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  3. 3.

    humboldtblue

    France is certainly the winner in terrible haircuts. Looks as if the entire team was attacked by a rogue hedge clipper

  4. 4.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    France is certainly the winner in terrible haircuts. Looks as if the entire team was attacked by a rogue hedge clipper

    @humboldtblue: Ces ados actuellement, avec les coiffures, les vêtements, oh la la.

    ;)

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    France are bringing it to the Hondurans. They’re going to score pretty soon, I expect.

  8. 8.

    tsquared2001

    On the other hand, the French kit has got it going on. Classic styling. And then you follow with that national anthem? Oh, it is on, Honduras. It is on

  9. 9.

    ⚽️ Martin

    @Amir Khalid: Looks that way. But lots of passing, not many real scoring plays. They look like a sloppy German team out there.

    (with tragic haircuts)

  10. 10.

    SRW1

    There should be a new rule: The third time a player does his play-acting on a stretcher he can’t come off until arrival at the hospital.

  11. 11.

    scav

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Va t’en de ma pelouse! Besides ver.I, didn’t I have the impression that BCBG was not the way to go with Honduras? Besides ver.II, pour les ados, épaté est épatant, no?

  14. 14.

    tsquared2001

    And this is opening verse

    Let’s go children of the fatherland,
    The day of glory has arrived!
    Against us tyranny’s
    Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
    In the countryside, do you hear
    The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
    They come right to our arms
    To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

    While they follow with this

    Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
    Bear or hold back your blows!
    Spare these sad victims,
    Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
    But not these bloodthirsty despots,
    But not these accomplices of Bouillé,
    All of these animals who, without pity,
    Tear their mother’s breast to pieces!

    Gotta love that

  21. 21.

    raven

    Oh, so we officiate the game differently when a team is playing short? “The official does everything he can to . . . “

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    Boy, that was dumb from Wilson Palacios. But France do deserve to be in front.

  25. 25.

    2liberal

    Can Didier Deschamps put to rest the memories of 2010? can Los Catrachos stun Les Bleus?

    when can we expect to see an end to this endless stream of soccer open threads? (however they do generate a lot of responses)

  29. 29.

    ⚽️ Martin

    Glad they installed the cameras. They need to put those up on the jumbotrons so everyone can stop arguing.

    But the spray cans are just a brilliant idea. They could have done that 50 years ago.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    @2liberal:
    Now that our dearly missed friend Randinho is back with us, we can expect to see him back with football posts not just during the World Cup, but also every weekend for the upcoming season which kicks off again in August and runs through the middle of next May.

  32. 32.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @tsquared2001: It’s even better in person.

    Pretty amazing night. Then of course Hollande actually took office and became the first socialist in history to preach Reaganite trickle-down economics. Sigh.

    I guess policies that actually would have worked were too scary.

    As they say in France, “Well, that’s fine in practice, but it will never work in theory.”

  36. 36.

    Amir Khalid

    Will the second goal be credited to Karim Benzema, making it the first hat-trick of World Cup 2014, or will it be declared an own goal by the Honduras keeper?

  39. 39.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Randy Paul aka Randinho:

    It must be said: Those who troll these posts haven’t been present in the same numbers as in the past. In 2010, they were as annoying as the vuvuzelas. Lets hope that it doesn’t get to that point where you have to start implementing the ban hammer again.

  44. 44.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @raven:

    I lurked for a few years before I started commenting (DougJ wasn’t an FPer yet), and I started commenting shortly after J.G. had his epiphany. You were already commenting at that point I decided to chirp here.

    Shorter me: A long time.

  47. 47.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @raven:

    Well…I didn’t start commenting the day he flipped the switch. I still lurked for while.

  49. 49.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @raven:

    I wanna say that I started commenting here more often when the 2009 NFL threads started popping up. I started reading BJ when Amato linked to an epic thread here concerning Intelligent Design.

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