[quote=demonrail666]As disappointed as I am for Buffon, I'm pleased for Zidane. /QUOTE]
and come to think of it, in 2006 buffon was world champion and zidane wasn't (though he got it in 98). revenge best served cold? :D

Well there you go England CAN win something. They've won u-20's world cup beating Venezuela 1-0. Now for all the promise and hope of young English players to be decimated by the press, over-expectation and generally too much, too soon. Yey...

By the way, that 2006 World Cup was a revenge in itself for Italy, as it took place in Germany, a country which won the title... in Italy 1990.


The other finalist was VENEZUELA? Christ on a stick...

Romania vs Chile today: Chile 2-0 after barely 18 minutes. Romania scores on the 31st. Gary Medel sees the red card two minutes later. Second half: the locals flip the pancake and shit ends 3-2 in their favor. Can't this bloody South American team hold on to a lead? :mad:

Everton sign goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Fucking get in. Let's hope they make more great signings in the months to come.

That is a GREAT signing!

Confederations Cup update (as if you guys gave a crap :D): today Chile beat an incredibly petty (as in defensive as fuck) Cameroon 2-0. Right before halftime, Eduardo Vargas scored and everything was neat-o, but after the referee had an interminable chat via his headset with some undisclosed officers, the goal was annulled because it was determined the striker was offside. Talk about a millimetric electronic decision: apparently HALF OF VARGAS' SHOE was offside when the ball was passed to him by Arturo Vidal.

Chile didn't play the fútbol it's been known for since Marcelo Bielsa revolutionized the country's style, partly because, as I said, Cameroon parked the bus (aka the bat-tactic: 10 players hanging from the crossbar behind the keeper), but also due to a strange level of indecision by cats who can certainly perform much better. It sure as shit didn't help matters that La Roja didn't count with Alexis until the 58th minute (ankle injury); it was Mr. A.S. himself who centered it for King Arthur to head in the 1-0 eight minutes before injury time.

Vargas ended up having the craziest game: a little before the curtain was about to fall, he scored again, but the linesman, who clearly wasn't wholly familiar with this shit's rules, gave the ref the signal to annul the goal. Enter, again, the obscure agents monitoring the match remotely — this time they called it in favor of Vargas. Chile now leads group B, but it remains to be seen what Germany's going to "do" with Australia tomorrow.

congrats and good for you. me im not even trying to look but thanks for the update anyway. the remote ref sounds like a good/interesting thing.

germany i think is sending the reserves, so if you've got a full team you can count on taking this trophy home-- unless the russians microwave you from afar, or put polonium in your food, or some devious shit like that.

Turns out the Germans won, but didn't exactly crush Australia:



I wouldn't mind being this Cup's official updater :), but I took a fall under the driving rain on Friday, today I saw the traumatogist and the verdict is the worst case scenario: my ankle is not sprained, not even "neatly" fractured in one place — it's almost SHATTERED. The doctor couldn't even fathom how I could walk (well, "half-walk") and not pass out from the pain during these three days. I'm in a cast now and in three weeks is surgery time, motherfuckers! Can't say I'm looking forward to that. :mad: So I'm gonna have to spend time resting at home like a dipshit. I think I'll still post stuff here, twice a week or so, if I can...

Pandemonium has ensued over this shit! :D

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=confederat ions+cup&oq=confederations+cup&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0l9j43i53.9230.23236.0.23627.15.9.2.4.1.0 .85.508.9.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.RQHG6NYcXTQ#hl=en&gl=u s&authuser=0&tbm=nws&q=confederations+cup+VAR

Well, there's also C-Ronaldo, who wants to win every single goddamn thing this season. Now, this Chilean team has turned Messi into a whining little bitch thrice, so why not doing the same with that other dildo, right?

Remote referees shooting remote Kellyanne microwaves — the humanity...

¡ah, mierda! me da dolor nada más de imaginarlo

cuídate y ojalá que te cures pronto...

Thanks, man! :) Actually, now I wish the surgery was TODAY; this week has been astronomically painful and I have at least two or three more in this motherfucking cast.

Back on topic: Chile couldn't beat Germany B and shit ended 1-1. :mad: In any case, it looks like both teams will move to the semifinals; on Sunday we'll see who wins the group:



On Group A, the DNC Intruders still have a chance, even though they couldn't deal with Portugal (1-0, guess who scored... FUCK am I sick of that tax-evading douche). Russia will have to dial the microwaves all the way to 11, though:

i saw the last 10 minutes of the chile-germany plus the highlights

looks like chile had more/better chances, but germany was a bunch of kids so in my mind it's "their"victory because they should have been spanked by the grownups.

apparently loew is completely dissing the tournament by using it as a lab and rotating players no matter what.

Yeah, the Lone Star isn't playing at their true best. As I said before, I sense indecision (not imprecision — now that would scare me... although, come to think of it, which is worse?) from players who should know better. I hate to sound like the living-in-fútbol's-past moron who always think the presence of a "classic 10" would fix shit, but because of the way Chile is playing I do miss someone like Jorge Valdivia.

FUCK CRISTIANO NAMED-AFTER-REAGAN RONALDO! FUCK THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS! FUCK THE BRAVO HATERS!

https://news.google.com/news/story/d...M?ned=us&hl=en

HOOOOOO YEAH!

So Germany face Chile. I'm assuming everyone besides Herr Symbols wants no less than a Sanchez goal-fest.

ha ha ha

when it comes to international fests, i'm always pro-sudaca

plus chile has their full squad while germany is testing the kids. would be a damn shame if jerry won.

i might actually watch

I've only been watching since the semis. Too soon after the Prem for me to give it that much attention. More absorbed in F1 at the moment.

o man. chile suffering from stupid mistakes. down by a goal at halftime.

jara was a sonofabitch with that elbow, but this video review takes a little too fucking long and if it turns futbol into american hand-ovoid im dropping my subscription to the sport