World Cup 2014

All the USAUSAUSA pundits agree that if they can beat Ghana they've got a great chance to advance.

xp lol NN

Haha xp

I have a feeling that Germany will struggle which could make the group even more difficult.

feel like if the US wants to purport to be good at the football they should hang tough with their group.. sink or swim bitches

im glad the first US game is the week after my wedding when I wont be doing a fucking thing.

coincidentally this image is making the rounds on usa soccer nerd twitter right now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpTmSeaCYAAXtLq.jpg

recant my earlier blasphemies about England perhaps not being *totally* shit. I might turn this game off, don't think it's good for my enthusiasm for the tournament as a whole

ah they've actually been alright other than the goal. Lambert and Barkley bright, Rooney fucking it up as usual

ox and barkley very bright. number none otm re rooney. stick him on the subs bench for each game.

aye the reserve attackers look like they could do a job if called upon, no doubt. just wish the same could be said for the reserve defence

Roooooney

smalling so bad it beggars belief. foster worse if possible

milner at right back not much cop either but i give him a pass

balotelli done something special?

delicious flicked/dinked cross for marchisio to head in, lovely stuff

the #7 has been good for ecuador

dwade getting no love from tyldesley there.

merseyside leading 2-1

nice goal. barkley again. can't not start him against italy surely? oh hang on, i forgot danny welbeck.

easy done tbf

Barkley should be starting in place of Rooney though

Wellbeck will most likely be marking Pirlo

Jesus soft defence this

Playing someone in WC warmup who isn't actually in your squad takes some cojones.

lol

Jesus

Wellbeck will most likely be marking Pirlo

pretty sure he would be more or less exactly as effective at this as any other role

Luxembourg have just equalised against Italy.

it's ok, if they make enough subs they can get it stricken from the record

ref otm

Townsend a stupid stupid cunt

there aren't enought stupids in the world to do that sentence justice

what'd he say

England look tactically well-prepared on the off chance they have to play any Latin American sides

"didn't quite get enough of the ball"

fuck off

I'm assuming the sentence was either "honest challenge" or "the cards were entirely down to Valencia". Xp

Valencia apparently caused both cards by reacting to an honest challenge that might have taken him out of the world cup.

It was only slightly late, like British Rail trains.

Two England players now on the pitch who can't play in a week's time.

In far more important news, Gibraltar just picked up their first ever win, 'grats to Danny Higginbotham. Italy - Luxembourg is crazy, that was their first choice team out tonight

"teams always like to beat England"

only for the lulz

Italy's last five matches were DLDDD.

WC winning form in Italy tbf

Ghanaian witch doctor claims he caused Cristiano Ronaldo’s knee injury

Ghana’s most influential witch doctor has claimed he is responsible for the knee injury that is threatening to Cristiano Ronaldo’s participation at the World Cup.

Nana Kwaku Bonsam – whose name translates literally as “Devil of Wednesday” – predicted in February that the Real Madrid forward would be forced to miss this summer’s tournament in Brazil with injury.

“I know what Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury is about, I’m working on him,” Bonsam, who serves at the Kofioo Kofi shrine, said in an interview with the Kumasi-based Angel FM.

“I am very serious about it. Last week, I went around looking for four dogs and I got them to be used in manufacturing a special spirit called Kahwiri Kapam.

“I said it four months ago that I will work on Cristiano Ronaldo seriously and rule him out of the World up or at least prevent him from playing against Ghana and the best thing I can do is to keep him out though injury.

“This injury can never be cured by any medic, they can never see what is causing the injury because it is spiritual. Today, it is his knee, tomorrow it is his thigh, next day it is something else.”

poor dogs

solid plan, shd be plain sailing for Ghana with Ronaldo doubtful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0bdx4eBgw

"a prestigious draw" according to Roy.

I fear for my boys vs Argentina tonight. Could be five or six quite easily.

Grenier and Ribery out, Scheniderlin and Cabella in

Schneiderlin

http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-i-hate-american-soccer-fans-1402012291

trollllolololol

It's true, it's true, we're so lame.