Summer Football Tournaments - Who The Fuck Cares?

[SincereTheRebel]

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Hosted In Brazil without Neymar as he has a broken foot and facing rape charges. Chile have won the last two tounruments. Japan and Qatar are in this torumeument for some reason. All 26 games will be showing on Premier Sports in he UK.

First game is Brazil vs Bolivia at 1:30am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Copa_Am%C3%A9rica

Group A
Brazil
Bolivia
Venezuela
Peru

Group B
Argentina
Colombia
Paraguay
Qatar

Group C
Uruguay
Ecuador
Japan
Chile

More tears from Messi.

[Ian]

Mon' Japan.

[Baz]

Group A :sick:

[Offshore Toon]

I guess Japan are in it because Brazil has (I think) the largest Japanese population outside of Japan, or at least a significant community, and Qatar are in it because they gave passports to loads of Brazilians to make their national side competitive.

[Queenslander]

I hope Qatar gets lol'd out of South America.

[SvN]

Good chance to Messi to improve his goalscoring record.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.footballwhispers.com/blog/young-stars-copa-america-2019/?utm_source=sky&utm_medium=partner

Some player labbeled as the japenese messi will light up this tourmeent. Takefusa Kubo was at Barcelona acedmey but is back playing in Japan now. What about to that Isreali who moved to Man City from Barcelona who was lablelled similar.

[SincereTheRebel]

Gai Assulin was his name and he is in the Kazak league

[Baz]

I once nicknamed him The Gay Assassin on an FM/CM save many many years ago.

[Giggles]

They should just rename this competition ',mate'. I thought the Australians were in it?

[Baz]

They should just rename this competition ',mate'. I thought the Australians were in it?You’re thinking of Eurovision.

[Shindig]

I've just done a sporcle quiz to see just how many countries are in South America. Suriname and Guyana should just switch to COMMEBOL.

[Offshore Toon]

African Cup of Nations next week is when things really kick off.

[niko_cee]

They should just rename this competition ',mate'. I thought the Australians were in it?

That's next year.

What I can't get my head around is that they played it back to back a few years ago, I assumed for some calendar/year moving reasons, but now they are doing the same thing again to get it on to the Euros schedule - I think the federation centenary may have had something to do with it but you'd think they'd be able to organise themselves better than having a supposedly quadrennial tournament 4 times in 6 years. :cab:

[Jimmy Floyd]

African Cup of Nations next week is when things really kick off.

They really have botched it with the date move (it belongs in February) and the expansion to 24 teams. The bottom third of the teams will be absolute dross.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's next year.

What I can't get my head around is that they played it back to back a few years ago, I assumed for some calendar/year moving reasons, but now they are doing the same thing again to get it on to the Euros schedule - I think the federation centenary may have had something to do with it but you'd think they'd be able to organise themselves better than having a supposedly quadrennial tournament 4 times in 6 years. :cab:

They're just finding any old excuse to slot more of them in for money. Africa enjoys the same thing.

[phonics]

Arsenals first pre-season friendly is in 3 weeks. Remember when football took a break?

[Jimmy Floyd]

And everyone is surprised when players are all knackered by February. Rather than a winter break they just need to all be on the beach from 1 May to 1 August.

[niko_cee]

Well, at least the next World Cup fits with that idea . . .

Club football should certainly be done with by mid-May at the latest, particularly if it starts in early August.

[Gray Fox]

Haven't Arsenal been on holiday since about Christmas anyway?

[Pepe]

The Gold Cup at the same time as the Copa America really sucks.

[SincereTheRebel]

The Gold Cup at the same time as the Copa America really sucks.

I thought about a thread. But nobody gives a fuck about that competition.

[SincereTheRebel]

Mexico destroying Cuba and Argentina losing to Esco. Messi should just retire now and save himself the headache.

[Ian]

Colombia. :cool:

[John Arne]

Almoez Ali :drool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Argentina play Santa Cruz in a few hours. They were awful the first game. Messi will never win another major honour for the them. They are awful and he does not put enough work in for the team.

[mugbull]

At a pub and all the TVs are playin the Gold Cup classic Cuba vs Martinique. Something like 6 4k TVs tuned into possibly the worst televised game that’s ever been shown

[Ian]

Argentina play Santa Cruz in a few hours. They were awful the first game. Messi will never win another major honour for the them. They are awful and he does not put enough work in for the team.

