World Cup quarter finals

[Hansern]

Sad but true. Fucking dickheads

 

[Athens ★]

here we go, van gaal is gona be praised for the master stroke of putting krul on.....

From the BBC:

You can say it is a master stroke from Louis van Gaal because it has come off

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Great vote of confidence to his starting keeper there, who is actually pretty shit-looking, mind. I guess this means Van Persie has another game to get shattered and Van Gaal also will be returning late for pre-season, so not a bad thing.

Kudos to the Dutch scouts though - Krul got the height / direction of all the Costa Rican players' kicks right I believe.

 

[IGotALuvlyBunchOfCoconuts]

FUCK YEA! Van Gaal and Netherlands, they've been my pick from the start, haven't let me down yet.

 

[Athens ★]

FUCK YEA! Van Gaal and Netherlands, they've been my pick from the start, haven't let me down yet.

I'm watching you, boyo.

 

[IGotALuvlyBunchOfCoconuts]

I've got to get my Van Gaal love in, before he joins those dickheads.

 

[gkmacca]

He'll be utterly insufferable now.

 

[Mojo]

Voller and Rijkaard can kick spit start the game

Fixed.

 

[gene hughes]

He already talks about himself in the third person.

 

[cloggypop]

Great fun watching that with the Dutch tonight.

I never knew they had a shite penalty shootout record but they were terrified.

Substitution of the keeper was inspired. The tactics beforehand less so.

Good article here on how shite they normally are on pens

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/27/holland-mexico-world-cup-nightmare-penalties

 

[peterhague]

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but did you just tell @Judge Jules to put a shirt on Danny Murphy and then call him a scruff? I think JJ has nothing to do with how Danny Murphy dresses. He could be a scruff for all I know, he did mention something about a beard earlier.

I liked this already but it deserves a haha too.

 

[Markeh ★]

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but did you just tell @Judge Jules to put a shirt on Danny Murphy and then call him a scruff? I think JJ has nothing to do with how Danny Murphy dresses. He could be a scruff for all I know, he did mention something about a beard earlier.

Yes that's exactly right, someone needs to tell that guy people usually team that polo sweater up with adidas trackies and a rottweiler

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

Good old Dirk, lovely penalty, brought back a few memories.

 

[James]

Just knew the old Dirkster wasn't going to miss.

 

[James]

By the way, does anyone else find Krul to be a totally annoying cunt with all those theatrics during the shoutout and his 'mind games'? I despise him.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

By the way, does anyone else find Krul to be a totally annoying cunt with all those theatrics during the shoutout and his 'mind games'? I despise him.

Yeah. Was hoping all the balls would hit him in the face and go in.

 

[Hansern]

Was hoping one of the Costa Ricans would lose it and smash his face in.
Ah well

 

[Rafiagra]

I really wanted Costa Rica to win the shoot out but couldn't help want Dirk to score. Great pen too.

All this Van Gaal 'tactical mastermind' stuff is bollocks -they were lucky not to lose the game. Bringing on a keeper, who you've likely seen repeatedly in training is much better at saving pens than the other one, for a penalty shoutout is hardly a sign of genius.

If anything, he's fucking lucky he even got the sub on in time - I'm pretty sure the ref was gonna blow full time when it went dead on the stroke of 30 mins. However, he then played on for a couple of mins to make it not look like he hadn't just given them the chance to bring Krul on.