Always with the cheapshots.....

Don't get me wrong, I'm not that dim to not realise how incredible they are a shutting down every team that's come against them. The partnership between Godin and Giminez (why does everyone forget he's at Madrid too?) is something else. It precisely the reason why I picked them both for my FF. However, they're the team that are gonna get you on the break.

You guys seem to mis-understand me. I've no problem with a team sitting back and catching a team on the break. If it's done well and shuts down a team like they have done all tournament then let them do it. The central defence brought what they know from Madrid and continue to do it to as high a standard as you're ever go back see. It's going to take a pretty special team to break them down .

One thing I said to my friend after Portugal equalised was that they should play Uruguay at their own game. Play out the draw til pens and try and catch a win that way. That's as negative as you're gonna get but it would have worked I think.

Bilic said it perfectly last night. "It's not a game for kids to watch" and he was right. The damn mozart bus parking wankers.

i guess the only part i misunderstand is your use of the term “wanker”...

what exactly do you mean by it? that word has so many senses some precision would be helpful. i gotta assume now you dont mean “ineffectual” since you just described them as highly effective... i think.

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ps i also don’t understand the “not for kids”. was he referring to ronaldos pants? :D

but srsly, shared meaning is a difficult thing to arrive to. do you not enjoy their skill?

Haha lost in translation here. Nah, I just mean it in an endearing term about them. Like when an Aussie calls someone a cunt. It ain't said with malice.

As for not for the kids. He meant in the sense this wasn't a game like the France/Argentina or Spain/Portugal. Meaning goals, goals, goals. I should expand and that he said "it's not one for the kids. It's one for the managers, the coaches" and he was right. On here I'd like the think our understanding of football is deep enough to enjoy a game like that at a deeper level. In someways watching a wel drilled team shut down another one is just as good as a free flowing all-out attacking game.

Kids (and far more adults than I care to realise) would just be disappointed that Ronaldo didn't score and that's it.

One thing that no one seemed to notice is that the ref pointed to Cavani asking Ronaldo to help him off.

Haha. This reminds me of Phil Collins being told he couldn't say shithead on Miami Vice because it might cause offence, so he said wanker instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGgLDUfaTJM

nice own goal by ramos!

i mean...

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goal aside, dull game for me so far. not a real contest is it?

I'm banking on a Spanish goal-fest so the more the merrier for me (but no more ogs please)

ok i saw a momentary run there by silva where i thought “oh! that’s what they mean” but then he tripped lol

yes outside the fantasy game little interest here for me

they might get a clean sheet... but their defenders were so expensive i did not pick

So that's my 1st clean sheet gone

lol piqué’s hand it’s almost like someone paid him to do that on purpose. maybe putin threatened to kill shakira.

i hope this is the caffeine jolt this game needed though. what a snoozefest.

well kicked penalty but otherwise russia harmless.

This game is dreadful!

a liiiiiitle better on this 2nd half but still have trouble tuning in to it

i saw your new profile pic. it’s awesome.

while faffing around the internet with that theme in mind i found this one



everyone’s probably seen it already but it’s a great photo

something to do with his “wine binge” or some shit.

old elvis?

well thanks costa for the 0 goals and wasted money

should have dumped you instead of kane

Haha, I'd love a velvet-elvis style Diego picture!

Can't believe how flat Spain are. This has pens written all over it

Good. Spain were bullshit. Awesome end to a terrible game.

yeah ha ha ha. the portugal-spain game had given me a very different impression.

i wonder if they were bribed to suck? no joke. say: polonium in the gazpacho.

anyway great save by akinfeev. that was the best moment of the whooooooooole damn game. maybe the only good one, lol.

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Place reserved here for Neymar

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Hahaha! That'd be amazing big Brazil didn't get through.

Well neither team looking particularly great in this game. In fact at points I'd say pretty poor.