World Cup Qatar 2022 - Desert Strike

[Girth Certificate]

Sir Geoff can suck dogs in hell

[footle]

5 minutes ago, englishbob said:

BBC team having a Messi bukkakejizzfest

I assume that ITV are showing this. You can always turn over.

[Stig]

1 minute ago, Gabe said:

They may be winners, but it's a hard Argentina team to even like, let alone love. I don't really about this all being about Messi winning either, I mean he is the best player in the world with or without a WC to his name and I don't think winning now changes the arguments about him/Pele/Maradona, they will continue to rage forever more.

 

For me it's just a wonderful narrative.

[Chindie]

Emi Martinez. Giant.

[Plissken]

1 minute ago, Gabe said:

I don't think winning now changes the arguments about him/Pele/Maradona, they will continue to rage forever more.

 

I think it does, because "Messi hasn't won a World Cup" no longer applies.  It places him unquestionably on the Mount Rushmore of the sport.

[Ork1927]

You couldn’t have wrote the script any better before the game.

 

One of Mbappe and Messi will score a hatrick. The other one will score two.

 

One team will look like they are certain to win it then the other team will come back out of nowhere.  High drama in Extra Time and then a penalty shootout.

[Ork1927]

1 minute ago, footle said:

I assume that ITV are showing this. You can always turn over.

ITV probably had accidental ad breaks  for at least 2 of the goals.

[Fry Crayola]

1 minute ago, Ork1927 said:

You couldn’t have wrote the script any better before the game.

 

Maybe you couldn't. My script has dinosaurs.

 

And I don't just mean Olivier Giroud.

[deerokus]

Seems like a long time waiting for the trophy presentation to be set up for the runners up.

[Gabe]

1 minute ago, Plissken said:

 

I think it does, because "Messi hasn't won a World Cup" no longer applies.  It places him unquestionably on the Mount Rushmore of the sport.

Yes, that qualifier can be removed from any discussion, but people will still argue about how Pele won 3 WC (in an era where he had no protection from roughhousing), or how Maradona turned fairly average Argentina and Napoli sides into something else (and for Napoli, during the height of Serie A being the place where attacking football went to die took some doing). Messi has played an entire career at a higher league level, no question, but also around far, far better players.

 

I think there's still plenty of nuance around the topic.

[Naysonymous]

You’ll never get people to agree on who their favourite footballer is. 

[footle]

Just now, Naysonymous said:

You’ll never get people to agree on who their favourite footballer is. 

so, how exactly do Aston Villa fans welcome their World Cup winner back?

[Gabe]

7 minutes ago, Stigweard said:

 

For me it's just a wonderful narrative.

Oh, definitely. There's often no sentiment in sport, so in his final game he was able to not only win, but have an impact on the match. It's an emotional undercurrent to it all and he never has to retire thinking of all the chances they spurned to win it previously.

 

I wonder how long he'll continue to play domestic football for now? I mean, there's nothing left to achieve in the game outside of winning the Champions League I suppose with PSG - but that's never looked particularly likely and I'm not sure how much it is a driving ambition for him.

[choddo]

 And Brighton

[ryodi]

My GOAT is still the original Ronaldo even though statistically he cannot compare to Messi or Ronaldo. Now he's won the World Cup arguments about Messi will change to how he hasn't won the Champions League without Pep, not that Pep has won it recently either.

[Zael]

 

The World Cup. Amazing. 

[dataDave]

LOL! Why'd he do that? That's reckless five year-old behaviour.

[Girth Certificate]

What a hero, give him another golden severed theif’s hand for that.

[Bacon Horsemeat]

hahaha omg Emi

[teddymeow]

6 minutes ago, Naysonymous said:

You’ll never get people to agree on who their favourite footballer is. 

 

 

 

Everybody should have Scott Sterling as their favourite footballer! He's a GK legend!!

 

[Loik V credern]

The arguments against Messi have always been things picked that Pele and Maradona have done that Messi hasn't, when if you ask what Messi has done that they haven't you get a much longer more substantial list. 

[Naysonymous]

9 minutes ago, footle said:

so, how exactly do Aston Villa fans welcome their World Cup winner back?

With open arms and a reminder he’s under contract until 2027.  

[footle]

1 minute ago, Naysonymous said:

With open arms and a reminder he’s under contract until 2027.  

And a new plan for every cup tie?

[Azrael]

There's 2 types of Football Fans; those that believe Messi to be the greatest, and those that don't actually know anything about the sport they claim to be a fan of. 

 

Anyway the era of Messi vs Ronaldo has come to a nice end. Messi finishing with the best trophy to cement his greatness and that greasy rapist getting booted out his club and desperately scrambling around looking for a new one. 

 

Now its time for the Mbappe vs Haaland Era. 

[dataDave]

They're dressing him up. Cute.

[the_debaser]

Fucking Qataris making Messi wear a lace dressing gown to pick up the trophy. What a load of bollocks. 

[Bucky]

Messi has joined Gryffindor.

[the_debaser]

All the money in the world but zero class. 

[Azrael]

"Might be a while before you see anything as amazing as this little fellow again" 

 

Just conveniently forgetting MBappe just scored a hattrick in a World Cup final 

[Ork1927]

Infantino managing to ruin handing the World Cup to Messi by keeping hold of it and assuming Messi gives the remotest fuck about what he is saying.