On paper, Sweden are a much worse team than Colombia. However, they qualified for this World Cup from a group containing France and The Netherlands, beating Italy in a playoff, and then progressed from a group containing Germany and Mexico. Reports of their underdog-ness have been greatly exaggerated. 

I am such an emotional wreck right now.

I am so sincerely disappointed that Jezebel references The Scum.

Are you trying to suggest Scotland and Wales aren't countries? Because we'll fight you

We NEED a gif of this

#3 is goals scored in all matches.

#6 is goals in head-to-head matches between the teams requiring the tie-break.

This is the 21st century. Surely a Twitter poll is the perfect tie-breaker.

Nobody makes football look as beautiful as James Rodriguez.

Oh, so that’s how that works

In my defence, this was from before Germany-Sweden had kicked off.

That’s the trade-off you get when you hire Roberto Martinez. You will play aggressive, aesthetically pleasing, passing football. But your man in charge just does not give a shit about defending. It’s a style that’s actually far better suited to fluking your way through a knockout tournament like this than it is to…

Belgium are playing ridiculous football right now. Which makes what comes next particularly unfair.

With Mexico scuppering Germany’s chances of finishing top of group F, Belgium will likely have to face the winner of a Brazil-Germany second round game in the quarter finals. Then if they win that, they likely face…

Yeah look, I’m just being a pedant here (which is why I’d like to point out that Argentina didn’t make it further than England in either the 2002 or 2006 World Cups), and you’re totally correct. Except my (pretty poorly made, looking back at it) point wasn’t that England aren’t a second-tier international team, but…

I’m not having the “third rate league” thing. Not for a second. Brazil won the world cups in 1958, 1962 and 1970; playing with a flair and skill level that was on another planet to that of their competition. And not a single player from any of those squads played his club football outside of Brazil. During that…

I don’t think it’s a more unrealistic context at all.

I notice you’ve used the words “best” (“best active player.” “Best to never win a World Cup”) and “greatest” interchangeably. It’s something that happens all the time in these conversations and it’s something I vehemently disagree with.

Bebeto was an incredible player also.

The name “Argentina” still conjures images of copious reserves of exceptional players, and the five best Argentine strikers are to this day way better than the five best strikers of any other nationality.

In my experience, American accents make most names sound like they’re being pronounced with speech impediments though

Dion Dublin still holds the sneakiest goal title for me