Fuzzy Dunlop

My hometown team, Derry City also beat Aberystwyth Town 4-0 in the 1st leg of their Europa League qualifying match... ... Absolutely not a single fucking one of you cares, right? Well, dammit, I care.

It depresses me that new generation Brazil are now just niggly, dirty, fouling stop-the-other-dudes-playing-rather-than-playing-ourselves asshats like everyone else. Them and Germany in the semis might just be 90 minutes of shitty stoppages and rolling around and holding faces when they get kicked on the shin and on and on. I mean, Jesus, the fuck did the likes of Oscar/Hulk/Fred contribute tonight? Referee also had exactly zero testicles and, in the end, Brazil just...won. For whatever reason I refuse to change my stance that David Luiz is pretty much detestable too. They're pretty much certain to still stumble over the line and end up winning the whole thing though. That being said, their national anthem is still pretty sweet.

I do try, just not particularly well. Kinda like England. I'm not sure if doing better than England in this is a consolation or not considering nearly everyone did better than England.

Yep. And, shit, I know I'm a chump for agreeing with this as a friggin' Man United fan and not, say, an Accrington Stanley (who are they?) fan but, yeah, if you want to have the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Americans did as well as they could have I suppose, not many predicted them getting out of the group as Portugal and arguably Ghana are better teams on paper but then football isn't won on paper. US are well drilled and organised but Belgium were better tonight and should have had it wrapped up before extra time. That being said, I'm glad it did go to extra time cause it got pretty bonkers at the end there. And, hey, at least these Americans did better than the last Americans that had dealings involving Belgium. (NSFW due to foul language and casual xenophobia towards America) All the bookie's favourites and all the group winners won and, yet, apart from maybe Colombia (and I'm not exactly alone in backing them to beat Brazil) none of them looked particularly that impressive. Most wide open Quarters I can ever remember really.

Can't they just skip extra time and go straight to the penalties please?

Ah Jesus, another 30 minutes of this. Greece refusing to go away is nearly as funny as when they trolled the shit out of Euro 2004 by one-niling their way to winning the whole damn thing. Jay Beatty wants Sammy to win though and I'm not going to argue with the wee lad from Norn Irn.

Dammit, I may be forced to support Greece now.

I remember being about 8 and hearing that Milan had signed that dude Lentini for £13 million and at the time I couldn't comprehend that figure, I mean how in the flying fiddler's fuck is anyone worth that much I thought. Now United are splashing out £27-30 million on an 18 year old left back who has had one decent season in top flight football. But then you can say if you get 10-12 years out of him as United's 1st choice left back the price could work out ok in the end but that's all if and maybe and possibly. I don't even know what my point is other than holy fuck at the money in football and agents are having the time of their lives.

I like to believe you literally pointed at Akinfeev's bald spot. With a laser pen. FUCK YEAH!

Wilson Palacios is miffed because I looked in his diary. Which is strange because his World Cup one is blank for the next two weeks. It feels empty not having football today, I have no idea how June/July exists in those strange years ending in an odd number where there isn't a Euros/World Cup. Fuck it, have one every year I say. Quarter Final predictions: Brazil vs Colombia France vs Germany Holland vs Costa Rica Argentina vs Belgium Yes, even in this World Cup I haven't gone for any shocks because I'm a tit and I sit on the fence more than Alan Shearer.

I'm not even a particularly big fan of Scrubs, it was just kinda omnipresent and difficult to avoid on TV over here for a while so I've seen a bunch of episodes and it was never exactly subtle about going for the jugular with the emotional stuff. That being said, I recall this damn near getting me:

Goddamn, who saw Costa Rica-horseshitgodawfulGreece as a last 16 tie?

Mondragon coming on for the last 10 minutes to make him the oldest player in World Cup history (officially anyway. Unofficially, Roger Milla could have been 56 in the '94 World Cup for all we know) was a tremendous moment. Possibly eclipsed by Rodriguez dinking the keeper just now. They'll be playing a Suarezless (something happened with him earlier, you might have heard) Uruguay in the next round. Totally backing Colombia there.

