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Sounds like you have an excellent plan. Managed to get my hand on more tickets now for the games in Salvador. Whole family and couple friends going to every game now that will be played there. Can't wait.

God its only been two years and Pep's Barca have been forgotten already.... It's Cronky, man. He's probably forgotten where his teeth are twice in the last two minutes.

Oxlade playing really well.

Harsh on Mandzukic. Extremely underrated technical ability. And for whoever said Kroos is the best in that team, let me just say: He is underrated technically, but I said he's a level below most on that team, which he is. I don't think even think that's a negative thing to say. Most of the players for Bayern are technically fantastic. I really like Mandzukic. When the Ballon d'Or shortlist came out I felt he ought to be on it and got laughed off the forum for saying so. Can't remember a single one of his goals where I've thought "f*** me, not many strikers could have scored that". He just converts a lot of relatively simple chances, which isn't a dig necessarily - he's still got to finish them, but I've not seen him create many of his own goals or score goals I wouldn't expect him to score. Not sure that makes sense but I know what I mean. He's scored couple of excellent goals, a bicycle kick and a volley comes to mind. But that's not his biggest trait in my opinion. He just has excellent technical ability the same way Morientes had. It's not about dribbling, it's about knowing how the game is and knowing how to get into position and giving his team options up front.

Harsh on Mandzukic. Extremely underrated technical ability. And for whoever said Kroos is the best in that team, let me just say:

Yeah thanks for making me make a £4 profit. Why the fuck didn't you guys say this was more certain than anything ever before?

Yeah never going to happen. Just want to know whether I should be sitting here laughing when it fails or if I should not check this thread ever again. Put 150€ on it @1.83. Forum bets on horses usually crash and burn spectacularly. One was even too scared to show up (Xaloc). Just because of that I put £7 on it. £12 back Small bet for the normal forum bet that always fails.

:lol:

If he gets less than 5 games I'll kill someone.

Yeah never going to happen. Just want to know whether I should be sitting here laughing when it fails or if I should not check this thread ever again.

So is this quevega horse certain to gain a top 3 place?

I think footballers shouldn't be allowed to bet in their own league, but what's wrong except sheer stupidity and waste of money to bet on CL football or La Liga or w/e if you don't compete in those leagues?

Read that earlier. Mad situation that. A case of hiding in plain sight really. Never had him down for that type for thing, you live and learn. Greediness gets the best out of many.

Very cool. Hoy it up here when you're finished (if possible), I'd be interesting in reading it. Same. I heard a lot about him on here until one day I was listening to a football programme on Brazilian TV and I heard the guy had an accent while speaking portuguese. His name then popped up, was one of few people I've ever heard talk sense on TV.

It looks bad on the outside in my opinion, but I think it will have one of the better atmosphere for games. The supporters sit relatively close to the field compared to normal Brazilian standards (Mineirao, Maracana etc.)

What a mistake by Sociedads goalkeeper. Rayo equalizes. 2-2. Griezemann on the bench.

Think it was my browser, switched and it worked. In any case, it's a bit nicer to have the pictures in spoilers in my opinion.

Done, but do they not scale down? They look fine on my big screen and even on my phone and tablet? Pretty sure the page still loads the data when behind spoilers if thinking of people on mobile data. I don't know, they looked huge at first now they look scaled down to fit my screen.

Greg, nice pics but use the spoilers next time, way to big of images. Arena da Amazonia looking fab in my opinion. Arena Fonte Nova is in my opinion the worst of the lot, the colour inside is terrible. Unfortunately for me, that's where I'll see all my six games live in the WC.

Worst case is he gets off with it.

I'd like to think no one would do a tackle like that on purpose. Read he's an attacking midfielder, any reason he has no idea to tackle and just lunged like a fucking moron? In any case he should deserve a 24month ban for that. Shit like that deserves a longer ban than the injury itself. It's idiotic.

Jinxing

You reckon? I reckon Argentina v Germany. Germany beats Brazil 3-1 in the semi's while Messi pisses over Spain in a 3-0 win.

Fair enough, don't think they're shit the same way I don't think England or Portugal are shit.

Yeah, won Copa America and finished 4th last World Cup. I can buy that they're in the worst form of the lot, but in Brazil they're always going to be counted on as a favourite to win their group.