Wullie

Christ, France are dull.

God I fucking love the World Cup. So gutted Iran missed that chance at the end. Ronaldo going out and Messi going through tomorrow would have been some narrative.

Feel sick that I didn't have the early double on. Need over 1.5 in all 4 for £45 as well and the bloody Saudis have just missed a pen.

Got exactly the same 4-fold on, 301/1. Also have the pair as the double and singles, worth about £450 all in. Kicking myself I didn't also have the Salah/Suarez double, just singles.

Has there ever been a crapper WC hat trick? Not knocking him, phenomenal penalties, but two pens and a deflection.

Japan have still got a very good chance of going through like, and a fairly decent chance of winning the group, they'd be the dream opponents despite the fact they're quite a bit better than I expected.

Fucking useless Polish bastards.

We need another goal now to top the group with a draw vs Belgium I think.

Just like last night, had a bet builder for £55 that just needed Sweden or draw, thankfully learned my lesson from then and put a fiver on Germany at 12s when they won the free kick, surprised they let me tbh. Also had a fiver on that daft cunt Larsson to be booked which he obliged at 90+7.

One fucking corner again, Jesus, needed it for about twenty minutes.

This is why I can't do first scorer bets, had Lukaku, Hernandez, Son and Lonzano today.

Needed one more pissing corner.

My bet builder involving Batshauyi next goalscorer looks misplaced.

Don't know how you do it Paully. Is it almost exclusively goalscorers you bet on?

Removing the ability of the referee to punish time wasting would arguably increase the level of shithousery that goes on late in games, not decrease it. It's not the time lost that's the issue, it's the niggly stopping of play and the breaking of momentum. A 30 minute clock won't stop this but it will reduce the referee's power to stop it happening. Tim Vickery makes a very convincing case on this.

I just needed Serbia win or draw to bring in a bet builder, useless pricks. Xhaka hopelessly tame as well, thank God for Mitro.

We're not even halfway through the groups yet.

The more I see of the tournament favourites, the more impressed I am with how England played. They ended up making heavy weather of it due to the penalty but they created more in the first 20 minutes against Tunisia than some of these sides have in two games.

Aye I know what you mean, been very lenient so far. Having said that I'm still having whoever from CR will be up against Neymar, think it will be Gamboa, kicking him up in the air has proved a useful tactic at World Cups and he'll be diving every two minutes anyway.

http://global.espn.com/football/fifa-world-cup/4/blog/post/3538471/argentinas-world-cup-struggles-not-surprising-given-the-sides-widespread-problemslack-of-direction

Fancy a Xhaka red at 18s given the Serbia/Kosovo thing, he's a walking card at the best of times.

I think Argentina lost almost every qualifier Messi didn't appear in. It's just a really poor all round side. Players like Aguero carry more blame than Messi, he's one of the best and most prolific strikers in the world and yet he doesn't look any better than the ringers from Boca.

Gutted for Messi but not surprised. Tim Vickery's been adamant for ages that Argentina are absolutely shit and by God he's right. Midfield's a total joke and the less said about the defence, the better.

Quiet you.

Fuck off Mbappe, you absolute cunt. That's Giroud FGS out the window. Just leave it you toad.