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Russia 2018 - The World Cup thread

By MC Prussian, in General Football and Sport

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Wymsey

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Russia's success already, but they could go even further, takes away their often low/poor reputation politically with quite a few countries nationally - especially the UK after what happened recently and this year.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if Putin etc got involved if they proceed to the final. As they don't deserve it as they're not one of the better teams imo.

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That’s a pen though

 

edit: apparently not :ph34r:

 

double edit: wrong thread.

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World Cup 2018: Fifa investigates England chants during Croatia defeat
By Richard Conway

BBC sports news correspondent


England had their biggest following of the World Cup against Croatia in Moscow
Chants of a "possible discriminatory" nature by England fans during their World Cup semi-final defeat by Croatia, are being investigated by Fifa.

It relates to the chanting of "no surrender" by England fans and other potentially discriminatory songs.

"We can confirm that a report has been filed in relation to chants of a possible discriminatory nature by English fans," said Fifa.

"Proceedings have been opened against The Football Association."

 

On Wednesday the FA was fined 70,000 Swiss francs (£50,000) after Dele Alli, Eric Dier and Raheem Sterling wore "unauthorised" socks after ignoring a Fifa warning to stop.

The players wore branded ankle support socks over official Nike socks, "breaching media and marketing regulations and the Fifa equipment regulations".

Doping tests negative
Fifa announced on Thursday that so far all doping tests conducted before and during the World Cup have yielded negative results.

Since January 2018, a total of 2,037 tests have been conducted, Fifa said. On average, every player from the four remaining teams has been tested four times since January, with some of tested up to eight times.

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1 minute ago, davieG said:

On Wednesday the FA was fined 70,000 Swiss francs (£50,000) after Dele Alli, Eric Dier and Raheem Sterling wore "unauthorised" socks after ignoring a Fifa warning to stop.

The players wore branded ankle support socks over official Nike socks, "breaching media and marketing regulations and the Fifa equipment regulations"

Worlds gone mad

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The players wore branded ankle support socks over official Nike socks, "breaching media and marketing regulations and the Fifa equipment regulations".

 

 

 

 

That sentence is basically everything wrong with football in a nutshell. 

 

**** sake. 

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Kinda disapointed really, I think 2014 was a better spectacle. The stadia and the settings seemed flatter and less picturesce, the atmosphere at times just lacked passion. 7 Nation Army leading all the teams out as a World Cup Anthem was tacky, all the teams having their own stupid jingle when they scored ect.(ours and Belguim was the same cringy club tune memed to popularity in 2016, Freed from Desire). You had the refferees not punishing diving in the first couple rounds of the groups leading to even more diving because there were no reprecussions. VAR showing promise but ultimately the refs still managed to make themselves look complete tools, getting decisions wrong they and their full kit wankered mates could watch repeatedly in their little box miles away from the pitch. Eventually cut VAR down to 25% of what it was in the Groups for the KO's. Think there was also a lack of great, great games; really the only memorable ones are gonna be Spain v Portugal, Germany v Mexico, Germany v Sweden(only for the winner), Nigeria v Argentina, France v Argentina, Belguim v Japan, Belgium v Brazil, Croatia v Argentina & Poland v Columbia - alot of good, good games in there but nothing jaw droppingly remarkable like 7-1 or Campiones Spain v Holland. Very little confrontation and flair ups too, there was abit from Matic vs the Costa Rica bench but its all been too chilled, I want to see neck grabbing, headbutts, slow mo shots of players so angry spit is flying out from between their teeth at eachother, blood red faces, flying elbows and knees into backs, random red cards - very little to show of it. Lack of stonking good goals too, theres been good ones but no James Rod of 2014 thundercrackers, David Luiz 40 yard free kicks or even a Tim Cahill over the shoulder volley.

 

More of the average teams showed that just organising the midfield and defending with descipline and focus could give them opportunities against bigger nations, which also made games quite simular and boring at times. No remarkable style of play has won the show, its just been organisation, pace and individuals; showcased by France - who without Kante wouldnt look anywhere near as organised and wouldn't have won it in my estimation, they played incredibly turgid stuff in the groups and their best performance was against an Argentina who were in absolute tatters, they ran away with it today but in the first half they were incredibly lucky to go in ahead with both goals coming from suss calls. Champions were stacked with abominable players too, Umtiti the centre back who's main individual trait is diving, Poobag has done better than he has with Utd suppose, Griezmann and his punchable face, diving and dickhead celebrations - only ones I actually like are Kante and maybe Pavard.

 

I'm happy it will be remembered as a great time for the fans after all of the fear and playing up of stuff in Russia, Brazil is a far more dangerous country but had nowhere near the same level of media attention for it, same with South Africa. It's good it seems Putin kept the dogs on chains and the huge majority of Russian people welcomed everyone from everywhere with open arms - it sounded like they'd put happy juice into the water supply and looked a great time.

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29 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

This guy spoils the view the moment Hugo Lloris and the team lift the World Cup trophy.

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Bet a TV producer or two were livid at the time..

Haha I thought the same when I watched it. What a pair of plonkers. 

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