No that’s just sport as it was intended. Dog eat dog
Doing the lord’s work
Blank Tricolours:
Italy
France
Ireland
Belgium
Ivory Coast
Tricolours with a design:
Mexico
Cameroon
Senegal
Tricolours with a hole:
Romania
Two colour flags with three vertical bands:
Peru
Nigeria
Tricolour blank horizontal bands:
Germany
Holland
Hungary
Russia
Colombia
Tricolour horizontal bands with a design:
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Serbia
Bulgaria
Slovakia
Ghana
Iran
Egypt
Two colour horizontal bands:
Argentina
Spain
Poland
Ukraine
Wales
Crosses:
England
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Scotland
Iceland
Northern Ireland
Finland
Flags with stripes
USA
Uruguay
Flags with stars:
USA
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Ecuador
Chile
China
USSR
Morocco
Algeria
Israel
New Zealand
Flags with circles:
Brazil
Argentina
Japan
South Korea
Miscellaneous:
Czechoslovakia
Portugal
Australia
Costa Rica
South Africa
Finals: (winner first)
1930: Stripes v Two Colour Horizontal Bands
1934: Tricolour v Miscellaneous
1938: Tricolour v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1950: Stripes v Circle
1954: Three Colour Horizontal Bands v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1958: Circle v Crosses
1962: Circle v Miscellaneous
1966: Crosses v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1970: Circle v Tricolour
1974: Three Colour Horizontal Bands v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1978: Two Colour Horizontal Bands/Circle v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1982: Tricolour v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1986: Two Colour Horizontal Bands/Circle v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
1990: Three Colour Horizontal Bands v Two Colour Horizontal Bands/Circle
1994: Circle v Tricolour
1998: Tricolour v Circle
2002: Circle v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
2006: Tricolour v Tricolour
2010: Two Colour Horizontal Bands v Three Colour Horizontal Bands
2014: Three Colour Horizontal Bands v Two Colour Horizontal Bands/Circle
2018: Tricolour v Three Colour Horizontal Bands With A Pattern
All four of Germany’s World Cup wins have been against countries with horizontal bands. As have Argentina’s two triumphs.
Germany are the only country with no white whatsoever on their flag to win a World Cup.
Sweden the only other country with no white on their flag to compete in a World Cup final.
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Outstanding piece
Apart from the fact I left Uruguay out of the “Circle” category, which they should be in.
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I was watching in a popular Wexford hostelry so my viewing was slightly sabotaged but I thought Argentina looked much the better team in ET. Enzo Fernandes almost settled it at the end of extra-time. That brawl was compulsive viewing.
why is that lad constantly seething?
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Grant Wahl died overnight in Qatar, that’s shaken me a bit.
Brasil bias … The Dutch were absolutely filthy last night.
It’s the ordinariness tha makes it so beautiful… It’s one man making them tick. It’s that man’s last WC. Appreciate him.
Heart attack?
Rushed to hospital in an Uber Vehicle from the stadium.
Draw your own conclusions
Going after Martinez before the final penalty and some think they wouldnt react to that?
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Seems very risky, is there not a possible ban ‘bringing the game into disrepute’ criticising the ref after a game
The Dutch are proper nasty. They even ran down to the Argies celebrating…snd all the chatter here is of the Argies 
. You’d have to say there’s more to it because it’s very irrational from some guys here. A blind man could see the Dutch went out to kick the Argies off the pitch.
Bit of an oaf
Soooo much went on there!!!
I thought the Argentinian players were dicks based on the photo after the penalty but fair play to them
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This is why youre loved on here.