you can't not but admire when you see a team putting their bodies on the line, give it their all against all odds no matter who or where there from.
Gutsy gutsy 90mins.
Not giving ball players the chance to settle/time on the ball how many times, last ditch saving goal moments, re set lets do it again.
Didn't any of our management and fellas see the template.

That Tunisia 1st half I watched, I thought WTF these guys are good and talk this is the game for us to get some points lol.
Stocky solid quick as well, Danes took a long time to settle in that 1st half, not surprised ended in a draw.

ella I'm spent no pissed, had a couple of darts, heaps of caffe, bring on next season lol......

Hahahahahha Im on my 5th coffee already today .... my hands are shaking bad. hahahahahahah 

So Morocco v Croatia ????  Japan v Germany?  I think both will be tasty.

fark got to slow down on the caffiene, 5 enough I'm done you too haha.
Starting on a sprite now and a viet pork roll.

Listen - ol mans bloodline is Cro so Cro baby come on Luca's last dance, that my go to being the Azzuri are out.
Going the Japs - dislike the kroats for obvious reasons but damn always produce some good players.
Should be good agreed.

Off to Morocco Croatia today. Dad was Croatian so will take a Cro shirt. Not sure where I'm sitting though so will take a red shirt in my bag.

Was literally sitting in the middle of the Dutch fans the other night behind the goal. Had a red, green, yellow and blue shirt which at a quick glance looked like some sort of Senegal supporter wear. Got a few queer looks before they realised it wasn't.

That was the first time I've ever been so close to the field at an international. 4 rows from the front and I just couldn't get over how unbelievably fast the players are. It is just so, so quick.

Sounds obvious but when you watch it on TV and then from high in the stands it just looks like it does on TV. Up close though it's just next level stuff. So impressive.

What an honour. Say what you want about refs but what a thrill for him. 

Lol.

Saudi defender taunts Lionel Messi: What did he say? (the18.com)

Reports VAR seemed to not consider the farthest Saudi defender for one of the offside goals. I beg to differ. That was surely checked. It's a very interesting case study now to see how Saudi go on.

Morocco are in this 

               Neuer
Süle Rüdiger Schlotterbeck Raum
        Kimmich Gündogan
Gnabry      Havertz   Musiala
                    Müller 

                Gonda
Sakai Yoshida Itakura Nagatomo
              Endo Tanaka
       Ito    Kamada. Kubo
                   Maeda

Japan's national anthem is fantastic, love hearing it. No idea what the lyrics are, but the melody and tempo of it is perfect for an anthem.

Great that FIFA has gotten rid of their ridiculous all light strip vs all dark strip garbage. Great to see all teams so far this world cup in their somewhat traditional colours.

Maeda scores but he's offside. Good counter. 

how about neither side gets a point in a 0-0 draw

At this rate yeah. Been generally end to end games but still no one putting it away.

Gonda fouls Raum. Pen. Gündogan converts. 

Still in the game but I thought that was a pretty terrible half from Japan, not much energy. 

Not quite on the level of the USA, German or Russian anthems if you ask me, but there's definitely a modest grandness to it that fits the Japanese ethos perfectly.

Our anthem (by comparison) is trite and I challenge you to find anybody who actually feels a swelling of pride. Like our nations' flag, it could easily be changed to something more inspiring and should be considered.

I'm actually happy with a nill-all against Morocco - they are a quality team and were very organised. Will be a very tough group I think. Ignoring last world cup, Croatia are a perennial group stage choker, so a likely result for them is losing to Canada and beating Belgium :-P

Just based on the first half, Germany are absolute quality. Probably the best team play I've seen at the tournament yet.

Japan score. 1:1

Lol 2:1 Japan. What on earth was that from Neuer? Typical lethergic German collapse they've had around the past 6 years. The German commontary is just monotone conversational. 

Europeans RN seeing Asian opposition dominate 

Great game!

Game of two halves that. Japan with a massive win. 

An Asian confederation team showing guts and determination to turn around a 1-0 deficit and beat a heavily fancied opponent who are among the WC favourites...

We should be so lucky...

SA and Japan showing how it's done.

Yeah it's great.

Japan's second was a peach. What a touch to take him to goal. 2 touches then whack.

Just heard 8 of the Japanese starting 11 play in Germany.

Not sure how Germans didnt score. Whose that striker for Japan no respect for any of those Germans lol