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>wake up
>browse for new Suárez bite gifs, etc
>"lol Spielberg's "Jaws""
>haven't gone on Facebook in literal months
>go there, upload album of aircraft project photos
>get recommended facebook group...

Facebook is motherfucking creepy as shit.

When in a match with the Romans, to Caesar what is Caesar's. Or whatever.
Norwegian won €2,100 betting that Suarez would bite a player in the World Cup.
And don't forget this very useful website.

At 6/24/14 06:05 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: Dang the cartels murdered Anime

Next time Japan will need to bring their Goku Uniforms

Time to go enjoy whatever else there is for entertainment in Brazil.

At 6/24/14 05:49 PM, Ejit wrote: Colombia are outrageously, seriously good.

What were they doing playing that other guy instead of Martinez?

Jackson is notorious in Porto for messing up easy chances. Best goalscorer in Portugal, could've scored twice as more, given the service on a platter he's given by Porto's midfield. Cost us the season.

At 6/24/14 05:18 PM, SwisherCovent wrote:

At 6/24/14 05:03 PM, Ejit wrote: People that hate football fucking love talking about football

All mad jokez aside, my data also suggests this is the case. We use the technical term "cunts" to describe them.

Wankers.

Aaaand the Portuguese league provides another goal. Feeling like a bit of a traitor right now for pulling for Japan when Jackson, James, Guarín, Montero, Arias, and Quintero are all either playing in Portugal or have been in the near past, none of which in Benfica. Oh well, COYJFA.

At 6/24/14 05:03 PM, Ejit wrote: People that hate football fucking love talking about football

I have the scientific data to prove it: explained the offside rule 14 times so far.
"I hate football, never watch it... wait why did the ref stop play there?"
Cue 5 minute explanation of a basic rule only to have the "offsides" rule called stupid because it went against their team.

At 6/24/14 03:03 PM, C-Hawk wrote: Guys... I just... fucking... guys...

Correction.

Guys... I just... fucking... guys...

At 6/24/14 03:42 AM, Haggard wrote: You know, with that much talent in the team plus Ronaldo (who -again- nearly is a "complete" player), you could expect a bit more from them.

As you've mentioned about the German team (and the Spanish team when they were successful), having a fragmented team isn't a lot of help, comparatively with having a team that's mostly from the same club (Bayern\Barça), spending years training and competing together, learning each other's techniques, quirks and preferences. To see this in the extreme, watching any of the African teams (with the exception of Ghana), you'll see a lot of the players get frustrated and even angry at their colleagues for serving the ball to their feet when they want it to their forward space and vice-versa. Portugal's latest goal began as an exploitation of this mistake from the American bad pass. No club has provided more than three players to Portugal's squad. We've got players who've been learning the Turkish high-intensity culture, others with the Russian physical play, others with the Spanish technique, etc.

Also, if you compare "Leadership qualities" between Ronaldo and Figo, Figo wins by a mile.

This is incontestable; although Ronaldo is a very good leader, it's not his greatest talent and there are many who are better than him at that. It's just not something that i can agree to dismiss out-of-hand as "his leadership sucks".

At 6/23/14 03:10 PM, Haggard wrote: Anyway, now Messi, Rooney, Villa AND Torres have scored during this WC. But not Ronaldo? RONALDO! Y DO U NO SCORE! *rage face*

Remember, kids, according to reputation, Ronaldo is a ball hogger who never passes the ball. Ignore Portugal's latest goal.

But I always have the feeling that he doesn't help his team to get better (strange as it is). But in his national team, he is by far the best player with many good players surrounding him. And yet, the "many good players + Ronaldo" aren't enough to go through to the next round? That's not a coincidence...

He actually does. There was a big combination of factors contributing to the clusterfuck that was Portugal's participation in this WC, starting with the call-ups, where the selector went buddy-buddy\personal grudge. Then, the opening game being against Germany, who played predictably perfect football didn't help at all. Pepe was in club football mentality and suffered the direct consequences of his own actions. Portugal now has a total of ten injuries. Add all of this up and Captain America himself would be insufficient a leader to turn bad into good.

