Sounds good Invis, but to be honest I'm a little disappointed you didn't respond to my little goalkeeper dig above.

Heartbreaking for N.Ireland to go out to a farcical decision.

Fucking hell this Italy team are frustrating. Try keeping th ball on the fecking floor for a while. Sweden having little trouble defending these crosses.

Well done Sweden. Italy deserve to be out, zero ideas and not enough commitment.

Hard to imagine a World Cup without Italy. Well done Sweden.

Sweden are the new Iceland.
A team with no stars but the team.

e: enjoy yourselves Klaus and Rex (wherever you have disappeared to).
Is there any other Swede on the forum, btw?

I bet Jorginho regrets choosing Italy over Brazil now! 😆

italy deserved to go out on that evidence. shocking stuff. why was insigne benched for the whole game?

it will interesting to see how italy's identity shapes up for the next major tournaments, with a large clutch of their old heads retiring

If nothing else, they deserve to go out just for benching Insigne. Apparently De Rossi was mad when being told to warm up, as he was of the opinion that a striker should be subbed on rather than himself. 😆

Ventura has to be the worst manager in the world 😆

jones wrote:

Ventura has to be the worst manager in the world 😆

How in the world did he even get the job in the first place? His greatest achievement was winning Serie C1! 😆 😆 😆 

Give Ace Ventura some credit.
He broke a 60 year record and showed us Chiellini's left wing playing abilities.

I checked the other day, he's been logging in, just not posting.

No Italy or Holland, this World Cup is going to be so weird.

Chile is a much bigger miss than either. They had played lovely football at their last few competitions.

Also out are USA, Cote 😃’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, etc. Good times.

I felt Italy and Argentina would be able to regroup and play much better in the tournament due to experience/pedigree.
They are the only 2 out of that group that wouldn't be called surprise packages if they made it to the semi-finals.

Bit sad not to see Buffon bow out at one last World Cup but perhaps some karma from some of their diving at previous World Cups.

With immediate effect. That was an absolute shambles of a campaign

Bold Tone wrote:

I felt Italy and Argentina would be able to regroup and play much better in the tournament due to experience/pedigree.
They are the only 2 out of that group that wouldn't be called surprise packages if they made it to the semi-finals.

Italy would not regroup to be fair. They got knocked out early last two tournaments. Warning signs had been there. They should be beating Sweden over two legs, but they were only ever going to make up the numbers in Russia

They wouldn't have regrouped under Ventura that's for sure. With a decent manager I wouldn't have been surprised had they won the whole thing

What's your beef with those African countries Claude?

How did a guy with such low credentials get appointed and remain in the job for the duration when he wasn't getting the results?

He still hasn't resign. Imagine if he stays.

Clrnc wrote:

He still hasn't resign. Imagine if he stays.

He's probably trying to make the FIGC buy out his contract after it was extended for 2 years. He's probably thinking, I'm the most hated man in Italy so why not become the most hated man in Italy with money. 

Bleacher Report just did this: 

Eriksen has scored a beauty to likely dump RI out. The coaching at spurs really has boosted the trajectory of their players, even at later stages of their career. I never really rated eriksen but he's really come on in the last 18 months.

Bastards

Eriksen has literally carried Denmark into the World Cup. Hat trick today, 11 goals total in qualifying.

Yep, what a top class player he's become. Tremendous hattrick tonight.

That's just filthy from Iwobi. Scored two against Argentina.

Ooh, he done Mascherano dirty there.

Love me some Iwobi. Probably my favourite player of our current sorry bunch.

oof he might've forced masch to re-assess his retirement plans right there

iwobi is one guy who i think could be beasting at a club with more focused coaching

Wenger ruins him in our setup.

Beaut from Iwobi. That goal's gonna be a personal favourite of mine. I can't think of any modern footballer I hate more than Mascherano.

Commiserations to Qs on Ireland. Would have been nice to see them there.

Kind of wanted NL, Italy, Chile, Cameroon, Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire there but hey ho. All countries currently there are fully deserving.

Heard Aguero collapsed and had to be rushed off to a hospital

flobaba wrote:

Heard Aguero collapsed and had to be rushed off to a hospital

Was a head injury, I think.

Tony Montana wrote:

Commiserations to Qs on Ireland. Would have been nice to see them there.

Cheers Tony. They really fucking bottled it last night though. Especially Martin O'Niell, his subs would make Wenger blush.

TBF theres very little talent in the Ireland squad at the moment so its no real surprise we wont be at the World Cup, valiant effort until the last hurdle.

Straya!!!!
What a day...same sex marriage vote gets up and we qualify for world cup. Get in!!