I'm sure the commentators for the penalty last night were still saying that The Little Magician has done it again regardless.

[SincereTheRebel]

Qatar to do the business.

[Smjffy]

I was waiting on Jamaica the other night and it was only at full time I realised it was the Gold Cup I was watching, for some beyond daft reason I thought they were in the Copa America because they were facing El Salvador. That's special, right?

[Giggles]

Was the name changed on this?

[SincereTheRebel]

Was the name changed on this?

Better for all. Tell Jimmy to do his African cup of nations preview about mad goalkeepers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here is my preview:

- Egypt will win.
- Gael Bigirimana (ok) and Saido Berahino (wtf!) are playing for Burundi.
- Tanzania are dons.
- Ivory Coast are now shit. It was good while it lasted.
- Clarence Seedorf is the manager of Cameroon. I don't think the world is ready for that.
- Zimbabwe have players named: Talent, Knowledge, Divine, Teenage (he is 23), Knox, Marvellous, and Edmore. Presumably they are hoping for a team defined by nominative determinism.
- Egypt will win.

[SvN]

I thought Berahino had received an England cap at some point, but obviously not.

[Giggles]

I thought Berahino had received an England cap at some point, but obviously not.

Maybe a friendly.

[Pleb]

AFCON off to a great start.

Salah the Egyptian Ronaldo.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He is doing the usual host nation messiah thing of trying to run the game at walking pace from far too deep. Eto'o used to do this, it's maddening. Just get up top and be clinical ffs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Quality keeping that.

[CJay]

He is doing the usual host nation messiah thing of trying to run the game at walking pace from far too deep. Eto'o used to do this, it's maddening. Just get up top and be clinical ffs.

Seems to happen for a lot of top forwards stuck at mid-level nations. Lewandowski plays like that too.

This game is enjoyably helter skelter. Zimbabwe have a couple of players with a decent touch, but zero composure or decision making in the final third.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Thankfully Gabon haven't qualified so I don't have to watch Aubameyang's tragic attempt at doing the same thing for the 80th one of these in a row.

[CJay]

I’m guessing there’s no VAR in this?

[Jimmy Floyd]

African refs don't need VAR, they get everything right first time.

[SincereTheRebel]

Meanwhile Haiti and Jamaica have a 100% record after 3 games. just put Copa and Gold as one

[niko_cee]

The Zimbabwean sub 'keeper (Elivis Chipezeze) has a belting name.

[Shindig]

So does Romania have a golden generation going on? I saw those scorers names and thought, "Oh... okay."

[Mellberg]

Mind blowing team selection by Boothroyd. Should be sacked before the final game out of sheer bewilderment.

[Giggles]

What's that tournament? I just seen goals from an England game and a France game on the news. Is it the U19?

[Mellberg]

Euro u21s.

[Giggles]

Didn't know they were on, they're always a decent watch. What channel is showing them?

[Mellberg]

They're all on Sky. I'm officially giving up now England have embarassed themselves. Feels like the good old days.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just turned it on, Dr Congo losing to Uganda.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Should be two.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They can't defend for shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dr Congo have way too much red in their kits.

[SincereTheRebel]

The nigerian women area full on taribo west with their hair. Every colour is on display.

[Nick]

Isn't this normally played in January?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Saido time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Isn't this normally played in January?

It is but they've changed it to accommodate all the moaning European teams.

Bit shit that they're now having to play in 40c heat and will do so anytime it's hosted in North Africa.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Burundi are going to steal this.

[five time]

Bigirimana bossing this. What happened to him?

[Shindig]

He left us which is usually a sign of turning your life around.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Available on a free after failing in Scotland according to Wiki.

[John]

I've watched ten minutes of the Nigeria game and it's probably the lowest quality of football I've seen since we were in the fourth tier. It's abysmal.

[John]

That goalkeeper should be sent home immediately for diving five yards outside his post to save a forty yard shot that wasn't close to on target.

[Foe]

I thought watching Scotland play was bad. The standard of this Burundi v Nigeria game has been shocking.

Is this typical for afcon? Imagine Senegal will pound these chumps and the rest?

Seems John has the same view.

[Foe]

That's a lovely goal though.

[John]

Proper masterwork of dodgy goalkeeping from the Nigeria goalkeeper here. He's got the lot.

[Foe]

Africans still loving the vuvuzela I hear.

Glad that never took off elsewhere.

