The Quarter Finals

Ok I don't get why people are so angry with brazil for cheating. Is it just that everyone has a soft spot for Columbia now?

Ok yes they were hard and dirty on James and they probably went over too easy a few times, but Columbia were diving all over the place, especially in the 2nd half.
It was really pissing my off.

Some people also said James didn't deserve a card for his tackle that led to Luiz free kick, but he took out the leg of the Brazilian? Clear foul and by even close to the ball. The ref was shit and should have given cards to other people as well so that may be part of it.

Thought the pen was one f those calls that could of gone either way and I think that he knew he wasn't going to get the ball so took the contact and hoped for a pen. When if he thought he could of got it he could have jumped the keeper. But in the end there was contact. If not belated.

Disclaimer. I was majorly sleep deprived so my version of events may differ.

0/2 so far.  C'mon Belgium!!

Probably because they play dirty, cynical football and are massively overrated.

Brazil were cynical but felt that Colombia struggled with the intensity.

This World Cup has nothing on 1954, say football hipsters

FOOTBALL hipsters have dismissed suggestions that the current World Cup is the greatest of all time, insisting that it is vastly inferior to Switzerland ’54.

Vintage football devotees have firmly rejected such notions that the 2014 World Cup, with its exhilarating matches in spectacular surroundings, could compare to sixty years ago.

Wayne Hayes, a self-described enganche enthusiast, said: “Anyone who compares Holland versus Spain to the ‘Miracle of Berne’ is frankly delusional.

“1954 had everything: a goal-per-game average of 5.38, the Magical Magyars, and a cutting-edge, Bauhaus-meets-Mondrian logo.”

Hayes added that the Maracana in Rio was a pale imitation of 1954’s Wankdorf Stadium, and that Lionel Messi wasn’t fit to lace Sandor Kocsis’ boots.

Football blogger Joseph Turner disagreed with his analysis, however, saying that while Switzerland ’54 may have had loads of goals, goals were overrated.

Turner said: “The World Cup had gone mainstream by the fifties. I argue on my site BielsaIsGod.com that Italia ’34 was Italia ’90 without the branding.

“I’d bet my Dukla Prague away kit Wayne Hayes has never even heard of Oldrich Nejedly.”

The argument has since moved on to whether the 4-2-2-2 formation with inverted wingers was invented in Hungary or Brazil.

<===  The famous clock at Wankdorf - 1954

It is quite amusing that Brazil have lost Neymar as a result of the nasty football they promote. 

I thought that was an iconic picture after this morning's game (although I am sure the purists would argue the 1954 WC was better).

that's the Brazilians consoling James Rodriguez after the game ended.

I thought this was more iconic:

Robben is a cheating c*nt. 

I hope Brazil wins it just for Philip Scolari. 

The only top-flight manager that looks like some bloke having a stroll around Bunnings with his missus on a Saturday morning - legend.

Shit costa Rica are riding their luck.

The home of Young Boys.

Young Boys, Wankdorf, Bern.

Bummer, I predicted 3 out of the four scores, should've stuck a tenner on them, Germany 1-0, I got Brazil wrong picking Columbia to win 1-0. I picked Argentina to win 1-0 and for Netherlands to draw 0-0 at full time.

Costa Rica have played the wrong option all match.

Conflicted.  Would like Costa Rica to win on penalties, but don't want Krul to let any in.

Genuis: van Gaal brings new keeper for penalty shoot out.

First 80 mins were wank, last 40 have been unreal.

Ballsy bringing on Krul.

Very Krul on Costa Rica!

Cruel!

God I hate krul.

Dutch were the better side but I feel sorry for CR as they never gave up and were not overawed. They have had a brilliant tournament.

TIM MOTHER FUCKIN KRUL !!!!!!!

Michael Burgess in the Herald suggests that it was "cheating". What a w&nker. Why is it different to substituting any other player before the pennos?

Hah! What a load of literary wank. Krul is a 1st team keeper for an EPL club, not a shoot out specialist.

Smart sub. Nothing like American egg ball.

#getagrip

I've seen it done at Nike Cup, Kanga and Sth Island Rep tournaments

Messi brilliant.  Argentina to beat Brazil in the Final .....

I'd never heard of Krul before today, but reserve keepers get no love and this is a bright spot for any glovesperson who rides the pine.

He certainly did his bit to intimidate the CR pen kickers.

*un-friends D from facebook*

Hah! If you were my friend on Facebook you would have been driven blind, insane and doubly incontinent by now by my non-football posts. Don't take it personally, I pretty much don't watch EPL at all.

It was only for illustrative purposes.  I don't have Facebook, it is the work of the devil.

I thought the officials had a very good game, apart from failing to tell Krul to get back between the sticks during the shootout

He walked up to the ball, had a bit of sledging, then walked back to his goal. No problem there.

That article from Burgess is disgraceful. How is shit like that allowed to be published?