At 6/23/14 04:14 PM, All-American-Badass wrote: Not sure why y'all are so intrigued by Brazil vs. Cameroon, that should be a runaway for Brazil seeing how Croation beat them 4-0. Croatia vs. Mexico seems to be a much more intriguing match.

Brazil's style of play being a sort of chaotic magic makes it wonderful to watch. Having the opportunity to watch the most enjoyable football team steamroll an easy opponent is just too good to pass up. For pure sadistic pleasure value, would you rather watch Steelers vs Cardinals or Jets vs Niners?

At 6/23/14 01:19 PM, lapis wrote: This game has so far been like watching a chess match.

Confirmed, Netherlands seem (justifiably) relaxed and relaxing. If not for ranking points, i'd have rotated as many starters out of this match as possible.

At 6/23/14 12:27 PM, Auz wrote: I don't know why crowd and commentators often get so excited over his free kicks though as his conversion rate is rather bad compared to many less well-known players. He should definitely stop attempting so many hopeless long-range free kicks.

I agree that there's way too much focus on his free kicks. The knee tendinitis is throwing off his balance, but even before it, keepers became more and more respectful of him as he gradually exploited sloppy wall-building and the keeper's main focus being typically on indirect kicks. Early on in his career, exploiting that, he gained that particular microscope, i guess. Nowadays, if you saw those last few free kicks with the US, Veloso was the taker and Ronaldo was mixing it up in the box for a possible header, which, considering his ridiculous aerial abilities, is a much better direction to take.

At 6/23/14 11:27 AM, EyeLovePoozy wrote: I've got a question. Why are the media outlets putting over this Ronaldo guy for the tieing goal even though another player head butted it into the goal? I suspect that if Ronaldo would have butted in that pass he still would have got the credit.

You're partially correct and partially incorrect.

Correct because: Ronaldo is the Golden Ball winner (meaning best player in the World), and if the prize awarding weren't as corrupt as a bad mafia movie, he would have been for the past 5 years straight. This applies a gigantic microscope to him at all times. When he fails something trivial, "OH MY GOD RONALDO MISSED A SHOT LOL HE SUCKS", disregarding that everyone fails quite frequently. E.g. there hasn't been a single direct free kick scored so far (that i know of) in this tournament, but whenever Ronaldo starts lining up a free kick, the commentators immediately start snarky remarks.

Incorrect because: considering, as far as i know, you follow gridiron football, i'd compare it to Ronaldo being a quarterback who picked out a laser-pass through traffic after having been near-sacked twice. The "receiver" (striker) just finalized. In this case, Ronaldo created 90% of that goal.

Facepalm of the day.

Also, Swish, St. Johnstone drew Luzern for the EL's preliminaries. Kick butt please.

At 6/23/14 09:57 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 6/23/14 09:37 AM, SwisherCovent wrote: It just makes the tears of Ronaldo even sweeter seeing that!

Didn't he cry already after the match against USA? I couldn't see the match. :(

The image\gif of him crying that gets used all the time comes from the Euro2004 final (to the Americans: the rest of the world uses the word "final" meaning... well, "final"), against Greece, which we lost, against obvious odds and after great hope of winning it. On the week Ronaldo's father had died. Ronaldo was 19 years old.

At 6/23/14 08:21 AM, SwisherCovent wrote: They've been a damn sight better than our... I mean... your lot.

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At 6/22/14 09:05 PM, Tycrane wrote: Portugal got lucky with that last goal, USA should've won tbh. Though, would be far more entertaining if Sweden got through instead of shitty Portugal.
Zlatan > Ronaldo

The same could be argued in the opposite direction, considering Portugal had a clear penalty denied, which would've made it 3-2.

But then again.

At 6/22/14 08:37 PM, orangebomb wrote:

At 6/22/14 07:53 PM, Zachary wrote: fuck soccer what a shitty sport jesus christ
4 minutes extra time turned to 5 minutes fuck this stupid sport

I never understood why soccer needed stoppage time, especially that much.

It exists to counter players who try to burn time off the clock when they're winning. The ref will often point to his watch, indicating that "you can roll around on the grass all you want, pretending that that light tackle you suffered is causing you to be possessed by ancient indian demons, i've stopped the watch and will be adding that as extra time." Additionally, if a goalkeeper takes too long to put the ball back into play, he gets a yellow card. 5 minutes is the maximum extra-time that can be announced, but since most time-burning happens -during- extra time itself, the ref usually stretches an extra minute into it.