[SincereTheRebel]

Goalkeepers

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[SincereTheRebel]

Is Mikel still playing like Bergkamp in a Nigeria shirt?

[mugbull]

Goalkeepers

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You think they’re playing that ice cream truck jig through loudspeakers at the stadium?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a quality ball by Diawara.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Madagascar :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What scenes.

[niko_cee]

I'm really not sure Roberto Firmino should be trying to make this no-look goal business his gimmick. It's bound to go hilariously/tragically wrong at some point.

[SincereTheRebel]

England vs Cameroon has just kicked off. Goalkeeping has improved for the babes overall. Not as much funny businesses.

[SincereTheRebel]

These African gash need to chill with these colourful crooked wigs.

[Pleb]

Cameroon are SEETHING.

Blatant backpass and a spit to boot.

[SincereTheRebel]

Filthy animals. Thats savage behaviour. Spitting is disgusting and you deserve to be put down

[SincereTheRebel]

The commentator referred to the fouls the Cameroonian girls are making as niggardly :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just turned it on to see Namibia score an own goal at the death :(

[Pleb]

Cameroon :D

[Shindig]

They stormed back to the dressing room accusing the FIFA of racism? WHAT!?

[Pleb]

Blaming FIFA on the VAR goal as "Rasicm" :D

Christ get a grip ladies, the goal is fucking valid.

[Pleb]

VAR goal disallowed by Cameroon :D

[niko_cee]

I've not seen it, but how is spitting not something VAR gets involved in?

This game is box-office now though. Cameroon trying to surpass the '90 men in terms of madness.

[SvN]

So what minute does everyone fancy for the Cameroon red card?

[Giggles]

Did they walk off only to come back on? :D Twats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

In more interesting news, Tanzania are making their debut in the AFCON against Aliou Cisse's Senegal.

[Pleb]

No one saw that Cameroon player push the ref deliberately earlier?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I seem to remember Niang being heralded as someone with HUGE potential.

His finishing has always been horseshit when I've seen him.

[SvN]

The ref has completely bottled that. A clear red, and half of the team should've been booked.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tanzania are really riding their luck.

Fei Toto is seriously shit.

[Shindig]

I hope they interview these Cameroon lasses.

[Pleb]

Well that was a bizarre football game.

[niko_cee]

Are all lady refs of east Asian origin or is it just the ones who get involved in VAR clusterfucks?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tanzania are more interested in fouling and the ref is letting them get away with it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fei Toto taken off in the first half.

[Manc]

Phil laying it on thick. :drool:

[Yevrah]

Nice to see Phil joining his brother as the second self appointed morality bastion of the game.

[Ian]

I didn't see any of the England game today. Were the Cameroonians ROBBED or did they have a meltdown?

[Shindig]

They melted down inside 15 minutes and then stropped for the remaining 90.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?2499-FIFA-Women-s-World-Cup-2019&p=342869#post342869

Lads, you've got a thread.

[Pleb]

It's a Summer Tournament Mahow.

[SincereTheRebel]

Suarez appealing for a handball by the goalkeeper, before relaiseing its a goalkeeper.

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[Smjffy]

Is he? Looks more like he's clapping his hands after failing to find Cavani.

[SvN]

Are you having a laugh?

[SincereTheRebel]

Is he? Looks more like he's clapping his hands after failing to find Cavani.

Stop ball gobbling.

[Yevrah]

He's obviously claiming hand ball, but I don't see the issue as he's so in the moment and trying to score he doesn't care what position the player trying to stop him is playing.

[SvN]

Yeah it's just a funny little video, I don't think anyone that's sensible thinks anything more than that.

[Smjffy]

He's obviously claiming hand ball, but I don't see the issue as he's so in the moment and trying to score he doesn't care what position the player trying to stop him is playing.

I read a piece only a few days ago that sportsmen who appeal for everything, handballs, throw ins etc, do actually genuinely believe it is theirs and not trying to gain an advantage. It's something to do with the mind.

[Manc]

Japan women so unlucky.

[Giggles]

Best name ever.


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[Shindig]

All it needs is tinfoil around the trophy.

[SincereTheRebel]

I see that chocolate wrapper all the time, but never tried it

[Giggles]

As wafers go, they're not bad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Currently watching Javier Aguirre's Egypt (and why not) stink the place out against DR Congo. 21 minutes in and Salah has given the ball away every single time he's had it.

[niko_cee]

I enjoyed watching Dr Congo time wasting from about the 3rd minute until the 8th, whereupon they realised they might just be the better side.

