World Cup things

[JTG]

Sun's shining, week and a half till it all starts

• Panini sticker albums
• David Coleman commentating down a dodgy phone line from Latin America
• Scotland taking some pretty good squads with them and still falling flat on their face
• Lazy stereotyping of teams/players ('naive' Africans, 'samba football' etc etc ad bleeding nauseam)
• West Germany playing panto villains every single time
• Playing out with your mates recreating the matches you've just seen. Bagsy me Chris Waddle
• Des keeping it all in perspective
• Staying up late for kick offs at daft o'clock
• Having no idea who half the players were, nor had you heard of the clubs they played for
• Finding out what words like 'altitude' and 'dehydration' meant
• Discovering far out concepts such as the sweeper system or anything else that wasn't 4-4-2
• Comedy Brazilian goalies

Have I missed anything?

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

A goalie playing in trackie bottoms, despite 30+ temperatures. Guaranteed to come for all crosses and miss most.

 

[JTG]

A goalie playing in trackie bottoms, despite 30+ temperatures. Guaranteed to come for all crosses and miss most.

Good call. Usually with a poodle perm and trying to punch the ball

 

[JTG]

Wondering why all Brazilians only had one name

 

[JTG]

JOSIMAR!



This is what World Cups are for

 

[JTG]

• Weird picture quality that makes you feel hot and sweaty just looking at it
• Latin american types scoring frankly ludicrous goals

Following vid illustrates both the above points:

• John 3:16 banners behind the goals
• The USSR. Great national anthem, fantastic football in the mid 1980s
• Jimmy Hill

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Latin American commentators.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

 

[twentythreedom]

The '66 final was just on telly. Wor Jackie's comb-over

 

[JTG]

• Italy being cynical and playing so far within themselves because why win 4-2 when 1-0 will do just as well?
• As a result, Italy being cool as fuck basically

 

[twentythreedom]

Wondering why all Brazilians only had one name

Yes, why are they allowed to do that? If you can fit Vennegor Of Hesselink or Oxlade Chamberlaine on a shirt, surely Edison Tre Santos Da Rui Silva or whatever can be squeezed on

Or surely we can have shit like "Stevião" or similar

 

[JTG]

It's because they're exotically mysterious, strange beings from another football planet we can only dream of

 

[JTG]

Latin American commentators.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

Almost as good as David Coleman saying "Wan-nil!"

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Other teams playing their way out of defence.

 

[JTG]

Other teams playing their way out of defence.

Other teams being even better at game destroying thuggery than us

Claudio Gentile and most of Argentina's 1990 team step forward

 

[twentythreedom]

Is there a gadget for telly which makes commentary sound like it's coming down a crackly satellite phone link? All this high res, Dobly surround sound bollocks just kills the exotic atmosphere

 

[twentythreedom]

I hope someone plants drugs in those 'Official England Supporters' Band' cunts' trumpet and bass drum so they are jailed for the duration of the tournament

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Need more vuvuzelas

 

[JTG]

I hope someone plants drugs in those 'Official England Supporters' Band' cunts' trumpet and bass drum so they are jailed for the duration of the tournament

Like when Bobby Moore was fitted up in 1970 that time. Of course you were Bobby

 

[Lord Camomile]

BBC v ITV

 

[skyscraper101]

Tastefully decorated houses

 

[twentythreedom]

Sunburnt England fans smashing up a street cafe, taunting the Germans with chants, throwing plastic chairs around.

I don't fancy their chances against the local plod though, those cunts are proper nails, with heavy weaponry

 

[JTG]

Have you just arrived in your Tardis from France 98 or summat?

 

[Kaka Tim]

knocking your coffee table over as you leap with joy as lineker/shearer/owen/rooney equalises against germany/argentina/brazil/costa rica.

 

[Balbi]

"I'm not going to watch all the games, I'm not going to watch all the games, I'm not going to wa....oooh South Korea vs Algeria"

 

[Badgers]

Italian fans driving small cars around town beeping horns after they win.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

"I'm not going to watch all the games, I'm not going to watch all the games, I'm not going to wa....oooh South Korea vs Algeria"

Reached it's nadir for me in Japan/Korea 2002. Student halls + rented big telly + early morning kickoffs through to lunchtimes + the rest of the day for a nice sit down and a pint. Yes.

 

[nuffsaid]

If we won.... (scuse the scroll).

 

[DotCommunist]

I have bought a bottle of Barrs Cream Soda (2ltr) and it boasts 'fizzing up for the games!'


wtf man