Can the Swedes bounce back? Will my wife continue to swoon over Gianluigi Buffon?
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Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
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Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
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I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.
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People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
SRW1
Don’t know about your wife, but No to Sweden being triumphant today.
raven
Watched the US game this morning. So a player can stay in the game with the second accumulated yellow but is suspended for the next? THAT is stupid.
Humboldtblue
Randinho how long have we been meeting like this? 2012? 2010?
Schlemazel Khan
Well, after 42 years my wife continues to swoon over a buffoon . . . wait! What? . . . Oh, thats different then isn’t it. . . . Never mind, carry on.
Runt
@raven: There are basically two levels of punishment in football: one for things you do in this game, another for bad behaviour over time. I like it, as it means you can’t speculate in doing just too little to be sent off in every game and get away with it.
SRW1
@raven:
Sanctions for acute versus chronic misbehavior. Usually, ie during a regular season, there is a bigger difference between accumulated yellow cards (five) and an automatic suspension for one game. Very often sanctions for a red card during a regular season are also more than one game.
raven
@Runt: Hmm, still seems like they should get the hook as soon as the second happens.
raven
@SRW1: Yea, the one dude got bounced from both that game the next for the face shot.
Punchy
As a proud American, I can summarize this thusly: The Swedes, led by a guy with a really long name that sounds Russian/Middle Eastern and a bunch of guys in white chefs hats screaming “ordy gordy putty da fishy in da panny heedy gordy”, are in competition with Don Slickhair and his mobster cronies. First own goal swims with the fishes, or wherever Don Corleone decides. Everyone has a ton of body hair and terrible body odor.
Yours –
Joe 1-pack
SRW1
How old is Italy today? Last game it was 31.5 years.
SRW1
Sverige looks pretty solid at the back. If the Italians don’t find another Pirlo memorial pass like against Belgium they might get exposed for the toothless attack they brought to the championship and we might get us the second 0-0 of the tournament.
Runt
@SRW1: I suspect Italy feel they can live very well with a draw, so it’s up to Sweden to keep the tempo up.
SRW1
@Runt:
Probably true, but one moment of Zlatan genius might kill that strategy. He did it at the tournament in 2004 against them (and they had to go home).
Jeffro
Love soccer, BUT: next open thread I want to see the over/under on “Every Republican For Him/Herself”
I mean, the Speaker of the House is putting this out there about his party’s presidential nominee:
nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/first-read-ryan-instructs-republicans-follow-their-conscience-tru…
Ain’t it great to be living history?
Runt
@SRW1: That’s always arisk, of course. I recon some Italian hearts skipped a few beats when Zlatan had that chance. But Italy likes to do aslittle as possible in the group matches. Sometimes they end up paying for that.
SRW1
Kinda lacking in the entertainment sector, but certainly efficient.
Randinho
@Humboldtblue: Since 2010.
The commentator here in Brazil said that thirteen goals have been scored in this tournament after the 85th minute.
Humboldtblue
@Randinho: Heard that comment yesterday during the England match as well. Only it was 12 goals at that point.
The Guardian has a piece on the rain and poor weather that have played havoc with the pitches and that it could lead to some matches being moved.
montanareddog
Good looking, great footballer, apparently a first class chap too. Not fair, is it?
r€nato
forza azzurri
that is all
Jeffro
test?
BillCinSD
@montanareddog: well, he will, in the near future, be replaced in goal by Donnarumma, who has 30 first team appearances for AC Milan and is 17