Oh, goal for Egypt.

Salah looking for a pen just there as well.

Cracking organisation letting Salah get a double up on the corner and allowing him to cut to exactly where he likes to shoot from. :cab:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Elmohamady is a bit of a geezer, he strikes me as one of life's troopers.

I see the doctors have a German 'play-it-out-from-ze-back' centre half so they're probably doomed to a 3-0 defeat.

[niko_cee]

I take it back, that ordered by height wall was organisational genius.

[Pepe]

The play it from the back stuff was already shit when Lavolpe (who still has yet to win anything) was doing it in the nineties.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tresor Mputu is one of my favourite footballers, mainly because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1CBuJm04dY

You can even spot that mad bouncing keeper they used to have unsuccessfully trying to hold him back.

[SincereTheRebel]

England vs Norway babes is starting now in the quarters. England with an early goal

[niko_cee]

This combined gender stats for all time records thing that's being pushed at the moment needs to stop.

[Giggles]

This combined gender stats for all time records thing that's being pushed at the moment needs to stop.

Get used to it for everything.

[Yevrah]

This combined gender stats for all time records thing that's being pushed at the moment needs to stop.

Where's this?

[Ian]

An example I've seen is "highest ever international goalscorers" and all the top ones are women.

It's jarring at first but to be honest if/when womens football becomes more competitive across the board the highest scorers will probably seem like an anomaly in the womens game too once it's not just much more organised and professional teams smashing no-marks about.

[niko_cee]

Where's this?

England's leading goalscorer in World Cups is some woman apparently (maybe joint).

Although I don't know why it isn't extended to age group as well, after all, they are World Cups, are they not?

It's just tiresome. I don't know why women's sport can't just be enjoyed on its own terms. It's quite entertaining for the most part (the football that is). It doesn't need some forced, and frankly false, equivalence with the men's game.

[niko_cee]

Sue Smith

Former England forward on BBC One

That's bravery and confidence from Nikita Parris. She had her last penalty saved but she's brave to step up.

It's a good save. She saved one in the shootout against Australia. She's good at saving penalties.

:cab:

[Yevrah]

An example I've seen is "highest ever international goalscorers" and all the top ones are women.

It's jarring at first but to be honest if/when womens football becomes more competitive across the board the highest scorers will probably seem like an anomaly in the womens game too once it's not just much more organised and professional teams smashing no-marks about.


England's leading goalscorer in World Cups is some woman apparently (maybe joint).

Although I don't know why it isn't extended to age group as well, after all, they are World Cups, are they not?

It's just tiresome. I don't know why women's sport can't just be enjoyed on its own terms. It's quite entertaining for the most part (the football that is). It doesn't need some forced, and frankly false, equivalence with the men's game.

Agree entirely. It's patronising in the extreme.

[Kikó]

Saw it the other day on Marta being the all time top goalscorer in world cups across both genders. They're different competitions ffs.

[Ian]

The men on the BBC are constantly referencing male footballers. Which I get that that's what they know but is that really what people promoting the womens game want? Or do they want to make people who don't normally relate to it by going "Oh whatserface is actually a bit of a Shearer-type striker for the team...."

It doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to educate people on it. Player X reminds fans of the team of Player Y off've the past, [brief highlight reel of both], job done.

As has been said they're just desperately going "Oh it's just as good! Honest!" When I've found an evenly-matched game I've enjoyed what I've seen of the World Cup so far.

[Yevrah]

Helps England won, but tonight's game was good.

Reminds me of when the BBC briefly had Women's Football under Football and headlines like Chelsea beat Man City 3-0 (when the men weren't even playing) were just confusing as fuck.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The thing I enjoy about women's football is the comparative lack of cynicism in the play.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it's all very 'well done, you' or 'Ah, you'll get it next time'. If a player sells someone short because their pass was bollocks, I expect to hear something like that in the commentary.

[Ian]

From what I've seen England seem to be exclusively winning in a way that you'd be fucking seething about if it were Football Manager. Norway should've have, what, two tonight? Three?

Not that it matters if you do it all the way to the final but I've a horrible feeling we're going to hit the USA or whoever and get properly roasted.

[Mazuuurk]

I read a piece only a few days ago that sportsmen who appeal for everything, handballs, throw ins etc, do actually genuinely believe it is theirs and not trying to gain an advantage. It's something to do with the mind.

