World Cup 2018 Semi Finals

[StephenH]

England fans staying behind for over an hour and giving Southgate the love proper done me, tears in the old pork pies watching it. Loved it

Pork pies = lies?

 

[90291Spur]

Pork pies = lies?

Pork pies = thighs?

 

[Spurs7891]

Did you see the amount of England fans there? The semi-final was sold out, no tickets available. I know, I spent hours and hours trying to get them. Thousands and thousands of England fans were there. Unlike the France-Belgium semi-final where you could still buy tickets on the day.
The reason for England fans originally staying away was nothing to do with governmental boycotts and everything to do with concerns around Russian hooligans targetting England fans, after the trouble at Euro 2016.

And whilst I cannot speak for the players, I very, very much doubt that the prospect of watching Teresa May, Boris Johnson or Prince William dancing in the stands would have been any kind of lift for them. Quite the opposite I expect.

On a serious note, the Russian government sent agents to this country,with a deadly substance, with the aim of killing. There is now a murder investigation underway as a result of the fallout.
There is no way our government could send anyone to the World Cup in an official capacity as that would mean accepting official hospitality. Not possible.
However, the England football team still participated. Thus sports and politics were not mixed.

Not sure how you cay politics and sports were not mixed. The British government from the start did everything to discourage England fans going to the World Cup. There were even calls for the England team to boycott the World Cup. Traditionally England fans are one of the most fanatics around. But it was embarassing to see only few attending the World Cup and being outnumbered by Colombian fans when England played Colombia in the Round Of 16. Having fans in huge numbers would have really lifted England against Croatia especially when they could not lift their game once Croatia scored their goals.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Not sure how you cay politics and sports were not mixed. The British government from the start did everything to discourage England fans going to the World Cup. There were even calls for the England team to boycott the World Cup. Traditionally England fans are one of the most fanatics around. But it was embarassing to see only few attending the World Cup and being outnumbered by Colombian fans when England played Colombia in the Round Of 16. Having fans in huge numbers would have really lifted England against Croatia especially when they could not lift their game once Croatia scored their goals.

England had loads there vs Croatia despite the rip off prices due to the lateness of buying them

Makes no difference if you can’t pass the ball

 

[milo]

Not sure how you cay politics and sports were not mixed. The British government from the start did everything to discourage England fans going to the World Cup. There were even calls for the England team to boycott the World Cup. Traditionally England fans are one of the most fanatics around. But it was embarassing to see only few attending the World Cup and being outnumbered by Colombian fans when England played Colombia in the Round Of 16. Having fans in huge numbers would have really lifted England against Croatia especially when they could not lift their game once Croatia scored their goals.

The British government did nothing to dissuade people from attending and there were no calls for the team to boycott the tournament from the government. British ministers have not attended the tournament but that is right when the Russians have murdered a British citizen on British soil in a botched attempt to kill two others.

 

[jts1882]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1017680812370812933

He was passing it to Salah.

Or had concussion after the headbutt.

 

[Rorschach]

He was passing it to Salah.

Closer to the truth than you think. That punt is Liverpool's main attacking tactic.

 

[Robspur12]

the team deserve the praise they are getting, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

we played 1 worldcup contender (belgium) and lost. we played 2 decent teams (colombia, croatia), and couldnt find a win.

scored 12 goals, of which 9 were set pieces. we dont have any good midfielders, so we decided to bypass the midefield and use harry kane as a peter crouch/heskey target man. we're basically the international version of stoke (minus the thuggery).

had a route to the finals opened up like this for the golden generation, who knows what they could have acheived

The "Golden generation" wouldnt have got as far because their collective mentality was not right. They wouldn't have got past the penalty shoot out with Colombia.