every other minute there's a foul and no cards yet. james is a target, but the colombians have been dishing it out too. wtf ref.

the moral of the story is that you're too afraid of losing? shit, man! sack up, play to win, and then whatever happens. if you don't like nerd activities fine, but fear of losing is going to keep you from having fun at most things.

I think fantasy sports ruin it for me, not because I'm scared of losing (after all, lose what exactly??), but honestly because sometimes it even ruins when your team is winning! I follow stats to understand the game, but I don't feel like wagering on stats, just the win column is whats important.

If your team is winning but the stats aren't there, a losing team with better stats can ruin it for you. Fuck that, its an American tradition that winning trumps stats.

Yooo this ref is annoying. And Columbia isn't looking too good right now.

Yes this is taking "let em play" to a surreal level.. Maybe the ref isn't a fan of Magical Realism ;)

Or maybe he really digs journey



You can tell the officiating is bad that whenever a whistle is blown the players get up to argue their case to the ref against the foul call meanwhile the ref was just cautioning them no foul..

This is going to bite someone in the ass ala Netherlands-Mexico when the ref inevitably draws down the hammer, and I smell it hurting Colombia

oh, i see. i'm not suffering from that. i have players from both sides on this one, ha ha ha.

the hindenburg thing was a metaphor for my high risk/high reward strategy.


they lost their shit after that first goal and then they lost it again but they've regained a bit towards the end of the last half i thought.

the ref i think by failing to control the players is letting the game get too choppy. 14 fouls by brazil and 12 by colombia. that's 1 every 2 minutes. 26 instances of stopping the game by fouls alone.

he's afraid of taking out yellow cards because people like thiago silva would miss the semifinal if they got a card.

VAMOS COLOMBIA! A PONERLE COJONES!!

What about the ref is a journey fan theory??

ha ha, the neymar lookalike.

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ref is a useless cunt. needs to put some order. it's verging on lawlessness. it goes on like that there are going to be injuries.

Hey Brasil, Dont Stop Believin!

40 fouls in 62 minutes!

Yeah this has been one of the most physical games I've ever seen.. Brazil was starting to look like Honduras out there!

well, they fucked neymar badly it looks like. that was coming. terrible.

Colombian may, as you mentioned before, quite literally be playing for their lives.. #CollateralDamage...

Before that injury this was the best game of the tournament thus far.. I've had to piss since the Neal Schon goal but I won't dare leave the TV

fuck, heartbreaking result, and nice to see the brazilians consoling poor james who can't contain himself.

i knew it was a long shot but i really wanted colombia to go through.

terrible ref-- i don't blame him for colombia losing, i think it was a fair result in the end, but he really let the game get out of hand.

THAT WAS THE MOST REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF GOODSPORTSMANSHIP I'VE SEEN IN YEARS... When we show kids what sport is all about, and how to be a good sport in loss and how not to gloat in victory, THAT was what we should show them.. I sincerely feel honored to have been privileged to see it happen.. I hope people noticed.

Marquez, Herrera, and ALL of Mexico should take note of that event, both of how Colombia was noble in losing and how Brazil was humble in victory. James is crestfallen, David Luiz had the game of his life, and it was noble of James to even remotely LET the victors and cause of his pain approach him so intimately in that moment, and even more humble and human for those several Brazilian players and David Luiz to firstly focus on sincerely consoling James even when having just won a HUGE game.... I will always remember this up.. I ain't even necessarily rooting for Brasil but that moment is in my all-time sports top-5 memories..



THAT again is the epitome of Sportsmanship... Mexico, Uruguay, pay attention..

All goals today came from set pieces.
I'd like some open goal tomorrow.

Completely agree on the ref being mentioned so much doing so little. A foul feast.

Still, he got to book Thiago Silva (not the meanest on the pitch), who will miss the semi against Germany. Ah ah...

Edit: James has scored 6; will he remain the cup top scorer?

maybe--especially with neymar in the hospital

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update:

FRACTURED VERTEBRA. MOTHERFUCKER.

the colombian (zuñiga) needs to be penalized by fifa but that shit ref must be thrown to the trash heap.

i'd like to see a scandal the size of suárez's teeth.

Missed both games yesterday.

Argentina Belgium felt a bit flat. Especially the second half. Belgium didn't seem to wake up till the final 10 minutes. For all the criticism aimed at Di Maria so far, they'll miss him if whatever he went off with ends up keeping him out.

argentina had to deal with an early di maria injury so they did what they had to do and cooled it and waited for counters. i think they did pretty well considering a week ago many people were saying they had no defense-- they still left some gaping holes that belgium didn't find (esp. in set pieces) but i thought they pressed well for the most part. lavezzi was great outflanking belgium but he had no gas at the end. same as higuain in his own space.

speaking of di maria-- there went my fantasy score along with his bum leg!

fernandez - 0 (sat out injured… aghhhh)
di maria - 2 (ouch)
messi - 4 only! (inexplicable, these scores)

only good scoring was mascherano with 10 (until something gets tweaked and he gets it reduced).

[edit: now i'm showing mascherano 9 messi 3. add this to yesterday's cuadrado 2 and mueller 4 and smell the nosedive]

only sub i have is navas for ospina (the rest are ghosts). wondering if he'll make a lot of saves and score high or if robben will crucify him and he'll score negative.

(ospina scored only 5)

last week both keepers had heroic performances but i am not sure they can have 2 in a row… there's a wear and tear or the law of averages wins in the end.