Unofficial world cup thread.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Darn, my stream hangs a few seconds in. I am a bit puzzled though, as you seem to have posted the wrong clip. What my stream shows is a scoreline of 1-1, last minute of the match, and some guy in a blue shirt in the opposition corner of the pitch, obviously about to play the game out in the corner. You say the game ended 1-2, but this couldn't plausibly happen from the situation my stream ended on. Are you sure you haven't posted the wrong clip by mistake?

Oh dear, looks like you are right. I seem to have been linking to the wrong clips all day long. My bad, sorry.


Here is the correct video of England losing on those penalties. So agonisingly close. So very harsh.


Don't really know what went wrong with the previous link I posted. That showed Germans, in the semis, in 1990. Apparantly, that should've been Argies, in the second round, in 1998. Most peculiar. Some glitch on YouTube surely. I know that the disciplined English would've spend those eight years practising penalties rather than lose from the 11 yard spot again. That would've been just heartbreaking - more little English boys shedding little boy's tears on their 350 quid England shirts.

[naut]

I know that the disciplined English would've spend those eight years practising penalties rather than lose from the 11 yard spot again.

No, no. It's a genetic thing. We don't have the genes to score penalties, unlike the Germans.