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liverpool scrubs absolutely blew it today. allison couldn't stop a pk my 8 year old daughter kicked and vvd opens pks with the absolute pussiest, weakest sauce imaginable on his that set the tone.

omfg. i turned it off after messi pk and just checked in. fuck me.

adding on to this...since their cup win in 2002, here are the teams that brazil has beaten in world cup matchups... wins: croatia, australia, japan, ghana, north korea, ivory coast, chile, croatia, cameroon, colombia, costa rica, serbia, mexico, serbia, switzerland, and south korea. i'm sorry, that is a complete dogshit list of wins. i would be prouder of winning the texas u.i.l. state championship. here are their losses: france, netherlands, germany, netherlands, belgium, cameroon (albeit playing their b team), and croatia. they are a uefa gang bang play thing at this point.

y'all are two ships passing in the night. swayze is talking about all time, everyone else is talking about at present. brazil has the most cups and they span a long period of coverage. but in the last five consecutive tourneys (two decades), they made quarterfinal exits in all but the one they hosted in 2014...and their exit in 2014 was easily the most humiliating. they are perceived to be great because of history and they certainly have great players...but they have not been competitive against the other top 8 teams in the world in a long time. you traded in ronaldo and rivaldo for fucking douchebag neymar. not a trade that will lead to hoisting the cup. at present, france is probably the most consistently good...along with england, croatia, portugal...and italy as long as it's the euros tournament.

i will also not pretend that i'm not enjoying the fact that allison got punked 4 for 4 and only kind of got close once. no doubt...it also just builds confidence, etc... the art briles theory of success if you will. good form, no injuries, lots of confidence. but it also means you are untested and when you finally run into someone who might hit you back, it can be bamboozling. but my point is really more towards the perception of invincibility they were enjoying as a result of rolling through the low hanging fruit. credit for doing what you are supposed to do, disposing easily of inferior teams. but everyone was "crownin' they ass" based on humiliating some koreans...when we know there are 8 teams that are just on another planet and they hadn't encountered one yet. and it's not just brazil obviously. my bleus are going to have to cope with the same thing. england is 1 million times better than anyone they've faced thus far in the tourney. but i think everyone recognizes that game is a pick'em where as everyone assumed brazil rolls 3-0 today...against a team that was in the world cup final and has an all-time great midfielder and a lot of experience of winning ugly against good teams.

did you wake up and look at the calendar and believe it was 1994?

I am not going to claim some superior wisdom or prescience on this whole thing as i figured brazil would slip by here but I will note that i have been the one beating the "who gives a flying fuck that brazil is rolling up on south korea, cameroon, serbia, and switzerland" drum. they might as well have played some texas high school teams in terms of relative quality once they got to this point of the top uefa teams and argentina. that fourth penalty kick from croatia may be the most impressive pk i have ever seen. holy shit, that was nails given that it was for the whole thing.

instead of the zimmerman telegram in mexico, we get the bozo_casanova tweet in hyde park?

think he was offsides anyway.

echo the sentiments here. i have watched every season enthusiastically and have enjoyed them all...but this one was so flat and generally uninteresting. it's no accident that the russian diplomacy episode is everyone's favorite as it is the one that was most like the other seasons...and had some legit substance to it not just from a history standpoint, but also from the intra-monarchy character development and interactions. i know the tensions between charles and elizabeth over the role of monarchy and timing were a huge part of 90's-00's but jesus christ, it's wholly uninteresting from a show perspective. i suspect this will be viewed almost universally as the least enjoyable season.

man, it is crazy how much inconsequentially stupid shit is going on out there that i am completely clueless about other than what i discover thanks to you people. liver king? christ.

i wonder if all the liv golfers are now pissed about selling their souls for so relatively cheap.

Hundred Years War is on.

Looked like we have never drilled defending a counterattack once.

Welp, that was easy.

Oh man, he was onside. What a shit finish. should have shot with his remaining testicle instead.

weird how the bracket worked out...2 uefa teams on one side and 6 on the other side. decent chance of a brazil-argentina semifinal in the top half and a decent chance of France-England and Spain-Portugal in the two quarters in the bottom half. Those would be wild.

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so japan beats germany and spain and loses to costa rica. sure.

lol, havertz. only scores in champions league finals and world cups. completely useless otherwise.

that was an all time choke from fullkrug

go home, world cup...you're drunk.

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