The ONLY World Cup thread (merged)

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augie wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:57 am
Anyone looking for a laugh this monday morning should read this article - it seems to be a decent piece until you get down to the 9th player on the list, and then it becomes :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit:

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... ff-eusebio
Stop that now augie - you'll upset the UKIP ILoveAnyoneOnceTheyAreEnglish tottnumb fanboys 1989 and LeftyEwok. :shock:

:D :wink:

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Mexico are to the world cup, what Arsenal used to be in the Champions League. Last 16 and no further.

Uruguay are looking like a team that have a strong core and want to win this tournament. Brazil's only fault could be that they expect to win. Imagine how good a player Neymar would be if he didn't roll around every time anyone comes near him. He's still finished every match so he can never be that hurt.

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Nos89 wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:48 pm
Mexico are to the world cup, what Arsenal used to be in the Champions League. Last 16 and no further.

Uruguay are looking like a team that have a strong core and want to win this tournament. Brazil's only fault could be that they expect to win. Imagine how good a player Neymar would be if he didn't roll around every time anyone comes near him. He's still finished every match so he can never be that hurt.
It's the modern game mate. None or very very few of them are ever actually hurt. It's cheating plain and simple. You even see kids doing it nowadays. :oops:

If I could stop one thing in football it'd be the diving and the feigning injury thing.

Cue some poxtard with "that's two things". :roll:
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Nos89 wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:48 pm
Mexico are to the world cup, what Arsenal used to be in the Champions League. Last 16 and no further.

Uruguay are looking like a team that have a strong core and want to win this tournament. Brazil's only fault could be that they expect to win. Imagine how good a player Neymar would be if he didn't roll around every time anyone comes near him. He's still finished every match so he can never be that hurt.
Pundits today at our national tv said that Mexico in WC are like Arsenal in CL, they'll never go further than last 16...

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DB10GOONER wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:35 pm
augie wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:57 am
Anyone looking for a laugh this monday morning should read this article - it seems to be a decent piece until you get down to the 9th player on the list, and then it becomes :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit: :coffeespit:

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... ff-eusebio
Stop that now augie - you'll upset the UKIP ILoveAnyoneOnceTheyAreEnglish tottnumb fanboys 1989 and LeftyEwok. :shock:

:D :wink:
Should have had the likes Zico, Batistuta, Van Basten, Bergkamp but instead they went with the granny shagger.

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DB10GOONER wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:58 pm
Nos89 wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:48 pm
Mexico are to the world cup, what Arsenal used to be in the Champions League. Last 16 and no further.

Uruguay are looking like a team that have a strong core and want to win this tournament. Brazil's only fault could be that they expect to win. Imagine how good a player Neymar would be if he didn't roll around every time anyone comes near him. He's still finished every match so he can never be that hurt.
It's the modern game mate. None or very very few of them are ever actually hurt. It's cheating plain and simple. You even see kids doing it nowadays. :oops:

If I could stop one thing in football it'd be the diving and the feigning injury thing.

Cue some poxtard with "that's two things". :roll:
:lol:
I agree DB, diving is the devils work, and nearly every team in the top 20 of the world do it consistently, watching the Belgium/Japan game at the moment and any time someone goes near Hazard or De Bruyne they go down like they've been shot by a Barrett .50...... :censored:

Oh and that was two things you mentioned!! :rubchin:

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Still expect Belgium to get it done before the full time whistle but there's something suspect about them. :rubchin:

Seems like they can bottle it at any moment.

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Wtf? Japan are leading Belgium.

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They're 2 nil up. :shock:

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Belgium have some really great players but they can't perform as a team.

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Fuck up from spud vermin vertongen for 2nd goal!
Hope the spud bastards involved in other games don’t do something similar :wink:

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Looks like Martinez is about to play hoofball with Fellaini coming on.

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Don't know why Dembele isn't in midfield with KDB further forward. :roll:

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Belgium have come back from two nil down. :shock:

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SydneyGooner wrote:
Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:24 pm
Looks like Martinez is about to play hoofball with Fellaini coming on.
It’s called “tactics” we haven’t seen it at the Arsenal for 20 years :wink:

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