World Cup 2014

brad agrees

is there a channel other than bbc and itv showing this in the uk

you'll have to provide good streams. would probably favour the USA commentators for English-language streaming

BBC usually provide a 5 Live commentary option. Dunno if that's any better

or you always use a proxy and try the RTE player, although the actual match commentators are as bad if not worse

WatchESPN and ESPN3 will have everything, I know of ppl who are not in the USA using it over VPNs or proxies but idk how that works exactly

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/08/luis-suarez-world-cup-uruguay-fitness-knee-surgery-liverpool-england

"I could have really cried [in pain] because of this injury but I didn’t because I knew. I knew. When the doctor first spoke to me three little tears fell but no more."

BBC usually provide a 5 Live commentary option. Dunno if that's any better

― Number None, Sunday, 8 June 2014 23:38 Bookmark

Former Brazil and Middlesbrough midfielder Juninho is another addition. Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis and Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper and former USA international Brad Friedel are new signings for the Radio 5 live punditry team along with Celtic manager and former Northern Ireland midfielder Neil Lennon, who will have a combined role across TV and radio.

idk about u guys but i'm all about a panel of juninho and tony pulis

alan green

Celtic manager and former Northern Ireland midfielder Neil Lennon

misplaced/missing "former"

anyone post the Dave Zirin NY Times piece about how murderously corrupt FIFA is?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/opinion/sunday/throw-fifa-out-of-the-game.html?_r=0

quick glance says there's little here we don't already know about but hey why not?

tbf repeating the message is no bad thing

i'm sure there will be lots of discussion of FIFA and Brazilian politics during the football coverage

to add to things we already know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I

^ funny tho

Celtic manager and former Northern Ireland midfielder Neil Lennon

misplaced/missing "former"

― I Miss You(tube embeds) (onimo), Monday, 9 June 2014 12:47 Bookmark

celtic manager neil lennon, thracian manager tony pulis

rah

hmmm

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-brazils-world-cup-to-lose/

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/silver-feature-wcpreview-1.png

Intrigued as to what that 0.1% is that separates Costa Rica from the complete no-hopers.

pura vida

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

hard to fathom how the fifa advisors came up with this retort

Sepp is a long-standing anti-racist

there's a blog about it but unfortunately it's kinda racist

and pro-brown envelopist

sorry xp

link?

nah it's not good, search for "sepp blatter black people" if you must

better just reading his history of saying boneheaded shit about racism

basically tho he feels he can say what the fuck he wants because he owns FIFA

He then told the photographers and cameramen following him to leave him alone, with one understood to have tracked the former Manchester United defender for over a mile across the sand.

“Do you speak English? Back off. I just want to walk on the beach,” Neville shouted at one cameraman.

Every so often it hits me that this is going to be the last non-shitty World Cup until 2026 and then I just get profoundly depressed.

is that still from the neville story

All of the people named in the Qatar bribery allegations are men. So these journalists are sexist too!

Every so often it hits me that this is going to be the last non-shitty World Cup until 2026

If anyone had any bollocks they'd just boycott the Qatar one.

I'm strangely unenthused by this World Cup. I'm not anti-it by any means and hopefully I'll get into it once it starts, but I keep forgetting it's even going to happen.

Qatar won't get to actually hold the world cup in 2022. No way.

FIFA seem desperate to find some way of taking it away from them without admitting corruption and/or being sued by some extremely expensive Qatari lawyers. I don't really know how they would do that.

But the thing is: The sponsors are beginning to demand investigations as well. Which is probably the only thing FIFA fears.

i'm ready

to host the 2022 world cup?

well i started an ilx rolling lol fifa thread so i might be a bit overqualified

Every so often it hits me that this is going to be the last non-shitty World Cup until 2026

lol u reckon there'll be a non-shitty world cup in 2026?

Why won't Russia be ok as a tournament? They have staged the Olympics and Winter Olympics before.

Of course they will build these huge stadiums that will be used for a couple of matches at most, but that's the problems with most WCs staged outside of Europe and South America.

This issue is multiplied to a grotesque degree in Qatar, plus use of pence-paid/slave labour. Of course nobody cares about that as much as the heat at which the matches will be played (resulting in poor quality matches and poorer viewing figures) when you get to the thing itself.

As for the bribery - you don't get anywhere without some form of bribery. Everybody pays - money or blood or worse - to some degree.

We must accept it as part of the human condition.

the issue with bribery is similar to the issue you identified re: Qatar - nobody gets too bothered about it until it leads to a hugely unpalatable result

agree that Russia will be no worse than any other World Cup setting tho

not sure I really regard the wc with matt's sort of sentiment, tbh the last I truly look fondly back on was france 98

def more butthurt about the expansion of the euros

platini is a worse cunt than blatter as well btw while I'm dishing it out

b ribery

Spain will win it. You heard it here first

Going for Japan. Good football will be played. Group C looking most interesting.

That John Oliver attack on FIFA was good shit, can't believe Tim Roth plays Blatter as a crusading hero in a worthless FIFA vanity biopic. Roth has done nothing but worthless shit for decades but that IS rock bottom.

Was this posted on here already?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/magazine/how-jurgen-klinsmann-plans-to-make-us-soccer-better-and-less-american.html