World Cup 2022 thread (football only)

[northsomersetred]

18 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Looks classless gloating over Mbappe, perhaps he should remember who put 3 goals past him in the game.

Penalties don't count, Geoff is still the only player with a hat trick in the final

[Open End Numb Legs]

Why don't penalties count?

[italian dave]

36 minutes ago, northsomersetred said:

Penalties don't count, Geoff is still the only player with a hat trick in the final

Some might argue that penalties count more than 'goals' that didn't cross the line 

[BigTone]

18 hours ago, Slacker said:

 

3 minutes ago, BigTone said:

 

Ah yes of course !! .............who ?

 

Is he the bloke that cooks steak and then let's salt roll down his arm onto it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not a scooby

[Ska Junkie]

1 hour ago, northsomersetred said:

Penalties don't count, Geoff is still the only player with a hat trick in the final

What's a 'penalty'?

Please bear in mind I'm a Bristol City supporter.

[Bris Red]

******* animals the lot of them. Wouldn’t expect anything less from the Argies though.

[David Brent]

22 hours ago, italian dave said:

Who is he? 

He’s a celebrity chef…like Jamie Oliver or Anthony Worrall Thompson

 

Edited December 21, 2022 by David Brent

[alexukhc]

[italian dave]

44 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

******* animals the lot of them. Wouldn’t expect anything less from the Argies though.

Echos of the last major mens football tournament final?

Now, remind me, where was that?

Black. Pot. Kettle. 

[Bris Red]

23 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Echos of the last major mens football tournament final?

Now, remind me, where was that?

Black. Pot. Kettle. 

Oh yes i forget people died at the Euro final, and shops were looted weren’t they?

Absolutely bollox to compare what’s happening over there to what happened at Wembley.

Edited December 21, 2022 by Bris Red

[italian dave]

10 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

Oh yes i forget people died at the Euro final, and shops were looted weren’t they?

Absolutely bollox to compare what’s happening over there to what happened at Wembley.

Of course it is. They're Argentinian and we're English.

[Bris Red]

41 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Echos of the last major mens football tournament final?

Now, remind me, where was that?

Black. Pot. Kettle. 

Also , you are absolutely deluded if you think there wouldn’t have been fans rushing the gates without tickets if the World cup final had been held in Buenos Aires at either the Monumental or the Bombonera stadiums then you are deluded.

I lived in Buenos Aires for just over a year been to both grounds and the are decades behind us in crowd safety.

Edited December 21, 2022 by Bris Red

[italian dave]

2 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

Also , you are absolutely deluded if you think there wouldn’t have been fans rushing the gates without tickets if the World cup final had been held in Buenos Aires at either the Monumental or the Armando stadium’s then you are deluded.

I lived in Buenos Aires for just over a year been to both grounds and the are decades behind us in crowd safety.

I haven't suggested that for a moment.

You're the one trying to pretend there's a distinction between the two, not me.

This isn't about crowd safety, and that's not what your initial comment was about either. It was about people's behaviour. Animals was the word you used. I'm simply suggesting that people who riot and engage in that sort of behaviour are animals whether they're Argentine or English.

(And, incidentally, the death appears to have been someone falling from a roof and the 5 year old in a coma after a piece of marble fell off a statue).

[Bris Red]

25 minutes ago, italian dave said:

I haven't suggested that for a moment.

You're the one trying to pretend there's a distinction between the two, not me.

This isn't about crowd safety, and that's not what your initial comment was about either. It was about people's behaviour. Animals was the word you used. I'm simply suggesting that people who riot and engage in that sort of behaviour are animals whether they're Argentine or English.

(And, incidentally, the death appears to have been someone falling from a roof and the 5 year old in a coma after a piece of marble fell off a statue).

I totally agree, people who riot irrespective of their nationality are animals. Why you thought the need to link rioting and looting of shops to the Euro final at Wembley however i do not know.

