Hugo Lloris has revealed that France are the latest side to have been spied on by drone in training during this tournament. Rather than moaning aimlessly about it, they tried to take it out by kicking balls at it! A strange turn of events, but people will do anything to get an advantage or get a few decent pictures. The Croatian team are refusing to do any interviews now, as the paparazzi from their country took photos of them swimming naked in the pool at their hotel. Not sure what the other guests thought of it.
who were they swimming naked with? Each other? Now, i've been on a fair few stag dos in my time and i've never ended up swimming naked with a bunch of dudes. What sort of holiday camp are the Croatians running?
If Blatter keeps true to form, his bank will never see that money. It'll go straight in his pocket....
Neymar showing Fred a textbook example of Scoalri's tactics in training please log in to view this image ...would've been funny if he broke his metatarsal doing it!
Is that a bullet hole in the window of the ITV studio ?? It certainly looks like one. Surely no one has tried to shoot Adrian Chiles ??
Yeah, a bunch of protestors appeared 10mins before the end of the Brazil game and started punting the studio with stones. Nothing to do with the Brazil protests, just aimed at Adrian Chiles and the rest of his crew. The protestors were all British ITV watchers.....allegedly
You mean the clumsy bastard missed!!...I want to watch the game, but I'm not turning over until one minute before kick off. Hopefully, I will have missed all of his adenoidal droning on!...
When it comes down to sendings off due to cheating. this is a game where (to use the words of Ian Hislop) I hope they both lose.
That sending off sums up so much of what is wrong with modern professional football. I hate violence and am generally a pretty calm person but I can really sympathize with Pepe there. So his hand touched Muller's face. It happens when you play football. So it must be blood infuriating when an opponent drops to the floor with the specific intention to cheat you out of a free kick/penalty and have you maybe sent off. All he did, really, is get right in Muller's face, unfortunately furious that Muller was cheating. It was never anything like a head butt. Why MUST that be a red card? The real cheating was on Muller's part. Should add that I actually prefer Germany to Portugal.
How I saw it as well. Pogba definitely deserved a red, despite the fact that he was severely provoked. I was disappointed with Honduras. I thought they'd play hard, but there's a difference between playing hard and playing dirty while trying to wind up the other team, which is what they did. Palacios was the worst offender, and richly deserved his sending off. I give France credit, actually. Faced with a team they knew was going to try to knock them off their game, France went after them just as hard, but more cleanly (with the exception of Pogba). The result was Honduras frustrated and red-carded. No doubt Mueller was infuriating, but what the hell was Pepe doing? Here, I'll lean over you and touch you with my head just hard enough to get sent off but not so hard as to cause you the slightest discomfort? Total disaster for Portugal is good news for the US and Ghana.
Commentators saying it's been the best WC ever so far. Well...a good one anyway, at least minus the wretched officiating and related cheat-fest. Nearly 2X the goal has been a huge plus, and the stadiums, crowds and pitches have been fine despite the worries. Not bad at all.
