The World Cup starts soon, anybody cares?

[Cherubino]

Benzema out OMG

 

[Cherubino]

Let's have a contest ... name 5 teams you bet on they'll reach semifinals ... mine are

England, France, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia

 

[Galen]

I'd say Serbia could be dark horses for the semi's providing they don't pick up many injuries as their strength in depth could be a bit questionable. First choice 11, they look pretty handy from front to back. Should they gather momentum, they could do a Croatia like in the previous World Cup.

Spain, quarters at best. Though they play tippy tappy football, they still havn't got someone to regularly put the ball in the back of the net. Likwise with Germany, all number 10's but no Gerd Muller.

England, I expect the usual. Start of ****, get slagged off by the media then manage to scrape through to the knockout stages and so giving their supporters hope only to contrive to have themselves eliminated in a heroically bizzare circumstances. At which point queue BBC ending credits of players and fans in slo mo overlayed with some Liam Gallagher soppy introspective self indulgent song being played.

Final four : Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Uruguay.

 

[insecure]

No, don't care about this.
The only advantage is that it will enable me to catch up with some of my recordings.

 

[user 189410]

I hope Germany win but have no time to watch matches.

 

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

^ Benzema is out which is a huge shocker and kinda changes my opinion on France as a favorite. Brazil are the usual suspects: Neymaer is 30 (i swear i thought he is much older), Antony is cool and Casemiro and Coutinho at least play for big clubs. England as usual are overhyped for the bookies, will reach far this time maybe semifinal but fail after meeting some very motivated team (as always). Still secretly hoping Spain can be the winners, but about as logical as Musk banning trump again won't happen.

 

[Cherubino]

Let's have a contest ... name 5 teams you bet on they'll reach semifinals ... mine are

England, France, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia

 

[Galen]

Oh dear Argentina, getting bullied off the park by a team ranked 52 in the world.

 

[Cherubino]

Brazil amazing

 

[Galen]

Brazil amazing

True, and with Neymar out for at least the next two games, they could well become an even more cohesive attacking unit.

 

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

Lmao before the England vs America I said that if the game doesn't end 0:0 it means God has a tiny d!ck and his name is Rameesh. Shocking it looks like God isn't called Rameesh ans his cawk is HUGE.

Anyway now I am saying if Spain or Brazil don't win the world cup then...well God has small ***** and his name is Rameesh.

 

[deeppurple]

Third forum where I'm asking about this. I've been saying this for ages: music is the greatest art, physics the greatest science and the greatest sport: football.

Roughly one month to kick off.

I've been following it,the best I can.
I used to watch MOTD every Sat.
But,when got depressed,I stopped following it.
It upset me to watch it,knowing I had no one to watch it with,or txt a friend about something that'd happened.
But,this year,I'm trying to follow it again.
Only thing is...I hardly know any of the players anymore...all these new names coming through.
I lot of the players I knew are all pundits or managers now...so it's been a while lol.
Been some turn up for the books already...with Argentina and Germany getting beat.
I'll have to try and concentrate, or my mind wonders from the games,but gonna follow it as much as I can...anyway,my team never qualified (ouch)...though there's never a chance we'd win it anyway lol

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

Not really, but I mean, I'm American, so that's probably why.
I know France, England, and Brazil are all pretty legendary.
Does that count?

 

[hundal]

Normally football

 

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

Lmao. Now in an ideal world the winner will be Spain, Japan or Brazil. Any of those 3 but Germany failing is spot on. In an ideal world france are next to book their flight to Paris.

 

[user 135671]

Not really, but I mean, I'm American, so that's probably why.
I know France, England, and Brazil are all pretty legendary.
Does that count?

The only thing legendary about England, me old son, is our consistency in failure. One World Cup, won when the tournament was held in Blighty and not much else tbh .... well Gary Lineker shitting his pants ( for real man! ) during a world cup match was pretty legendary for all the wrong reasons.

 

[insecure]

And Belgium 's already lost the championship.
It's a good thing I don't care about football.
So I guess I now hope Portugal will win.

 

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

Just to add. I am NOT against Germany supporting anti-racism, women rights or gay rights but just mocking the circus pose lol.

^ I forgot about Portugal: they're my favorite after Spain, Brazil or Japan only because I want Ronaldo to lift the trophy. No other of those 4 will get me excited, not even Argentina and Messi and certainly not France, UK. I wouldn't mind Croatia at all but it's impossible I'm trying to be a realist anyway.

 

[insecure]

Just to add. I am NOT against Germany supporting anti-racism, women rights or gay rights but just mocking the circus pose lol.

The circus pose is supposed to indicated that they feel muzzled, they can't talk about them for fear of being sanctioned.
But it might look comical, of course.

 

[maybetrollingmaybenot]

^ it's like they sh!t their pants. England kneeing is ingenius in comparison, it took me like 2 seconds to come up with better idea: just make the "heart" hands gesture, the same 15 years old girls do - it's indication for 'love for all' and no to racism and homophobia...but of course they all have to be a joke and suck at football instead.