Women's World Cup!

[Letters]

I guess this doesn't deserve a section but maybe a thread at least?
No?

:tumbleweed:

[Mac76]

yes absolutely - c'mon u lionesses!

Phil 'just gave the wife a good beating' Neville OUT!

[Globalgunner]

I guess this doesn't deserve a section but maybe a thread at least?
No?

:tumbleweed:

Not to be a pendant, but shouldnt that read Womens?

[Letters]

Not to be a pendant, but shouldnt that read Womens?

Yes...

Not sure if you can edit a thread title. Hmm. I will if I can work out how.

[Letters]

Ah! Yes you can. Done

Me :bow:

[Mac76]

The woman commentator for Germany-China sounds like Phil Neville's sister, speaking in a dull northern monotone....

Not a bad game though

[Letters]

England 2 - Scotland 1

:bow:

[Globalgunner]

Guaranteed to make yr day chaps and chappettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59SmSplRvA

[Letters]

Women.
Know your place...

[Marc Overmars]

I would love to have a match against a pro women’s team. I’m sure they would technically be a lot better but physically that would be the leveller. Any mildly competent men’s team would wipe the floor with the best women’s team in the world.

[GP]

I would love to have a match against a pro women’s team. I’m sure they would technically be a lot better but physically that would be the leveller. Any mildly competent men’s team would wipe the floor with the best women’s team in the world.

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/

[Globalgunner]

Any Rymans league team would win the women's world cup easy. Even with Letters as their keeper

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48530498


US World Cup winner Hope Solo has said the disparity between men's and women's prize money shows that "male chauvinism is entrenched" in Fifa, football's governing body.

Yeah. Either that or it's because no-one gives a shit about the Women's World Cup.

[Globalgunner]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48530498



Yeah. Either that or it's because no-one gives a shit about the Women's World Cup.

She should go to court...Oh they've already tried that and lost. Its like insisting female boxers get the same money as Anthony Joshua

[Letters]

Male chauvinism probably is entrenched in FIFA, to be fair, but this is not evidence of that.
It's obvious why the prize money isn't the same.
They'll be demanding equal pay next.

[Marc Overmars]

Not this nonsense again. Where does the money come from if it’s not generated from the various women’s competitions? You can’t just magically pull prize money out of thin air.

[GP]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48530498



Yeah. Either that or it's because no-one gives a shit about the Women's World Cup.

I've seen her vagina.

[GP]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/47180347

Ridiculous

[LDG]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/47180347

Ridiculous

Especially as most of those Thai women are men

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/47180347

Ridiculous

I didn’t even know Wenger managed the ladies Thai team

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Wrong World Cup going on Thailand.

[LDG]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/48617924

:haha:

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Should be paid more for that.

[Letters]

She's got nothing on Lee Dixon :sulk:

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England v Argentina is on soon.

Meh.

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https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2019/6/14/29dfdd12-6c89-46d0-a80c-8739eafb9417.jpg

Fucking hell Pearce. :lol:

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Parris ballsed up a pelanty.

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England 1-0 Argentina, Taylor.

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48631538

Into the last 16.
Have to say the Argentine ‘keeper was very good.
I say that as generally I think the quality of goal keeping in women’s football is comedic.

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England v Japan on tonight.

Or Scotland v Argentina if you would rather.

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Japan 0-1 England, White.

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Scotland are out in Scotland style.

3-3 draw with a 94th minute pelanty to give Argentina the equaliser. :lol

Japan 0-2 England in the end, White with the second also.

[Letters]

Scotland were 3-0 up.
And the penalty was only scored at the second attempt after VAR showed the ‘keeper came off her line

Scotland :haha:

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England are leading against Cameroon.

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England 2-0 Cameroon.

Cameroon staging a protest. :lol:

[Letters]

England :bow:

What’s this then, last 16 or something?

#nobodycares

[Letters]

2-1 :doh:

[Letters]

:haha:

Nope 2-0 still

VAR :bow:

[Letters]

Fight! Fight! Fight! :lol:

[Letters]

FFS, one of the Cameroon players has gone full Gazza!

[Letters]

Pearce (about one of the Cameroon players): “She’s going to have to go off. She never looked fit to me”

:lol: Harsh!

