Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
I didn't realize half of the Swiss defense--including their captain--is out due to yellow card accumulation. I'm feeling better about calling a Swedish victory here. Swiss cheese, anyone? 
2018 World Cup
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Sweden strikes first.
1-0 Sweden
1-0 Sweden
Final
Sweden 1
Switzerland 0
Sweden 1
Switzerland 0
Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Rodriguez out. I still picked Colombia before the game.
Wide, wide open match. England with the advantage, but unable to take advantage of it. The ref has totally lost the game. Henderson a dirty git for instigating, and the Colombian an idiot for responding. Lucky it was to the chest first, or that would have been a red. England players AND Colombian players whining about inches/spray. Maguire looking an ass continually calling for replay. That one Colombian player looking an ass flopping away from Sterling. Geiger has lost the plot here.
Wide, wide open match. England with the advantage, but unable to take advantage of it. The ref has totally lost the game. Henderson a dirty git for instigating, and the Colombian an idiot for responding. Lucky it was to the chest first, or that would have been a red. England players AND Colombian players whining about inches/spray. Maguire looking an ass continually calling for replay. That one Colombian player looking an ass flopping away from Sterling. Geiger has lost the plot here.
Yeah such a poor sequence there. England were the better side but they better score.
Colombia ties in extra time. 1-1
oh
my
gawd.
oh
my
gawd.
Milgod
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Disgraceful display by Colombia. What a shame that they felt that's how they had to play the game.
Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Disgraceful display by BOTH teams.
England deserved to win it in regular time, but they didn't put the game away. Then, in extra time, Colombia had England reeling, and could have snatched a goal. Good on the Three Lions for breaking that PK hoodoo. I'll put my hand up and say I grossly underestimated them heading into this tourney.
Chaplin
Better off silent
You're not the only one.
Milgod
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If you think England were anything like as bad as Colombia in that game in terms of dirty football, I'm not sure what you were watching.
England shouldn't have gone defensive near the end. I don't get why teams do it as it always invites pressure and rarely works.
England shouldn't have gone defensive near the end. I don't get why teams do it as it always invites pressure and rarely works.
Colombia really fouled it up after the penalty. I thought they could have lost a man with how poor they were. England also lost their cool. Henderson had some forgettable moments. Again I give the ref credit for not losing his mind and sending players off.
England showed their youth last night. They should have done better especially with James out. But they let Colombia hang around and allowed for Colombia to get in their heads. Either way they deserve credit for their penalties. They will need to be better against sweeden or they will be out.
England showed their youth last night. They should have done better especially with James out. But they let Colombia hang around and allowed for Colombia to get in their heads. Either way they deserve credit for their penalties. They will need to be better against sweeden or they will be out.
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BS they were lucky not to see red. A lot of refs with shorter tempers would have sent players off in that match. As far as the penalty. When you ride someone like a bull it’s going to be called.
Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Exactly. Henderson was an utter jackass that game, and 100 percent started it all.
See above about Henderson. Colombia let the opposition get into their heads, but let's not pretend Henderson wasn't winding that player up before the chest/chin head butt, and that he didn't later do almost exactly the same head butt for a yellow. Colombia then went on to go way beyond crazy in their antics, no doubt, but England weren't saints either. I so wanted to punch Maguire time and again for whining and making the VAR signal. Oh, and raking your studs over an opponent's head (cough cough STONES cough cough) is generally considered a sending-off offense.
Were England as bad as Colombia? No. I didn't say so. But they were really poor sports too.
Colombia are accusing the ref of bias towards England due to English speaking. Maredona went as far as to say that USA should not have a ref at this level and that we should stick to baseball. What a jerk considering he attacks a football in the same manner as an outfielder in baseball does a baseball. I have to say maredona has scarred his legacy in this World Cup evenmoreso than before.
Milgod
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Yeah. Ok.
You make some good points. Both sides are complaining about the referee yet if he wanted to he could have sent off players from both sides. BBC were blasting neymar for his
Antics against Mexico but they didn’t acknowledge Henderson’s flopping after the Colombian gave him a lion hug. Also I don’t know what stones was doing there. He almost made contact with that guys head.
Stout
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He did make contact. Probably not on purpose, but still.
Geiger was atrocious. He wasn't BIASED, just atrocious.
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