littlelunchbox Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 This has probably been said about 20 times in the last 3 pages but I cba to look. Greece are the Stoke City of international football. Bunch of boring, defensive b******s and I hope theor country never recovers from their financial crisis. I hate their football team as well, but the rest is rather harsh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Ivory Coast, the latest in a long line of teams to be Greeced. You've Been Greeced - send in £250 and see a nation of your choice be bored into submission before being knocked out. Next episode: Costa Rica. This year's surprise package have all their enthusiasm sucked out of them as Georgios Samaras' 86th minute winner - deflected off a collapsing economy - gives Greece a 1-0 win. [move]http://i.imgur.com/QsnJ5h4.gif[/move] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 If Greece are the Stoke of the tournament Russia are the Newcastle. No game plan, best players on the bench, playing woeful football. Pardew is probably having a pokey bum wank over the job Capello has done as I type. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Ivory Coast, the latest in a long line of teams to be Greeced. You've Been Greeced - send in £250 and see a nation of your choice be bored into submission before being knocked out. Next episode: Costa Rica. This year's surprise package have all their enthusiasm sucked out of them as Georgios Samaras' 86th minute winner - deflected off a collapsing economy - gives Greece a 1-0 win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Greece were alright tonight to watch I thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 If Greece are the Stoke of the tournament Russia are the Newcastle. No game plan, best players on the bench, playing woeful football. Pardew is probably having a pokey bum wank over the job Capello has done as I type. Aye Russia are one of the biggest disappointments of the tournament for me considering how great they were to watch previously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 If Greece are the Stoke of the tournament Russia are the Newcastle. No game plan, best players on the bench, playing woeful football. Pardew is probably having a pokey bum wank over the job Capello has done as I type. Aye Russia are one of the biggest disappointments of the tournament for me considering how great they were to watch previously. Who was their number 9? Made Shola look like a good striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Kokorin, who was hyped up before the tournament as well. Looks extremely one paced. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Just watching the Colombia highlights. They are bloody great, so many attacking options even without Falcao. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza ladra Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Shame about four South American teams being lumped in the same bracket. Brazil Chile Colombia Uruguay They're guaranteed at least two of the final eight. But at best can only have two of the final four. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Put it this way if Ben Arfa intentionally bit someone 3 separate times I'd want him gone, something's are just bigger than football. If it was Pardew each time I'd be okay with it in each instance, and would encourage further episodes of the same behaviour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Started reading the comments from articles about the incident in Uruguayan newspaper. Scary how people try to defend the guy, I mean, plenty saying it wasn't a real bite, wasn't intentional, the italian deserved it etc. It's just sickening reading those comments. Luckily it's not all, but a big part are morons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 50,000 Argies in Porto Alegre, mostly behaving like animals and most without a ticket for the game tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscar Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Colombia putting their 43 year old goalkeeper on just to give him an outing. Am I the only one who thought that was cheating a bit? He hasn't played a competitive international for 10 years! Poor Roger Milla. Fuck it, let's take Gordon Banks to the next one. You never really need 3 keepers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 The Onion's profile of Suarez before the WC started http://www.theonion.com/articles/world-cup-players-to-watch,36267/#7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 RAWK has gone full Communist mode in reaction to the Suarez incident... http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ndlsaeaqf13bnklq3g8ed7qeu7&board=2.0 :booboo: :booboo: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 They're only allowed to talk about it in the Group D thread in the WC forum. Nowt to do with Liverpool I was glad to see it doesn't matter that Suarez has bitten people three times because Alan Shearer stamped on someone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 RAWK has gone full Communist mode in reaction to the Suarez incident... http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ndlsaeaqf13bnklq3g8ed7qeu7&board=2.0 :booboo: :booboo: 7 locked threads on the first page alone - including one entitled "Not being allowed to talk about major football incident in football forum" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 His behaviour is completely indefensable, which is why I' amazed by the Liverpool fans response. Can't begin to imagine how incredibly annoying it is to knwo you have such a class player on your books that does crap like this. It'd be tough to see him sold if he were on my team, but if he keeps getting banned then I think it would have to be the only option. I hate him, I'd want him out of the door. Don't care how good he is. He did this not much more than 12 months ago FFS. He's an excellent player but an amoral nutjob, his actions are disgusting enough but the way he'll defend them and go on like a martyr afterwards confirm he's absolutely scum. This. This part is the worst of it for me. He bites an opponent, he's a nutter. Send him off for violent conduct. But the way he goes on afterwards is what makes him the cheating low life sub-human scum. At first he goes down holding his face, with his trademark hand wave signal to the bench. Then sits up holding his teeth. Then he has the nerve to get up and go to see if Chiellini is alright. Then he just shrugs the whole thing off and walks away waving his hands. An utter embarrassment. Karma will get him and his national team/Liverpool for defending his indefensible behavior. The one point thick scousers don't get is this: They go on about him being "so competitive, he wants to win so badly he'll do anything man"....which is fucking ridiculous because by that logic, they are condoning the behavior of Joe Footballer getting onto the pitch, putting in a disgusting two-footed tackle to break both Suarez's knees to put him out of action, giving his own team a better chance of winning. Right Liverpool fans? Do anything to win? Set of thick bastards. Surely they can't defend him a 3rd time? Surely Rodgers has more about him than to accept this psychopath back in his squad? If I were them, I'd get rid for 30m, and reinvest it in players and have faith that Rodgers is a good enough manager with or without this piece of shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Colombia finally showed what they can do against Japan last night. Especially when hamess came on. Great to see Jackson M get his two goals. The 4th goal was something special. Hopefully they are picking up momentum to steamroll over Uruguay. I'm going to be full radge Colombian until Saturday night. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscar Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Just had a little look over a RAWK. I know we all expected them to go OTT in their defence of him, and a few did, but i think when you stop and actually think about what happened, this post sums it up pretty well...... "The way I see it, like someone said earlier is that Luis is the only one biting but its no worse than elbowing. The fact is you see elbowing much more in the game than you do biting, so is seen as a 'normal' act of violence. Biting is not a manly thing to do in an assault really and thats where this issue of "how bad is it actually?" comes into play. For me anyway. Edit: With regard to the manly thing I mean 'in the art of combat' its not a manly thing to do. Punching, pushing, elbowing, headbutt is a much more 'accepted' from of violence. Slapping and biting are not. The incidents never draw blood or serious wounds, to be fair they're pretty lame in their result but it still is biting and is an act of violence, so its just a matter of accepting that this is what Luis does. He's a bloody biter and probably fights like a girl. Didnt he pull Rafael or Fabio's hair that time. Next will be a slap for someone and that will be that." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Comparing biting an opposition player to a slap.. The bloke has full on rabies at the paralytic stage man.. Are you a Liverpool fan oscar? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Breaking the skin has to be considered much more serious than leaving a bruise or a red mark, surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 So blinkered and short sighted to think of ONLY the biting incident. The attempts at getting Chiellini sent off for the "elbow", the theatrics, the histrionics, the blatant stupidity of Tabares and Lugano etc.. in defending him. It all reflects quite badly on him and on Uruguay as a national team. What if the linesman didn't see the bite but spotted the subsequent attempted elbow by Chiellini? He could have been wrongly sent off. This is the ultimate in unsportsmanlike conduct which is why Suarez should face the maximum ban/fine, and should be peddled by his club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 50,000 Argies in Porto Alegre, mostly behaving like animals and most without a ticket for the game tomorrow. Sure they're not scousers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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