Soccerball Therad

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:47 am

exhausting

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:48 am

unsurprisingly football is much better when played in a football stadium in front of football fans

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:48 am

instead of in an aircraft hangar in front of leonardo di caprio on his phone

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 1:57 am

that might have been one of the crappiest performances i've ever seen from america there. just wonderful stuff

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 2:03 am

Trump furiously phoning FIFA to get the result overturned.

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 2:05 am

The world cup has now been closed

Post by **Pual** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:06 am

From now on all the teams have to player proper American sports like baseball, going to war or opioid addiction.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 1:24 pm

The Americans didn't look mentally right to me from the start, so well done Turmp for that. :/ Balogun even had an apologetic chat with the Belgian staff!

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:26 pm

the world cup is corrupt as fuck

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:26 pm

absolute piss

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:32 pm

and then hooray

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:32 pm

(egypt'll still lose 3-2)

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:59 pm

yeah, fuck off football

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 6:02 pm

proper naked ultra var corruption

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:08 pm

dng wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:32 pm (egypt'll still lose 3-2)

Maldon's Nostradamus!

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:21 pm

I matchfixed it and am now a millionaire

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 12:42 am

I'm a little disappoint that Columbia lost.

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:49 am

yeah. but also they were rubbish

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:49 am

i like the way switzerland always turn up out of nowhere and produce the most utterly dull match you've ever seen in your life

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 am

its just a shame they don't have shaqiri turning up and scoring the best goal you've ever seen before dsappearing for another two years any more

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 am

unless they do and he's saving it for the next round

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 1:40 pm

dng wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 am its just a shame they don't have shaqiri turning up and scoring the best goal you've ever seen before dsappearing for another two years any more

In between tournaments, most of his time is devoted to his indie-synth-rock band Enter Shaqiri, who had a hit with 'Sorry You're Not A Winner' (Switzerland) in the hit parade back in the early 2000s...

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 1:48 pm

hopefully the song lasted 2 long boring hours and then ended in a penalty shoutout

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Jul 08, 2026 2:08 pm

Excellent

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:57 am

I can't see Morocco beating Fance tonight.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:01 pm

Nor can I

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:23 pm

also i'm not sur what the point of morocco even turning up today was. complete shite

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:35 am

Absolutely.

If you're gonna get knocked out, then at least give it a go.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:12 pm

Spain - Belgium

A comfortable 2-0 victory for one of these teams!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **dng** » Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:06 pm

Whenever they show the outside of that stadium in LA it looks like one of those matte paintings of star fleet academy or the vulcan home world on the next generation

Post by **dng** » Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:11 pm

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Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 10:31 am

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 10:37 am

Bad luck Belgique - you gave it a good go. And losing Onana in the prior match, Tielemans in the warm up, and Courtois during the match... jeez...

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 3:12 pm

Hairy Kane played golf with... Turmp?

What next?

Alan Shearer played Buckaroo with Pol Pot just before Euro 96?!?!

Post by **endar** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 4:22 pm

Bobby Moore went clay pigeon shooting with Pinochet in 1970

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 4:24 pm

And Gazza went fishing with Raoul Moat

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:10 pm

endar wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 4:22 pm Bobby Moore went clay pigeon shooting with Pinochet in 1970

He also gave my dad and his mate a lift home in his sports car, something that astonishes me even more every time I think about it.

Post by **endar** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 7:23 pm

did ehis ever meet Emlyn?

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm

Well this is gruellingly terrible

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm

(except for those five seconds when Bellingham turned into maradona)

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:51 pm

endar wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 7:23 pm did ehis ever meet Emlyn?

He can't have done, he would never stop going on about it if he had. He did meet the Pope once apparently.

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:06 am

dng wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm Well this is gruellingly terrible

hooray for gruellingly terrible

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:23 am

dng wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm (except for those five seconds when Bellingham turned into maradona)

supposedly this should have been disallowed because the ball hit that stupid spider cam in the build up

Post by **dng** » Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:23 am

not quite as good as when that beach ball scored a goal in the premier league but pretty good still

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:54 am

I wonder what Kobbie Mainoo has done that would explain why he hasn't played at all this tournament?

Thrown a piss-filled airfryer at the England team kit-man?

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:58 am

dng wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:23 am
dng wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm (except for those five seconds when Bellingham turned into maradona)
supposedly this should have been disallowed because the ball hit that stupid spider cam in the build up

FIFA's snickometer detected no contact between ball and spider cam... apparently...

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 1:00 am

I fancy England against Argentina. They're no great shakes, just like us.

Post by **vom** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 8:27 am

I bet we make them look like the greatest team in the world. And then they get beaten 14-0 by France in the final

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:13 am

i think the world cups gone on way too long and they should just cancel the rest of it and declare everyone the winner

Post by **endar** » Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:18 pm

Declare Iran the winner