No looting or large scale riots on the streets happened before during or after the Euro final at Wembley. ‘Echo’s of the Euro final’ were your words, the scenes in Argentina right now did not happen in London last year so stop trying to compare the two.

Edited December 21, 2022 by Bris Red

[italian dave]

6 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

I totally agree, people who riot irrespective of their nationality are animals. Why you thought the need to link rioting and looting of shops to the Euro final at Wembley however i do not know.

No looting or large scale riots on the streets happened before during or after the Euro final at Wembley. ‘Echo’s of the Euro final’ were your words, the scenes in Argentina right now did not happen in London last year so stop trying to compare the two.

What happened at the Euros was described by the report as a day of "national shame", when thousands tried to storm the national stadium and tens of thousands more created scenes of anarchic disorder. Let's not get into a pointless debate about which was worse - they were both scenes of very significant public disorder.

And on a more general scale, football related or not, England has not been without scenes of even more shocking public disorder in recent years.

All that I'm suggesting (as I think you know) is that you probably wouldn't  have responded to the events in Wembley, or elsewhere in England, with

"**** animals the lot of them. Wouldn't expect anything less from the English though"

I'm not suggesting that you wouldn't agree that anyone who riots is an animal. What I'm suggesting is that the fact that a tiny minority of a population chooses to riot doesn't justify tarring the whole nationality with that brush.

[Bazooka Joe]

4 hours ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Why don't penalties count?

Probably because penalties are never awarded in City's favour.

If this continues the governing body might as well scrap them whenever we play.

Wasn't Atyeo the last player to score a penalty for us?

[BigTone]

2 hours ago, David Brent said:

He’s a celebrity chef…like Jamie Oliver or Anthony Worrall Thompson

 

So a toss pot then 

[Loco Rojo]

The Messi love in on social media is embarrassing now. I don't know why the rest of the Argentinian team bothered turning up to this World Cup.

They may as well have taken the month off for R&R cuz it's ok, Messi has got it covered. Embarrassing.

[italian dave]

1 hour ago, Loco Rojo said:

The Messi love in on social media is embarrassing now. I don't know why the rest of the Argentinian team bothered turning up to this World Cup.

They may as well have taken the month off for R&R cuz it's ok, Messi has got it covered. Embarrassing.

Brighton are getting a fair bit mind, aren’t they?! Good luck to them. 

[northsomersetred]

9 hours ago, italian dave said:

Some might argue that penalties count more than 'goals' that didn't cross the line 

I'll think you'll find VAR said it was a good goal

[italian dave]

8 minutes ago, northsomersetred said:

I'll think you'll find VAR said it was a good goal

Ha ha!! What was that: Very Accurate Russian?

[North London Red]

Haven’t been on here since just after the England v Iran game but now fully back in the UK and preparing for the West Brom game in considerably cooler temperatures than the games I saw in Qatar. 
 

Ended up seeing the five England games plus Australia v Tunisia, South Korea v Ghana (Antoine sadly didn’t make it onto the pitch), Morocco v Canada and Brazil v Cameroon. Saw games at 7 of the 8 stadiums;  unfortunately I couldn’t get a ticket for Stadium 974. 
 

A few pictures to follow. I’ve seen plenty of comments about empty seats in the grounds - I honestly couldn’t see many in the games I went to (and I don’t think many are visible in the pics below). 

[northsomersetred]

wtf have i just watched

 

[Gazred]

[Gazred]

1 hour ago, northsomersetred said:

wtf have i just watched

 

Infantino looks medium rare.

[BigTone]

2 hours ago, northsomersetred said:

wtf have i just watched

 

What a plonker

[italian dave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64071206

[Lanterne Rouge]

3 hours ago, northsomersetred said:

wtf have i just watched

 

What a time to be alive...................................................

[alexukhc]

3 hours ago, BigTone said:

What a plonker

He’s Turkish as well

[Mr Popodopolous]

Story in Times tonight, for all of Argentina's undoubtedly mix of gifted and spiky players dowm the years they can be very objectionable winners. Rather supports what @Sheltons Army said little while ago.