Village Idiot

I always support Hispanic teams in tournaments but this year I'll single out Argentina because of Messi and Maradona. I understand the animosity most English fans will have against him but if he won the WC as manager it would be f***ing mental.

Can be an interesting WC. Out of the big European leagues, only Spain and Germany remain in contention (and we still have to play). The Bundesliga has much less foreigners than the PL, I don't know how Italy fits in these numbers (Inter plays with close to no Italians, Milan has a big foreign contingent too but I'm not familiar with the lesser clubs)... so maybe it is true that big European leagues are nowadays developing other national squads instead of their own, and that's why we see a decline of UEFA nations in this tournament. Spain has quite fewer foreigners than the PL too, but I won't include us in the reasoning until we see how far we get (on paper we have a great deal of talent, though).

I think after all the incidents today FIFA just can't fight goal line technology anymore. Now we'd only need to punish divers/feigners (which have been rather disgraceful during the group stages) after reviewing the game's video and the game will be 10 times better. One can wish. And I think the Jormans were great today. Their athleticism and dynamism in moving the ball was remarkable. I agree that Uruguay is an average side that happens to have two great forwards, however.

Was the 5-1 German side much different to this one?

Hope Argentina beats them, if we get to semis and meet Germany they will rape us with these counters.

Taking the piss now.

Has James done any merit save today?

First memorable game of this WC, for both good and bad reasons. Hope there's still more goals in it

Wikipedia fiends at work already.

If you scrape this and then play Maradona's Argentina it's going to be an epic run, so much drama and old grudges

Phantom goal aside, brilliant game for a neutral, hope it keeps up during the second half

Can't wait for the English press response if you lose because of this.

Well, that guarantees England's support for goalline technology

Awesome. Massively entertaining game.

Shit, that was a great move. You getting raped tbf.

Real Sociedad about to bid for Jo, according to his manager.

Anime of Captain Tsubasa is one of the reason rapid football development in Japan. when the old days Japanese more like of Baseball moved to Football nowadays. New Sport trend setter. Captain Tsubasa ruled my childhood (it was huge in Spain), and then when he signed for FC Barcelona it was the greatest thing in the world http://ssj.jeeran.com/tsubasa_barcelona.jpg

I blame ESPN's massive fate-tempting campaign. They should have known the football gods wouldn't sit idly.

US Gold never had that loading screen in any game I played... did they cut it for Europe?

For some strange reason that format failed when they tried it in Spain

Uruguay

Awesome!

Now a Forlán goal and a round of "he didn't cut it at Manchester United" comments, please.

And here it comes.

Donggook