Brazil vrs Germany , World Cup Semi-Final , 8/7/2014 , 9.00pm MOD WARNING in OP

Nuri Sahin

Only wrasslin' fans will get this -

DerekDGoldfish

Knex. wrote: »

Riot Police across Brazil must be absolutely getting bricked.

FYP

Boom__Boom

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Are these lads going to be the ones protecting the Brazilians team or the ones chasing them ?

Panthro

Just appeared on my FB feed

"The most embarrassing semi since I went to see Brokeback Mountain with my dad"

CFlat

They make up the game as they go along...just like your commentary Eamon?

Reekwind

Reekwind wrote: »

Schürrle, Brazil are about to get Kroosified?

Yeah, I called it. Even though I thought it'd be Kloser

Tipsy McSwagger

Gutted Brazil got a consolation goal

Bill is a such a troll :pac::pac:

fonecrusher1

"the game has died" And again Dunphy with one liners :pac:

Skid X

Bill O'Herlihy is loving this, only two more Bill-nights after this


Edit: only one more - he's not on tomorrow night

CountyHurler

You can always trust Sky to keep a bit of perspective on things... Lead story tonight...



The Garth Brooks concert is a second tier story on their front page.. I kid you not..

egghead.

The lads are contradicting themselves.

jonon9

roanoke wrote: »

I reckon it's due to all that higher education and personal stereos.

I reckon its the stupidly high wages have a part to play in this

Ragball Rovers

Sand

murpho999 wrote: »

He's melodramatic but I think he means more the game that involves skilful players rather than power and strength.

I think there is less poor sides in the world these days. Take Kevin Kilbane, put him up against your local pub team and he will look like Messi. All the great players from back in the day were playing against some very strong sides, and some very weak sides. Now even teams like Costa Rica, Algeria and so on are technically competent, well organised and tactically aware - its very hard for good players to find space and play through teams like they might have done in the past.

Its not that football is dying, its just that its less remarkable that a nation of 2-3 million people can find 11 players who can play the game competently, so the gap between bad and great has declined drastically. The "bad" players and "bad" teams are raising their game.

tigger123

jonon9 wrote: »

I reckon its the stupidly high wages have a part to play in this

Why high wages?

bnt

This was at 0-4:


Now I feel horrible ... This Too Shall Pass.

CountyHurler

Brendan Filone wrote: »

Fred's actual heat map in the first half:

Al_Coholic

agree with Dunphy saying that there are too many distractions for kids nowadays,when i was young i had no video games,no phone,nothing.

i went out in my wellies and played football because thats all i had,used to have games after school with everyone in my class,now the kids are too busy snapchatting each other.

tayto lover

Garth Brooks playing 7 concerts in Brazil.

Skid X

Hats off to anyone who predicted Ivor Allchurch would get a mention after a Brazil v Germany World Cup game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Allchurch

McDermotX

Classic Eamo,.

Headshot

Love Eamo, man cracks me up

Augmerson

In Southern Germany right now.

It's like they've won WW3, cured Cancer and won the Universe Cup all in one. The place is going ****ing crazy. People are just going nuts.

TimeToShine

Wtf are Ramsey and Bale supposed to be Eamon??

nxbyveromdwjpg

Boom__Boom

bnt wrote: »

This was at 0-4:

Now I feel horrible ... This Too Shall Pass.

Fabregas lookalike behind her :eek:

roanoke

"Wales will never produce another Ivor Allchurch"
- Dunphy

Last time I checked they had produced the worlds most expensive footballer. That's not too shabby.

Lapin

Any chance of the RTÉ panel discussing tonight's game?


Not that there's much to talk about like.

jonon9

tigger123 wrote: »

Why high wages?

Because even if they play complete ****e with their diving and **** acting on the pitch nothing is said and they get their weekly high wage. Rules need to be harder and the heart will eventually come back into the game.

niallo27

Al_Coholic wrote: »

agree with Dunphy saying that there are too many distractions for kids nowadays,when i was young i had no video games,no phone,nothing.

i went out in my wellies and played football because thats all i had,used to have games after school with everyone in my class,now the kids are too busy snapchatting each other.

We used to play football for 8 hours straight on a Saturday. No bull**** 8 or 9 hours straight only stopping for fish fingers and chips.

