FIFA 2018 World Cup Thread

I swear to whatever, I will fight any fucker who criticizes Lucy for doing her job brilliantly.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/26/sbs-presenter-lucy-zelic-hits-back-at-abuse-for-world-cup-pronunciation Lucy.

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Awful racism in Australia.

Is is like the way George Hamilton used call Soren Lerby- Lurbu? Or Molby- Molbu

Glenn Hysen-Hussain

What’s ‘young flogs’

What is it, about 6pm Sydney time and you’re already tired, emotional and drunk and looking for fights. I doubt you’ll get any takers here for this particular scrap over TV Australia soccer coverage.

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Or John Carew, John Carev.

the silver fox was lining one up there the cunt

I lined the cunt up in an ESFA Cup (Round 2) game in Centennial Park a good few years ago. It took 3 men to carry me off.

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hardy lad? is that a good standard? he played in England didn’t he?

Ah he would’ve been late 40s and didn’t leave the centre circle but he oozed class at the level everyone else was at. Palace or Pompey I think he was at.

EDIT: He’s 49 now so probably 7 years ago.

those boys know how to mind themselves. He saw you coming before you even made up your mind to do him I’d say.
I had something similar with Ciaran Carey, he was centre back for St Patricks when we drew them in an FAI cup match a long long time ago, must be 18 years ago.

I lined him up, to let him know I was there.

My ears were still ringing at training the Tuesday night.

And he still has no idea you were there.

:rofl::rofl:

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Ronnie has a fair bit of dew down the back.

That’s hilarious. They’ve been hamming up these Hamilton-Whelan clips on twitter as it leads people to believe ALL their commentary teams are over there. They’ve had other ones of the two lads in a taxi on the way to the stadium and so on.

I’ve also found it mildly amusing that none of the commentators holed up in RTÉ have reacted to any comments / gentle ribbing on twitter about them trying to creating the impression they’re in Russia. Or the @RTESoccer account either. It’s obviously an editorial decision.

They haven’t been outright saying they’re in Russia but they’ve hinted it in commentary. The likes of Alkin viewing a replay and saying “it was hard to spot that initially from the position on the halfway line”. Yes, the camera position rather than his position.

It bothers me unduly. In fact there’s been occasions when I’ve been seething.

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Doubly sad that none of the Nordic community recognized a Liverpool legend.

John Kenny retweeted me while he was on the Wi-Fi on the Moscow-Kazan train and jokingly replied about the mileage he was getting.

There was a hilarious clip of Adrian Eames in a taxi trying to ask the driver to go to “Red Square”. The driver couldn’t understand him and Eames ended up not reaching his intended destination.

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Given the Ray Houghton debacle in Brazil, I’m sure they’ve been very careful who they’d send over to a country with a lot of temptation

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Alkin yesterday telling us that the heat in Ireland is nothing like the heat currently in Volgograd.

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