See, great World Cup but the opening 10 minutes of the BBC coverage of Greece/Ivory Coast dedicated to Suarez being a tit. Fucking Suarez, YOU RUINED IT, DAMN IT! Ok, they redeemed themselves by interviewing VALDERRAMA. Still has it.

I thought he was a mentalist after the SECOND bite. I mean, shit, he's a great, great player but even wording it like that, a grown man has bitten 3 different players on a football pitch. Like the Ivanovic one too, it was such a strange thing, obviously there's no justification for biting anyone but it was another bizarrely casual 'fuck it, he's near me, I fancy a nibble' one. Strange, strange dude. Great World Cup so far but the bloody headlines are going to be dominated by Luis Suarez going all Luis Suarez again. At least he stayed long enough to shit all over England.

I remember Mysterio being a guest on Sky Sports News during Euro 2008 and when asked of his thoughts on how the tournament was going he said he was disappointed Mexico didn't qualify. That's a true story.

I've come to expect that we won't get a true samba Brazil in this World Cup. I mean, a lot of chaps older and wiser than me are saying there hasn't been a truly great Brazilian team since the '82 World Cup but, shit, even in my generation of Brazil teams in 94/98/02 you still had Romario/Ronaldo/Rivaldo/Ronaldinho. This team has Fred, a guy named after the captain of the darts team in the Dog and Duck. That being said, they'll probably win this 5-0.

Brazilian national anthem. Every time. David Luiz enunciates the shit out of it too, it's tremendous.

Random question after seeing (for the 176th time during this World Cup) that horrendous 666Bet.com advert starring noted gobshite Harry Redknapp. Should, you know, active football managers be allowed to advertise a fecking betting site? It strikes me as being really shady. Actually, wait...Harry Redknapp. Answered my own question.

Yeah, I know. It's a strange one though, of all the non-Dutch players they could have signed, they go for the crock that can't get in the Arsenal team. I know he'd be cheap but no point in buying a guy just to sit in the treatment room keeping Nani company. But then I've seen reports Arsenal might take Cleverley in exchange for him. I'm...uninspired but also conflicted.

I stared at that Thunder thing for at least 8 seconds trying to figure out which ex-wrestler the guy is before I even noticed the logo. This is because I'm an idiot.

Yeah, United have been strongly linked with Vermaelen for the last week or so. I feel...uninspired. Of course, they've also been linked with Blind, Martins Indi, de Vrij, Robben, Depay, every other member of the Dutch squad that isn't van Persie, Gullit, Cryuff, Neeskens, Rijkaard, Verhoeven, Hauer, Rembrandt and every other Dutch person on the planet. I like van Gaal and Holland doing well at the World Cup but, at the same time, the sooner they're out the sooner he gets back to get shit done. First call of action must surely be to get shot of the deadwood, notably, but not limited to, Anderson/Nani/Cleverley/Young. He doesn't do that and I may call for drastic action like getting another ginger Scot in; Gordan Strachan for instance. Hey, at least it'd be an entertaining ginger Scot this time: Reporter: 'Gordan, can we have a quick word?' 'Velocity.' * Walks off *

Had Deadwood got a final series to wrap everything up it would probably be the greatest TV show ever made and I say that as one of those tedious twonks that bores everyone banging on about how good The Wire and Breaking Bad is. I remember hearing Ian McShane was in it and thinking 'fucking Lovejoy?!' About 3.2 seconds after seeing him as Swearengen I had completely forgotten dude ever dealt antiques. Might be the most charismatic performance ever on TV. It's not really like something like Banshee which you can burn through and which is gloriously proud of its trashiness and I can see why some would find it slow at times but, nah, just watch it. Plus, from your input in the Game of Thrones thread, as a proponent of cunt, you'll get even more cunt for your buck from Deadwood. Watch Fargo too though, it's only 10 episodes and it's great.

Didn't the Americans set up camp on the other end of the country and therefore knew they had, for instance, a 3000 mile round trip for this match? They knew what they were getting into.

USA/Germany is a nailed on stone wall draw.