Boom__Boom

Augmerson wrote: »

In Southern Germany right now.

It's like they've won WW3, cured Cancer and won the Universe Cup all in one. The place is going ****ing crazy. People are just going nuts.

not the best phrasing there, lad.

Sand

Al_Coholic wrote: »

agree with Dunphy saying that there are too many distractions for kids nowadays,when i was young i had no video games,no phone,nothing.

i went out in my wellies and played football because thats all i had,used to have games after school with everyone in my class,now the kids are too busy snapchatting each other.

Pretty safe to say the kids in the favelas don't have those distractions, and they're still pretty rubbish.

The German side played some brilliant football in the game and they faced far more distractions as kids. They had video games and phones.

Hank Scorpio

From Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos etc to that ****e

Delighted for Germany

Guy:Incognito

Augmerson wrote: »

.

It's like they've won WW3, cured Cancer and won the Universe Cup all in one. The place is going ****ing crazy. People are just going nuts.

3rd time lucky. :pac:

highly1111

Panthro wrote: »

Just appeared on my FB feed

We have mutual friends or friends who steal the same.jokes!!!

paleoperson

So is there something to what Dunphy and Giles are saying or is it all just rhetorical "glorious old days" bullcrap?

Guy:Incognito

I'd type out a "your boys took one hell of a beating" speeches but I only know Brazilian footballers and Senna.

Al_Coholic

niallo27 wrote: »

We used to play football for 8 hours straight on a Saturday. No bull**** 8 or 9 hours straight only stopping for fish fingers and chips.

until the mother would shout saying dinner was ready,couldnt leave because last goal won,when game was over id get a clip around the ear for not coming home when called.

Jelle1880

Still can't really believe what I've witnessed here.

efb

Augmerson wrote: »

In Southern Germany right now.

It's like they've won WW3, cured Cancer and won the Universe Cup all in one. The place is going ****ing crazy. People are just going nuts.

Nice of them to win 1 war I suppose

Al_Coholic

Sand wrote: »

Pretty safe to say the kids in the favelas don't have those distractions, and they're still pretty rubbish.

The German side played some brilliant football in the game and they faced far more distractions as kids. They had video games and phones.

Scolari picked hard working players there are talented Brazilians that werent picked because the coach was too stubborn to pick them

twinex

.......Well that was awkward.

paleoperson

niallo27 wrote: »

We used to play football for 8 hours straight on a Saturday. No bull**** 8 or 9 hours straight only stopping for fish fingers and chips.

I used to as well. We had N64 at that stage, we did both for a long, long, long time. It was in and out all the time, but we could play for hours in the summer. We were all still **** or best local club level... probably because we had no coaching growing up.

Gbear

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Jesus christ. Ozil has a great game and misses one chance and suddenly he's crap. Unbelievable.

I didn't see him being great.

I don't think many of the Germans get a huge amount of credit tbh. Maybe Khedira and Kroos deserve a mention but they may as well have been playing against nobody.

Some games a team comes along and is just amazing and blows the other team away.

This wasn't that. It was Brazil being an utter atrocity. The simplicity of the passing and the movement and the total absence of Brazilians defending (they didn't make mistakes, they just didn't partake) made it incredibly easy.

Except Schurrle's goal, which was an absolute peach.

nuxxx wrote: »

Look at Luiz with his fingers in the air, teh **** is he doing

Obviously god was too busy giving a load of kids malaria.

CountyHurler

The guys didnt mention that Brazil got their goal when Mertezaker was on... The German keeper has to play as sweeper every time he plays... It's a different German team when Humels is playing...

tigger123

jonon9 wrote: »

Because even if they play complete ****e with their diving and **** acting on the pitch nothing is said and they get their weekly high wage. Rules need to be harder and the heart will eventually come back into the game.

What?! Did you not see the emotional level of the Brazilian players throughout the tournament?!

Al_Coholic

CountyHurler wrote: »

The guys didnt mention that Brazil got their goal when Mertezaker was on... The German keeper has to play as sweeper every time he plays... It's a different German team when Humels is playing...

just are now

efb

Panthro wrote: »

Just appeared on my FB feed

Cos you posted it...

efb

@paulgaillimh: They'll be some craic in Aldi in Gort tomorrow