TheBrownBottle

Haha yep. Genuinely looked like he was going to chin the ref when he was getting booked. A proper ‘leave it Dave he’s not worth it’ job

Is the cinematographer from the Bourne series the cameraman here?

8 mins. Fuck me

Was just about to post that I’m getting motion sickness - wasn’t sure if we would all be watching the same camera feed

Gotcha. There’s just so many (relative) old men in this side. No top side would quake their boots at the prospect of facing this XI

Argentina looked poor first half and look shite second. They also look as old as their ages suggest. Haven’t the foggiest how these came into this second-favourites.

Yep, and of course people should think about this stuff. ‘A cheap holiday in other people’s misery’ and all that. Mrs BB and I holidayed in a dictatorship once (Egypt) and felt miserable throughout - never again for me; it made me feel unpleasant. But when our owners are ‘liking’ this shite online, it makes me question their sincerity about a some of the gestures the club makes; after all, we know who owns the majority stake.

I just learned what 'smokeshow' means. Feel like I'm down with the kids. No-one should be expected to live a utopian life of virtuous purity - but the shouts of 'hypocrite' are fucking stupid, as the shouter is in all likelihood no less of one. A LGBTQI+ woman wants to make a gesture to highlight the fact that Qatar has monstrous policies which can punish people with death for the terrible crime of being themselves; 'hypocrite' shouts the twitter wankers. And Reuben can get to fuck supporting that shite, little Tory wanker.

There must be another reason Swansea looks the way it does then

Are all of these games going to have ten mins of injury time in each half?

I’m going to guess that the Welsh don’t score this.

Honestly VAR just needs sacking off. It’s a stupid fucking idea and the game is no more consistently refereed than it was before

I’m worried about football as a sport if that’s a penalty. Bizarre

Gan on Callum. And don’t get injured ffs

Maguire is utterly fucking shite mind. Embarrassing

You’ve got to remember that not thinking anyone who isn’t heterosexual deserves the death penalty is simply a cultural difference, and we should respect that, and your great great great granddad probably shot people in another country, so who are you to criticise anybody else? It’s not your sport anyway, it was invented in China. Can I join the FIFA ExCo now?

Heart in mouth job with Trippier. Christ several weeks of this type of anxiety. All the worse in the group stage when you’re playing against cloggers.

The keeper counts as a player. So you can have two outfield players or one outfield and the keeper playing you onside.

Fuck that’s grim, from start to finish. Partly what I pointed out on here the other day - that the ruling classes in the Arabian peninsula are all on it like a car bonnet; the conservative restrictions are for plebs only. And the easily impressed morons who think having the orphaned cub of a vulnerable species as a fucking pet is massive bantz Bunch of twats.

There needs to be two opposition players between you and the goal; he’s the only one

Yep, it is a lot more clear from that angle. He’s offside. Did the TV not show this angle?

Sorry, watched it now. The image didn’t show that there were two Ecuadoreans next to the keeper. Yes, it is obviously offside.

They’re jumping like that when the ball is being played into the box? That’s odd

Bear in mind I haven’t watched the game. If that player is the one who is flagged for offside, then it depends where they were when the ball was played and that freeze frame is completely irrelevant - he is are interfering with player whether he plays it or not n

There’s also just a massive drop-off in talent. Part of the rationale for adding more and more WC places was that it would help football’s ‘developing’ nations improve over time - but that improvement is yet to be seen, and now the WC is filled with turgid teams playing turgid football. The next one expands to 48 teams too; Jesus H Christ.