At 6/22/14 08:15 PM, Zachary wrote: Not really, all things considered USA was definitely playing better than Portugal

Consensus here is that "a well-constructed Portugal would deserve to pass. This one (with Nani and Postiga, together with national selector ["head coach"] Paulo Bento who picked them due to being buddy-buddy and being afraid of Quaresma and using new players), doesn't." You saw why. The greased-up deaf-mute guy from Family Guy could've scored Nani's goal, and other than that, he didn't do shit. For 100 minutes.

In other news, 7 Costa-Rican players were called up for anti-doping control, while Italy had 2. Costa Rica's selector stated "they can control all 11, and the manager and the medic if they want to. We're all tranquil and there's no problem, but we're hoping all the other teams are scrutinized as closely". Meanwhile, Messi is still vomiting "for no explainable reason".

At 6/22/14 07:53 PM, Zachary wrote: fuck soccer what a shitty sport jesus christ
4 minutes extra time turned to 5 minutes fuck this stupid sport

It'll be even stupider. Like Haggard said, the table is now thus:

Germany 4
United States 4
Gana 1
Portugal 1

with one match day left, which will see Germany v United States (and Portugal v Gana). Germany and the United States drawing, they both go through and Portugal gets shut out. And Germany has experience in that. Even without that, Portugal has to overcome a 5 goal difference to catch up to the United States.

At 6/22/14 07:42 PM, Zachary wrote: I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN

I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN

I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN

Just as predicted. Nani is a useless waste of space and polyester who got lucky. Argentinian ref only fucked up with that penalty that should've been called for Portugal, but that doesn't make us deserve a victory, not with 5 key players out of the game.

Two things marking this WC: a lot of goals and an equally high number of injuries. This is being one of the few matches that are actually balanced, and although it seemed like that american's leg had given out, he seems alright.

Meireles' shot, loved Howard's rapid sequence of "i got it i got it i got it" *punch* "...oh FUCK" *save, immediate redemption* "okay, we're okay."

At 6/22/14 06:35 PM, Auz wrote: Some blundering there in the American defence. That goal was a gift.

When Nani, of all people, manages to do something positive, you better bet it was a gift.

At 6/22/14 06:41 PM, Gobblemeister wrote: It feels like Portugal is just content to park the bus rather than the US making things happen but either way we've gotten close on a number of attempts.

"Parked bus" is a bit of a strong term, although Portugal is now playing it much more secure, not taking unnecessary risks. We are still making forward movements (Howard's save being two successive examples), it's just that when you're on top, your defensive players don't accompany attacking movements. You rest them and stay secure against counter-attacks, so it seems like the attacking play is more sparse. Contrarily, the US now -has- to push their side-defenders forward to participate in attacking movements. A full "parked bus", though, means that, at most, one player moves forward and everyone else concentrates on destroying play.

Meireles' beard not thick enough to cushion the blow of an elbow to the jaw.

Before anyone asks, the offside rule is null and void if the ball comes off a defending player.

At 6/22/14 05:00 PM, SwisherCovent wrote:

At 6/22/14 04:53 PM, C-Hawk wrote: Portuguese starting eleven:

U-S-A. U-S-A.

I wholeheartedly share the sentiment, hence having bet against Portugal.

Unrelated to that, one thing's for certain, though: Portuguese superstars are arrogant, distant and too full of themselves, while Argentinian superstars are paragons of fun, accessibility, ethics, morals, values, virtues, and ideals, and most certainly aren't coke-headed tax evaders.

Portuguese starting eleven:
Striker Hélder Postiga
Wingers Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo
Midfielders Raúl Meireles, Miguel Veloso
Anchor João Moutinho
Back-4 André Almeida, Ricardo Costa, Bruno Alves, João Pereira
Keeper Beto.

At 6/22/14 04:44 PM, lapis wrote:

At 6/22/14 04:35 PM, blauwwolkje92 wrote: i am loving the boys who are playing for Algeria they are so hotttt <3 and the match is pretty exciting loll

The South Korean girls in the stadium are also kind of cute though.

I have no idea what you're talking about.