Celts or Croats?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
In my day, never was longer.
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania. Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Infrastructure week. at last.
Valdivia
The previous game was pretty even I thought. So both manchego and parmiggiano.
mark
seriously, i just can’t get into this footbol stuff unless its world cup and USA is still viable. Can’t you do something to make it more palatable somehow, Randinho? I want to appreciate the game, i swear i’m trying, but, its just so painful to me…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@mark:
It certainly doesn’t help that damned near every team seems to play so damned tentatively in the first couple of games of the group phase.
Woohoo! ROI ties it up!
Evolving Deep Southerner
Hate to be a bitch or anything like that, but can one of the other Front Pagers hang up a non-soccer open thread? I don’t want to talk between the soccer folk any more than I’m sure they don’t want to talk around me.
Mike E
Pronounced crow ott. Just sayin’.
burnspbesq
For a country whose economy is in the shitter, the Irish fans have managed to turn out in force.
Mike E
@mark: Drink. Moar.
Doug
Croatoan.
burnspbesq
Corluka’s going to get booked if he keeps up the thuggery.
dedc79
Guinness over Slivovitz
The prophet Nostradumbass
Bloody hell, that gobshite Tommy Smyth is in the studio. Can’t they find some ice floe off the coast of Greenland to put him on?
Bill Murray
@burnspbesq: but it’s all he’s got. You can’t take away his lepinje
Amir Khalid
… And the Irishmen are 3 – 1 down within five minutes of resuming play. Somehow I don’t fancy their chances today.
Tony J
Two early second half goals from Croatia and Ireland have a mountain to climb. Looks like they’re going to go all out trying to get a goal or two back ASAP, what have they got to lose?
pseudonymous in nc
Ireland are poor; hard to make a judgement on whether Croatia are good enough to give Spain or Italy a scare, given that they’ll need to do more than bang it up to two big head-the-balls.
Tony J
OFFS! Ireland should have had a penalty then.
JenJen
Between the two matches today, ESPN finally decided to address the violence from some Russia fans, as well as cover the controversial, troubling BBC Panorama profile of Ukraine-Poland as the UEFA choice to host these matches. US viewers can watch the 30-minute documentary “Stadiums of Hate” here.
In other news, poor Ireland!
Amir Khalid
Uh-oh. Irish keeper Shay Given may have picked up an injury, says the BBC; toward the end of the match, he began leaving the goal kicks to a teammate.
Bill Murray
@Amir Khalid: he had an injury coming in, I think, so it might be that getting worse
burnspbesq
So after day one, Croatia leads the Group of Debt.
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Ireland had to play more direct because they were eaten alive in the midfield. Luca Modric had an OK game and Croatia still owned the center. I think they can do the same to Italy….Spain and Croatia make it out of the group.