Tim Vickery who covers South American football was on 5 Live this morning. He felt the Colombians got it wrong and over estimated us and should have played a more expansive and attacking game. Instead they fielded 3 DMs and tried to rough us up.
He was quite scathing of England too in that we created no real open play opportunities. On reflection, part of me agrees and part of me thinks fuck you Colombia we’re through to the quarter finals of the world cup 2018.
Ha hey!
Match day report. Some lessons learnt.
You all know Barasti by reputation by now. In the summer the outside area “grows” a huge tent. For the WC they added a huge Dome on the beach
Pics of Barasti Dome
I arrived just after 9pm that dome was full, so went to our Tika Hut ordered 2 pints (took about 5 minutes) and wisely decided to roll a buncch of smokes after I found the only empty flat surface in the place. It soon became 5 or more deep across the whole bar so went outside to the “Tent”
The only space was about 10m from the TV screens behind the bar (couldn’t get near the big screen) Ordered bucket of Bud which saved about 30 minutes of queuing.
2 things to learn.
The PLANET truly HATES us English. In a display of hatred and comments that would get you arrested in PC UK for Racism, we got nasty comments from EVERY nationality. In fact the Jocks & Irish were almost pleasant by comparison.
Filipina screaming fuck off English pigs when Colombia scored. African “hookers” shouting Colombia. Eastern Mediterranean men giving the finger as they push past trying to deliberately knock your beer. It was VERY nasty.
There were flash points mainly pushing back - must admit I elbowed one of them in the stomach (accidentaly of course I was stretching to get my beer guv).
Eventually after their equaliser it kicked off. Actually looked like E Med types fighting each other. For a moment the Bouncers were struggling but eventually bulldozed them out the door.
I had taken up a strategic position by the exit for the last 10 minutes, viewing the big screen at an oblique angle through a plastic palm tree. Once their goal went in, the atmosphere changed. There were “WILD” celebrations, and seemed everyone was screaming into faces of English fans. Not seen provocation like that since Lille in '98. And not ONE of them was Colombian - they were all in a group, respectful and well behaved. These were just racist thugs to be honest.
Whistle blew I was out of there. 5,000 people waiting for taxis? No fucking way.
I had to walk to the main drag, past a sad bedraggled bunch of hookers and flagged down a taxi.
I won’t be pubbing again for a game that is for sure.
Is it unusual? No. Exactly the same thing happened back in '98 during the Argentina game - couple of lads got glassed by E. Med types in knock off Argie shirts.
England may be happy with the journey.
The rest of the planet are not
Nobody remembers how you played, only the score so sod Tim
Best football “report” ever?
Yep that’s what REALLY pissed me off in the second half. Sotonians have had SO MUCH of that in the last two seasons it just did my head in yesterday. That’s the sort of shit you have to find a way around in WCs (fnr fnr) but we should still have the tenacity not recede into our shell when someone pokes a stick in our face.
When the British Empire was engaged in the Boer War, the rest of the world was cheering on the Boers. Unsurprising when you’re the foremost power in the world.
You’d think that we’d have gotten past that, but no, despite being Empire free these days, our governments still manage to piss the rest of the world regardless.
Partisan crowd in Moscow last night. Most of them were jeering England every time they took possession.
I say again, thanks Theresa!
Ahem.
Tony.
#dodgydossier.
Basically "the ruling nobheads since forever
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And England won. Against Colombian elbows and Colombian studs, they won. After suffering, in the third minute of injury time, the sort of concussive blow from which it was assumed only champions really recover, they won. Against the soul-crushing weight of their own leaden history, the 12 yards that have defined lifetimes, they won. Bearing the tipsy reveries of a nation that has finally learned to adore them, they won. What does that tell us about them?
Brilliant paragraph
Compared to the jingoistic nonsense in many other MSM sources today, that whole article hit the nail on the head so eloquently
ICYM from Getty Images
We should of course resign from the WC because Pickford did cheat -
Clearly their manager wanted clarification on the rules for holding. This was favouritism by the Ref
Full Link to the 10,000 or so pics (or so it seemed. These cannot be used for any commercial/website/blog that earns revenue
Adoration for me duly acknowledged. I also booked a spot in the pub for Saturday afternoon three days ago 
I watch as you all moan about Hoddle. I mentioned i may have wonky streams but I had Peter Drury on them.
He isn’t an Arabic 'tater but THIS is how you call a Penalty as an Englishman.
#simplythebest
I didn’t film myself, but that feels very familiar, @Goatboy.
I was winding ms pap and the youngest up, by calling whether each player was going to score or not as they walk up.
It’s a simple skill, really. I just assess whether I think the player is absolutely bricking it on the way up, and conclude that the more he’s bricking it, the more likely he is to not score.
Predicted 100% correctly, not that the missus and the youngest were happy about it.