[Letters]

3-0

Good corner routine

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Cameroon stopped playing again after VAR's latest interjection? :lol:

[Letters]

Cameroon stopped playing again after VAR's latest interjection? :lol:

Not really but they had quite a big collective paddy and one player completely lost it. In the Victorian era they’d have been reaching for the smelling salts for her.

England aren’t that good, a competent side will take us apart

VAR pel, possibly? :popcorn:

[Letters]

Not given. Would have been harsh.

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Would've been funny.

[Letters]

Would've been funny.

Correct :lol:

7 minutes added

[GP]

Women :rolleyes:

It's called FootBALL not FootOVARY

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-0 FT.

What a farce. :haha:

Anyway, Norway next for Our Brave Girls.

Your girls took a hell of a beating...

Also, France v Brazil is on at 8pm.

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Phil Neville, moral saviour of football.

[Letters]

Your girls took a hell of a beating...


Stan Collimore is their manager? :unsure:

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France 1-0 Brazil, Gauvin!

[Letters]

Is it on TV?

[Letters]

Ah BBC4!

[Letters]

1-1!

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Has to be a goal for Brazil.

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And that it is! Thaisa. :bow:

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Disallowed goal for Brazil.

[Letters]

Disallowed goal for Brazil.

Miles offside.

Extra time.

[Mac76]

Women :rolleyes:

It's called FootBALL not FootOVARY
Erm....

:getcoat:

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HENRY!!!!!

[WMUG]

Henry scores a late winner against Brazil in the world cup with a volley off a free kick.

Where have I heard that before?

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Spain 1-2 USA from earlier, two pelanties for Rapinoe.

Sweden v Canada is still 0-0.

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Sweden 1-0 Canada, Blackstenius. :unsure:

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48742850

:blah:

[SMatthews]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48742850

:blah:

This desperation to put the game on an equal footing is hilarious.

Marta is the all time record goal scorer at the World Cup :lol:

Conflating of records like that doesn’t happen in any other sport.

The reason there are more goals is because the level is poor. There’s less tackling because they are less aggressive which is why the games are so dull to watch. Same for the crowd - theres rarely any chanting, or passion from the crowd which creates a dead atmosphere across the pitch.

And attendances are down this World Cup too.

[Marc Overmars]

Tried watching some of this but it's mind numbingly shit.

Comparing it to the mens game is just pathetic and screams of all this feminism bollocks that currently reflects society.

Judge the game for what it is and leave it that. If England win it - well done. Just don't pretend it compares in any way to what their male counter parts do.

[Letters]

Think you’re being a bit harsh.
The few bits I’ve seen have been ok, the quality has been better than I was expecting.
But it’s clearly not equivalent to the men’s game.
If nothing else there just isn’t the interest.
We are in a World Cup quarter final on Thursday. Were it the men it’s all the press would be talking about. As it is there’s hardly been a mention of it. You can’t just artificially create interest. It’s either there or it isn’t.

[GP]

It's coming home!*





*To get the dinner on

[Letters]

Netherlands 1 - Japan 1

Equaliser from Japan just before half time

[Letters]

Pel to the Netherlands!

[Letters]

2-1 to the Netherlands.
Really harsh on Japan, they’ve been by far the best side.

[Letters]

And that’s how it finished

[Globalgunner]

#Womens world cup so European.

So basically the Women`s world cup is the Womens Euros with the Yanks thrown in.

France USA is going to be epic. The Americans diving at every opportunity and the French wholly dependent on VAR.

[Letters]

Interesting. Maybe something about women's rights being more advanced in Europe and so women's leagues being more common/professional and the standard being higher?
And in the US it is seen as more of a "woman's sport".

[Globalgunner]

Interesting. Maybe something about women's rights being more advanced in Europe and so women's leagues being more common/professional and the standard being higher?
And in the US it is seen as more of a "woman's sport".

Youre probably right. Didnt stop me shedding a few tears for the Cameroun women's team. They did the best they could but the fates conspired against them all the way that day, coupled with Ratface spouting puritanical bullshit afterwards. The same cunt and his brother who spent a whole 90 mins rotational fouling Reyes to the point of incapacity back in the day.

