FIFA World Cup 2018

[Lorac]

The French don't care about rain - they are jubilant!!

 

[allezfred]

Nah - it's just taking a rest on its way home

There wouldn't be any World Cup without Jules Rimet.

 

[Lorac]

Love how the president of Croatia is hugging all the French players as well - she is so happy regardless!!

 

[allezfred]

Emmanuel Macron = Big Dick Energy

 

[Vagabond]

All of the venues in Qatar will be air conditioned. It's leaving them that could be dangerous.

 

[escaflowne9282]

Macron's nose is bleeding

 

[quartz]

Can anyone identify the music they just played? love it!!

 

[Lorac]

Well the French were many peoples choice prior to the tournament and they showed why!!

 

[Buzz]

Macron is one of the few world leaders to confront Putin about Russia’s election meddling. So a bit of poetic justice perhaps?

 

[quartz]

Love how the glitter is all stuck to them!

 

[beepbeep]

Those images of everyone soaking wet are pretty epic

And those golden flakes stuck to everyone

Was there another pitch invasion??

 

[ilovepaydays]

The French players are doing some GOE +3 slip & slides on this pitch!

 

[beepbeep]

Can anyone identify the music they just played? love it!!

A FIFA playlist?

It’s pouring down and no one is leaving. Even the fanfest looks still packed!

 

[quartz]

Pitch invasion was apparently members of Pussy Riot.

 

[Lara]

Love how the president of Croatia is hugging all the French players as well - she is so happy regardless!!

Fun fact, her daughter is a figure skater and was on the JGP last season!

 

[MsZem]

The presidents and their buddy act with each other and with the players in the driving rain is just classic. And the players having fun slip and sliding on the pitch... who wouldn't want to trade places with them?

 

[ilovepaydays]

Macron is one of the few world leaders to confront Putin about Russia’s election meddling. So a bit of poetic justice perhaps?

What I don’t understand is why was Putin putting the medals in their necks and not Macron and Kitarovic? You’d think having their own leaders do it would make more sense - and be more meaningful.

 

[Buzz]

I don’t think there will be a lot of sober people in France in the morning!

 

[Vagabond]

FIFA Anthem

 

[ilovepaydays]

I don’t think there will be a lot of sober people in France in the morning!

If Croatia had won no one there would be sober for (probably) the rest of the summer.

 

[oleada]

Maybe, but given the temperature in Qatar the trophy will most likely go to whoever is left standing.

Colombia base in Barranquilla now seems so prescient.

You are outside for over 30 mins and you pray for death

 

[Lorac]

I don’t think there will be a lot of sober people in France in the morning!

Well it was Bastille Day yesterday so the party just continues today!!

 

[Buzz]

Colombia ftw in 2022!

 

[ballettmaus]

The Croatian was pulling his arm down - and every pundit I have seen stated it was not a deliberate hand ball and the BBC pundit even read out the hand ball rule and all the panel said no way was it deliberate. And the ref spent forever watching the VAR so he wasn't fully certain it was deliberate - an awful decision that altered the way the game was going!!

German radio reporters were sure it was a penalty even before the referee decided that it was.

My dad (who used to referee and is still soccer crazy) has sometimes said that where the arm was, the arm simply shouldn't have been while the player is in the penalty zone).

I'm not saying the decision was 100% correct. I'm simply saying that there are those who think it's a penalty that was ok to give and there seem to be rules to support that.

My dad said that the free kick which led to the first goal wasn't justified though

Maybe, but given the temperature in Qatar the trophy will most likely go to whoever is left standing.

Wasn't the plan to build roofed stadiums so they could be air conditioned?

 

[Nmsis]

The Croatian was pulling his arm down - and every pundit I have seen stated it was not a deliberate hand ball and the BBC pundit even read out the hand ball rule and all the panel said no way was it deliberate.

Maybe the referee had a better angle.
Jeu de main, jeu de vilain. (hand play, naughty play)

 

[Lorac]

Maybe the referee had a better angle.
Jeu de main, jeu de vilain. (hand play, naughty play)

That was the view we all had and the Croatian was pulling his hand down and the ball hit it - he did not do it deliberately - in mine and many others views. Still it is all by the by now - France won and are the World Cup Champions!!

 

[Buzz]

Courtois gets the golden glove.

 

[Lorac]

Courtois gets the golden glove.

Thanks - I missed that one!!

 

[Buzz]

So @SHARPIE how much did you eventually win on that Kane bet?

 

[Lilia A]

Maybe, but given the temperature in Qatar the trophy will most likely go to whoever is left standing.

2022 World Cup will take place in the late fall (late November to mid December 2022). Based on stats, daily high temperatures range from high 20's to low 30's (or mid 70's to mid-high 80's Farenheit). Temperatures drop in the evening to around low to mid 20's at that time of the year, so they could try to have as many evening matches as possible. Also, humidity is lower than it is in Brazil. So we won't have a Manaus 2.0 situation (where even the referee was desperately waiting to call for a cooling break).