2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

[Loony BoB]

Mercifully the BBC have the alternative commentary option on the red button

They do!?

They also allow you to mute the commentary altogether and just listen to the crowd. This is what I use. I struggle with commentary teams outside of Sky. They all bore me to death. Haven't heard BT Sport's yet, mind you.

[Psychotic]

My favourite Phil Neville moment was when he tried to blame Glen Johnson for the goal - a cause championed by our own Bubba because of Fizzer, no less. "Gary Cahill expects Johnson to be marking Balotelli" intoned our favourite Mancunian. Except if you watch Johnson he's marking Marchisio, who had been marking for the entire game and why on earth would a right back be marking a centre forward anyway Neville you tit. Of all the criticisms you could level at Johnson, that was not one. Amusingly Glen was the anti-Johnson, solid enough at the back (though he didn't have much to do with Italy utterly pounding Baines, seemingly having identified him as a weak link), ponderous and wasteful in attack.

I digress though. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to give Phil Neville his first gig in - from a British broadcaster's perspective in terms of audience figures etc - the biggest game of the World Cup? "Oh, he's a Neville and his brother's good at it - they're basically the same thing, right? Just like with football, old Phil has been overpromoted because of his brother's talent.

They all bore me to death. Haven't heard BT Sport's yet, mind you.

I love it when commentators make mistakes. Michael Owen makes them non stop. I still can't even enjoy them because of how utterly banal both his voice and the things he says are.

[Loony BoB]

Yep. Gary surprised a lot of people with how good he was, both on the pitch and in the commentary box (although surprising me less so - I've heard him commentate on United's own channel for youth games and he was always good). Phil has not-quite-surprised people with how unfortunately inadequate he is with both coaching and commentating so far. He was a decent player, sure, but I agree with Psy particularly on the "thrown in at the deep end" kind of thing. His first ever coaching run was at United. His first ever commentary in an England game at the World Cup. I mean, what the hell?

My favourite commentators are people who actually sound interested in what they are talking about and excited at the match.

[DK]

JURGI LOEF UND KRAKOW PAUW

had to be done sorry

[Bubba]

I stand by what I said.

[Psychotic]

Well then who was Cahill meant to be marking if not Balotelli? And who should've been marking Marchisio - the Italian left-winger - if not the right-back? The smurf up was mostly Baines, forcing Jagielka to come out and cover him and creating space in the box, and then Cahill got suckered by an awesome run from Balotelli. Super Mario was a smurfing beast.

Muller scores for Germany. All of my Fantasy Football strikers have scored now, smurf yes.

[Spuuky]

Apparently this thread became the 2014 FIFA England Cup in Brazil thread. Who cares, England sucks, who would spend this much energy talking about the games of any other random team that had no chance to win?

EXCEPT THE USA GO TEAM

It makes me a little sad that Bosnia had to open against Argentina, hopefully they will still advance.

[Psychotic]

Who cares

English people.

England sucks

We know.

who would spend this much energy talking about the games of any other random team that had no chance to win?

I, too, am aggrieved that people are posting about a FIFA World Cup match in the FIFA World Cup thread and intend to write a sternly worded letter to the owner of this Web-Site.

Pepe sent off xD

hahahahahahhahha who could've predicted that!

(everyone who has ever heard of Pepe)

[DK]

oh dear, this could get to spain levels of embarrassing real quick.

[Spuuky]

Pepe is the worst, and the second biggest reason that Portugal is my least favorite team.

[Loony BoB]

I, too, am aggrieved that people are posting about a FIFA World Cup match in the FIFA World Cup thread and intend to write a sternly worded letter to the owner of this Web-Site.

STOP SENDING ME LETTERS PAUL

Also, I only popped into this thread before logging off and going home because I read about Pepe getting sent off and wanted to see the reactions. You guys do not disappoint.

EDIT: I love that Tony Pulis says it wasn't a sending off, if only because of his days at Stoke where he gifted them somewhat of a reputation.

[DK]

yes this is going to get really bad xD

[Psychotic]

I sort of view Thomas Mueller as the heir to Miroslav Klose. You're not quite sure what he does other than randomly score a smurfton of goals for Germany in World Cups.

Still, he was embarassing in his reaction to the initial face stroke from Pepe.

[DK]

also, Pepe is brilliant. he is the stupidest man in world football and I find him to be very entertaining. he's like a player from the 70's, when you'd get random ginger scottish midgets stopping games to just try and kill someone.

[DK]

adrian chiles is such a colossal tit.

also, not worried for portugal really. i recall the great game when city played spurs and were 3 goals and one man down at half time, but came back to win 4-3 after being inspired to victory by the heroic shaun wright-phillips, and ronaldo is at least as good as shaun was on his worst day so there is definitely a chance to save this game.