>>5621
Today it was reported there's a remote chance of London being asked to take over their obligation to host the 2016 Olympics. Specifically we were asked if it would be possible.

>>5621

I'm only going because I want to go down in history as having been killed by a flying toilet.

>>5622

That is utterly hilarious. I hope it happens.

I'm so used to people saying before a major sporting event, "this is gong to be a complete mess, nothing is ready!!!". It never pans out though, everything normally goes off without a hitch. Hope this one is a complete fuck up though, just so I can watch the car crash.

Same was said about Sochi, but then again, no one give a shit about winter olympics.

I thought their biggest concern was the increase in crime there, which they seem to have responded to by just letting BOPE run loose.

>>5626

That's only really happening in Rio. The PCC are still setting fire to buses on an almost daily basis in Sao Paulo. Some poor cunt got killed by a flying toilet at a football game in Recife the other day. Most of the other host cities are utter shitholes of the highest order (Salvedore, Fortaleza). If I could find a bookmaker who'd take the bet I'd lay £50 on a player being killed at some point during the tournament. It's that bad.

>>5627
>Some poor cunt got killed by a flying toilet at a football game in Recife the other day.
I shouldn't laugh, but that is pretty funny.

>>5627
Sounds like a tit-for-tat clash:

>Earlier this year, Santa Cruz supporters hurled toilet bowls at fans of their local rivals, Sport.

Our pathetic hooligans are amateur hour in comparison

>>5629
1. Where do you get them?
2. How on earth do you smuggle them into a football stadium?

You'd have thought with that sort of thing going on the place would be gooned up to the rafters with stewards.

>>5630

They rip them out of the stadium bathrooms. disappointingly

>>5631
>throwing used toilets at rivals
Fucking brazil man.

>>5631
Pity the poor bastards who need to take a crap during the match.

>>5621
I think the logo does perfectly represent that fact.

>>5638

That 2014 should replaced by a gringo's wallet bearing the symbol $2014. The hands should be attempting to remove money from the wallet in a surreptitious fashion. Some photoshop guru get on this immediately.

>>5639
Yeah cheers Banksy.

>>5639
> Some photoshop guru get on this immediately.

Every time there is some creative genius with a photoshop idea it's "yeah, someone photoshop xyz". It's your shit idea, why don't you fucking do it yourself?

>>5641
Not him, but the idea isn't shit. You are shit.

>>5642
Yeah, it's so original isn't it?

>>5643
Better than your bile.

>>5641

Calm down lads. No need for handbags at dawn. The phrase "Some photoshop guru get on this immediately." was intended as blunt hyperbole, not as a sincere request for someone to do actually do it.

You artistic types are just so highly strung.

The scoreline has flattered Brazil, but Croatia's keeper has cost them.

Here's hoping that the protesters throwing stones at the ITV studio manage to break in and disembowel Adrian Chiles live on air.

>>5769

>Here's hoping that the protesters throwing stones at the ITV studio manage to break in and disembowel Adrian Chiles live on air.

I don't care about the world cup but I'll be hitting refresh every 2 minutes, so if this goes down don't hesitate.

Hopefully the officials won't ruin the Spain - Holland game because it should be a cracker; poor officiating seems to the theme of the tournament so far

>>5771
I can't understand why a sport that's much richer than cricket, tennis or rugby can't bring itself to introduce a replay official.

>>5772
Fifa have long maintained that refereeing mistakes add to the character to the game. Money doesn't come into it. Although given how obviously corrupt they are, a cynic might suggest that money has everything to do with it.

>>5773

That Marcello own goal was never meant to happen - didn't you see how many bookies were very publicly offering bets on Brazil to win 3-0 with Neymar to score first? If it wasn't for them pesky Croats all those dodgy bets would have paid off.

</tinfoil>

>>5773
>Fifa have long maintained that refereeing mistakes add to the character to the game
what

I'm pretty sure it's so that everyone, from sunday league up to the world cup, is playing the same game.

>>5775
Yes, I can imagine that on different days they come out with different excuses for the gullible rubes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_replay#Association_football

>>5773
>Fifa have long maintained that refereeing mistakes add to the character to the game.
Fifa need a better excuse for their blatant corruption.

>>5621
I can't be the first one here to have noticed: Is the official logo supposed to look like someone facepalming?

>>5778
You're not and no it's not supposed to.

Van Persie's header was just beautiful.

