2014 World Cup thread

[Smiral]

Frosty said
Holland won. Which makes them go against who next?

Costa Rica or Greece

Halo said
I just missed the end of the match because a seagull flew into my kitchen and attacked tonight's dinner and our bread... I assumed it would be going to penalties, but apparently now. o_o Time to rewind.

Is seagulls flying into your house a normal thing in not-America land

[Frosty]

If it's Costa Rica, a new hole may be torn. I'm not very sure about Greece.

[mdk]

Halo said
I just missed the end of the match because a seagull flew into my kitchen and attacked tonight's dinner and our bread... I assumed it would be going to penalties, but apparently now.

It kind of did...... in a way....

[Halo]

Smiral said
Is seagulls flying into your house a normal thing in not-America land

Yes. They are the terrors of the early evening, stalking our unprotected dinner foods, probing our defenses for weaknesses, raiding us for our only sustenance.

[idlehands]

They need to start calling flops, that was a bullshit call. Fuck. Still doesn't excuse Mexico for fucking pulling out Dos Santos, their best scorer and start playing defensively after that first goal. That was stupid.

[Halo]

idlehands said
They need to start calling flops, that was a bullshit call. Fuck. Still doesn't excuse Mexico for fucking pulling out Dos Santos, their best scorer and start playing defensively after that first goal. That was stupid.

Nah, I don't think it was. The guy who went down had so many opportunities to dive for a penalty throughout the game and never did; I'd be inclined to believe it was a genuine foul.

[idlehands]

They had been doing that all game and just then the ref decides to give a card. I still say it's bullshit.

[idlehands]

But mostly it's Mexico's fault. They scored early and instead of continuing to attack as they had been they started playing back on their heels and letting a dangerous Dutch team go on the offensive. And pulling Dos Santos who has been scoring almost all the goals and later putting in fucking Chicharito hasn't done anything the whole Cup. /rant

[The Nexerus]

Halo said raiding us for our only sustenance.

I knew Europe was horrifically poor, but I'd always thought that they could afford more than just bread as their sole source of sustenance.

[mdk]

It was totally a bullshit call, the trouble is, Mexico walked right into it. *Everybody flops in that situation*. Everybody. Stepping into him and making it a close call was just a panic-button response, and you're always gonna lose one or two of those.

[Halo]

idlehands said
But mostly it's Mexico's fault. They scored early and instead of continuing to attack as they had been they started playing back on their heels and letting a dangerous Dutch team go on the offensive. And pulling Dos Santos who has been scoring almost all the goals and later putting in fucking Chicharito hasn't done anything the whole Cup. /rant

I only started watching at 60 mins, so I can't comment, but that did seem to be their strategy... as I said earlier, from what I saw, the Netherlands were playing better. Although I've literally just seen the Mexico goal and holy snap, what a goal >_>.

idlehands said
They had been doing that all game and just then the ref decides to give a card. I still say it's bullshit.

Eh, for me (having seen them all in the highlights) that was the most blatantly a foul. The others were all a little uncertain, and so, rightly, the ref didn't give the penalty. Agree to disagree, no point arguing it now.

[Frosty]

Let's be honest though.
The "win" against Mexico?

[idlehands]

Frosty said
Let's be honest though.The "win" against Mexico?

They played better than I ever thought they would. They gave the Dutch a fight.

[Halo]

The Nexerus said
I knew Europe was horrifically poor, but I'd always thought that they could afford more than just bread as their sole source of sustenance.

I don't even know how to address the first part of that sentence, but as for the second - it was sausages and butter as well. Seems it just wanted a staple of the British diet: sausage butties (sandwiches).

mdk said
It was totally a bullshit call, the trouble is, Mexico walked right into it. *Everybody flops in that situation*. Everybody. Stepping into him and making it a close call was just a panic-button response, and you're always gonna lose one or two of those.

The same guy could have gone down from bad tackles prior to that and didn't - that's the thing, he didn't flop in that situation before. That's why I'm inclined to believe he didn't then.

[Frosty]

And the fact that they've been fucked by the refs this whole cup, it just makes it seem less epic. Mexico won in my head.

[Jerkchicken]

Mexico still shouldn't have fucking tried to park the bus with a point lead

[Halo]

Frosty said
Let's be honest though.The "win" against Mexico?

Mexico are a decent team...? They're among the best 20 teams in the world, anyway. A football-loving population of 120 million tends to produce good teams.

[Frosty]

Maybe at 2 would've been more efficient.

[idlehands]

Jerkchicken said
Mexico still shouldn't have fucking tried to park the bus with a point lead

THIS.

[Jerkchicken]

I was supposed to be drinking refreshing dutch tears then everything went to shit.

I mean I was fine when dutch scored because I believed in Ochoa's walling to help them out with penalties against the dutch, because mexico would have woken up. But only the ref woke up and they got that bullshit goal