I’d rather the first goal didn’t come off an embarrassing dive and the second from a sketchy review. You’re free to enjoy that if you want. Couldn’t be me. 

That was a deeply unsatisfying first half. Kinda ruined the game. Croatia deserved better. 

Well they’re not “fake” harness holes, the holes are very much there...that’s how the seats come.

While watching the FIFA World Cup a few weeks ago, my boss noticed players sitting in race car seats, and ordered me to figure out why.

Yeah if I was your coworker I would have said that what you said was very dumb and you obviously don’t know much about soccer.

The thing is, you’re both right. In soccer you can win (or at least draw) by playing keep-away, but the other team does have the option of adjusting its game plan to counter that strategy. I think that’s called...coaching? France was playing chess while Belgium wanted to play checkers.

You don’t like soccer? Cool. But, it really takes a special kind of arrogance to think that the billions of fans of the world’s most popular sport are missing something that you’re able to identify despite not watching the game.  Thanks for sharing your insight.

I doubt your co-worker thought much of your comment.  Your co-worker has accepted that you are a boring asshole who criticizes matters of subjective, aesthetic appeal like a soccer game. You were likely just ignored. 

In no other sport? Je vous prie de différer, monsieur. I was a keen admirer of the New Jersey Devils’ neutral zone trap, which was also subject to much derision. Yet, there was a cosmic beauty to its rhythmic frustration of other teams, as they were methodically ground into dust.

Belgium can take that salt and stick it on their delicious, delicious frites.

France saw how Portugal beat them two years ago and said “Hey, they looked like they had much more fun than us at the end. Let’s do that!” and did what they had to do to win.

Seriously. Near the end of extra time he put in a sprint to corral the ball deep in the Russian side that was insane. I could not fathom how he had ANYTHING left in the tank to do that. 

He’s been my pick for the overall winning team leader since game 1. Dude puts 110% in to just about everything - mad respect.

Sadly the mainstream press will not cover him much or screw up his name multiple times. But yes, good to see one of the 5 best players in the world still in this tournament. 

Modric is awesome, good to see him get a little spotlight.

Aw, c’mon, they played their asses off for about eighty minutes and didn’t take advantage of opportunities to roll on the ground crying in order to draw penalties.  Give a little love.

New york state police used to run undercover Pontiac G8 GXPs. Bone stock from the factory with nothing but a removable cherry for the dashboard. It was a mindfuck the first time I saw one. Massachusetts runs ford taurus SHO’s as undercovers, actual SHOs not some interceptor with alloys. Again they just buy bone stock…

It’s not unions as a whole that is bad, but there are of bad unions. UAW being one of them. The UAW has already on record done things to sabotage Tesla such as lobbying to block direct selling to consumers. (Which isn’t even any of their business)

UAW isn’t a union it is an extortion racket, ask a tier two worker.

LOL, here’s your star