>>5778

It probably wouldn't if it wasn't being run by the Dark Lord and his gang of Darth Vaders, and enjoying similar popular support to the Iraq War circa 2006.

Anyway, I think it looks like grasping hands of the Brazilian underclasses, painted lovely colours by community artists.

>>5780

Robben's follow up wasn't bad either.

>>5781
It's supposed to represent the trophy in the grubby hands of poor Brazilians trying to nick it.

An absolute drubbing. I fucking love the world cup.

Spain are getting absolutely slaughtered.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

BLOWN. THE. FUCK. OUT.

These are the stats of a reigning world champion absolutely bossing it, and it takes something special to go down that heavily on the back of them.

>>5786

BTFO
T
F
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That header was the best I've seen since McManus saved Scotland from the embarrassment of drawing with Liechtenstein.

>>5787
It's possession for the sake of possession.

>>5789

The Dutch were just on fire today. They just always seemed to have a man in the right place at the right time. Robben in particular just played wonderfully.

>>5785
4-1? Bugger me.

>>5791
You're a bit behind, m8.

>>5621
Not even into footy but glad they won after that spanish twat put his foot out on purpose.

So far this has been an excellent World Cup (at least the football is if nothing else). Naturally, I fully expect Engerland to ruin it with a bore draw against those Eye-tie chaps

>>5794
No mate, we will smash their backdoors in and beat them by 3 goals. They will cry.

>>5790
Robben's performance was a nice big 'fuck you' to all the doubters. A wonderful display, so nice to see the cheating Spaniards put in their place.

>>5794
I expect England Italy to be 0-0, but the humidity will be a major factor in that. England can only play defensively if everyone is involved given how poor our back line is.

Fell asleep when it was 1-0 to Spain. Such cases. At least Mexico/Cameroon was a fucking great game.

Wonderful start to the tournament, those first few games. I have a strange feeling that England - Italy will have a few surprises too.

Given the way that Chile play I wouldn't be surprised if they did similar against Spain, then again Spain did lose their first game in the last World Cup.

>>5798
I really think we're going to win. What's wrong with me?

>>5801
They're not a team to be overly fearful of, true they have Pirlo and Balotelli but they're nothing special. Plus, they're notorious slow starters, have picked a worse base than England and have the same issues with humidity as us. The only thing missing from England is a pretty boy, as they're all quite ugly since Are Becks retired.

Joel Campbell looks like he could be some player. Uruguay are shit without Suarez.

>>5808
He certainly does - interesting that he is signed to Arsenal but has never made the team - I imagine he might get a run out next season..

Agree with you about Uruguay, they're fairly terrible. Reminding me of Spain last night, they just don't look like they want it enough.

Game over Uruguay. Thanks for coming, you've been shit.

>>5809
To be fair, last season was the only time he could have played for Arse because of work permit issues and I don't think he was on anyone's radar until the CL goal against United.

Lallana instead of Welbeck? Please? Pretty please?

>>5812
I think Woy sees Welbeck as a younger, blacker version of Milner.

>>5792
Pah. 5-1. Damn shame for spaniards.

Keep the faith, my English brethren.

I'm Scottish, but Gerrard's puppy dog eyes have won me over. I just want him to smile, just once, before he dies.

Who thought it'd be a bright idea to have Phil Neville commentating on an England game? I'm struggling to stay awake.

That was shit.
What a sad display. I'm genuinely let down.

>>5817
He's terrible.

>>5818
Fuck off. They played well, and played their socks off. England can make it out of this shitty group easily.

>>5818
I entirely disagree. that was perhaps the most encouraging loss we could've had.

The defence was poop, but nobody expected them to be anything except poop. Leighton Baines suffered because he had no cover in front of him thanks to Rooney/Sterling/Welbeck/whoever else was there because of the free flowing attacking midfield we played covering him. That was Italy's (successful) line of attack. Gerrard wasn't particularly noticeable, but he's playing DMF so that's not really surprising, similarly with Hendo. Sterling was great, though his crosses left something to be desired. Rooney was shit, and his golden opportunity could've left the game with an England draw or win. I really think he should be dropped. Sturridge was solid.

Lallana/Wilshere didn't do enough in the time they were on to comment, but Barkley looked very bright, I hope he starts against Costa Rica, him and Sterling can tear them apart.

It's not dead yet. Uruguay were awful against Costa Rica, and even if we lose against Uruguay we can knock out a high scoring win against Costa Rica and go through on goal difference. Getting a win or a draw against Uruguay will be vital, however. Suarez will play, but he'll likely not be match fit.