[Letters]

Cameroon can sod, right off. The VAR decisions that went against them did so correctly. Get on with it you stupid bints.
Felt more sorry for Japan last night who outplayed The Netherlands and got a harsh (again, correct by the letter of the law) pen against them to knock them out late in the game.
I don't like the new handball rule, it seems you only have to blast a ball from point blank range these days against someone's arm and it's a penalty.

[GP]

Cameroon can get in the fuckin sea.

Going around spitting on people because they don't understand the offside rules.

[Globalgunner]

You guys have no heart....maybe no soul even. The Walking Dead programme needs you as extras

[Letters]

Why do you feel sorry for them? They weren't hard done by and acted like a load of toddlers. Fuck 'em.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Norway v England is on at 8pm.

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Norway 0-1 England, Scott.

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Parris. :haha:

Horrendous.

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White hits the post!

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Norway 0-2 England, White.

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Tallest player on the pitch is 5'11"

:haha:

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0-3 Bronze.

[Letters]

Tallest player on the pitch is 5'11"

:haha:

I’ll have you know that’s very tall :sulk:

[Letters]

Missed a pel but it’s probably irrelevant

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Parris has a pelanty saved. Useless.

[Letters]

3-0 FT :bow:

England have a semi. ##

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England through, France or USA next. :popcorn:

[LDG]

Women :bow:

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France v USA tonight.

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Hope Solo. :bow:

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US National Anthem. :bow:

Rapinoe approves.

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La Marseillaise. :bow:

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France 0-1 USA, Rapinoe freekick somehow goes in. :lol:

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Dive from Mewis. :lol:

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Not looking forward to hearing Pearce drone on about VAR all of next season.

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France 0-2 USA, Rapinoe with the second.

France's defence, non-existent.

[LDG]

Hope Solo. :bow:

##

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France 1-2 USA, Renard. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

France 1-2 USA, FT.

USA v England next

[Marc Overmars]

Alex Morgan is quite fit.

[GP]

##

Seen her vagina.

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Any good?

[Globalgunner]

That winger Parris is better than Ozil. Just as bad at pens though. Can we do a swap with her current employers?

[GP]

Any good?

Seen better.

[Letters]

“It’s a great chest” - commentator on one of the Italian players.

Tee hee!

[Letters]

They seem to have stopped for a tea break :blink:

[Letters]

0-0 at HT between Italy and Netherlands.
Pretty poor game really

[Letters]

1-0 to the Netherlands.

[SMatthews]

Pretty poor game really

The official slogan for the women’s game.

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Arsenal legend Miedema with the goal. :bow:

[Letters]

2-0. Good header.

[Letters]

The official slogan for the women’s game.

:lol:

Harsh, but accurate

[Letters]

2-0 FT. Dull.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Germany v Sweden on in an hour ish.

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Germany 1-0 Sweden, Magull.

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Germany 1-1 Sweden, Jakobsson.

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Germany 1-2 Sweden, Blackstenius. :lol:

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The Germans are out. :lol:

[Letters]

England v USA later. Lots of bullish talk about our chances but suspect we'll get our arses handed to us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England: Telford, Stokes, Bright, Houghton, Bronze, Mead, Walsh, Scott, Daly, White, Parris.

USA: Naeher, Dunn, Sauerbrunn, Dahlkemper, O'Hara, Horan, Ertz, Lavelle, Press, Heath, Morgan.

Rapinoe dropped by Trump's decree I imagine. :ninja:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pearce giving it the hype job.

1-7 coming up.

United States national anthem. :bow:

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Morgan. :haha:

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England 0-1 USA, Press.

Awful defending.

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England 1-1 USA, WHITE!!!!

[GP]

WHITE POWER!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sign up Lavelle ASAP, Raul.

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Mead. :haha:

Obviously drinks the stuff.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I know why Pearce doesn't get the Men's England matches at tournaments now.

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Mead then follows it up with a horrendous corner. :haha:

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England 1-2 USA, Morgan!

[LDG]

Womengland :rolleyes:

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1-2 HT.

Neville. :lol:

[LDG]

Mead. :haha:

Obviously drinks the stuff.

I thought the GWism was

Meade :haha:

[GP]

Maede :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

White just dropped the Ashes.

