A few seem to think that England could do well this year, it happens every tournament, we have a good build up, then we struggle the first game, usually get a hard win in the 2nd game, then struggle to get out of the group then get knocked out, would love to be proved wrong tho! Yeah Holland are a good shout as well, they seem to have got a new bunch of youth into the team and look very strong. I wasn't that bothered about the World Cup for some reason this time, but after seeing all the England flags up around the country lately it does get you in the mood, plus i've been watching them old World Cup shows that have been shown BBC2 lately that shows you the history of the World Cup.
well the sound on the opening ceremony was utter shite, couldn't hear a thing.
I'm afraid the mute button is used whenever Adrian Chiles is on the tv in my gaff so I wouldn't know, what an utter annoying twat he is! Bring back Des Lynam!
Great start to the world cup! Brazil got lucky there, the ref was basically a 12th man, some terrible decisions by him. Oscar and Neymar were the highlight for me, especially Oscar. All said and done, he deserved that goal at the end.
You guys think your pre show is bad, we had a national outrage over ours last night. Some 2 bit channel which airs the IPL has acquired the rights for the WC and their pre show is horrendous. It's got the same moron who runs the IPL pre show who's annoyng as hell. And the pundits are, wait for it...Mikael Silvestre, Peter Crouch and some local actor. Yup you heard that right. Silvestre can't understand Crouch and vice versa and the actor keeps talking about the players' hair, shoes, headphones. This is an actual quote of his from last night, " We'll have to watch out for some of those hairdos tonight." I mean wtf!
Every WC we used to have this local football expert who used to host, SHE was drop dead gorgeous might I add but she's been booted off and they've got the IPL guy for god knows what reason and they've also booted off the real pundits and replaced them with this lot. It was the most painful thing you'll ever see and I'm not even exaggerating. Might just watch a live stream of the pre show off the net from some other country and then switch to the TV when the match starts.
Edit: Ha! A newspaper actually posted an article on their website about the negative response to the pre-show and one of my tweets was mentioned in the article. Yes siree I've made it.
"Who'll pick you up when you're spread too thin, when the walls you built are closing in around you? I found you...."
Great start to the world cup! Brazil got lucky there, the ref was basically a 12th man, some terrible decisions by him.
I wouldnt be surprised if the ref was told to be biased towards brazil, they were saying that no host nations football team has lost the opening game and the commentators kept saying that Brazil need to win to help calm all the strikes and riots that are going on over there atm.
Post by shining stars on Jun 13, 2014 19:43:09 GMT 9.5
it's brilliant weather for the world cup, always makes a difference for a classic one... everybody got enough booze in? my already stocks took quite a hit last night
Post by Gin & Tonic on Jun 13, 2014 20:11:10 GMT 9.5
Ref had an absolute shocker, never a pen, Neymar arguably could have seen red and a dubious foul on Cesar which would have made it 2-2. Not complaining though as I had on Brazil to win + Both Teams to Score and also have on Brazil to win the cup + Neymar top scorer.
So buy a fucking t-shirt and a poster on the way out you fuckers!
Great start to the world cup! Brazil got lucky there, the ref was basically a 12th man, some terrible decisions by him.
I wouldnt be surprised if the ref was told to be biased towards brazil, they were saying that no host nations football team has lost the opening game and the commentators kept saying that Brazil need to win to help calm all the strikes and riots that are going on over there atm.
Aye I was thinking the same, it wouldn't be good for the tournament if the home nation lost their first game, bet that ref will be wearing a nice new shiny Swiss watch in the next game!
Is it just me, or is Neymar so overrated? For most of the game last night their mentally just seemed to be pass the ball to Neymar and let him do the rest and he either fell over the ball or played a bad pass, I watch La Liga now and again but i've never seen him have a good game, unless i'm missing something?
I had it down for a 3-0 win to Brazil at 7's so just missed out on that one, plenty more time left to lost a lot of money tho!
I wouldnt be surprised if the ref was told to be biased towards brazil, they were saying that no host nations football team has lost the opening game and the commentators kept saying that Brazil need to win to help calm all the strikes and riots that are going on over there atm.
Aye I was thinking the same, it wouldn't be good for the tournament if the home nation lost their first game, bet that ref will be wearing a nice new shiny Swiss watch in the next game!
Is it just me, or is Neymar so overrated? For most of the game last night their mentally just seemed to be pass the ball to Neymar and let him do the rest and he either fell over the ball or played a bad pass, I watch La Liga now and again but i've never seen him have a good game, unless i'm missing something?
I had it down for a 3-0 win to Brazil at 7's so just missed out on that one, plenty more time left to lost a lot of money tho!
I had 2-1 to Brazil and then the buggers go an score in injury time!!
Neymar shouldn't have been on the park to score either goal, not a fan of him at all. No doubt he's got talent but the diving, rolling around like he's been shot and his fly wee kicks and elbows do my tits in.
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If they have told the refs to be biased towards Brazil then that is downright appalling. Who gives two fucks that there are protests. Both Brazil and FIFA should've thought about that beforehand. I sincerely hope this isn't true. I know FIFA are a bunch of scumbags but this will be a new low even for them.
Croatia's manager's reaction at the press conference after the match
"Who'll pick you up when you're spread too thin, when the walls you built are closing in around you? I found you...."