The Official World Cup 2018 Thread

[Syferus]

Ref was giving nothing to Peru and thanks to the VAR they've got a penalty..

What a miss.

[Dougal Maguire]

Peru seem determined to try to lose the match

[From the Bunker]

Peru seem determined to try to lose the match

They are wearing the wrong Jerseys for that! 

[gallsman]

Never heard a commentary and punditry team focus so much on the emotional state of a lad who missed a penalty as on the BBC. He's a professional footballer, get over it.

[seafoid]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Good decision that far too much wrestling around in the penalty box these days

[imtommygunn]

1 arm they get away with but that was both wrapped round him.

Nigeria very poor.

[Baile an tuaigh]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

Very true and no one talks about the massacres of 30 million Germans.

[imtommygunn]

Also moses is very fond of going to ground.

[Syferus]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

I'm sure you can find some way to blame capitalism for it all if you try hard enough.

[gallsman]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

Very true and no one talks about the massacres of 30 million Germans.

Oh this should be very good.

[Kuwabatake Sanjuro]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

And nobody talks about Bulgaria on the news anymore.

[sid waddell]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

Very true and no one talks about the massacres of 30 million Germans.

I bet you were up for Croatia there - especially with their history and all...

[seafoid]

Croatia are playing Nigeria in Kaliningrad. Until 1945 it was a German city, in Prussia, called Königsberg. Nobody talks about Prussia any more.

And nobody talks about Bulgaria on the news anymore.

Any time the Wombles come up they do 

[seafoid]

One of the centres for group matches is Volgograd.  It was known in Ww2 as Stalingrad, where the Nazis ran into a wall.

The Soviets won the war but the cost was unbearable.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/10/12/svetlana-alexievich-truth-many-voices/

"She also very quickly explained that the fault lay not with one man but with the experiences of Soviet generations, now reworked for new wars. When she listed the fake descriptions of events in Ukraine in the Russian media, she spoke of Russian society as a "collective Putin." As she put it, "Putin placed his bet on the basest instincts and won. Even if he disappeared tomorrow, we would remain as we are."