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Did everyone get a song, or are they rightly giving recognition to the best player on their team? Really hope he stays in England, but a Barcelona would be mental not to go after him, wins you titles this lad, he's proved that 100%.

That Kante vid is class. My favourite player too

Aye, at least this time we can see we we're knocked out because the team we played were a better team than us. In past years it's been more a question of effort and politics, not competency/ability as it should be. That's progression

New way of looking at, for me. Saw it more as a transient leech, than as a defining part of the species. Like oxpecker birds which live off the parasites, fleas etc on an elephant's skin. They help the elephant, the elephant helps them. An Oxpecker-less elephant is still an elephant, though. What a great, imaginative way to express the shirt/sponsor relationship. Love your posts, Altamullan

Grats Fugazi

Tbf to Mojo, I remember that comment and it was at a time in the group stages where we had 2/3 days where the quality and drama in matches dropped off significantly after a flying start. It of course went on to continue being a sensationally entertaining tournament. I've absolutely loved it.

Imagine Henry just slides into frame full Belgium kit donned

Massive, massive well done to both sides for creating such an entertaining, free-flowing final - which are often such tense, unambitious games. Croatia's spirit and never-say-die attitude has been a breath of fresh air and bloody great to watch. But France's undoubted quality in Mbappe, Pogba, Varane, Kante and co have looked un-phased by the occasion. Great.

Could say the same about the entire team tbf, the spirit and mentality of this Croatian side is second to none. Most other teams would have been in damage limitation mode at 4-1. They deserve to be in the final for that alone.

I've fucking loved every minute of it

Imagine the scenes here if the came back to level

Yesssss, howayyy

Turning into a romp. Unlucky Croatia, heck of an effort tbf.

His balance is insane, never looks like going down even at those flying speeds he achieves. Really impressive player both physically & technically. When they replayed that in slo-mo, it was truly incredible. Unbelievable balance and at speed. Great to see. Fantastic finish from Pogba, always fancy him to score when the ball falls back to him.

Can we ban the phrase "VAR" from this thread for the remainder of the game? It's the World Cup final lads, let's enjoy the football!

His balance is insane, never looks like going down even at those flying speeds he achieves. Really impressive player both physically & technically.

Wow. you're absolutely wrong on this like, he jumped with his arms up and did what they're all trained to which is get his arms back down by his sides...the france player missed it and it hit his arm on the way down never a pen I don't really have an argument to make one way or another like, but KI, unless you're living a parallel reality as Ivan Perisic, you can't make statements like "blatantly deliberate". How do you know his arms aren't just coming down that way anyway? Not saying one way or another, but you can't be so certain of his intent like.

Goal of the year. I just love the way he hits it, Pavard's similar goal was great too, but there's something about Nacho's man. Glorious.

Nacho's goal man

Added time in football is a mess imo. They literally never add on enough, I'd be in favour of 3 minutes standard time at the end of each half and anything else added on top of that - as to me that seems at least how much stoppage there is, even in a well-flowing match. When you think of how much time the ball actually spends in play, it must be about half of the game time, sometimes less.

I'm well behind Croatia now like, they have the nerve to get back in this.

Pls save

What could he have even done to avoid the contact there man? Ridiculous.

His hand's in a pretty reasonable position like, would be harsh this.

Croatia seem to have excellent mentality as a group like.