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End of the line for both France and RSA. Sad to see the latter go but truly laughable stuff from France.

France truly dissolving now SA just had another one disallowed for offside, these sad frogs may as well go home at halftime.

I'll be watching France/SA, I'm guessing Mex-Uruguay will be a wink-wink nudge-nudge "accidental" draw and thus 90 minutes of true drivel.

Everybody's probably seen this pic a hundred times already but anyway.

American commentator: "I think it'd be fair to say New Zealand beat Italy 1-1." They're at it again!

Actually, I found Pascal le canard hilarious.

And this is not an overreaction either. We had no right to be happy with a draw with USA but it could've been written off if we'd showed up against Algeria and Slovenia, but if we couldn't even beat this shower of half-French journeymen we're in very real danger of not making it out of the group stage. Slovenia will fancy it and they've got every right.

This load of worthless wankers want fucking shooting tbh. Capello can go with them. Just what is he playing at, the idiot, starting Heskey and Barry and playing Gerrard on the left wing ffs. His subs were diabolical as well. Rooney looked like he couldn't be arsed. Worst performance from him I have ever seen. The lot of them are a disgrace.

Slovenia completely switched off. Edu's goal should surely have counted though, inexplicable decision by the ref who also let USA off very easy on some dirty fouls. All in all USA just about shaded it. Now I'm a little worried about these Yankee wankees beating Algeria and us slipping up against Slovenia.

Awful team (Algeria) who should be easy pickings. Egypt beat them 4-0 in CAN, as Stevie already mentioned, Ireland did them 3-0, awful awful awful and we should overcome them easily. James in goal would be my pick as well. Definitely Green needed dropping.

Since Hughton is obviously three times the manager KK was, we'll get three times the points he got away to Man U with half the squad quality. The magic of Ashleynomics.

Feeble performance.

Need to annihilate these. 4-0 I hope. My other half hates the Algerians already so it's double the pleasure when we beat them.

This one is surely Slovakia for me. NZ's keeper looks like he belongs in Sunday football. If the Slovaks just kick it in the vague direction of the goal he might let it in.

If you are representing your country - be it adopted or native - you need to know their national anthem and you should be singing it. I'm the last one for any sort of patriotic bollocks but I do think it's a disgrace when I see teams lined up while their anthem is playing and a lot of stony, thick faces staring back at me. I realise most of these footballers are only playing for themselves and couldn't give a shit about Germany/Belgium/Togo etc (another reason why Carragher shouldn't have been invited) but it's disgraceful. As for Ozil, he seems another one who's only out for himself. It's all very well to recite the Qur'an and look to God for guidance before the game - look at all the Latin players who cross themselves a dozen times before coming on, for example - but to do it during the national anthem is disrespectful and to tell the national media about it sends across a statement like "yeah, who cares about Germany, I'm really just a Turk and I'm just playing for Germany because they have more chance of winning something and giving me more glory."

Gutless performance and terrible team selection. Baffling all around. This kind of shit will just see us through against Algeria and Slovenia but Capello has got to get it sorted if we're to get any further.

Drop him? I reckon he'll be shot for that.

Godlike in FM 2008. Class in real life as well. Does he still play for some Israeli club or have someone decent signed him?

Buy with what money? Did you miss the entire last month?

He doesn't, though. He didn't pick Higuain forever. It was only after the Argentine press started to complain Higuain was selected. Jonas looks good as a wing-back, always thought he could play that position for us. Nigeria look weak and have wasted their possession. Martins needs to come on, I'd say.

Not being funny Noelie, but The Gooch is the yank in Italy and despite being noble hasn't really done anything. Also, I wouldn't be wholly impressed by an American plying his trade in 4 of the leagues you mention. He missed (nearly) the entire season with a knee injury. More classic knowledge from The Fish I'd miss him if he didn't post. Mind Gooch is shite though. Tbh though, we don't really have any standout defensemen on our backline. They don't work badly as a unit, but individually, none of them are anything to write home about. Wouldn't go so far as to call him shite though. He's quite good at defending against corners and crosses where he can use his height to his advantage, although does have a tendency to ball watch when the action is close up. We heard that before he signed for us and considering his size he was pretty gash in the air. He was awful for us in general though, god knows how he ended up at AC Milan. He had a good Confederations Cup. They signed him pretty much on that basis (and also that Leonardo was clueless.) But he's awful.

On topic, how terrible was Domenech's team selection? His substitutions were awful as well. Govou was gash, Toulalan wasn't any better, and swapping Anelka out for Henry - keeping one striker on the pitch against an opponent who are obviously focusing on defence - only helped Uruguay blunt their attacks all the easier. Tbf to Uruguay, they got what they came for and even had a handful of chances to win it. Class performance. Will probably come down to them v. Mexico.

Yanks Figured it out on my own, thanks you tiresome cunt. Surprised you could spare a moment from arguing with Leazes. Bit harsh Tbf it's a pretty basic part of the offside rule. Tbf you're a pretty basic troll. On topic: Is this Nacho Gonzalez playing for Uruguay the one who Wisey brought in for us? EDIT: Yes, it is. Now his youtube compilations can include WC footage. Calm down you daft twat, it was only a bit of banter before the big game. I hope your national team is as knowledgeable as you are about basic laws of the game I was born in the UK and live in New York. "My" national team is the same as yours. But carry on.

Yanks Figured it out on my own, thanks you tiresome cunt. Surprised you could spare a moment from arguing with Leazes. Bit harsh Tbf it's a pretty basic part of the offside rule. Tbf you're a pretty basic troll. On topic: Is this Nacho Gonzalez playing for Uruguay the one who Wisey brought in for us? EDIT: Yes, it is. Now his youtube compilations can include WC footage.

Yanks Figured it out on my own, thanks you tiresome cunt. Surprised you could spare a moment from arguing with Leazes.