Thought id struggle to have much interest with neither Ireland or Italy involved but it has still been pretty good.

Wonder how many world cups Yugoslavia would have won if they had stayed together. Think of a mix of the Serbian and Croatian teams with some of the best players from Switzerland (assuming their families had stayed)

Thats incredibly harsh.

Serious work ethic from their two superstar forwards too.

Agree completely needs to get a move away from PSG. No doubt Madrid will be circling soon. Would prefer embappe to neymar ever day of the week and twice on Sundays

My skybox is refusing to play the national broadcaster to so i am stuck watching the coverage on the BBC. My God you have my sympathies it is awful, from the inane muttering of the studio to the absolute bullshit of having to listen to Danny Murphy. Think i will get up on the roof and risk a Rod Hull.

We did.

Thats like being the worlds tallest dwarf. A tall dwarf i grant you but still not tall enough to be an owner occupier of an enchanted beanstalk.

1 team in the competition is nice to see, but it gets old fast.

Then you should be careful how you phrase things. For what its worth Argentina are as good as gone, literally any team in the last 16 will put them to the sword unless there is a marked improvement. For what its worth I think you are stuck with Germany till the semis

You old romantic

Would be lovely to see him match Maradona by single handedly winning a wold cup by himself. Also who do you want to watch play France Nigeria or Iceland or Argentina though I fear I already know the answer to that.

Also England won the world cup at home, it hardly diminishes the achievement.

What is wrong with having the best player in the world? How does that diminish the value of winning a tournament?

I agree with all that, Argentina have been terrible. Mascharano is a complete liability. France will beat them even if they dont get out of second gear.

My comment was in relation to his attitude when Germany got the draw with Sweden and his comments tonight have been truly the lowest of the low. And I stand by it. Its not even like Argentina are in the process of beating England, where you might think he's had a few and passions are running high, this is just out and out racism.

Champions twice runners up 3 times up, yeah that's right.

Again, l don't listen to Irish people going on about the troubles either, you got to move on, no?

I thought it was commonly agreed he had used a cocktail of stuff to lose two stone before the world cup but its a fair point. Wish I knew what he used as I could do with losing a bit myself.

Looks like he headbutted the poor fella's knee, headbutting someone like that on the street and you'd be arrested.

What is with all the hatred of Argentina? Is it really down to Maradona's hand of God? If it is its pretty pathetic. Ireland were eliminated from a World Cup by a handball by Henry for France, I was upset with the player for a while, but to hate an entire nation for 30 years. I honestly don't know what to say. I also at no stage felt that it diminished his quality as a player. Also, Maradona was caught using cocaine, a recreation drug so "drug cheat" is a load of @#/? and smacks of sore loser syndrome. The number of comments on here about Argentina and Germany over the last two weeks have done this site no credit, we should be bigger then this. A laugh at one of your big rivals losing is fine but there have been some really nasty stuff. Being Irish I like to see my team beat England (whats seldom is wonderful), but I would not sit and listen quietly to one of my friends talking about "disgusting English" I would tell them to grow up.

Maybe Fifa are planning on a phone in on Var decisions like X factor. Premium rate numbers most votes get the decision.

I agree, you can only beat what's in front of you. And England crushed Panama and Tunisia. I think the reason England were so good is that the weaker nations are not able to handle the constant stream of crosses and were also shit-scared of Kane, they seem much better equipped to handle the passing game of Spain etc. as that is more of what they are used to.

Nani, really? In the same breath as Ronaldo and Figo. Nani is to Ronaldo what Carlton was to the Fresh prince... see what I did there

Sounds like a Rovers player to me