Most things people do is to do with their minds.

[John Arne]

The commentator in the Brazil-Paraguay game kept calling Firmino, Firminio, and it was very irritating. I mean, you are paid to know this shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That one always baffles me. There is literally nothing in the word 'Firmino' to suggest a y sound at the end.

[Baz]

Except the H and/or the curly bit on the ñ, that people seem to see.

[SincereTheRebel]

I was watching random football clips and the control, touch and reverse ball from Pirlo. The finish from Grosso with one minute of extra time reamining in a world cup semi-final :drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzihn2msbKg

[Smjffy]

I watched a YouTube video yesterday of late goals. Drogba's header in the Champions League final was so much better than I remembered.

[Serj]

Morocco - Ivory Coast has been rubbish.

Morocco are by far the better side, but I can't bring myself to root for them because they spend so much time writhing on the ground.

[Giggles]

Tried a bit of this but, as little as I'd care if I was watching France and the USA play in the real stuff, it still massively dwarfs how much I care about this.

[John]

How do Namibia have a very, very Aryan bloke named Manfred Starke playing for them?

[Shindig]

He was born there. German colony that became independent a year before he was born.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Namibia has a fair few white people in the same way that South Africa does.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48803076

Amr Warda was sent home by Egypt for sending shit like this to loads of women:

https://stepcdn.com/assets/2019-06/27/9/f95tu/capture-png-700x-1-700x.png

Salah has come out and said he's actually an alright bloke and they've recalled him just two days later.

Never change Egypt.

[SincereTheRebel]

You cant even fish for naan anymore :cry:

[Smjffy]

One of the worst parts of my trip to Egypt was the men, it made even me feel uneasy. I swear I could (and should) have sold Banana with ease.

[SincereTheRebel]

Some cultures are wild thirsty.

[niko_cee]

Is it bad that I already have an irrational dislike of this Rapinoe character?

[Smjffy]

Is it bad that I already have an irrational dislike of this Rapinoe character?

It could be worse, Niko.


Some cunt could shove it in your face.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5d167340a17d6c1aff6db0bb-1536-768.jpg

[SincereTheRebel]

Do Colombia still kill players who score own goals and miss penalties? Tesillo better watch out after Chile beat Colombia 5-4 in the shootout and he missed.

[Pen]

Is it bad that I already have an irrational dislike of this Rapinoe character?

Can someone summarise what’s the deal with her? I tried to read an article about her today, but gave up quickly as it was so American I couldn’t go on after the first few paragraphs.

[Smjffy]

She kneeled during the national anthem, protests, advocates gays and generally seems to be everything Donald Trump doesn't like. That's my take on it at least.

You can't win a World Cup without a gay though so someone alert Southgate.

[Pen]

Ah, alright. Thought there would’ve been more to that.

[Smjffy]

There probably is but then patriotic American's really aren't my forte. It's a lie, especially in that country.

[niko_cee]

She went down like a sack of shit against the French yesterday claiming to have been badly fouled and then VAR rolled in and showed there was basically no contact. I'm never too bothered about overly opinionated sportsfolk, but, for me, that sealed the deal.

[Giggles]

Is that the one that I see pictures of all over Twitter looking smug with a pink prison haircut and tits that look like the Rock's? Was she always a woman?

[Ian]

Is her physique notably different to any of them?

[niko_cee]

Big day in the Afcon today, triple 0-0. :cab:

[Ian]

Typical Afcon superkeeperings all round, yeah?

[niko_cee]

26 shots between Benin and Guinea-Bissau.

1 on target.

I think 5 shots on target across all three games. :D

[Ian]

Jimmy will have been in his element.

[SincereTheRebel]

Also finished 0-0 in the Peru vs Uruguay game. Suarez was the only player to miss during the penalty shoot-out. He had to be carried off in some of the Uruguayans players arms. He was crying very bad.

https://i.ibb.co/GQ5J3qD/FABAF50-B-F5-AD-40-CE-825-E-6-B053-D70-C556.jpg (https://ibb.co/whzLrfq)

Brazil vs Argentina on Tuesday
Chile vs Peru on Wednesday
Semi_finals

[Ian]

Oh? Suarez upset? Gosh that's a shame. :harold:

[Spoonsky]

Do Colombia still kill players who score own goals and miss penalties? Tesillo better watch out after Chile beat Colombia 5-4 in the shootout and he missed.

