The World Cup 2018 general pub chat thread.

[AleisterCrowley]

Shame -Morocco have such sunni dispositions

[nimnarb]

excellent.......the soul and humour is very much alive and well.

[nimnarb]

Now what can you do for Spain and Portugal..............?

[PinkDalek]

It was as if the goalie’s clutch slipped, putting him out of Gea.

[PinkDalek]

Nacho’s cracker.

[PinkDalek]

No more Innuendoes.

[nimnarb]

Great match..shame these two met in the first round and both can go all the way. Ronaldo..what can you say that already hasn't been said about him?
An incredible free kick. His team though looking better than when they won the European......

[nimnarb]

Are you going to peruse this game whilst eating your danish?

[madhatter]

Portugal score. The Spanish are going to have to have some kind of inquisition after that one.

Nobody could have expected that.

[JMN2]

The game has become utterly boring since the last two times I watched it - 1978 Argentina - Netherlands and 1990 when Roger Milla played.

[zico]

I'm liking VAR so far, where the ref can look at replays to check important decisions. Seems to be working well, but it's a bit strange that presumably all the grounds have giant TV screens, but the ref trots off to look at a little TV by the pitch.

[PinkDalek]

This Jonathan Pearce bloke. Seems to spend much of his time reading out pre-prepared “facts”, rather than commentating.

[nimnarb]

finally...zee Mexicans put one over zee Germans..............more years than I can remember, be it penalties with you know who or last minute lucky goals in World Cups.....are they going Raus in the first round......?.
no offense to anyone German here..................purely football here..................

[nimnarb]

To PD...........................................sorry.......got to stop doing this, think its almost an exclamation mark...

Ole, Ole, Ole Ole.......................Ole Ole.(can't find my accent)

[PinkDalek]

It was the Mexican defensive wall that trumped the German attack.

[madhatter]

can't find my accent

One of these chaps: olè olè?
On iOS you long press the letter then a menu of accents appear, and (without lifting the finger from the screen, mind) slide across to select the appropriate one (there are millions of the bleeders for an ‘e’) then lift the finger. Can’t remember the drill for Android but could well be similar.

[idpickering]

It was great to see Mexico stick one on Germany, who didn't behave very sport manly on the pitch toward the end of the match. Sore losers.

Good luck England, but I'm not holding my breath lol.

[nimnarb]

Thx Madhatter, yes, IOS i know how to do it but just totally forgot on desktop..........

Olè, olè, Olè.. grave accent.

olé, olé,olé..acute accent.

Which one is it? I thought acute accent.

[AleisterCrowley]

It's this oné

[madhatter]

Which one is it?

Stuffed if I know. I just picked one as an example. I have enough trouble trying to remember how to pronounce the names of the major families of wild flowers.

Trying but failing to see how to neatly turn the subject back to football (about which I know less than the square root of bugger all) so as to remain on topic.