The Cringe/Hate Thread - World Cup Edition

[Mellsblue]

Just been down to the rugby club with my boys to chuck a ball about. The eldest missed a place kick he’d normal slot easily. He went down on his knees with head in hands......we had a very serious chat about not copying footballers.

[rowan]

Suarez

Amazing how a guy who runs around biting people and boasting about how he cheated Ghana out of a semi-final in 2010 goes down squealing like a baby any time somebody so much as brushes by him ...

[rowan]

Keep the bibbed non-participitants off the pitch during goal celebrations...don't want this ugly fad started by Arg and taken on by Fra to become the norm.

I see what you mean. Uruguay has them too - like freaking male cheerleaders

[Galfon]

This is what VAR will do...
Blatant drag-downs by Russia in last minute.
Home team, so play on

[SerjeantWildgoose]

That is nonsense. They might have been wearing white shirts and speaking Russian and the pulling down in the last minute was blatant but there’s absolutely no evidence to prove that Russians hauled them Spaniards to the ground in the Russian penalty area with the game tied and only seconds to go.

What could the Russians possibly stand to gain by hauling the Spaniards down in an election year? If you ask me the Spaniards probably hauled themselves down - in fact they got up on their feet so quickly I doubt they were even hauled down at all!

This is all a western conspiracy to discredit Putin.

[Numbers]

That is nonsense. They might have been wearing white shirts and speaking Russian and the pulling down in the last minute was blatant but there’s absolutely no evidence to prove that Russians hauled them Spaniards to the ground in the Russian penalty area with the game tied and only seconds to go.

What could the Russians possibly stand to gain by hauling the Spaniards down in an election year? If you ask me the Spaniards probably hauled themselves down - in fact they got up on their feet so quickly I doubt they were even hauled down at all!

This is all a western conspiracy to discredit Putin.

It was worth the poor decision to see the look on Ramos's face

[Galfon]

Playing the grand finals of a winter sport built on non-stop lung-bursting endeavour and endless flogging of limb and sinew, in sweltering 30 degree heat, tippy- tappying about in slippers, pained anguish on the act of falling over....I suppose it's getting ready for Oman.

[rowan]

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Ye wouldn’t want to be them Colombian lads going home after missing a couple of penalties. The English make Pizza Hut adverts with their gonks that miss; the Colombians tend to shoot theirs.

[Galfon]

Scuffing up the penalty spot vigorously
before the opponent takes his kick is a new one - I wonder if he thought no-one saw him with attention diverted to the players squabbling with the ref.?
( England's high-pressure air hose with spring mechanism in '96 at Wembley was much more effective at putting McAllister off..)

[rowan]

Bragging Poms. By the comments I'm reading on the internet right now you'd think England had already won the tournament and the other 7 teams were just incidental.

[Galfon]

Out for a late night stroll with the missus lst night, 4 fat blokes were stuffing their faces outside a pizza shop...complete strangers.One looked up and declared
'It's coming home guys, football's coming home! '...and he kept muttering this between mouthfulls until we turned the corner.

[rowan]

Jeremy Corbyn says there'll be a national holiday when England wins the World Cup; like this is a foregone conclusion now that England has squeezed by Colombia on penalties in the round of 16. I believe that's called blatant bandwagoning.

[rowan]

If England win the World Cup , Premier League commentary will be like: "World Cup winner Jordan Henderson wins the tackle" "Eric Dier who won the World Cup passes the ball forward" "Young World cup winner Rashford makes a run behind the defense" Ashley Young who helped England win the World Cup falls down under a challenge from Van Dijk, whose country didn't even make it to Russia...

Fortunately that remains an almighty and somewhat unlikely If

Decent chance of making the final tho, because all the good teams are on the other side of the draw . . .

[Galfon]

Gary Neville 'I have a problem with the Goalie..' #23..
Don't think he'll be bothered ...
He tried to save it, he failed and will certainly try harder next time.

[morepork]

If England win the World Cup , Premier League commentary will be like: "World Cup winner Jordan Henderson wins the tackle" "Eric Dier who won the World Cup passes the ball forward" "Young World cup winner Rashford makes a run behind the defense" Ashley Young who helped England win the World Cup falls down under a challenge from Van Dijk, whose country didn't even make it to Russia...

Fortunately that remains an almighty and somewhat unlikely If

Decent chance of making the final tho, because all the good teams are on the other side of the draw . . .

Is the definition of good teams not defined by progression?

[morepork]

Racist.

[kk67]

Piers Morgan talking football on prime-time telly. ffs.

The man is a psychopath and he'd be in prison if it wasn't for him and Beccy Brooks knowing where all the bodies are buried.
Him, Jeremy Kyle and Judge Rinder. Watching ITV in the mornings is a procession of corporate psychopaths.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Watching TV in the morning?

What are ye? Unemployed, pregnant or just pulling a Statutory Sick Pay Stresser?

[kk67]

Watching TV in the morning?

What are ye? Unemployed, pregnant or just pulling a Statutory Sick Pay Stresser?

I have been taking a hiatus...not that it's yer fecking business.

They're all psychopaths, they're feeding the Wimmin with the psychopathy. They think it's normal.

[kk67]

Gary Neville 'I have a problem with the Goalie..' #23..
Don't think he'll be bothered ...
He tried to save it, he failed and will certainly try harder next time.

I like and am always impressed by both Brothers. Comparing them is daft...so we shouldn't.

[Galfon]

A somewhat downbeat end to a tremendously staged tournament with some great open games and surprises.
Forget all the crap about 'excitement' and 'most goals scored', the winners cheated themselves into a lead at a key stage in the game when a decent ref. would have carded the miscreant, and VAR brought about a dubious penalty soon after that would never have happened in normal running.Game over.International pen. takers will be licking their lips at the prospect of burgeoning career goal hauls with this innovation.

[rowan]

Var should go, yes. Waste of time. But I've already said my piece about that. Disappointing there was so much nitpicking from the US media over the staging of the event. I don't think I read one positive comment, while some of the negativity was completely unfounded. There is something profoundly juvenile about the US media. Sometimes it really seems as if it were written by high school kids.

[morepork]

US media coverage of the tournament has been overwhelmingly positive. Try not to let your own bias cloud your cut and paste.

[rowan]

Var should go, yes. Waste of time. But I've already said my piece about that. Disappointing there was so much nitpicking from the US media over the staging of the event. I don't think I read one positive comment, while some of the negativity was completely unfounded. There is something profoundly juvenile about the US media. Sometimes it really seems as if it were written by high school kids.

Of course, the US media is a sales industry which seeks to appeal to the redneck idiots which dominate its landscape.

From the pecks on the cheek that were described as sexual harassment to the claims Putin was exploiting the tournament to divert attention from Russia's political problems, the American press showed little but arrogance, hypocrisy and a complete lack of insight.