Topic: The Push Square Football (Soccer) Thread

@JudgeDredd Pretty sure England have been playing 3 at the back of late and the last tournament, and they did knock 6 past Iran not even 7 days ago. They were poor against USA though, no getting away from that.

Didn't think it would be possible, but Belgium today have made England's performance against USA not that bad. Never really rated Roberto Martinez as a top manager though.

Of course I miss the Morocco result, expecting it to be a walkover 😂

Bit of a shame for Wales, but they didn’t play well at all. England are proving to be a bit slow in the first half in their matches, but they’ve proven that they can score at least. It just remains to be seen whether they can afford to start slow once they get into knockout matches against harder opponents.

@KAIRU Two quite young teams, hoping that we see the quality that they clearly contain in their squads. I was happy with Cameron Carter-Vickers’ performance tonight, he’s been great for Celtic so it’s nice to see him getting a bit of recognition internationally.

@KAIRU We’ve got a few players at the World Cup actually, him with the US, Maeda with Japan, Mooy with the Aussies and Juranovic with Croatia. And then we’ve signed Johnston from Canada just there so not bad for a team outside of the top leagues! Just need to hope none of them get their legs broken 😂

@KAIRU One of the Aussies that plays for Hibs has already got himself injured at the World Cup and he’ll be out for 9 months. It’s one of the disadvantages of it being at this time of year, you just don’t have that same recovery period.

Really happy for Australia, they deserve it! Such a shame for Tunisia though, they gave France a proper runaround.

@KAIRU They just had their England moment from about 8 years ago. Also with their supposed 'Golden Generation'.

See Martinez has resigned.

@KAIRU Yeah quite shocking really. Didn't expect them to make it to the final but at least to make it out of the groups.

Really pleased for Morocco though. They've earned their 1st place.

Here's hoping Japan make it through tonight.

Bloody hell what a finish to Group E!

This World Cup has come alive! Absolutely brilliant drama.

Football ❤

Really hope we see a better angle of that ball for Japan’s second goal though, that’s the toughest of margins for Germany to go out on!

@KAIRU Considering that the ITV team were directly above it and still think that it’s out of play, you do wonder why FIFA aren’t releasing the video. There’ll be a lot of Germans very very unhappy, if my great nana was still alive then she’d be screaming at the TV!

This is the most interesting world cup I've lived through I think. Kudos to Japan.

@KAIRU Saw the released angle there and it’s so so close but I can understand why it was given now.

ball was in.

excellent by Japan.

@KAIRU If I remember right, the goal was initially disallowed, so I genuinely thought that there had to be clear and obvious evidence that they made the wrong decision!

so who’s excited for some real football tonight eh ? how bout them patriots 🇺🇸🇺🇸!

@nomither6 Wrong thread, think the handegg one’s been shut down for inactivity.

Learned today that Jordan and Andre Ayew’s dad is Abedi Pele. How have I never learned this before 😂