The Cringe/Hate Thread - World Cup Edition

[Galfon]

'Golden Boot' - referred to about 43 times in post-match discussions by Messrs. Lineker & Shearer yesterday.
It's of piffling importance to the tournament, teams and most players ..but incredibly exciting to the odd few that have been in the mix over the years.
Swear-box please ..donations to charity.

[morepork]

As ever with football, the pantomime injuries resulting from "contact".

[Galfon]

The most odd belief by some teams that the national jersey acts like a cloak of invisibility on defending corners and set-pieces, such that bear-hugs, karate-chops and judo-throws, in some cases combined or with multiple assailants, are all perfectly ok on the basis that none of the match officials or VAR team will see anything
illegal whatsoever.

[Galfon]

VAR abuse, good idea but make sure the refs. are up to it.
The delays for non-incidents and the Iran pen decision v. Por. were shocking.

[Numbers]

Alan Shearer, a smug twat with very limited intelligence and a titanic ego.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Ageing nearly-beens adopting a faux-sympathetic/apologetic tone towards the emotional lapse of a tortured former-genius - and then showing the irrelevant footage at least twice more just to make sure none of us missed it while said tortured genius was being carted off to casualty to have what's left of his organs 'decompensated'.



Stick to selling crisps ye beardy Jimmy Hill Wannabe.

[WaspInWales]

Vuvuzelas/airhorns.

Fuck right off.

[WaspInWales]

The whole 'It's coming home' pandemonium...

It's great that we convincingly beat a team that we were expected to beat convincingly by a scoreline that was perhaps 1 or 2 goals more than we were expected to win by.

On the back of the expected result, the media have whipped up a frenzy, so when we get knocked out at the next stage, or stage after that, there will be tears, tantrums and much beer spilled.

It's coming home.

Is it fuck!

[Mikey Brown]

Jesus, yeah. Saw a bunch of guys singing that song in the street with not a trace of irony or embarrassment. It was surreal.

Also referring to everything post-group as the World Cup finals is really dumb. I know they are the final group of games, and they’re knockouts, but it just seems like an excuse for English people to make it sound like we’ve reached a higher stage in the tournament.

[rowan]

Buttock-clenchingly cringeworthy cliches in the reports, like he had a smile as wide as the Panama Canal when a Panama player scored against England. Aside from the fact his team was 6 goals down at the time, it strikes me that the Panama Canal is not a particularly wide body of water anyway.

What will the headlines be for England-Belgium? England meets its Waterloo? The Belgians were as smooth as chocolate? Apparently Walloons v Buffoons has already been done in the Belgian press

Chances were sprouting up all over the place?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Wimin pundits!

Its like asking a woman's opinion on stacking a dishwasher. They may have done it; some of them may have even done it regularly. But they still can't be considered a credible authority on it until one of them has done it to a standard that blokes manage intuitively.

[Mellsblue]

Wimin pundits!

Its like asking a woman's opinion on stacking a dishwasher. They may have done it; some of them may have even done it regularly. But they still can't be considered a credible authority on it until one of them has done it to a standard that blokes manage intuitively.

[rowan]

It is invariably referred to as the Men's World Cup in the American news reports. Fine, but if they want to be so precise, how about calling it the Men's Soccer World Cup - because there happen to be a few other varieties around

[Galfon]

Roly-polys when falling to ground, to exaggerate the severity of the alleged challenge...is it number of rolls or distance travelled that is the main measure ?
Neymar (Bra) winning at moment.

[rowan]

Roly-polys when falling to ground, to exaggerate the severity of the alleged challenge...is it number of rolls or distance travelled that is the main measure ?
Neymar (Bra) winning at moment.

Neymar does tend to roll around in agony if anyone so much as touches his hair. But worse is when the players do actually commit the foul then take a dive to dry and convince the ref otherwise.

[Mikey Brown]

Scratch what I said before. I've finally actually just watched 5 minutes of this thing and the whole sport is awful. I know it's a cliche, but I'd forgotten that falling around all over the place is actually most of the game.

[Mikey Brown]

Sorry sports fans. That was too much wasn’t it.

[morepork]

I like the way the players get right up in the refs face squealing and waving their arms about with pained looks on their stupid faces to protest every single decision made. Refs should have tasers to quieten the little princesses down.

[Galfon]

What have we missed now ?
The particular South American version of injurus feignus maximus appears to be holding the face/head/eye as if in receipt of a full-on belt from my missus, when video reply shows only contact with mainly very tiny oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and the odd midge.
Card these charlatans.

[rowan]

The video replay available to refs. That screwed up Senegal's game, in my opinion. Several times now the ref appeared to make the right call, then went to the video replay and came back with the wrong call. This is not just my view. Reports in the media have been saying the same thing. For certain it did the African teams no favors. & to have the referee trudge all the way over to a video off the pitch and back again is just unnecessary dramatics and more stress for the players and fans to deal with. Possibly the most stupid innovation FIFA has ever come out with.

[Galfon]

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

[bruce]

Football



I'm only watching it so that the Mrs won't find me jobs to do.

[cashead]

It is invariably referred to as the Men's World Cup in the American news reports. Fine, but if they want to be so precise, how about calling it the Men's Soccer World Cup - because there happen to be a few other varieties around

Probably because the women's tournament is a big deal for them, what with their women's team being the dominant side internationally? Heaven forbid they clarify that it's the mens' teams playing at the moment. Can't be having that now, can we?

[cashead]

I like the way the players get right up in the refs face squealing and waving their arms about with pained looks on their stupid faces to protest every single decision made. Refs should have tasers to quieten the little princesses down.

Fucking hate that, but I'm pretty used to diving, and to be honest, I can sort of see it as a selfless act of a player trying to get their team into an advantageous position.

[belgarion]

It is invariably referred to as the Men's World Cup in the American news reports. Fine, but if they want to be so precise, how about calling it the Men's Soccer World Cup - because there happen to be a few other varieties around

Calling it the soccer world cup. It's the Association Football World Cup. Soccer is just an Americanisation cos they
can't tell the difference between a game that is predominantly played by kicking a ball with your foot so is called football&
one which isplayed by either throwing or carrying a ball yet is still called football. At least other variation of football eg rugby football, Gaelic
football, Aussie rules football have the decency to use the qualifier in the description of their sport & not just call it football