Top wumming :D

Yeah, I'm going to have to try and catch Real Madrid when they're on TV in the States.

This probably was Croatia's best shot. There were some really good teams this year. And Belgium did knock Brazil out.

And congrats on the Hawk award. I wasn't looking forward to his tiebreaker anyway :laughing:

Harry Kane Golden Boot
Podium finish
Two knockout wins in a row
Penalty curse broken
Record win in a World Cup
The rise of our young defenders

So much to be positive about. Best moment for me was Dier's penalty actually had a tear in my eye :o: Football :cool:
Wiith England hosting in the next Euros, we should be looking to do well there.

Great tournament lots of great games and goals. Hope you all enjoyed it lads.

Best WC in my lifetime so far, next level stuff.

France? FRANCE? Not to sound racist, but Hispanic countries all over the world have to be in utter shock.

Why :confused:

Ah well, at least grindy gets to sleep in peace tonight! :D
(As long as the Croatians aren't up drowning their sorrows into the small hours...)
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Agree 100%
Huh? :confused:
Superb from start to finish. Great advertisement for the sport.
Yeah, why? Argentina, Spain, Brazil all crashed out. Why shouldn't France, who are now inarguably the best team in the world, win it?

So if England had gotten to the finals and won would they have deserved it after an easy draw and losing a game just to dodge a better team?

We did get to "the finals".

And yes because they would have won. Croatia didn't win though. And all three of their knockout games were draws as well other than the final, which they lost.

Another month to go, Fluff.... :D

September

Wembley

The **** are you on about? They got shitcanned in the semis.

That is stupid. They didn't get to play France cause they got beat by Croatia beat by Croatia beat by Croatia beat by Croatia beat by Croatia beat by Croatia so you can't say what they would or wouldn't have done. Cause they got beat by Croatia. And like you said England had an easy draw and then acted like fake athletes by throwing a game for a strategic advantage. Doesn't sound like a team who deserved to win.

And didn't we have a discussion a while back where you said that the World Cup isn't about deciding the best team? It's about the team that scores the most goals, something which can be affected by the teams you play and luck? So saying that a team doesn't deserve to win is nonsensical as the competition is not structured in such a way that the best team wins anyway.

A semi final is a kind of final, isn't it?

Not that it matters. Carry on.

August, surely?

Also, Batty don't know ****. The World Cup finals is the tournament. The World Cup FINAL (singular) is the last match which decides it. Educate yourself, fool.

Yeah nobody cares.

"The finals" = the tournament proper. You asked a question I gave you the answer to the question you asked. There are two phases - qualification and the finals. The finals are the thing we've been discussing for the past month. The final is the last match.

You asked if they had won, would they have deserved to win and I said yes, by default because they would have won the game in that scenario. Croatia did not win the final. It was a hypothetical question that you asked.

The best team does not always win in cup compeitions.

And just to be a pedant one more time we didn't get beat by Croatia as the match was technically a draw.

Clearly, you do. It's just sour grapes from you now that you've been proven to be a) wrong and b) ignorant of the very basics of the World Cup, and yet you continue to argue about it instead of saying all right, I know nothing about this, I'll just listen.
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So 2 - 1 was a mass hallucination?

The match was technically a draw and so a period of 30 minutes extra time was played, because the match was a draw. If you had put a bet on at the bookies for Croatia to win on the usual win/lose/draw markets you'd have lost your money (because the match was a draw).

If an end result of 2-1 is a draw, the I understand even less about this sport than I thought I did :laughing:

So England lost. Jesus, bro, just let it go already. It's been four days. Four days since Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England Croatia beat England .

The match was a draw after the standard 90 mins plus whatever was added on. At that point, someone had to win, so extra time was added, 15 mins per half. After that, the score was 2-1. If the score had been 1-1 or 2-2, then the match would have been a draw after extra time and gone to penalties.

It wasn't 2-1. It was 2-1 aet. There is a difference.

This qualifies as whining, dude.

But did they lose? That's the eternal question.

Well as I said, if you had put that bet on you would have lost your money. Win/lose/draw specifically refers to the 90 minutes. Other markets are offered for qualification specifically (which is what you're referring to) or to lift the cup if it's the final.

Technically no.

Did they move on the finals? No. So they lost. If you pull at that straw any harder it's going to cum.

"Move on the finals"? :laughing:

It's not straw clutching it's stating a fact.

Fixed that for you. Learn the difference, Yank.

Oh, God, must.... resist....

Must.... No.... no....


Can't help it. Let's put it this way. England didn't win either, end of story.

Nobody said England won. It was technically a draw.

Hello all, and welcome to The Batlord's I Don't Know **** About the World Cup But I'm Going To Argue About It Anyway Thread....:usehead: :rolleyes:

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:laughing: wow.

Notice the italics. Finals = final.

That knocked England out of the World Cup. They lost.

Don't mind him. Fluff's just a bitter English nationalist.

It is pedantic but it is a fact.

I'm not an English nationalist.

i enjoy batlord giving the wind up

It would be better if he was knowledgeable about football though.

Only one that made me laugh was the first Villa meme he made. Was like 7/10.

You are a little bit tbh. A few too many Pepe memes.