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[Football/Soccer] Thread about kickin' balls
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BE THERE OR BE SQUARE
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First to score wins
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
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Did you enjoy 90 minutes of England and Belgium jogging about at the end of the group stage giving a token effort to appear to be a game but trying not to actually win it?
Well you’re in luck because that’s what’s happening again Saturday
So its golden snitch rules, huh
They have a good few days to rest, I think they'll be feeling pretty good.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16346825.glasgow-is-running-out-of-croatia-shirts-as-scots-back-englands-semi-final-opponents/
Luca Modric has learned how to temporarily live outside time and does not currently experience fatigue. Unfortunately after the tournament is over, dude is gonna shrivel up like he chose the wrong grail.
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Second best meme I've seen since the final whsitle (yes I'm saying my shitty Scarlet Witch one is the best)
Set alarm for 5:30 am.
Wake at 5:29 anyway.
Walk dog.
Anthems.
Get Mr 5 and move him in blankets to sofa.
Sit in Bean Bag
Kick off.
Coming home status: it's.
Half time -> Breakfast
Feed Dog
Get up Mr 2 and move all children to beanbag.
Second Half
Coming Home status: drunk and on the wrong bus.
Mr 2 starts crying when daddy yells at TV.
Full Time
Feed Mr 2 Breakfast
Make lunch, pack work bag.
ET 1
Mr 5 gets overexcited and has to lie down in bed.
ET halftime
FASTEST SHOWER EVER
ET 2
Coming Home Status: Lolwhut
Wife proclaims herself sick.
I proclaim both children sick
She tells me to take dependent day and stay home from work
Call in.
Mr 5 comes back.
Final whistle.
Wall chart.
... find pants.
Jesus, I'm fucking exhausted already and I've only just got dressed.
Gross and petty. I’m Glaswegian but will always support any British side in a tournament.
(I will admit to being leery of an England victory but that’s because I don’t think the ‘Two World Wars and a World Cup’ mentality should be encouraged.)
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Keane's tenure on ITV was always going to end in bloodshed.
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Fortunately my manager doesn't follow football and is totally oblivious, so I'm probably safe.
Things change when Scotland votes to remain, twice, and it didn't help.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
We got the only seats without a view of the screen
Hearing but not seeing the match was agony
When was the last time we got into a semi-final? Not that I can remember. We won a penalty shootout. We beat Sweden. We fought Croatia to the bitter end, in the semis, against one of the most impressive WC teams I have ever seen. Got further than Germany, Brazil and Argentina!
We live in a divided country. But Gareth, Harry and the boys brought us together. A bunch of lads from the same places we are from. Harry Maguire grew up in the same city, walked the same streets as me. And it could never last. But it was beautiful, while it did. They fought so hard, they really believed, and that's all we ever wanted from them, that true and real passion.
It came home. We didn't win. But football came home anyway.
I can not escape, and I cannot forget
Southgate, you're the one
You still turn me on
Football's coming home again
When Mike Bassett was coach.
*kisses fingers like an italian chef*
as an Irishman, that goal certainly went in at a time
You got great players set for Qatar. Maybe football's coming home late.
I plastered New Order's World in Motion here and there. But it's their other World that sets the current mood.
But I'm happy Croatia is in and a team without a star can be in the finals.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
The English fans tend to have wild expectation and over estimation of their team and ability. At their worst, they are loud, obnoxious and boorish. They put their own team under immense pressure. And the team, while talented, generally isn't a real contender; they are dependable, capable of a few results and probably even a seeding, but little risk of making the final. And I'm just over how much noise there is, how much expectation the fans generate that is so out of proportion with their capabilities.
This England team was different. I did expect to dislike them, the noise, the expectation, the team that looks like it won't get more than a game or two past the group phase.
But that didn't happen. The fans started less muted and obnoxious than usual. The expectations seemed reasonable. And the team ... actually played well. Played beautifully, in fact; fluid, dynamic, capable of putting in goals. They looked... good. They were fun, and capable, and looked so dangerous at the set piece.
And sure, eventually the hype machine started up, and fuck if my colonial ass doesn't rankle at every mention of the Empire, but mostly people just seemed ... happy. It was hard not to be happy for them.
This England team isn't the England team I enjoyed rooting against. It isn't the team I could see was heading for an inevitable implosion or exit. This was an England team that I could enjoy watching, could play good football, could generate tension and results and put on a good match. And I was surprised how little I felt the need to cheer against them, and even just want to see them do well.
This was an amazing England team. They were a form team of the tournament and the semifinal spot was not undeserved. They came up against a rock in Croatia, and are unfortunate not to have made it further but had they progressed, they would not have been out of place in the final.
It's been a long time since any England team could say that. And it's been a long time since I ever thought that I would think that.
Well done, England. You performed, entertained, and even overcame my own prejudiced opinions. Come back again like this, please.
Eh I dunno if it's just that. Part of the irritation is down to the long standing mismatch between the commentary and the audience. For cost reasons (I guess?) they don't always run a local commentary team in Scotland for televised World Cup games. It's long been a running joke here the TV commentary is England centered even when they're not actually playing in the game and how much they'll mention that one time.
This really isn't meant as a criticism of English commentary. It's fine. They're just (unintentionally) playing to the wrong audience because someone cheapens out*. I'm sure Scottish commentary be just as enthusiastic about our national team too if we actually got to play in tournaments regularly because we weren't rubbish.
*It doesn't help our case for funding that our team has little international presence.
Also, France has played in 3 out of the last 6 World Cup Finals.
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What happened in Ireland in 1803?
I was being a mite facetious. There are plenty of historical reasons for Scots to refrain from cheering the English over anything. So I don't think the independence and Brexit votes play a heavy part.
I would expect that any cheering going on would be more about a regional thing (like people in the US rooting for Mexico) than because of pride in being England's hat.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
I am SO MAD about this. We somehow manage to get two games between two of the best sides in the tournament, and both matches are going to be indifferent garbage.
They can be great when there's a plucky underdog that punched way above its weight and still wants to run as far as they can to prove a point. Also a few times where it's been someone's farewell tour and they've just turned up and put on a final show, just because they could. And I think more teams should treat it as a chance to blood a squads younger players who might be core team members in 4 years time but maybe didn't feature much this campaign, to give some big stage experience and start building your next World Cup run right here, right now.