Netherlands thumping Spain 5-1 seems like a season ago. We’ve had 24 different World Cup-match days since then, during which time most of us have watched close to a season’s worth of football. The dethroning of Spain, in such dramatic fashion, was an early portent of what we were in store for. Brazil’s humiliation at the hands of Germany provided one of the most memorable football events of our times.
While everyone seems to have nominated the competition as the best ever, the football has been of variable quality. Lots of strong football countries failed to show, including Spain, Italy and England. Africa promised early on, then fell. Russia gave no indication they were on-schedule to give the performance of a lifetime when they host the tournament in four years.
Brazil reached the semi-finals but this will surely be known as one of the worst Brazilian teams ever. Argentina have reached their first final in 24 years ago, but I can’t figure out how they made it. Performances against Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium and then Netherlands never convinced we were watching eventual winners. The best they have achieved, so far, is a single goal victory.
Belgium’s golden generation were a mere shadow of their less-fancied Dutch neighbours, who under-promised and over-delivered, again. Germany are the team who deserve to take the trophy, and although Lionel Messi finds himself in a World Cup Final this evening, on the basis of what we’ve seen over the last four weeks, he’s no Diego Maradona.
Enjoy the final, the real stuff starts in two days.
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voguepunter
you’ll know them as blackout blinds
Vp or putting money in the back !! :)
Thats a shocker
Bang right in the kisser
I’m enjoying this so far. A good football match. Hard to say what the outcome will be.
VP, aye.
Or standing oot side of the shaws bar lounge in pollokshaws looking in when they goat a colour telly !!
johann murdoch
20:17 on
13 July, 2014
Vp or putting money in the back !! :)
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It was great when we went decimal and got all those plastic coins fae school.
TUBE!
A Derk Bo special….jeez oh
Higaiun (sp) presented with a gift and misses a sitter.
Total sitter by Higuain.
Not a big fan of Andy Townsend but Mark Lawrenson’s arrogant attitude does my nut in.
Sitter son!!!
Whit a miss!!
T4
English commentators getting worse by the second. Mute, i think.
Vp- :) sssshhhh
Lawro is Irish :o)
Lawrenson sounds like he standing at the end of the bar, lashed rambling on while the rest of the bar are thinking ” I wish he would STF up”
‘ And to this very day , in the Argentine the say, the English ran away from Bueneos Aries , to the islands further down and they took them for the crown, Las Islas , Malvinas , Argentina!’
Krauts seem to have players buzzing around looking for the half chance while Argies dont. Could be the telling factor but hope I’m wrong.
Cmon the team in blue.
Marrakesh Express
Krauts???? you still reading the ole Commando comics?
Haw! Admiral Brown – where are you watchin’ the game?
Harsh yellow for the Germans
OFFSIDE!
Offside
Wow, ah, offside.
Gott in Himmel
Correct decision.
Offside?
vp
NO NEED TO SHOUT
Abseits !!
T4
linesman got it dead right. Still 0-0.
Great finish half a yard off
Whit an initial pass fae Messi to start that off
Abseits
Superb final so far, very evenly matched – offsides at both ends.
Gene’s a Bhoy’s name
20:30 on
13 July, 2014
vp
NO NEED TO SHOUT
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So you could hear me over the crowd.
That German, Kramer, should have been replaced already. He looked really out of it when injured some time ago.