warriors.

[RoboRiise]

Second half they had us sussed out, and we either didn't have a plan B, or our plan B was so blatantly unoriginal. By making the same subs we always do, it was easy for Croatia to predict us.

 

Southgate seems to be sufficiently married to his formation that he'll almost always use his subs to just put fresh legs on.  That game was crying out for some more pace up top to try to force Croatia to play on the back foot a little more but no, we'll stick with Harry Kane and watch Maguire storming past him with the ball.  He was the only player who looked to have a sense of urgency in extra time.

 

Pickford can walk out of this tournament with his head held high, fair play to the lad.  Well unless he puts through his net three times in the 3rd place playoff but surely nobody cares about that anyway.

[Captain Turdseye]

Someone talking about moral high ground while ignoring one team allegedly been singing nazi songs. Perhaps the arse wipe would like to do some research on the balkans. Probably not eh.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Even more so than I thought before the game. Can only applaud them, proper warriors.

Tyldesley said something at the start of the second half about it being the time for "war horses". He was referring to England, the least experienced squad in the whole tournament.

[TheHowieLama]

Cheers for all the answers on Vida.

 

Exactly -- he wanted a war of words -- a Guerra!!!

 

That makes him Vida Guerra in my mind. Well not exactly him, but still good.

[Aventus]

Imagine being with a bird for a few years, love her to bits, go on loads of holidays all around Europe and everything, experience highs you haven't felt in years, then you find out she cheated on you and you're devastated. Heart broken.

 

Then a couple of months later you meet and start seeing another bird, she doesn't come close to your ex but there's one or two parts of the new girl that remind you a bit of her so you keep on seeing her anyway. You try your best to muster up the enthusiasm to love her but you are still a bit sore after the last one, and part of you reckons you'll just end up heartbroken again so you remain quite aloof throughout.

 

Then the new bird cheats on you too, you're a bit disappointed but ultimately not that arsed, she wasn't as fit as the ex, and you kind of expected it was gonna happen anyway so you made the right decision to not get emotionally attached again.

 

 

That's how I feel about England after our Champions League run.

 

It's also a scarily accurate account of my previous relationships.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Fucksake, Turdy.

If I wanted to see flappy arseholes at every turn I'd go to an owl sanctuary or watch a DVD of " Defending Corners The Brendan Rodgers Way".

[sir roger]

England have done far better than I expected them to even though the draw has obviously favoured them. In a way tonight may be a blessing in disguise as I suspect France might have made us look silly in the final whereas a losing semi-final gives you something to work on.

 

Southgate has made a good start but he needs a bit more grunt going forward , Sterling & Lingaard work really hard but lack a cutting edge to my mind. He also needs to find some tactical flexibility as he didn't really react at all in the parts of games when we were struggling. I was astonished that he never made any attempt to shore up the wings tonight when Croatia were getting more and more success there & a goal started to look imminent. Alli & Hendo were fucked by the second half as they were patrolling half the width of the pitch each.

 

7.5 / 10