The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

lol.

just about ready to disown my english heritige at this point.

i predict

slovinia top
usa second

england and algeria out.

Heh, that’s totally true. We probably have the best players in the world, yet we have a shitty team. There’s no plan other than praying that one of our stars shines and makes something awesome.

It didn’t work well in the elims, but so far luck has been on our side on the World Cup. I hope that luck doesn’t run out because we have nothing else on our side.

Oh man, early goal from Australia…yet another goalie mistake, :shake:.

The ball took an unexpected bounce I think, maybe that’s why he fumbled it like that.

Edit: O.o red card for hand ball like that? I don’t think it was intentional. It’ll probably get recalled like almost every other red card so far lol.

Clearly a red card, he stopped a goal scoring opportunity with his arm

It wasn’t intentional, that’s what I was getting at.

Definitely deserved a yellow imo. But idk about red.

You get red for goal scoring oppotunities

His arm was clearly back, his chest was clearly out, but w/e im biased
They played awesomely for only having 10 men on the field - our only hope is to beat serbia (with our run of bad luck, not likely), and have either ghana beat germany, or germany absolutely smash ghana 3/4-0
so yeh, we’re done, disappointing WC for aus

BBC’s HD definition slow motion sideline cams say differently :wonder:

:rofl: [media=youtube]2sD_8prYOxo[/media]

and a Special vid for Vuvuzela haters

Why stop at a vid?

http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.shoryuken.com

:u: Thats a winner, no more Rick rolls, vuvuzela rolls from here on out :rofl:

If only you could mask the URL

Referee Koman Coulibaly could face expulsion from the world cup!

http://soccer.fanhouse.com/2010/06/18/referee-koman-coulibaly-could-face-expulsion-from-world-cup/

Hope he gets the book thrown at him. Guatemalan ref in the Italy game also pulled yellow card when it wasn’t really a foul. ITaly tied the game cause of that Shrug

What’s with bad refs this time around?

Meh. Not like Altidore didn’t dive for the free kick… The ref was just rubbish all together.

I’m glad that the officiating this world cup has been of a higher standard that what we’d expect though, I don’t think a lot of refereeing mistakes are gonna ruin much this year.

So the French team has basically imploded.

Couldn’t handle the awesome that Mexico brought. :cool:

Link to the drama llama.

Anyone watching the Italy game on Univision? The announcer who doesn’t scream GOL has it in for that official. He’s calling him an idiot and everything.

Lol, epic draw by New Zealand!

Anyone catching the Brazil vs Cote today? I swear, Brazil better not struggle like they did with N. Korea…

That is pretty much the best “victory” ever, for NZ, in football. Great defence, and Paston just did such a great job defending the goal. Its a shame that one shot in the 2nd half was off target, if we actually beat Italy, that would have been the greatest day ever.

Even if Brazil “struggles” against Ivory Coast, it’s not like that would be such a bad thing.

Ivory Coast is a good team, and Drogba is going to start that game.

I still think Brazil will win, maybe 2-1 again or maybe a 3-2 victory. If they win this game they clinch a spot for the next stage.

In other news, French team are refusing to practice because of Anelka’s expulsion like some protest, lolol.

Lmao omg I had to rewind my DVR to hear that…awesome.