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    @mariner4life said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    It also contained the early front runner for "dive of the tournament"

    No surprise it was Pepe. He was only warming up with his reaction to Costa outmuscling him in the Spain game.

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    I'm fascinated by the battle for the Golden Bastard. Early front runners are Pepe, Ramos, Suarez and Diego Costa given their histories but please nominate any others who make a strong case.

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    Don't forget a couple of English players who have form in the box - Alli and Young.

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    @rancid-schnitzel said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @majorrage said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @rancid-schnitzel said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    Why does Ronaldo walk round like he has something lodged up his arse?

    If I was worth as much as him, had as many people idolising me as much as he does, I have zero doubt that I would still be the same down to earth guy that I am now ...

    1-0 to Portugal final, could have been 1-5 to Morocco if they had a decent striker, so many chances.

    So if you were rich and famous you'd shuffle round as if a massive dildo was shoved up your arse?

    If it was my thing, yeah ... although I guess I'd just walk as a I walk, and not give a monkeys nuts about what other people thought about it.

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    Rough start for the Aussies with Eriksen putting the Danes ahead early. BBC comm's have already basically started tlking about this being game over ... and it's only 25 mins in.

    EXACTLY the sort of situation where Aussie thrive!

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    Danes 7th min goal sends them into big-boy-fuck-around-on-halfway mode, drives me nuts, soccer needs a bball over and back rule. Or once goalie releases ball his team has 5 seconds to get the fucker over halfway line. Otherwise free kick. Or electric shock. Or paintball gun 10 second free-for-all c/o 4th official

    Straya good value. Bit unco with the whole ball control thing at times though

    @kiwipie said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    I'm fascinated by the battle for the Golden Bastard. Early front runners are Pepe, Ramos, Suarez and Diego Costa given their histories but please nominate any others who make a strong case.

    what are criteria. Belgiums Fellaini seems to have a lot of bastard in him.

    Neymar/Ronaldo seem more of a Golden piston wristed gibbon ilk than technically a bastard.

    Sergio Ramos is Lord of the Bastards. But you'd still want him on your team

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    Online commentary says Aussie drew level with a dubious penalty

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    Just popped in to mention this I heard on the Peru Vs France commentary.

    "17% of the goals so far at the world cup have come in the last 15 minutes. So a lot of late scoring."

    That's right, slightly less than 1/6th of the goals have come in the last 1/6th of the match. That's a lot of late scoring.

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    Argies getting torn a new one, 3-0 to Croatia with time nearly up

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    @virgil said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    Argies getting torn a new one, 3-0 to Croatia with time nearly up

    They're in deep shit now, their chances of advancing look much tougher now

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    Arg 0
    Croatia 3

    Modric with 35 yarder goal of tourney contender. First goal top shit too

    Arg were all kinds of shit. Constantly getting their half-drunk passes intercepted in attacking third. Think Messi's gonna run in to space? Think again. If the ball's not delivered on a gilded chariot of feathers right to his heavenly feet you can go and get fucked. NO player at the WC runs less when not in possession. Even 5 GOALIES run more
    LEAST average km run a match:
    Gylfi Sigurdsson, Iceland 6.67
    Emil Hallfredsson, Iceland 6.41
    Yuri Gazinskiy, Russia 6.11
    Ellyes Skhiri, Tunisia 6.06
    Aleksandr Golovin, Russia 5.94
    Khadim Ndiaye, Senegal 1.99
    Jaime Penedo, Panama 1.99
    Yann Sommer, Switzerland 1.91
    Ahmed El-Shenawy, Egypt 1.79
    Rui PatrĂ­cio, Portugal 1.78 (all fucken goalies)

    Lionel Messi, Argentina 1.42

    Arg with about 3 shots on target and Aguero on the bench. Oh yeah, their coach Angry Anderson of Rose Tattoo has a plan

    Is this fair dinkum?? That truly is incredible. I never knew he was so lazy

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    I did say Croatia was good! 🙂

    Caballero should stick to being a penalty stopper. That first goal was a shocker.

    If Iceland deal to Nigeria then Argentina needs help to advance and their GD is -3.

