The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

I like how american t.v. analysts are treating the 1-1 tie with England as if the USA actually earned that goal. Lolz.

lmao…

I’ll be the first to say that American analysts suck hard (I would have turned the sound off if Martin Tyler wasn’t doing the game, Harkes is ‘ok’).

But I don’t remember anyone on the broadcast saying it had any fault of the U.S. team scoring that goal.

On ESPN radio the lead was “U.S. gets early Christmas gift” all day after the game.

England shouldve won

Germany raped hard

and as far as i know, africans REALLY LOVE THEIR HORNS!

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Well, at least the English Media doesn’t have to look for a scapegoat now.

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Lol, shit is so annoying >.>

Well, the segment of ‘analysis’ I was watching had them saying that “now that the U.S. have made it clear they can hang with England” or some shit like that, seemed to me to imply that they felt the draw was earned. Not really a massive deal, but I lol’d a bit. Let’s go Japan today!

The Mexican announcers were saying that the USA has earned some respect across the world now – that because they at least held their own, they had done well that day.

ehhhhh

But yeah, I hope USA goes far, trolling the world sounds pretty dope.

speaking of japan, i was watching a segment on television last night and honda said(re: japan vs cameroon) “most probably we cant play beautiful football. we are probably only going to get 1-2 good chances and we need to make sure we finish them well”… and then from the cameroon side, mboma was interviewed for his opinion and he said “obviously cameroon has the physical advantage and star players like etoo, but japan has the uniformity(or summin), that most of them play together in japan etc while cameroon players are from all over europe and only one in cameroon… and our defense is kinda wack lol”…

im rootin for cameroon btw. japan been really wack.

i support brazil though to win the WC, been a supporter since a kid. though german is a good candidate too… i cant help but LOL when i hear/read “england, one of the favs to win the WC”… like, seriously? lmao

I remember the days when Japan used to be a genuine threat to teams, what the hell happened? I’ll be rooting for Cameroon aswell.

There’s mass discussion about the vuvuzelle on the radio (5Live), there were some really ignorant callers (mostly english lol) they interviewed some fans from other nations. Argentines all hate it, Brazilians like it but the guy was saying that they have them at home but they only use them before and after the game, during the game they cheer and sing for their team. There were some people that actually played tunes rather than just playing the monotone sound. A Ghanian called in absolutely hated it, he said it wasn’t African purely south african, the African Nations Cup showed what african football should sound like.

One man made the point that before the world cup stadiums weren’t filled so the vuvuzelle created a good atmosphere, but now pretty much every person has a vuvuzelle so it’s too much.

lmao, I hope every single goal the USA scores in this World Cup has a “fluk-ey” element to it and they win the World Cup in a 1-0 win by another mistake by a goalkeeper. The epic trolling that would commence would make me… happy.

And what would be the biggest troll element if all of that happened?

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Most of us still wouldn’t give a fuck about soccer…

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I always thought taking a sport the world called football and renaming it soccer was a good troll. If an American and a European were talking, the American could say soccer and the European would still understand what he was talking about.

Also, those horns and their constant noise is probably the dumbest thing in sports since the NBA introduced a new game ball. It’s like listening to a swarm of bees/locusts for 90 minutes. They need to be banned.

Okay it’s official funniest world cup ever! Nice one Denmark :rofl:

Man being Japanese i HAVE to root for em, but i have 0 confidence in them scoring anything. They have been atrocious in the friendlies.

oh on another note too many of these fools close their eyes when going for a header.

Judging by the outpour of british anger on message boards, I’d say the “USA Wins 1-1” article is quite correct.

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I know the feeling; I’m South African-born, raised in New Zealand and live in Australia. I get to root for 3 teams with no hope!

The worst part about the GER/AUS game was that I got up at 4am to watch it. Then went to work on 3 hours sleep. I was actually somewhat entertained by how badly we got stomped; I like Germany as well, so no hard feelings. Except for the ref. He was the worst.

well if the aussies were in an easier group, id say they have hope. But bad luck has put them in the hardest group so their chances look dismal. Ghana’s forwards were looking speedy and impressive during the serbia game so AUS will have one hell of a time.

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Unless something terrible happens, I’m pretty sure that can be shoved up their butts anytime from now on 8D.


But yeah, the ref from last night was bad. Trigger happy. Also, they keep showing the Hand of God? goal. Do they have instant replay etc now?