[LDG]

Maede :haha:

Ah yeah! :lol:

[Letters]

Come on ladies... #grammar

[McNamara That Ghost...]

With Morgan doing a drinking tea celebration, what Americanism should the England players do?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mead is finally hauled off so she can finish off her tinnies, someone else on, I wasn't listening.

[GP]

With Morgan doing a drinking tea celebration, what Americanism should the England players do?

Murdering school children?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And one appears on screen just as I see this comment. :lol:

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Press. :haha:

Greedy shit.

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Lavelle's hamstring. :rose:

If she wasn't perfect for us before...

Mewis on for her.

[Letters]

It’s a Desmond!

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England 2-2 USA, WHITE!!!

Bring out the guns!

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VAR coming out, looks offside tbf.

[Letters]

VAR :sick:

[Letters]

Fuck off. No goal

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Goal disallowed. :lol:

[Letters]

Looked right, to be fair. Arse.

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Moore on.

Pearce that is.

[Letters]

All stopped for a cup of tea

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White well and truly dropped the Ashes.

Or VAR time...

[Letters]

How the piss did she miss that?
VAR pel?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not a foul. :lol:

This scouse berk on commentary. :doh:

[Letters]

Think she just buggered it up

[Letters]

The ref’s having a look :popcorn:

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VAR looking at it. :blink:

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It's soft as anything but perhaps it should be given.

[Letters]

PEL!!!!

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Pelanty to England!

[Letters]

:sick:

[Letters]

Saved. Oh piss off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Houghton fucks it up!

Remarkable captain. :haha:

Pearce you twat.

[Letters]

Really awful pel.
Fun this shizzle.

[LDG]

:haha:

Fucksake :lol:

[GP]

Well that was a damp squid.

[Letters]

:lol: getting quite in to this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

She did a Graham Poll! :haha:

Bright sent off, disgusting scrote.

[Letters]

And now a red card. Oh piss off

[LDG]

Bright OFF!!

Just like Gazza

[GP]

Chelsea scum

[Globalgunner]

Bright sent off with what looks like a pink card

[Letters]

Well that was a damp squid.
I don’t know why they put her on such a peddle stall.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Morgan loves to go down.

[Globalgunner]

I don’t know why they put her on such a peddle stall.

Err....pedestal? or am I missing something

[Letters]

Err....pedestal? or am I missing something

Look at the post I’m quoting...

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Seven added minutes.

[Letters]

7 minutes though

[Letters]

How did we fuck up a throw in?!

[GP]

How did we fuck up a throw in?!

wimmin

[LDG]

Her hair got in the way of the throw :lol:

[Letters]

Her hair got in the way of the throw :lol:

I never have that problem :sulk:

[Globalgunner]

England ran them close. Actually think England are the better technical team. Yanks are plenty savvy...but if you miss a pen you dont deserve to win

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England 1-2 USA, FT!

Glorious failure it is!

Houghton. :haha:

Pearce. :haha:

Bottle job. :haha:

Losing to the Yanks at Soccerball. :haha:

Phil Neville. :haha:

Gary Neville. :haha:

Tracey Neville. :haha:

Neville Neville. :haha:

Neville Longbottom. :haha:

Hope Solo. :bow:

[Letters]

Women.

Know your place.

[Globalgunner]

Alex Morgan can have my phone number anyday

[Letters]

Hope Solo actually said “football is the winner”! :haha:

[Letters]

Why are they creating themselves about the USA?
They did nothing in the second half, we were the better team.

[Globalgunner]

Hope Solo actually said “football is the winner”! :haha:

Back home, she would have said Soccer.

[Mac76]

Fair result tbf

England played well in the first half but turned to the rough stuff in the second, the sending off was deserved.

Even before the penalty, we got away with a foul earlier in the move

Plus the US fans are much better looking, and Morgan won hands down looks-wise on the pitch - she's really cute ;)

[LDG]

Alex Morgan can have my phone number anyday

In the words of the late Ray Wilkins

“My word”

[Mac76]

Neville: "we went down to ten men" :haha:

[Letters]

Plus the US fans are much better looking, and Morgan won hands down looks-wise on the pitch - she's really cute ;)
Instead of penalty shootouts does it go to a swimwear contest in the event of a draw?

