World Cup 2018

Stevo_666

Pity it wasn't us who dumped them out but still a great result. I shall have to practice my towel skimming for tomorrow morning at the pool.
https://youtu.be/LuIJqF8av6I

verylonglegs

finchy wrote:

Kaiser Wilhelm, Ludwig van Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, The Scorpions, Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, Otto von Bismarck, Jan UIllrich, Rammstein, Werner Heisenberg, they've beaten them all! They've beaten them all! Angela Merkel, can you hear me? Angela Merkel... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating.

Thanks for that, I just had to go and remind myself of the original, so bizarre and so funny.

Stevo_666

finchy wrote:

Kaiser Wilhelm, Ludwig van Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, The Scorpions, Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, Otto von Bismarck, Jan UIllrich, Rammstein, Werner Heisenberg, they've beaten them all! They've beaten them all! Angela Merkel, can you hear me? Angela Merkel... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating.

Linky Finchy?

pblakeney

The Germans like precision and accuracy. I wonder how they took to VAR allowing the first goal.
Moving on, I think England should play their strongest 11 and keep the momentum going. Planning on playing a "weak" team in the later rounds is a colander of potholes.

Stevo_666

Don't mention ze VAR

finchy

Stevo 666 wrote:

finchy wrote:

Kaiser Wilhelm, Ludwig van Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, The Scorpions, Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, Otto von Bismarck, Jan UIllrich, Rammstein, Werner Heisenberg, they've beaten them all! They've beaten them all! Angela Merkel, can you hear me? Angela Merkel... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating.

Linky Finchy?

From when Norway beat England

ayjaycee

Stevo 666 wrote:

Don't mention ze VAR

if you thought that one up yourself, have a Brandy Sour on me. You deserve it - just tell them to send me the bill.

Stevo_666

finchy wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

finchy wrote:

Kaiser Wilhelm, Ludwig van Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, The Scorpions, Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler, Otto von Bismarck, Jan UIllrich, Rammstein, Werner Heisenberg, they've beaten them all! They've beaten them all! Angela Merkel, can you hear me? Angela Merkel... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating.

Linky Finchy?

From when Norway beat England

Being Norwegian he's probably a Liverpool fan which is why they battered us 2-1.

robert88

ayjaycee wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Don't mention ze VAR

if you thought that one up yourself, have a Brandy Sour on me. You deserve it - just tell them to send me the bill.

If he did he's standing right beside me!

Other German joke: "this time at least they managed to reach Moscow.."

shortfall

Stevo 666 wrote:

Don't mention ze VAR

tailwindhome

Colombia top their group and Japan finish second

So if England top the group the path to the final is

Japan > Brazil/Mexico > Uruguay/France/Portugal/Argentina

Finish second and it's

Colombia > Sweden/Switzerland > Spain/Russia/Croatia/Denmark


So would you rather Colombia next to dodge Brazil/Mexico.

Not sure.......

verylonglegs

I'd rather have Japan and take my chances. Had a bad feeling about meeting Columbia before a ball was even kicked, Falcao completely schooled John Stones in the Champions League the season before last and they are wiley enough to cause our naive young defence real issues. That's my opinion anyway.

Ben6899

verylonglegs wrote:

I'd rather have Japan and take my chances. Had a bad feeling about meeting Columbia before a ball was even kicked, Falcao completely schooled John Stones in the Champions League the season before last and they are wiley enough to cause our naive young defence real issues. That's my opinion anyway.

Completely agree. Falcao is a real handful and Colombia, on the whole, are one of the clever / dishonest teams that just know how to win.

crispybug2

Just got in from the little lady’s karate lessons and just watched about 10 minutes or so of the England/Belgium game and it’s rather.......


.........underwhelming!

Frank Wilson

TailWindHome wrote:

Colombia top their group and Japan finish second

So if England top the group the path to the final is

Japan > Brazil/Mexico > Uruguay/France/Portugal/Argentina

Finish second and it's

Colombia > Sweden/Switzerland > Spain/Russia/Croatia/Denmark


So would you rather Colombia next to dodge Brazil/Mexico.


Not sure.......

Seem to remember England fans and the EBC working out who they would play after beating Iceland!

pblakeney

Well, there you go. Mission accomplished. Coming second to a team who's primary objective tonight was to lose. If you believe what you are told. Did laugh at the hypocrisy of the media moaning about Martinez's comments after they've been saying the same thing for months.

orraloon

Cuffed by Colombia.

Come back in a few days...

Matthewfalle

first under strength proper team england face and they lose.

i leave the rest to you.

FishFish

I'm glad that england were beaten.

imposter2.0

FishFish wrote:

I'm glad that england were beaten.

Says the Russian troll/bot - well, duh....

FishFish

Pointless loser retort. Does not matter if I am russian english, scotch or from Uranus - I'm still glad that england lost.

rick_chasey

Tbh I don’t think it says much of either team given they both basically put out different teams.

Columbia will be close.

timothyw

I doubt it would have meant much to beat Belgium's B team anyway - they were both clearly playing it as a friendly, checking over the match fitness of their other players.

I'm happy with the result - if we lose to Columbia then there's no way in hell we'd have beaten Mexico/Brazil.

imposter2.0

FishFish wrote:

Pointless loser retort. Does not matter if I am russian english, scotch or from Uranus - I'm still glad that england lost.

Not my team either, trollbot. Scotch? Another yandex fail for you...

rick_chasey

FishFish wrote:

Does not matter if I am .....from Uranus.

This explains a lot.

robert88

Rick Chasey wrote:

Tbh I don’t think it says much of either team given they both basically put out different teams.

Columbia will be close.

Nobble Kane. Job's a good 'un.

Matthewfalle

FishFish wrote:

Pointless loser retort. Does not matter if I am russian english, scotch or from Uranus - I'm still glad that england lost.

well, you seem to talk out of Uranus all the time so it wouldn't be a surprise tbh.

kingstongraham

All of a sudden, the vibe has gone from "we might just be able to do this" to "but Colombia are better than Japan...".

If England are planning on getting to the final, Colombia shouldn't beat them, clearly. Japan beat Colombia. Last nights game was two second teams, so should have no impact on anything.

joe2008

KingstonGraham wrote:

All of a sudden, the vibe has gone from "we might just be able to do this" to "but Colombia are better than Japan...".

If England are planning on getting to the final, Colombia shouldn't beat them, clearly. Japan beat Colombia. Last nights game was two second teams, so should have no impact on anything.

Japan beat a 10 man Colombia. England will struggle against Cuadrado, Quintero et al.

kingstongraham

joe2008 wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

All of a sudden, the vibe has gone from "we might just be able to do this" to "but Colombia are better than Japan...".

If England are planning on getting to the final, Colombia shouldn't beat them, clearly. Japan beat Colombia. Last nights game was two second teams, so should have no impact on anything.

Japan beat a 10 man Colombia. England will struggle against Cuadrado, Quintero et al.

If that's true, we would have been destroyed by Brazil or Mexico.