The Official World Cup 2018 Megathread

[Langers]

Cool penalty.

How many have been awarded thus far? There seems to be at least one a day! I don't recall disagreeing with any of them either.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Just ditched James for Kagawa in my dream team because the former wasn't starting, bonus.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Cool penalty.

How many have been awarded thus far? There seems to be at least one a day! I don't recall disagreeing with any of them either.

Nine penalties so far I think (seven scored).

Not sure what Sanchez was complaining about, it was going in mate, you handballed it.

 

[Sam-Wolf]

I'm of a different view than most, we should be winning games like this and had this been a friendly or qualifier and we played like that then most of us would be disappointed in the second half performance. The first half performance was excellent and I'm sure the finishing will improve (John Stones airshot??) but then this is Tunisia and we should be beating them comfortably. No excuses. .

While I agree that our second half performance wasn't great, surely we're past the opinion that England can just turn up and beat smaller teams comfortably, look at the Iceland result. Tunisia have proved themselves to be a half-decent team over the past year or so. We performed well in the first half, and overall better than the likes of France, who required quite a bit of luck really to secure their win against Australia, who I would say are potentially worse than Tunisia.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Polish blokes here are delighted at this start. They see Colombia as the main threat in their group.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Jesus Christ keeper. What the fuck was that?

 

[darlowolf64]

What are the Japanese players complaining to the Referee for? It's a mile over the line. Some footballers are thick as pig shit

 

[Nando]

Joe Hart and Rob Green eat your heart out. Absolutely horrendous stuff.

 

[The Bear]

I think last night they mentioned 9 out of 12 games had penalties with two being missed (Messi and ???).

So that'd make it 10 out of 13 now.

 

[darlowolf64]

I think last night they mentioned 9 out of 12 games had penalties with two being missed (Messi and ???).

So that'd make it 10 out of 13 now.

The guy who sent the ball into orbit...It still hasn't returned to earth yet

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think last night they mentioned 9 out of 12 games had penalties with two being missed (Messi and ???).

So that'd make it 10 out of 13 now.

Peru missed the other pen, can't remember the guy's name. Probably good for him that I can't because it was a shocker.

 

[The Bear]

Ah yeah. Peruvian fella? Quaver?

 

[Johnny75]

While I agree that our second half performance wasn't great, surely we're past the opinion that England can just turn up and beat smaller teams comfortably, look at the Iceland result. Tunisia have proved themselves to be a half-decent team over the past year or so. We performed well in the first half, and overall better than the likes of France, who required quite a bit of luck really to secure their win against Australia, who I would say are potentially worse than Tunisia.

I don't think anybody has a divine right to beat anybody else. What I'm saying is that we should be beating Tunisia given the talent and match up man for man and system for system. I don't think we should be elated at beating Tunisia.

The Iceland game was a disgraceful performance.

 

[nimrod]

Ah yeah. Peruvian fella? Quaver?

he was definitely "off note" with that pen!

I imagine Japan were complaining about the free kick award. very dodgy.

 

[White Wolf]

Free-kick looked dodgy to me.

 

[Langers]

Well this is a different level of punditry.... :icon_lol:

 

[Johnny75]

Well this is a different level of punditry.... :icon_lol:

Definitely different.

 

[Langers]

There's definitely an air of Partridge-ness with Dan Walker.

 

[White Wolf]

What is going on with this half-time shit?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's definitely an air of Partridge-ness with Dan Walker.

Would resent being called a dinosaur though, as he doesn't believe they ever existed.