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Thread: World Cup thread
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12-07-2018 12:30 AM #7442
Somebody with the appropriate video editing skills has to make a video of the Croatia goals editing in the Zach Galifianakis laugh from Dinner for Schmucks.
Please?
https://youtu.be/70yqithPgcY
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12-07-2018 07:37 AM #7443
Croatia changed things at half time and England were then found out They were on the back foot and had not answer
In the first half the Commentators were doing their usual England are Superior pish
I felt for the young players though they gave their all but ultimately they weren't good enough
Stones caught napping for the second
and it was all over
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12-07-2018 07:48 AM #7444
Was hoping Belgium and Croatia would have got to the final and guaranteed a first time winner of the world cup. Would like to see Croatia win now but looking forward to final.
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12-07-2018 08:04 AM #7445This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-07-2018 08:25 AM #7447This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But have to say I am bothered about the final as this is the World Cup final and I think it will be a cracking game of football.
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12-07-2018 08:29 AM #7448This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
'Mon the Croats. They have some decent footie songs. Do the French have any?
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12-07-2018 10:07 AM #7449
It’s not in my nature to praise England and I usually adopt the stereotypical Sotsman’s GIRUY towards them but this time I didn’t begrudge them their couple of weeks of glory. Their players don’t get up my nose and I kind of warmed to Gareth Southgate. I had a feeling they might go all the way but , well, tough luck. I must say I have am enjoying a warm satisfying smugness towards Shearer, Wright, Ferdinand et al plus of course the English media. Personally, I didn’t see any of the match or aftermath as I was having a better time at a Paul Simon gig in Glasgow.
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12-07-2018 10:15 AM #7450This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
And "Oui are France, oui are good, oui had Belgium on the run".
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12-07-2018 10:41 AM #7452This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-07-2018 11:09 AM #7453
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Once England and English TV get over their understandable disappointment they should reflect that the real feel good story of this World Cup is how a tiny country like Croatia of 4m people have turned history on its head by deservedly reaching a World Cup Final.
Its never been done in the modern era and only Uroguay 1930 and 1954 are comparable.
The second thing the English should reflect on is how they allowed politicians and the BBC to inflict all their pre tournament propaganda and lies about hooliganism, homophobia and empty stadiums.
On the field it was good to see an England team at least try to embrace the modern game and their professionalism in preparation was exemplary.Last edited by The Baldmans Comb; 12-07-2018 at 11:26 AM.
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12-07-2018 11:24 AM #7454
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Wings over Scotland had a good article actually, if Armstrong had blootered the ball away vs England and we had held on for 3 points we would've finished qualifying with the exact same points, wins, draws etc as Croatia.
We'd have then had a play off of course, but the margins are smaller than what some say.
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12-07-2018 11:37 AM #7455This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
we're forgetting another player who had a major impact in us conceding those two late goals, a keeper that was too scared to come out a few yards to collect the cross
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12-07-2018 11:45 AM #7456This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-07-2018 11:54 AM #7457This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You're not ****ing kidding. I just long for the day when we might qualify.
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12-07-2018 11:56 AM #7458
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12-07-2018 11:59 AM #7459This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Those ifs apply to a whole bunch of qualification games, not just the England one. They also apply to the last 20 years. I'm less interested in 'if my aunty had baws she'd be my uncle' and more interested in what, if anything, the SFA are doing/are going to do to give us all the chance to get behind our national team at the next finals. Being anti or pro England's chances has been entertaining but it's a poor, poor substitute for seeing a Scotland team in it.
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12-07-2018 12:08 PM #7460This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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12-07-2018 12:24 PM #7461This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
All the while getting the luck of the draw, while all the decent sides knocked each other out. Its all relative, but they are coming home heroes for losing the only game where they played anyone decent.
Glorious failure, the very same thing we have been guilty of in the past.
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12-07-2018 12:27 PM #7462This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
can't disagree with any of that
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12-07-2018 01:15 PM #7463
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12-07-2018 01:23 PM #7464This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We showed that we deserved to be in the final and people should respect us. Sometimes, the criticism is unfair and people should respect me also. Without being arrogant I think I have [been proved to be one of the best defenders in the world]. Definitely.
But this criticism is what gets me more motivated to work harder and prove everyone wrong. Everyone. From today, everyone in Croatia and around the world saw we managed to make history. In 20 years’ time, people will remember us, and not just the team from 1998. That is why I am proud, and now we have one game to make people remember us forever.
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12-07-2018 01:31 PM #7465This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Glorious failure, we have specialised in it since i first went to watch Scotland play, although we've not had so much of it recently.
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12-07-2018 01:42 PM #7466
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TO finish I really don't think glorious failure is anything to be proud of, as it's said a glorious looser is just a looser, the period when the Tartan Army laughed at themselves made me cringe.
Thats me over & outLast edited by Lago; 12-07-2018 at 01:45 PM.
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12-07-2018 02:41 PM #7467This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I dont like the glorious failure either, but i had to smile watching the pundits and fans interviewed on tv saying the same things we've said over the years in our own glorious failures.
Losers are losers, some better than others, but they are still losers.
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12-07-2018 02:51 PM #7468
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Haven't heard the phrase 'Emporer's New Clothes' to describe this latest English foray into a major competition.
Bitter and twisted I may be but my opinion was that the first half decent team they came up against would see them off. This is what happened.
If they had met a Belgium (in a serious match), France, Uruguay, Brazil, West Germany, Argentina, Spain or Portugal earlier on they would have been home before the postcards.
My view, same old, same old.
Deluded media hyped them up, but, while they are well in front of us, they are miles off being a serious contender for major honours.
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12-07-2018 03:07 PM #7469This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-07-2018 03:14 PM #7470
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At the end of the day England are a team that will beat lesser teams 9 times out of 10 and very very rarely lay a glove on teams equal or superior to them.
Perennial quarter finalists who got a SF due to a draw they couldn't dream up.
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