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Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:24 pm**

How in the fuck has Martinez not scored there?

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:30 pm**

He’s some boy

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:37 pm**

This must be amongst the best final matches in a world cup

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:44 pm**

Argentine must be favourites now with that bloody goalie.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:46 pm**

If France had bothered trying for the whole game instead of just patches they would have stuffed them

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:46 pm**

Well this has been a bit bonkers

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:46 pm**

It's a shame that penalties are so exciting when they are such a bloody awful way of deciding the match. Another 10 minutes of extra time, removing a player from each side every minute. That would be more fun.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:49 pm**

This final is messy

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:49 pm**

Extraordinary game.

Finals decided by penalties not great but this game will be the exception

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:50 pm**

Blackmac wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:44 pm Argentine must be favourites now with that bloody goalie.

Definitely the better keeper. Still think France will win.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:54 pm**

Argentina done it. Their goalie is a bit of a arse

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:55 pm**

I've managed to avoid this whole tournament so far... completely. Not my cup of tea.

I have though, found a live stream through a news outket just in time for the penalty shoot out.

Vamos, Malvinas.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:56 pm**

Argentina deserve the WC. They were better on the day.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:58 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 7:39 pm France's strategy all tournie
- hope the oppos miss or foul them
- give the ball to Mbappe and hope he can do a Maradonna

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:59 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:21 pm
Biffer wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:15 pm Only one South American team has ever won in europe, same as only one European team has ever won in the Americas.
I see you distorted the point. Only 2 European sides has ever won off own continent: as per above, Spain in SA and the Krauts in Braz. South American sides have done it 5 times.

There is no return to an old order because SAm sides dominated until 2000 by the only metric that matters: winners.

You can change that stat now.................

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm**

Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:03 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.

Akinfenwa

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:03 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:59 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:21 pm
Biffer wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:15 pm Only one South American team has ever won in europe, same as only one European team has ever won in the Americas.
I see you distorted the point. Only 2 European sides has ever won off own continent: as per above, Spain in SA and the Krauts in Braz. South American sides have done it 5 times.

There is no return to an old order because SAm sides dominated until 2000 by the only metric that matters: winners.
You can change that stat now.................

If you are counting Russia as Europe then Mexico and USA are America.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:05 pm**

Bizarre that Mbappe gets a hat trick in a game that he otherwise contributed fuck all to. Lazy prick who never tracks back or tackles.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:07 pm**

petej wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:03 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:59 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:21 pm

I see you distorted the point. Only 2 European sides has ever won off own continent: as per above, Spain in SA and the Krauts in Braz. South American sides have done it 5 times.

There is no return to an old order because SAm sides dominated until 2000 by the only metric that matters: winners.
You can change that stat now.................
If you are counting Russia as Europe then Mexico and USA are America.

No. Our argument was over how SAm sides have won off their own continent way more times than Europeans.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:26 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.

Are there people still on Team Ronaldo? Settled well before tonight IMO...good to know I was right all along though

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:37 pm**

France take their silver medals with proud. English rugby can learn from them

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:42 pm**

Fonz wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:26 pm
sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.
Are there people still on Team Ronaldo? Settled well before tonight IMO...good to know I was right all along though

I still get Man Utd fans pulling some pointless stats out of their arse.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:44 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:42 pm
Fonz wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:26 pm
sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.
Are there people still on Team Ronaldo? Settled well before tonight IMO...good to know I was right all along though
I still get Man Utd fans pulling some pointless stats out of their arse.

That surprises me after the last season and a half.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:47 pm**

By all accounts a great tournament but hopefully the last to be played outside the summer window. Never could really get my head around a Nov/Dec World Cup.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:50 pm**

After Russia and then Qatar then Mordor must be next on the FIFA roadmap.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:56 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:42 pm
Fonz wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:26 pm
sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:02 pm Well that’s the final nail in the coffin of any argument over who is the greatest player of this generation.
Are there people still on Team Ronaldo? Settled well before tonight IMO...good to know I was right all along though
I still get Man Utd fans pulling some pointless stats out of their arse.

Had a good friend who loved Ronaldo. When pressed he'd always just go back to "but but but...he only uses his left foot!" He got years worth of mileage out of that.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:01 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:50 pm After Russia and then Qatar then Mordor must be next on the FIFA roadmap.

Close, it's the USA innit?

(and Canada / Mexico)

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:01 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:37 pm France take their silver medals with proud. English rugby can learn from them

I’d forgotten about that appalling display.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:06 pm**

Hugo wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:47 pm By all accounts a great tournament but hopefully the last to be played outside the summer window. Never could really get my head around a Nov/Dec World Cup.

Back to proper football again.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:19 pm**

Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:01 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:37 pm France take their silver medals with proud. English rugby can learn from them
I’d forgotten about that appalling display.

Le General Deschamps would have torn them a new one had they taken it off

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:26 pm**

Was it the RWC 19 or Euro soccer 20 you were talking about, silver medal thing.

Edit: you said rugby.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:50 pm**

Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:26 pm Was it the RWC 19 or Euro soccer 20 you were talking about, silver medal thing.

Edit: you said rugby.

RWC 19. I do understand it better now. Some of their supporters are the same.Its either the ref or their own players having a bad game but never the opposition.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:08 pm**

Very normal posting happening after a superb final, I see

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:18 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:08 pm Very normal posting happening after a superb final, I see

If the colonials can’t drag it back to a bit of mother country bashing them you’ll take all the fun out of sport.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:40 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:50 pm
Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:26 pm Was it the RWC 19 or Euro soccer 20 you were talking about, silver medal thing.

Edit: you said rugby.
RWC 19. I do understand it better now. Some of their supporters are the same.Its either the ref or their own players having a bad game but never the opposition.

Thanks for taking some time away from sending rape threats to Polly Barnes to share your thoughts here on this thread (involving different nations in a different sport).

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:47 pm**

tc27 wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:40 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:50 pm
Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:26 pm Was it the RWC 19 or Euro soccer 20 you were talking about, silver medal thing.

Edit: you said rugby.
RWC 19. I do understand it better now. Some of their supporters are the same.Its either the ref or their own players having a bad game but never the opposition.
Thanks for taking some time away from sending rape threats to Polly Barnes to share your thoughts here on this thread (involving different nations in a different sport).

Oom has specialised knowledge on the dynamics of referee blaming by a fan base. He's here to help us all understand more about that.

Posted: **Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:09 pm**

boere wors wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:19 pm
Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:01 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:37 pm France take their silver medals with proud. English rugby can learn from them
I’d forgotten about that appalling display.
Le General Deschamps would have torn them a new one had they taken it off

When did this become a policed thing? I feel like this is a daily mail or uk tabloid press nonsense. Unfortunately, they now have global reach so many other naive souls will be exposed to them.

Deschamps is the type of guy who would probably chuck his runners up medal in the bin.

https://metro.co.uk/2016/07/11/arsenal- ... k-5999034/

Posted: **Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:29 am**

Legend

Posted: **Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:18 pm**

sefton wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:50 pm After Russia and then Qatar then Mordor must be next on the FIFA roadmap.

Just remember who the Orcs are!

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