It’s worth watching this shootout online. Chile with the most savage set of penalties since Zambia vs Ivory Coast.

[SincereTheRebel]

Haiti are into the semi finals of the gold cup vs the mexicans.

[Spoonsky]

Canada still a disgrace then.

[Pepe]

Watched the first half of Mexico's match yesterday. Tata Binman Martino is our manager apparently. I also didn't recognize half of the players.

[SincereTheRebel]

Me neither.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Madagascar :cool:

Scenes if they win and top the group.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nigeria :harold:

[niko_cee]

Some of the Madagascan names are pretty epic. Not really clocked them before today.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I had only heard of Nohenmanjahry or whatever before the tournament. Purely because I did a FIFA career with Paris and he and the keeper are the only decent ones there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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It is known.

[Ian]

That just made me think of a colleague of mine in the grim days of being on the phones covering Student Loans Company, seeing a passport with an application and asking me who "Dr. Congo" is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Namibia didn't deserve this.

Also, I have no idea how Bony is starting over Pepe, Cornet or even Kodjia.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a horrific penalty by Mane.

[niko_cee]

I remember thinking Mané looked a decent taker in pre-season (I think) last season, but yeah, not so much. All of Liverpool's forwards are shit at penalties. Well, maybe not Origi, he'd probably be surprisingly good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm prepared to be wrong, but I imagine it was deliberately missed and this game is a fix to take both sides through.

[Jimmy Floyd]

On that note, for long odds betting fans, there was a famous 4-4 in Mali v Angola in this competition about six or eight years back, and a repeat of that scoreline tomorrow would be judicious for both sides.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dodgy keeper alert.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Get on the equaliser.

EDIT: Or don't. RIP Kenya. Long live Doctor Congo.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Terrible defending.

The Doctors ride again.

[John]

That's a quality finish, but both the defender and the goalkeeper need bullets.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They've fallen apart here.

[John]

About as rash a tackle as you'll ever see in the box. Heads completely gone, and Senegal could finish this with six if they want it.

[Smjffy]

I remember thinking Mané looked a decent taker in pre-season (I think) last season, but yeah, not so much. All of Liverpool's forwards are shit at penalties. Well, maybe not Origi, he'd probably be surprisingly good.

James Milner won't retire this century so we should be alright.

[niko_cee]

Even Fabinho was meant to be a don at them wasn't he and then promptly missed the first one he was tasked with taking.

[Smjffy]

19 successful ones then a miss for us if I Googled right. van Nistelrooy levels that.

[SincereTheRebel]

USA vs England women in the semi final tonight followed by Argentina vs Brazil in the Copa.

[SincereTheRebel]

Half the USA team look exactly the same. Clearly, they all have the same barber.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was going to complain that Eurosport were showing Mali/Angola but they are actually showing the other match too which should be more interesting.

[phonics]

Half the USA team look exactly the same. Clearly, they all have the same barber.

Black man thinks we all look the same. Shameful racism.

[SincereTheRebel]

England have been a shambles so far and USA has taken a 1-0 lead after 10 minutes. They look shook out there.

[SincereTheRebel]

Black man thinks we all look the same. Shameful racism.

You're an American woman?

[phonics]

In the #MeToo era, we're all American women.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mauritania should be 2 up.

[SvN]

England have been abysmal so far, but that's a great finish. Hopefully that settles the nerves.

[Baz]

:lol:

What the actual fuck was that corner.

[SincereTheRebel]

England are losing 2-1 but playing decent. That's not a penalty for them though. No way but it's given.

The england number 18 is Vardy in the face.

Penalty saved by USA. They still lead 2-1

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shocking penalty.

[SvN]

That penalty :D

[SvN]

Reminded me of Berbatov against Everton.

[Spikey M]

What the fuck was that? This is the first match I've bothered with, and this is sub-League 2 shit.

[SvN]

It's worse than League 2, but it's still entertaining.

[Spikey M]

Lol

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Collapse :harold:

[SincereTheRebel]

Harry Maguire flying into tackles getting sent off

[Baz]

Have you all forgot Love Island started at 9?

[SincereTheRebel]

They really do throw themselves to the floor

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Love Islanders? I think that's the point.

[Kikó]

I'd say thank god this is over but I've not watched more than 5 minutes. Absolute garbage football that you wouldn't bother watching on a sunday morning.

[Lewis]

If we're treating the ladies equally then that is the shittest England penalty ever.

