Deuce

FIFA reeeaaallly don’t want Germany out

It’s almost cruel. Then again, all they had to do was not lose to Zlatan-less Sweden ffs

the fuck is happening

I’d like to see a legit manager take control of that Nigeria team. There’s a lot of talent there. Imagine that team playing free-flowing Bielsaball. It’d be a riot.

pretty sure that’s an actual Statham movie

He had an open view of that bottom corner, massive gap there. Still a great shot

Because, Rafa aside, we’re run by absolute dipshits. Have to haggle over every last shilling when we’re buying, but totally willing to bend over and accept crap fees when selling. Not sure this is true, are our sales particularly bad? Always thought we were fairly good at getting decent fees for people, can't be bothered to look it up though. I don’t know how accurate it is tbh We did get good money for Sissoko and Gini

Hope Uruguay put away these fuckers

*THAT* is the issue you have with that shit?

Because, Rafa aside, we’re run by absolute dipshits. Have to haggle over every last shilling when we’re buying, but totally willing to bend over and accept crap fees when selling.

If we had a competent club, we’d throw money at Chelsea for Batshuayi

feel bad for him tbh

Tunisia just missing a touch of class on some of these through balls

Bad touch

Tha’ll de pig, tha’ll de

Bet they’re fewmin’ in Sarajevo after that Albanian chest eagle sign thing

Shaqiri’s one of the asshole townspeople from Wreck-It Ralph

Already some interesting matchups in round 3. Uruguay-Russia, Nigeria-Argentina, England-Belgium, Portugal-Iran

+£15mil

Qatar literally paying Brazilian players to become Qatari citizens

Some of the most entertaining football so far has been played by teams who aren’t expected to accomplish much. Peru, Japan, Costa Rica (in the first game), Senegal. While some of the ugliest football has been played by the more accomplished sides. Not to mention the fact that the the World Cup rarely goes according to plan (I.e. “the big teams always wallop the minnows,” countered by Spain, Portugal, England, and Italy all failing to get out of the groups in 2014). I don’t see much evidence to conclude that expanding it to 48 teams would make for a less competitive tournament. Would love to see those random, uncynical teams getting their shot.

I’m expecting this one to be a borefest, which means it’ll probably be a barnstormer

It’s literally not, beacaue you don’t have a 48 team tournament to compare with I’m still pulling for a massive fuck off bracket of all FIFA member associations replacing inter-confederation qualifying. First round England vs. Tuvalu, Mexico vs. Tajikistan, Nigeria vs. Argentina, etc. Last 32 standing end up in the WC