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    I would guess Messi's horrific body language scared his Argie teammates almost more than the Croatian players did. Walking about with shoulders almost comically slumped. Standing stock still. He just did not want to fuckign know. Will hiff petrol on the bonfiring GOAT narrative though.
    "Messi's spent his entire career getting the princeling armchair ride at club level Barcelona against a revolving cardboard cutout gallery of shit defenders from some fuckhead Spanish fishing town."
    "At least Portugal's plasticene Jesus marionette slogs his guts out for his national team."

    Was going to ask if Messi ever achieved anything at International level?
    Don’t ever recall him setting a WC on fire.
    Like you said, you can Ronaldo shit about how he prances about and can’t walk past any reflection of himself without stopping to look, but least he gives it his all for Portugal

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    @virgil said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    I would guess Messi's horrific body language scared his Argie teammates almost more than the Croatian players did. Walking about with shoulders almost comically slumped. Standing stock still. He just did not want to fuckign know. Will hiff petrol on the bonfiring GOAT narrative though.
    "Messi's spent his entire career getting the princeling armchair ride at club level Barcelona against a revolving cardboard cutout gallery of shit defenders from some fuckhead Spanish fishing town."
    "At least Portugal's plasticene Jesus marionette slogs his guts out for his national team."

    Was going to ask if Messi ever achieved anything at International level?
    Don’t ever recall him setting a WC on fire.
    Like you said, you can Ronaldo shit about how he prances about and can’t walk past any reflection of himself without stopping to look, but least he gives it his all for Portugal

    I think he's only one a South American championship once? I don't recall him playing a major role in the last WC final they lost to Germany

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    @canefan said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    Online commentary says Aussie drew level with a dubious penalty

    Nothing dubious about it, clear handball. The ref took a little while to check it but got the correct result in the end. Awesome to see Aus get the draw and stay alive in the competition.

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    my current GOAT narrative:

    1 Richie
    2 Kareem
    3 Bill Russell
    4 Lebron
    5 MJ
    6 Magic
    7 DC
    8 MJ (obviously Michael Jones)
    9 Maradona
    10 Pele
    11 Ronaldo
    12 Messi

    Messi not even Top 10. Poor.

    No Gretsky?

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    @hooroo said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    my current GOAT narrative:

    1 Richie
    2 Kareem
    3 Bill Russell
    4 Lebron
    5 MJ
    6 Magic
    7 DC
    8 MJ (obviously Michael Jones)
    9 Maradona
    10 Pele
    11 Ronaldo
    12 Messi

    Messi not even Top 10. Poor.

    No Gretsky?

    If you have Magic, no place for Larry Legend?

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    my current GOAT narrative:

    1 Richie
    2 Kareem
    3 Bill Russell
    4 Lebron
    5 MJ
    6 Magic
    7 DC
    8 MJ (obviously Michael Jones)
    9 Maradona
    10 Pele
    11 Ronaldo
    12 Messi

    Messi not even Top 10. Poor.

    Are we just talking football rugby and basketball Rocky? Might be an interesting thread

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @kiwipie said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    the battle for the Golden Bastard.

    My current order of Golden Bastardry:

    Diego Costa: Perfect pantomime villain. He always scores. He always wins. He always fucks someone's shit up. He never gets carded for it. Did I mention he always wins. The perfect bastard.
    Ramos: Total sly filth. He also always wins
    Pepe: don't know much about this guy but that dive after a friendly pat on the shoulder is indicative of Utter Bastardry
    Suarez; Ticking timebomb. A mental. Histrionic diva. Will try to eat you.
    Fellaini: Grandmaster of elbowing you in the fucking face
    Fernandinho (Bra): Sly filth. Grandmaster of leaving a foot in.
    Otamendi (Arg): Put his hand up today vs Croatia by trying to kick the ball into a prone players face from point-blank range after the whistle had gone. Of course, he missed.

    Pepe and Suarez have a good decade's worth of complete bastardry. In a sport filled with morally corrupt, these guys stand out, which is some achievement.

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in 2018 Football World Cup:

    @kiwipie said in 2018 Football World Cup:
    what are criteria. Belgiums Fellaini seems to have a lot of bastard in him.

    Neymar/Ronaldo seem more of a Golden piston wristed gibbon ilk than technically a bastard.

    Fellaini is just a thug - to be a contender for the Golden Bastard you need to be a

    1. A thug
    2. A wimpy diving cheat
    3. A first choice in a top team
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