[Spikey M]

Hahahahaha

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tbf, you get those throw-ins at least twice a game in the AFCON and the ref doesn't bat an eyelid.

[SincereTheRebel]

If we're treating the ladies equally then that is the shittest England penalty ever.

The Chilean penalties from the Uruguay game were top corner bangers. They should pay attention.

[Pleb]

Have you all forgot Love Island started at 9?
Yes.

[SincereTheRebel]

The argies are shit

[SincereTheRebel]

Jesus with a simple tap in after 20 minutes.

[Pepe]

Argentina's defense is a bombscare. I don't think that Messi even touched the ball that half.

[SincereTheRebel]

Raul with an extra time penalty in the semi final to beat Haiti. I fell asleep 6 minutes in and have had to review this morning

Soft penalty


https://youtu.be/SkNGtnDfrgM

[SincereTheRebel]

Jamaica to pepper USA in the other semi final later on tonight.

[Pepe]

I like the idea of Haiti being not too bad at football.

[bruhnaldo]

I mean why wouldn't you though

[bruhnaldo]

FUN FACT: Lionel Messi had zero open play goals and zero assists in the entire Copa America.

[Ian]

Yeah but he ran about contributing nothing in the most beautiful way anybody has ever done it because Little Magician, mate.

Player of the tournament.

[niko_cee]

I love how the Americans seem to think we're still really hung up about the Boston Tea Party.

[Shindig]

To be fair, they've only got 250 years of history to call their own. Most of which was spent fighting among themselves.

[bruhnaldo]

It's not really about the Boston Tea Party though is it.

[Spikey M]

I'd wager that less than 50% of Brits under 50 know what the Boston Tea Party was.

[Shindig]

Somehow about Trump.

[Baz]

I'd wager that less than 50% of Brits under 50 know what the Boston Tea Party was.Its a craft beer (http://untp.beer/jrMJg).

[Spikey M]

Less than 3 stars? I'd have chucked it overboard as well.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, it's not one of their better efforts that one.


It's not really about the Boston Tea Party though is it.

Even if it isn't in this instance (I have no idea, that seemed to be the beeb's take going off their headline) I have seen enough cultural references to said event to know that it seems to sit large in the American psyche as something we Brits really rankle over.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Boston tea party, like 90% of American history, is boring.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a massive thing for them as the centre of their national foundation myth, whereas we had plenty of other colonies so no biggie really.

Our version of that is getting into the Germans about the world wars, as if the new generations of Germans give a shit about Goering's blunders 80 years ago.

[Offshore Toon]

I don't know anybody that cares about the world wars. It'd be embarrassing to bring that up in this day and age, especially from a national hero on the world stage.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the only time in history when they've been on that end of the David/Goliath continuum, so they still cling onto it. Get all arsey if a black bloke kneels for the anthem though. Funny old place.

[Offshore Toon]

They're mostly absolute wankers, ye. Bruh does a decent job of bringing that side of America to the board. Big up Spoonsky, though.

[bruhnaldo]

A single pinky has basically donned this entire thread but i'm the wanker.

Sure, sure.

[Giggles]

Let them have the world wars, even we ran them with a bunch of outmanned farmers. All this Brexit stuff would be so much smoother now if they hadn't bottled it and prematurely surrendered back in 1921.

[Offshore Toon]

A single pinky has basically donned this entire thread but i'm the wanker.

Sure, sure.
There's not a single player in that women's USA team that would stop and talk to you in the street even to give you the time of day. Your country is fucked. Its not your fault, but there's nothing to celebrate.

[bruhnaldo]

What an odd response.

[SincereTheRebel]

Cocaine Guerrero has just killed off Chile 3-0 to set up a final with Brazil.

[Giggles]

There's not a single player in that women's USA team that would stop and talk to you in the street even to give you the time of day. Your country is fucked. Its not your fault, but there's nothing to celebrate.

You seem remarkably sore over a game of women's soccer. I couldn't see many of either English teams stopping for a natter with yourself or anyone else either.

[Offshore Toon]

I'm really not sore. I'm a Scotland fan if anything. The yanks just need sorting.

[Jimmy Floyd]

USA should win easily at women's football, as they should win at every non-global sport, because their collegiate sports programmes are drenched in money for athletes to grow up playing their sports without an economic necessity to earn from them, and no other country has that privilege.

Every team that isn't the USA is a massive underdog for that reason - it's the same in golf, in tennis, athletics, swimming etc etc etc.