Football World Cup 2014

Brass Monkey wrote:

tricycle wrote:Ozil costing Neuer a clean sheet....

Poor keeping for a change.

Yeah and tbh, the way they defended, Germany didn't deserve one.

I hear that KP disrupted the Brazilian changeroom.

Brass Monkey wrote:

PeterCS wrote:Unless they get a less impressionable ref, the Germans may also struggle to beat the homers. I expect it to be a close call, at least.

(Klose, but no cigar?)

Good luck with that.

Can you actually wish someone good luck after the event? (I mean, except to rub someone's nose in it with the impregnable safety of hindsight, that is! )

To be fair, I don't think anyone expected the ship to sink quite that fast.

And also to be fair, I wouldn't have believed Tiago Silva was quite such a mainmast AND rudder - even though he was central defender and captain, he seems also to have been the calming intelligence that lent the team some shape  - that, once you take him out, the whole bloody ship and crew go missing.

(I think my "prediction" was also made prior to Neymar being ruled out - with the result that the Brazilian midfield and attack was left quite so bereft, and playmaking and any forward-going strategy was dependent on such immortals as the mighty Fred.)

JGK wrote:Klose but no Cesar?

Schurrle not? Brazil got Mullered and the Germans were on Kroos control...

Most embarrassing semi since I watched Brokeback Mountain with my Dad.

Dello wrote:Most embarrassing semi since I watched Brokeback Mountain with my Dad.

ching

ching

Will Taips say all that matters is that Brazil played well in the five games leading up to the semi.

hehehehe....admit i thought and was hoping the zillis would make the final....erm ..."nurse pls adjust the meds"

Just need the Dutch to repeat the dose.

nah...I am supporting the Argies

Netherlands is normally my second team but the Argies would have to be in the 'anyone but' column.

phurt...I admire the Messi kid and an Argi win would make gin sodden old english majors unhappy...goo the Argies

My ancestry is 1/8th German

Spoiler:

hehehe....only if you are the evidently armless and legless zilli goalkeeper

A sick Van Persie is in doubt for the semi but then the 'ill' Germans got over the French so it may not be a bad omen.

Paul Keating wrote:Will Taips say all that matters is that Brazil played well in the five games leading up to the semi.

Nah' they started poorly and got worse. Lucky to get to the semi, but I guess Trev is still in Brazil.

Did Trev tip Brazil?

horace wrote:phurt...I admire the Messi kid and an Argi win would make gin sodden old english majors unhappy...goo the Argies

Saw an article today that said Messi's parents at one time were considering emigrating to Australia. Just as well they did'nt or young Messi would be just another A League hack.

His power has grown to the extent that merely being in the country destroys them.

Trev, that is.

Ouch. That wasn't a full Brazilian, that was a circumcision.

http://www.smh.com.au/fifa-world-cup-2014/world-cup-news-2014/world-cup-2014-australians-flee-copacabana-as-gunshots-fired-after-brazil-loss-20140709-zt1cs.html

The natives are restless.

And the word is that it could be mayhem if their southern rivals the Argies win.

Has anyone mentioned that Alan Shearer is a bit of a cock?