Not worthy of a thread - 2018 FIFA World Cup edition

[Greg]

BBC have put something on actually, but not until quite late: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b95t71

[Guest firetotheworks]

I vote to have everything posted in here from now on if it means we get these faster loading times on Tapatalk.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

BBC have put something on actually, but not until quite late: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b95t71

 

Barry Davies > John Motson

[Kaizero]

FIFA paid Maradona - and other "legends" (including Wes Brown) - £10k for each match they attended

[Mike]

I wonder what Diego is gonna spend that money on.

[Kaizero]

Probably some upscale Colombian flour.

[Raconteur]

No doubt another FIFA scam, where their legend fees is funnelled back through some “FIFA authorised cocaine distributor”.

[Robster]

How the hell did Wes Brown find himself a guest of FIFA ?

[54]

[Bizza]

How the hell did Wes Brown find himself a guest of FIFA ?

 

 

FIFA legend tbh.

[Guest neesy111]

Next World Cup in the middle of winter for the Northern Hemisphere is going to be aids.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

Essentially the next world cup is in 8 years time.

[Klaus]

How is that going to work? All the international players simply fuck off mid season, like in the ACoN?

[Guest neesy111]

How is that going to work? All the international players simply f*** off mid season, like in the ACoN?

 

European seasons have to shut down.

[Greg]

Still think there's a chance it will get cancelled and moved to a country that could host it at short notice. England, Germany or the like.

[triggs]

Essentially the next world cup is in 8 years time.

People were saying that about this one too like

[joeyt]

Might be the only person in the world who's never seen this but when everyone was getting Beckham mohawk haircuts in 2002 this lad got a Sven haircut

 

 

[Dinho lad]

[BlueStar]

My local. We're speculating what flag is underneath.

 

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[BlueStar]

Oh, right

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/world-cup-2018-greene-king-saudi-arabia-flag-removed-pubs-shahada-muslims-london-a8384511.html

[Incognito]

Essentially the next world cup is in 8 years time.

People were saying that about this one too like

 

Surely they were saying 12 years? Given that they announced the venues for now and 22 at the same time.

[54]

Hierro unsurprisingly left his role as Spain manager.

[Flip]

Just back from Russia. What an amazing experience it all was. Went to St Petersburg, Moscow, Samara and Kazan and are were nice places in their own little way even if I'd probably never go back to Samara again. Moscow a top 5 city in the world and a must visit imo. Russians were super friendly and all, however, the service in restaurants and their english is probably the worst I've ever experienced Met probably 2 or 3 people who spoke fluent english and in restaurants if you were lucky you'd get the orders right. Don't be shocked if you get the deserts before your main course. Took the sleeper train back and forth to Kazan from Moscow as well as St Petersburg and they're nice and all, even if a bit warm and humid inside.

 

Went to five stadiums, and feel really disappointing I'm not heading back to Luzhniki on the 15th to watch Brazil in a final. Really felt this World Cup was there for the taking. Although I've said all along I'd be happy to see England win it.

 

All in all, first World Cup I've really experienced the difference between group stages when the cities were buzzing and people were having parties 24/7 to the knock-out stages when people start heading back home. Latin Americans dominated in terms of numbers and was great to see so many from Peru there. Bit disappointing to see the lack of interest from the locals at times. Thought the party was going to be bigger in Samara after they beat Spain.

[Disco]

Just back from Russia. What an amazing experience it all was. Went to St Petersburg, Moscow, Samara and Kazan and are were nice places in their own little way even if I'd probably never go back to Samara again. Moscow a top 5 city in the world and a must visit imo. Russians were super friendly and all, however, the service in restaurants and their english is probably the worst I've ever experienced Met probably 2 or 3 people who spoke fluent english and in restaurants if you were lucky you'd get the orders right. Don't be shocked if you get the deserts before your main course. Took the sleeper train back and forth to Kazan from Moscow as well as St Petersburg and they're nice and all, even if a bit warm and humid inside.

 

Went to five stadiums, and feel really disappointing I'm not heading back to Luzhniki on the 15th to watch Brazil in a final. Really felt this World Cup was there for the taking. Although I've said all along I'd be happy to see England win it.

 

All in all, first World Cup I've really experienced the difference between group stages when the cities were buzzing and people were having parties 24/7 to the knock-out stages when people start heading back home. Latin Americans dominated in terms of numbers and was great to see so many from Peru there. Bit disappointing to see the lack of interest from the locals at times. Thought the party was going to be bigger in Samara after they beat Spain.

 

class. Which games did you go to again?

[Flip]

Just back from Russia. What an amazing experience it all was. Went to St Petersburg, Moscow, Samara and Kazan and are were nice places in their own little way even if I'd probably never go back to Samara again. Moscow a top 5 city in the world and a must visit imo. Russians were super friendly and all, however, the service in restaurants and their english is probably the worst I've ever experienced Met probably 2 or 3 people who spoke fluent english and in restaurants if you were lucky you'd get the orders right. Don't be shocked if you get the deserts before your main course. Took the sleeper train back and forth to Kazan from Moscow as well as St Petersburg and they're nice and all, even if a bit warm and humid inside.

 

Went to five stadiums, and feel really disappointing I'm not heading back to Luzhniki on the 15th to watch Brazil in a final. Really felt this World Cup was there for the taking. Although I've said all along I'd be happy to see England win it.

 

All in all, first World Cup I've really experienced the difference between group stages when the cities were buzzing and people were having parties 24/7 to the knock-out stages when people start heading back home. Latin Americans dominated in terms of numbers and was great to see so many from Peru there. Bit disappointing to see the lack of interest from the locals at times. Thought the party was going to be bigger in Samara after they beat Spain.

 

class. Which games did you go to again?

 

Portugal v Morocco

Brazil v Costa Rica

Argentina v Nigeria

Brazil v Serbia

Brazil v Mexico

Brazil v Belgium

 

Watching Messi score that goal and being in the middle of that Argentina support when Rojo scored was one of the greatest experience along with Coutinho scoring v Costa Rica. The Argie support is A+. The Brazilian one finally improved and were actually quite decent for the first time and outshone all the European supports, but still has a long way to go before reaching what those Argies do. Honest to god, seeing 75+ year old men taking their shirt off and waving them when Rojo scored the winning goal was something else, women, kids all singing and crying together. Was awesome. The Mexicans were class as well, although some of them turned their anger on Neymar onto Brazilian fans towards the end of the game which wasn't pretty to see.

 

Also was almost losing it for the first time ever at the Belgium game, bunch of Russians and footballing-neutral tourists infront standing up trying to watch a fight that was going on above, with 10 minutes to go and Brazil creating. Never been so pissed in my life World Cup quarter-final Brazil has just pulled one back and people are more interested in a few idiots fighting...