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World Cup Day 31: THE BIG ONE
So, after weeks of excitement, goals, skills, thrills, bites and universal condemnation of Mesut Özil, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived – the third-place play-off!!!
Will it be people’s champion and avant-garde heat-mapper Fred or panto baddie and world’s sprightliest pensioner Arjen Robben who gets to lift the coveted bronze medal? Will there be Dutch genius, a capella boos and Brazilian tears or prayers of thanks, a fitting memorial for the departed Neymar and Brazilian tears?
Only really posting because I wanted to draw attention to this – looks like Roncrete Vlaar was only a few millimetres away from scoring his penalty after all...
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/10/ron-vlaar-penalty-world-cup-semi-final-holland-argentina
Now that really would have been WORLD CUP!
Great article
Did Vlaar's penalty cross the line?!?
...
No.
and it him before rebounding back towards the goal.
It's heartening to see the Guardian catching up with the latest journalistic trends though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I quite like how they've build the article around two youtube videos
both of which have been copyright banned.
Assume Thiago Silva will hold up Fred's shirt before kickoff
to prove he's dead.
brighton-partick thistle for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMOMicMNk2U
think tonight's match will be good
in Spain?
Blatantly stolen from tom_from_sparks
but this news report about North Korea's journey through to the semi-finals is well worth a moment of your time. Big fan of how popular Kim Jong Un is with the Brazilian crowds in the fan parks.
You can get an translation if you turn on captions and switch Korean to English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJoRZOK18Fg&feature=youtu.be
hmm...
http://www.themediablog.co.uk/the-media-blog/2014/07/is-north-korea-faking-a-world-cup-victory-.html
https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/488083929686372352/photo/1
score prediction
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Netherlands will win 5-1. what do you guys think?
2-1 to Brazil
and /that/ is why i'm not a regular betting man.
2-2 Normal time
Then 4-2 aet to Netherlands. I've #kingtipper'd Van Persie to help himself to 2 goals. So expect him to endure a frustrating match :(
This is such an indignity
Chiles hasn't even turned up ffs
And they've forgotten to put the mics on
Let the poor Van Gaal go
Actually convinced this is a fix for Brazil
Mark. My. Words.
Dive for a penalty and then an offside goal. Told you it was a fix.
i'm going to play haxball probably
http://www.haxball.com/?roomid=~2a518dec40d069457771d92a403a7c9cb5a5dc592a19f04c11e7bd99619a11e9f&pass=1
Should have gone.
^
Really irks me when that happens, 'cos it's basically a ref inventing rules to avoid doing anything scary. There's no plausible way to read the rules and give a yellow there.
Clark Carlisle is a shitcunt
Saying Brazil have suffered
Because they don't have a player who scores six or seven goals a tournament, of whom there have been about 12 in the entire history of the world cup.
Fuck off back to dictionary corner, Clarke.
Would really like it if they changed the rule to that
for denying goal scoring opportunity outside the box
Dutch M Bison!
Brazil are SO fucking divey.
Hope it's 7-1 again.
That bit where Oscar simply stopped playing because the defender laid a hand on him
Fuck off mate.
*Robben
a plague on BT Sport
Was just wondering how that ad was playing out
with Arsenal fans...
Pretty galling
The nerve to actually sample Michael Owen commentary. This country.
Q. How to make Ian Wright seem like even more of a petulant child?
A. Make him wear pyjamas.
Jo or Fred?
Going with Fred. Better the dingus you don't know.
ian wright is so shit.
imagine being stuck in a room with him and alan shearer. shearer would bore you to the edge of sleep, and then wright would be all up in your face and wake you up every time. you would slowly go mad.
One of the things I've really enjoyed about this world cup
Is the continued use of "open his legs" as a synonym for running fast. "Here's a chance for Robben to open his legs..."
this is quite interesting
https://twitter.com/alex_eurosport/status/488067014364524544
would probably rather have that +neymar, tiago silva and oscar i guess than what they actually have
Isn't Gomes a Watford player now?
Not sure there was a lot they could have done about Diego Costa either, but surely Pato, Fabiano or Leandro Damiao (who I've never seen play by the way) would have been better than the heat map brigade.
hahahahahaha
this ref is hopeless :D
Is that the fist booking for simulation?
Amazing!
have gone from hating the 3rd-place match
to thinking that both teams who end up in it, probably deserve such a disgrace of a match
i think clarke carlisle wants to marry van gaal
not sure though
The prospect
of a Chelsea-esque United getting their piles licked by commentators for bringing on Lindegaard in the 92nd minute: Not appealing.