The Official World Cup 2018 Megathread

[Boozad]

Passed out after the England match and have now just woke up wide awake. Going to be a long night.

Respect.

 

[jd1981]

Passed out after the England match and have now just woke up wide awake. Going to be a long night.

Heat or over indulging?

 

[SSB]

Heat or over indulging?

Definitely the latter.

 

[jd1981]

Definitely the latter.

Plenty of water and paracetamol should help doesn’t help it’s going to pushing 90 degrees tomorrow.

 

[White Wolf]

I'm fucked so can't give a real analysis of the game. Set piece goal again though - that Allan Russell is an absolute legend.

 

[jd1981]

Just glad we’ve gone deep into a tournament usually by now we’re claiming a 2nd international team we want to win. I was nervous today god knows how I’ll be Wednesday night don’t think I’ll be concentrating much at work. Just happy for the generation in their 20’s who’ve seen us get this far now instead of listening to the rest of us go on about 90 or 96, or if you’re Frank or Parkin 66.

 

[Del Woppio]

At this point it's basically anybody's tournament, isn't it. I mean we all know Belgium are the best team, then France, then Croatia....but it's irrelevant now. There's going to be three games of football where one team is a bit better than the other but the winner is almost random. We could get battered by or we could beat any of these fuckers. Don't get me wrong I think we'd be the worst world cup winning team ever, but that doesn't matter now. Fuck me. The world cup semi finals! Fuck!

 

[Tony Towner]

Teams have won tournaments before by effectively playing for penalties, we'd be the first to do it playing for corners.

 

[Sniffer]

I hope the weather cools down for Wednesday so I can keep the windows and doors shut. When the Mrs can shout 'goal' from her chair in the back garden before Alli has even headed the ball, there is something wrong.

 

[jd1981]

Don’t agree we’d be the worse winners ever, you could label that at many World Cup winning sides. No doubt when we look back on this in years to come people will throw the comment you beat nobody to get as far as you did.

 

[Tredman]

Brazil game aside germany weren't amazing, they were well trained and fucntional. Bit like us.

 

[Jinky]

We can beat Croatia. Central midfield aside they’re not all that. I reckon they’ll be worried about playing us too.

 

[Sniffer]

We can beat Croatia. Central midfield aside they’re not all that. I reckon they’ll be worried about playing us too.

The bookies have us as clear favourites. They've not been wrong so far.....

 

[Sniffer]

Don’t agree we’d be the worse winners ever, you could label that at many World Cup winning sides. No doubt when we look back on this in years to come people will throw the comment you beat nobody to get as far as you did.

It's hardly Japan 2002 when Germany beat Paraguay, USA and South Korea in the knock out stages.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The bookies have us as clear favourites. They've not been wrong so far.....

The guys at Ladbrokes aren't wrong often.

The last two teams we've played in semi-finals:

-----------------Illgner-----------------

-------Kohler---Augenthaler---Buchwald----

Berthold---Thon---Matthäus--Hässler----Brehme

------------Völler------Klinsmann-----------------


--------------------Köpke--------------------------

---------Babbel-----Sammer-----Helmer-----------

Reuter-----Möller----Eilts----Freund-------Ziege

-------------Scholl------Kuntz-----------------------

This Croatia team are nowhere near that level or indeed what you would normally face at this stage. I thought they were crap in both knockout games, totally out of ideas for the most part.

 

[jd1981]

It's hardly Japan 2002 when Germany beat Paraguay, USA and South Korea in the knock out stages.

Oh absolutely it’s not something I would hold against this side as was looking at fans of countries near by.

 

[Keef]

So do we reckon England France final? Or will we have to do Belgium to stop Martinez being a World Cup winner? I think England France final,and the sun will be banging on about remember Agincourt,Waterloo,Napoleon forgetting all about 1066 when the French invaded and won.
Wonder what odds you'd have got on Belgium,France,Croatia and England semi finals at the start?

 

[nimrod]

i reckon England - France final too. i still think Belgium should be better than they are, and maybe they'll finally emerge into a great team now that they really have to. or perhaps i'm underestimating them after a good performance from Brazil 2nd half. i find Lukaku very hit and miss though he's obviously a match winner when he gets it right.

 

[visage]

https://twitter.com/Steve_Crossman/status/1015638489747066880?s=19

Lol

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

OMG I am.dying this morning. Don't remember the Russia game at all I was seeing 2 balls on the TV. I.passed out at one point and woke up around full time