[Mac76]

Instead of penalty shootouts does it go to a swimwear contest in the event of a draw?

We can only hope... :)

[GP]

if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot-oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such-and-such...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Netherlands v Sweden on in 10 minutes.

Come on Miedema. :bow:

[Letters]

Meh. Lost interest now we’re out :p

[McNamara That Ghost...]

One of these teams will be England's next opponents tbf.

[GP]

Miedema :bow:

She's like a white Dennis Bergkamp

[Letters]

One of these teams will be England's next opponents tbf.

S’pose, but I can’t be arsed with 3rd place playoffs.
I can’t even remember what happened in our one last year.
Have a feeling we lost but who cares who comes 3rd or 4th?

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Still 0-0. :lol:

[Letters]

Started watching at half time.
Both sides have smacked the post but not much else going on.
Looking like Extra Time

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And extra time it is.

[Letters]

1-0 Netherlands!

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Groenen with the goal.

Pearce is horrible at describing, well anything really.

[GP]

Robot Wars?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I suppose he is somewhat restrained compared to what he was like on that.

[Letters]

This is pretty dull.
Reckon USA will walk the final

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Van De Sanden. :haha:

Terrible.

[Letters]

One of the Swedish players is dead.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Netherlands 1-0 Sweden, FT!

Miedema leading her troops to the final. :bow:

WotM for sure. :good:

USA v Netherlands in the final.

Morgan to light up a fat one in celebration?

[Letters]

Sweden come streaming forward in surely what will be their last attack...

But they don’t score so 1-0 to the Netherlands FT

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Pearce namedrops Bruce Springsteen.

And The Ghost of Tom Joad, Logan?

[Letters]

“Jacky Grunen (sp?), a Bruce Springsteen fan has set them on their Thunder Road through to the final here on Sunday against the girls Born in The USA”
- Pearce

Fuck off you fat c*nt

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England 1-2 Sweden currently.

[Letters]

I vaguely remembered about this earlier then remembered I didn’t care

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England 1-2 Sweden, FT. :rolleyes:

[Letters]

We always seem to lose these playoffs. Meh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

USA v Netherlands is on at 4PM.

Come on Miedema and Van De Donk. :bow:

[LDG]

USA v Netherlands is on at 4PM.

Come on Miedema and Van De Donk. :bow:

And cum on Morgan

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hoogendijk. :cloud9:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

USA: Naeher, Dunn, Sauerbrunn, Dahlkemper, O'Hara, Mewis, Ertz, Lavelle, Rapinoe, Morgan, Heath.

Netherlands: Van Veenedaal, Bloodworth, Dekker, Van der Gragt, van Lunteren. Spitse, Van de Donk, Groenen, Martens, Miedema, Beerensteyn.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pearce, what a turd.

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I'm fairly sure the game will be won and lost in the middle positions.

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Martens. :haha:

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Morgan goes flying.

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Two good saves, denying Morgan.

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0-0 HT.

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Rapinoe. :haha:

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VAR pelanty review for USA.

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Pelanty to USA.

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USA 1-0 Netherlands, Rapinoe.

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USA 2-0 Netherlands, Lavelle.

She's great.

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Heath and Rapinoe. :haha:

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Rapinoe hauled off, Press on.

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Pearce still can't get his head around why play runs on when VAR is in operation.

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Heath doesn't have a clue what she is doing.

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Heath finally hauled off, Lloyd on.

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USA 2-0 Netherlands, FT. They win the World Cup for this version of football for the fourth time.

Miedema WotM and PotT IMO.

Rapinoe wins the Golden Boot.

Trump. :haha:

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I don't think Solo likes Rapinoe much. :lol:

[Globalgunner]

This whole tournament was won and lost on VAR and penalties. I yearn for the old days when you could cheat and get away with it. Maradona:bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's the new reality.

Apart from the ACoN, on to a whole season if it now. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They've forgotten the trophy. :lol:

Strip them of it.

[Globalgunner]

Its got to the point where every single contact in the box is a penalty now. By extension it should mean that every single contact outside the box is a foul. The refs are scared stiff to show any judgement. Its a huge shitshow. Divers will prosper and the game on average will take 55 mins each half