World Cup Qatar 2022 - Desert Strike

[Chindie]

[Bacon Horsemeat]

WTF is that cape about

[ryodi]

9 minutes ago, Azrael said:

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. 

 

Messi aligned himself with Saudi Arabia to promote tourism and their bid for the 2030 World Cup as if he didn'tr earn enough money from Barcelona and fellow sportswashers PSG. Strangely enough the BBC have never mentioned this during all fhe VTs they ran on him during the tournament and his football skills don'r override that for me. Not that the next generation of MBappe or Haaland or any better when it comes to that of course.

 

France will be back in 2026, Argentina will be lucky to get out of the group stage without Messi. 

[Azrael]

Just now, Bacon Horsemeat said:

WTF is that cape about

 

He's a magician,  ffs they've only been telling us this for 15 years or so, pay attention 

[Naysonymous]

[Plissken]

Genuinely nice bit with Zabaleta there.

[ryodi]

3 minutes ago, Ork1927 said:

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.

 

He did that at AFCON as well when the presentation ceremony to just as long.

[wev]

2 minutes ago, Azrael said:

 

He's a magician,  ffs they've only been telling us this for 15 years or so, pay attention 

Yer a wizard Lenny

[PyramidFace]

Just now, Naysonymous said:

 

Brian Little must condemn.

[neoELITE]

Is it a 7pm kick off as usual? I'm primed with Monster Munch and a couple of cans of cider. I think Argentina should win this. 

[wev]

Just now, neoELITE said:

Is it a 7pm kick off as usual? I'm primed with Monster Munch and a couple of cans of cider. I think Argentina should win this. 

They're holding it in the summer

[Nick R]

That was quick:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/saddesthattrick/

 

[Hamus]

19 minutes ago, the_debaser said:

All the money in the world but zero class. 

 

You have to hand it to Qatar. This has been the most convincing piece of sportswashing ever.

Beckham must be right!

[Fry Crayola]

42 minutes ago, ryodi said:

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.

 

He won it in 2015 under Luis Enrique, three years after Pep left.

[ryodi]

1 minute ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

He won it in 2015 under Luis Enrique, three years after Pep left.

 

My mistake, I thought they both hadn't won it without the other. 

[Fierce Poodle]

26 minutes ago, the_debaser said:

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

You just don’t understand their culture.

[Adrock]

32 minutes ago, ryodi said:

Argentina will be lucky to get out of the group stage without Messi. 

 

Really?

[Hamus]

Did Montiel get booked for taking his shirt off after the winning penalty?

 

I might write to FIFA if not. Disgrace.

[merman]

Best refereeing performance of the tournament.

Incredible match all round.

 

[DirkCrisis]

Brighton have a world cup winner for the first time ever like Aston Villa.

 

Unfortunately unlike Villa, we don't have the financial resources to fend off interest but a least we'll get a decent amount for him. Just hope we can avoid turning into Southampton.

[englishbob]

Entertaining final overall from around the 70th minute mark, when finals are usually a bit dull after the semi finals.

 

Peak of the tournament for me was the quarter finals - yes England went out but the other games were just brilliant

[Naysonymous]

I do wonder what the interest in Martinez will be now.  He’s had a weird career, during the last World Cup cycle he’d swapped sitting on the bench at Arsenal for sitting on the bench while on loan at Getafe.  
 

Then Neal Maupay left one in on Bernd Leno and the rest is history.  

[Art Vandelay]

I know some Arsenal fans have used his sale as a stick to beat the club with, but aside from his run in the team as we won the cup he was a pretty poor Championship keeper at absolute best. There can’t have been a person on earth that could’ve predicted he’d swap chucking five in against Reading for winning the world fucking cup. Shame he seems so bitter about the club really as my shit eyed tribalism won’t allow me to be pleased for him or enjoy his antics. Those are the rules I’m afraid.

[DirkCrisis]

Maupay is cursed to be "placeholder until Calvert-Lewin is fit". Villa will at least keep Martinez because they can afford to. He is an enormous dickhead but it makes him both effective and entertaining in penalty shootouts assuming he's not playing against a team you care about.

 

[DirkCrisis]

19 minutes ago, Naysonymous said:

I do wonder what the interest in Martinez will be now.  He’s had a weird career, during the last World Cup cycle he’d swapped sitting on the bench at Arsenal for sitting on the bench while on loan at Getafe.  
 

Then Neal Maupay left one in on Bernd Leno and the rest is history.  

Ha! Football Joe agrees with you

 

 

[Hello Goaty ♥]

[Plissken]

2 hours ago, Naysonymous said:

 

Hand Of Knob.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

oh!  and  

 

[hmm]

No sign of any GIFs of Martinez's dancing celebration after he Jedi-mind-tricked the French player into missing? I think they replayed it in slo-mo about 3 times during the coverage and it had us falling about every time.

[Bacon Horsemeat]

The guy on the right was not amused