Brazil vs England Friendly

[JoeinOz]

Scolari will be pissed off really.

[sportsman]

We're shit and we know we are.


We were shit before, now woy has took charge he's stifled anything that we may have had.

[fca47]

You think we can't get worse, but...............

[JoeinOz]

Oscar dived

[kingstokie]

feigning injury in a friendly. The games gone :/

[Edward Tattsyrup]

Joe Hart at his world class best, if only the rest of the team matched him.

[JoeinOz]

We are pretty much outclassed. Our final ball is shit. Alves ball was shit then too!

[lordeffinghamhunt]

Going for a 0-0 in a friendly. The game as gone!

[JoeinOz]

We created a chance fuck me!!

[Olgrligm]

Typical Walcott. Just have some shame and make yourself unavailable for selection or request to leave Arsenal for the sake of your career. Diving twat.

[JoeinOz]

We aren't going for 0-0. We just can't keep the ball long enough to do anything with it.

[sportsman]

Good job these are shit

[towraytek]

The head of Fred!

[Sergeant Muttley]

Ray Lewington sounds worse than Pulis did on the touchline.

[JoeinOz]

Wank kick Hart

[JoeinOz]

Another shot

[JoeinOz]

Half time will be a relief so they can have a pint and a fag

[Edward Tattsyrup]

Jun 2, 2013 19:44:01 GMT Sergeant Muttley said:

Ray Lewington sounds worse than Pulis did on the touchline.

go on wayne!

[slother]

Some half time reading from a Brazilian...

A couple criticisms right off the bat: while watching ESPN Brasil's pre-game (the only ones that are consistently critical of what is going on), the reporter interviewed a few people.

At first it was one of the most amazing characters I've ever seen, an old black guy, probably around 80 years old, a samba composer. He was asked to sing a few of his compositions: he did, a great song about Maracanã, one about Pelé retiring, another about his club, Flamengo. The old man was loving it, with a Brazil shirt from the 1994 World Cup. When the reporter asked him if he was going to join the party inside the stadium he said "No".

Right there another old man came to the reporter, and said he wanted to say something. He said he couldn't get his ticket exchanged at the ticket office, because the elderly tickets had ran out (somehow). He had come all the way from Nova Friburgo, someone else from Duque de Caxias. Hours away. Another one couldn't get his ticket all the same, even though he isn't elderly.

Then the reporter went on to a couple. A woman wearing a Fluminense jersey. He talked about the Libertadores elimination. She was sad and all that, then the reporter asked about the game and asked how much she had paid. R$ 300. Half a minimum wage, and I'm not sure it was only for her or for both of the couple. [Half of what she'd earned for that month, earned at minimum wage.]

The next person was this black guy with a brand new Brazil shirt and his blonde female friends. The reporter asked him something and he replied "I'm excited!" in English. The reporter realized he wasn't Brazilian and asked where he was from. Boston, Massachusetts he said. All of the other friends were Americans too.

As the camera panned away more and more people were coming in. Middle class, upper class, brand new jerseys, smartphones, cameras. I did not see a single black person. Brazil is a multicultural place, the Southeast especially, but if you don't see anyone dark-skinned among 60 thousand people in Rio de Janeiro something is very wrong.

That is the new Maracanã, courtesy of FIFA, CBF and the gentrification of football. If you're a football fan from a favela, you don't get inside. Regardless how many times you went there before and how many songs you wrote about it, at most you stand outside singing them to the wind.

A World Cup in Brazil without everything that makes Brazil, Brazil. No fake shirts blowing in the wind outside the stadium, no one selling popcorn, no one shouting and enjoying it, no one taking their club passion to the stadium. What we have are Americans, upper class people that have 300 reais to blow on a ticket and a lot of faked excitement.

What a great World Cup in Brazil.

[JoeinOz]

Just get to HT 0-0

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Jun 2, 2013 19:09:09 GMT JoeinOz said:

England's new shirt is smart

The home one is a bag of wank but very impressed with this away shirt.

[kidcrewbob]

Jun 2, 2013 19:44:01 GMT Sergeant Muttley said:

Ray Lewington sounds worse than Pulis did on the touchline.

Ha ha - did i just hear him shout "fer fucks sake" when Hart kicked into touch ........gooooaaaaaarrrrrnnnnn Joe

[OnionBag]

What's with the picture quality? It's bad even by ITV's standard.

[Gorilla]

Jun 2, 2013 19:44:01 GMT Sergeant Muttley said:

Ray Lewington sounds worse than Pulis did on the touchline.

That was going to be my question as he's not shut up all through the first half! Move the mic ITV, for goodness sake!

[slother]

At least ITV's coverage gives you that warm nostalgic feeling that it's a miracle you're managing to watch pictures from Brazil.

[JoeinOz]

HT 0-0. Not much good but did anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of football expect any different?

[oatcakesteve]

I thought we'd be 2 nil down by now at least.

[Sammz]

Jun 2, 2013 19:50:52 GMT JoeinOz said:

HT 0-0. Not much good but did anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of football expect any different?

I have a ruddy mental knowledge of it!

[JoeinOz]

I thought we'd be 2 down as well. I'm quite pleased!

[numpty40]

The 'experts' on TV have picked up on Phil Jones looking a bit fucked. He really is one of the most unfit looking athletes I've ever seen in top sport.