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The 2017-2018 Football Thread
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So, the winner of the Colombia-England match faces Sweden in the quarterfinals. Sweden look fairly weak in attack, but organized and stout in defense. The upshot of all this is we are now guaranteed to see at least one relatively new face in the final.
Now, can England take advantage of being on the "easy" side of the bracket?
Now, can England take advantage of being on the "easy" side of the bracket?
Worse again would be the Oscar deserving performance of "foul, dive, roll, grimace."
Fair enough.
I had it down as the sort of wildly exaggerated facial expressions one last saw in silent era movies.
Those that hate Real Madrid because of Ronaldo might have another team to hate now. Rumors flying from everywhere that he is going Juve.
Yay! But I still see a nervous 90 minutes followed by extra time and the inevitable penalties.
Hope I'm wrong though!
Yea ok I’ll pay attention next time just untie your knickers ok? I wouldn’t get annoyed if you wrote Kanada instead of Canada.
But you did not write Kolumbien.Yea ok I’ll pay attention next time just untie your knickers ok? I wouldn’t get annoyed if you wrote Kanada instead of Canada.
I'm laughing reading this. You forgot - or omitted to add - after the piece "the inevitable penalties which they proceed to make a mess of by missing several....."
Nevertheless, I'd prefer a different - and more positive - outcome, naturally enough.
So true. Not looking like an easy win so far though is it? Yes we've had all the chances, but that counts for nothing unless you can bury one.
I think England are the better of the two teams here, but not so much better that they will win comfortably. Colombia will be up for it and fight all the way.
Must every free kick be a 5 minute drawn out affair? #ruiningthebeautifulgame.
After all that chat we had about diving and wimpy football headbutts...Barrios performs a weird half-hearted headbutt-y thing on Hendo, who promptly behaves as if he's been poleaxed.
So much effort put into 1) winding up the opposition 2) over-reacting to the provocation in the hopes of drawing fouls and cards.
So much effort put into 1) winding up the opposition 2) over-reacting to the provocation in the hopes of drawing fouls and cards.
Nerves growing. Finger nails gone.
Toes up next!
Getting niggly. Even the coaching staff are having a dig at our players.
Hope we can get back to the football in the second half. No more of this wrestling I hope (but doubt).
Toes up next!
Getting niggly. Even the coaching staff are having a dig at our players.
Hope we can get back to the football in the second half. No more of this wrestling I hope (but doubt).
Oh there will be more of this. The ref isn’t controlling the game at all, and it’s getting out of hand. Should have been red earlier, and there should have been more cards.
This game will get nasty I am afraid. Colombia are going to see how far they can push this.
Until one of us reacts no doubt. Agree the VAR has hardly improved the consistency at this WC.
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