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Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:47 am
by dng
exhausting

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:48 am
by dng
unsurprisingly football is much better when played in a football stadium in front of football fans

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2026 9:48 am
by dng
instead of in an aircraft hangar in front of leonardo di caprio on his phone

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 1:57 am
by dng
that might have been one of the crappiest performances i've ever seen from america there. just wonderful stuff

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 2:03 am
by Bruce Sato
Trump furiously phoning FIFA to get the result overturned.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 2:05 am
by dng
The world cup has now been closed

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:06 am
by Pual
From now on all the teams have to player proper American sports like baseball, going to war or opioid addiction.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 1:24 pm
by blombluss
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!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:26 pm
by dng
the world cup is corrupt as fuck

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:26 pm
by dng
absolute piss

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:32 pm
by dng
and then hooray

Re: Soccerball Therad

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:59 pm
by dng
yeah, fuck off football

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 6:02 pm
by dng
proper naked ultra var corruption

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:08 pm
by blombluss
dng wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:32 pm (egypt'll still lose 3-2)
Maldon's Nostradamus! :o

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 7:21 pm
by dng
I matchfixed it and am now a millionaire

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 12:42 am
by blombluss
I'm a little disappoint that Columbia lost. :(

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:49 am
by dng
yeah. but also they were rubbish

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:49 am
by dng
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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 am
by dng
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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 am
by dng
unless they do and he's saving it for the next round

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 1:40 pm
by blombluss
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... :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 1:48 pm
by dng
hopefully the song lasted 2 long boring hours and then ended in a penalty shoutout

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 2:08 pm
by Bruce Sato
Excellent

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:57 am
by blombluss
I can't see Morocco beating Fance tonight.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:01 pm
by dng
Nor can I

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:23 pm
by dng
also i'm not sur what the point of morocco even turning up today was. complete shite

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:35 am
by blombluss
Absolutely.

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:12 pm
by blombluss
Spain - Belgium

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:06 pm
by dng
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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:11 pm
by dng
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Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 10:31 am
by blombluss
Ha!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 10:37 am
by blombluss
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...

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 3:12 pm
by blombluss
Hairy Kane played golf with... Turmp?

What next?

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 4:24 pm
by dng
And Gazza went fishing with Raoul Moat

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:10 pm
by Bruce Sato
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.

Re: Soccerball Therad

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:51 pm
by Bruce Sato
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.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:06 am
by dng
dng wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 11:03 pm Well this is gruellingly terrible
hooray for gruellingly terrible

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:23 am
by dng
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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 12:23 am
by dng
not quite as good as when that beach ball scored a goal in the premier league but pretty good still

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:54 am
by blombluss
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?

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 12:58 am
by blombluss
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... :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 1:00 am
by blombluss
I fancy England against Argentina. They're no great shakes, just like us.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 8:27 am
by vom
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

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:13 am
by dng
i think the world cups gone on way too long and they should just cancel the rest of it and declare everyone the winner

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:18 pm
by endar
Declare Iran the winner