>>5822
The answer is The Ox. Oh, and never starting Rooney again.

>>5821
Then why did they lose?

>>5824
Do you actually watch football? It's very possible to play extremely well and still lose. It's part of what makes football such a great but nerve wracking game. Or are you just being an annoying contrarian prat for the sake of it?

Saying that I don't think we played amazingly well, but I do think we looked a lot livelier than we have in a while.

>>5826
The latter.

>>5826
>I do think we looked a lot livelier than we have in a while.

I reckon that's because Italy were happy to sit back and defend without being too worried about England's attacking threat. There weren't really that many dangerous chances.

>>5828
Yeah we just didn't look dangerous around goal. Rooney really can get to fuck. He looked fucking useless and just cocked up any chance he got. However if he does manage get us out the group or grab a winner in the quarters or some shit I will sing his praises like the fickle twat I am.

>>5828
I disagree again, I think we had more good chances than Italy did. This game was a good reflection of the current differences between southern and northern European football.

We had more chances we didn't put away, Italy had less chances but converted more than us.

I've heard three people today use the line "it felt more like a draw than a loss" already. Christ. The reality distortion field England fans inhabit during the world cup is a thing of incredible power.

>>5831
I don't know what you mean by this. I thought it had draw written all over it, I think England were arguably the better team. There's not a lot to be massively critical of, and that's a good idea thing. If we hope costa Ricas luck has run out then England have the advantage offer Uruguay. Wait and see, and stop being so despondent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27855854

I wish these cunts would stay in Brazil.

>>5833
Why?

>>5832

You have to take into account Pirlo's very near goal on that free kick. I'm inclined to say it's mostly bias that allows people to call it a draw, in the same way Italy fans are likely saying it could well have been 3 - 1.

>>5835
But in exactly the same way most attackers would have put rooneys chance away, and that's discounting the fact we had more real chances. Sure if Pirlos shot were lower it would be in, Hart was confounded, but still, it didn't. Like I said before, we had more, and better chances, but didn't put them away. Italy had fewer chances but had a higher conversion rate. I really don't think either team deserved to win, it's easy to put that down to bias but that's my genuine opinion.

>>5836

Whereas the Dutch always seemed to just be in the right place at the right time, our boys always seemed to be a foot or two behind the ball every time an opportunity came up. Bad luck or lack of cohesion?

>>5837
Semi bad.cohesion. There was one sturridge opportunity that exemplifies that where he literally would've been on target had he been a foot or two ahead of where he was. It's not an unsolvable problem, the fact we are making these chances is fantastic and more than we've had going forward in years. I am optimistic for the next game.

Comparing them to the Dutch is pointless, the Dutch were absolutely fantastic. England weren't, but they certainly weren't bad. Good, I'd say. Not perfect obviously.

I think this will be the first world cup which I shan't watch any of. Maybe the final if it's a pair of tasty teams but that's uncertain.

>>5839
I don't see why, on the basis of the games so far England are more exciting than they've been in at least a decade and there are more goals than ever before. Obviously there's long way to go but the omens for a very fucking good world cup are good.

>>5840
I'm not really interested in football anyway, mostly it's because I'm more disillusioned with FIFA than ever before and I'm not associating with the people I used to watch the thing with like I was 4 years ago.

>>5834
Because they are cunts, and Brazil is far away.

>>5842
Fifa aren't necessarily representative of the world cup despite it being their tournament. Fifa are corrupt as shit though, everyone knows that but there's not much sign of the world cup itself being that corrupt.

>>5843
Who are cunts?

>>5844
I think FIFA and its problems are inseparable from the world cup.

>>5847
I disagree. I don't think the finals games are corrupt, I do think Fifa itself is corrupt if you seey distinction.

>>5848
See a*

Apparently this World cup isn't one for 'keepers.

>>5850
Better that it's not one for strikers like South Efrika.

>>5850
I misread that as 'kippers. It still makes sense given the xenophobia of Farage et al.

The Germans are so bloody... German.

What a goal by Cahill. Australia don't deserve to crash out in the first round; apart from shitting the bed for the first 20 minutes against Chile they've been superb.

FUCK SPAIN. I have never been happier.

>>5855
They've changed their system to accommodate an unfit Costa and Casillas should not be in goal. They're making England look good.

Iniesta? More like OUTiesta.

>>5621
>CRASH!
>BANG!
>WALLOP!
>WHAT A VIDEOOO....