The 2014 World Cup Thread - Football, Favelas and Financial Turmoil

[dshift]

there's some news saying Neymar injury could possibly be fake?
site is in english, couldn't find an english source:

http://centraldeportiva.com/lesion-de-neymar-un-teatrito-brasileno/

this kind of sh*t stuff always come up after the spilt milk!And I assure ,with or without neymar, we wouldn't had get that game,it's inddiferent!Same for Thiago Silva(maybe this one,would had made some difference,but not that much!).

I feel sorry for those who truly believe and 4 who wasted their time trying to formulate a such misleading f*cking news,feel embarrassed for them!

 

[MaSsiVe]

 

[Back Door Skip]

Awesome.

 

[Dytza]

Hahahaha

 

[MaSsiVe]

HOLY SHIT!

I hope the dutch make an appeal

EDIT

"Precedents":

 

[Back Door Skip]

It seems their goal line technology is not fool proof apparently.

 

[MaSsiVe]

I guess the ref's buzzer didn't go off, for a moment you can see Vlaar asking him about it.

 

[dshift]

bloody outstanding!!!

 

[ShiftyPowers]

The ball stopped on the line, it didn't roll in.

 

[Xifio]

at the start of the tournament, we got a million f*cking farcical replays of goal line technology "confirming" goals that hit the back of the net ... but here, where there's a genuine case for clarification needed, there's no live/recorded goal line technology replay confirmation?! what a joke ...

 

[ShiftyPowers]

The ball stopped on the line

http://www.espnfc.us/fifa-world-cup/4/video/1944677/watch-almost-a-goal

 

[Xifio]

hah, it totally looks like he shouldered it too, though I guess he didn't since he tried to claim it crossed the line ... cool, thx ...

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I've read "Golden Generation" articles on both Germany AND Argentina in the last 3 days, so now I don't know who will lose.

 

[Xifio]

this is Argentina's Golden Generation? lol, what?

 

[ShiftyPowers]

It was based on them winning a bunch of Olympics and U-20 World Cups last decade.

 

[Xifio]

had it crossed the line, 'Shoulder-gate' would have fit perfectly into a high drama, low quality World Cup ...

It was based on them winning a bunch of Olympics and U-20 World Cups last decade.

hah, the narrative works, I'll agree, but this is as sh!tty a team as could qualify for a Golden Generation moniker ... what I'm getting at is this: Argentina 1986 is regarded as Maradona + 10; Argentina 2014 would be regarded as Messidona + 10 ...

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Even Messi hasn't been very good. Only Fred, who played 100 less minutes, has run less than Messi of the players who have played 6 games. I must admit that I often look for Messi during the game and find him far away from the play just walking around. I don't even know what the narrative would be if Argentina won; I guess it would center around Messi, but this is a poor team, probably the worst team to win the World Cup since 1990 when every team was boring.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I agree with you, fatigue is probably the main factor, but that doesn't make his performance any better. He is walking constantly, and I have seen nothing like this triple teaming that you just invented.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I'm so thrilled that Real Madrid star Toni Kroos has a decent shot at winning the Golden Ball.

 

[Xifio]

I'm so thrilled that Real Madrid star Toni Kroos has a decent shot at winning the Golden Ball.

I can't tell who's more butthurt right now: Mascherano, who literally tore his butthole a couple of days ago; or you, over Kroos being sold "on the cheap" to the Slayers of La Bestia Negra ...