Well, at least the QF game is on Saturday, so my boss (English) and our staff scientist (Swedish) won't have a fistfight in the middle of the lab this week.

England winning on PK well there’s something you don’t see every day

 

ENGLAND WIN A F'N PENALTY SHOOTOUT!!!

:). 

Brilliant!

Congrats to you @The Natural .  

I'll just say this, Andres Escobar jokes, which I've already seen some places, will earn the jokester a few days off.   I'm pissed off enough as it is. 

9 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Congrats to you @The Natural .  

I'll just say this, Andres Escobar jokes, which I've already seen some places, will earn the jokester a few days off.   I'm pissed off enough as it is. 

Cheers, @Dolfan in NYC. 

Sucks to hear Andres Escobar jokes doing the rounds. A life is bigger than just a game.

 

 

England fans:

Congrats on ending the penalties curse English dudes!

I'm really hating how much this tournament seems to be sculpted to allow Russia a path to the finals.

Going Vertical, anyone?

 

Penalties is a horrible way to decide the winner of a World Cup Knockout Game.

 

The problem is, it's much less horrible than asking teams to play till a winner, or replays, or pulling names out of a hat/coin toss (Spain missed out on the 1954 World Cup due to drawing lots, and a 1968 European tournament SEMI-FINAL (Soviets vs Italy) was decided in a coin toss.

11 hours ago, piranesi said:

I'm really hating how much this tournament seems to be sculpted to allow Russia a path to the finals.

Going Vertical, anyone?

 

Surely you're not surprised, though.

Gareth Southgate's stock continues to rise:

Thank fuck for Sam Allardyce's greed and that pint of wine ; ).

9 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

Penalties is a horrible way to decide the winner of a World Cup Knockout Game.

 

The problem is, it's much less horrible than asking teams to play till a winner, or replays, or pulling names out of a hat/coin toss (Spain missed out on the 1954 World Cup due to drawing lots, and a 1968 European tournament SEMI-FINAL (Soviets vs Italy) was decided in a coin toss.

Celtic advanced in one of the rounds of the 1967 European Cup they eventually won via coinflip as well.

DDT went straight to the VAR.

I dunno, that's a soft PK to me.

 

I mean the call, not the kick. The kick was DEFINITELY not a soft PK.

What a great performance from Griezmann today.

Loved his respect for Uruguay and his Atleti teammates by not celebrating his goal and also him breaking up the little scuffle when Pogba went after Nández.

Oh shi....

Brazil tried to stay on their feet that half.

That is my list of positives for them.