The Football Thread

[Ollkiller]

Irish women's team with a savage win to get to the World Cup. Scotland have a better team but Ireland had a game plan and it worked.

[Caomhaoin]

Celtic should have been two nil up at half time. End up losing by the same margin and out of the tournament already. FFS.

[Emphyrio]

Fair play to the women. Better watching them than Liverpool these days!

[astfgyl]

Grand the way the women's team can qualify for something. Hopefully the men will catch up soon.

Looked at the highlights from the cl this morning. Celtic did as expected when one plays on the practice setting for most of the season and jumps up to top player mode every now and again for the craic. They definitely should've been ahead all the same.

Chelsea got blessed with the sending off which was actually a sending off by the book, as harsh and fortunate as it was but home and away wins v Milan is grand given how unlikely it looked a couple of weeks ago. I put it down to the new manager effect where everyone plays up to try for a chance on the clean slate.

Madrid game dominated by var which oddly got all the decisions right with minimal fuss. Why is var less ridiculous in the cl than the pl?

[Caomhaoin]

I have tickets for Real Madrid v Celtic at the Bernabeu and the arse has fallen out of that completely now. Best case scenario, finish third and get into one of the Mickey Mouse euro leagues. How many chances do they need to put one away? One up at home and the crowd could have roared them home. They've beaten Barcelona twice, once under Neil Lennon with George Samaras up front and current Dundee United Romeo Tony Watt scoring the winner!

Potter could be the man for Chelsea, but he'd want to keep his mouth closed if things get tough. New bosses seem nippy as fuck.

[astfgyl]

O'Herlihy as the ringmaster with Giles, Brady, Dunphy as the clowns.

We will never see the like again. Absolutely spoiled.

[John Kimble]

Watching Liverpool and Napoli and all I can think about is Firmino's teeth. If you put Robert Firmino into Google, the third most predicted search appears to be his teeth. I fucking hate him and his stupid, ridiculously white teeth. I hate most footballers to be honest, I hate them and their stupid neck tattoos. Fucking retards. Remember when tattoos used to be cool? Fucking footballers have them ruined now with their stupid sleeve tattoos. Arseholes.

[Caomhaoin]

Chastening (and expensive) night at the Bernabeu. I had to comfort my young f'la a few times as the goals went in, nearly started crying. Thank fuck they scored the last goal, made it a bit more paletable. Fair play to the players, they stayed to applaud the travelling support and nobody booed or left early. Spirits were high on the way out.

Vinicius Junior is a quality player, but the play acting and shithousery out of the fucker is unreal.

[Ollkiller]

Chastening (and expensive) night at the Bernabeu. I had to comfort my young f'la a few times as the goals went in, nearly started crying. Thank fuck they scored the last goal, made it a bit more paletable. Fair play to the players, they stayed to applaud the travelling support and nobody booed or left early. Spirits were high on the way out.

Vinicius Junior is a quality player, but the play acting and shithousery out of the fucker is unreal.

They really need to change the handball rule. Neither was a penalty. Its ruining the game. Celtic had their chances but game was ruined by those 2 penalties and Celtic being too open. The second one was an outrageous decision.

[astfgyl]

Great free kick all the same

[Caomhaoin]

Quality. They had a few shots, but all very limp and tame.

[astfgyl]

The 2 pens fucked em really. They would most likely still have lost but more like 2-1 or something respectable looking. Once they were 2 down they didn't know whether to go for broke or try shut up shop. Waited til it was 4 nil to stop caring and have a go. Hey at least you didn't travel from Scotland!

[Caomhaoin]

Yeah, but I was rushing from work and couldn't use public transport. The traffic was like Bangladesh or Jaipur. Some amount of Celtic fans absolutely langers all over the gaff

[DISRUPTER]

Caoimhin Kelleher has won more penalty shootouts than any other keeper in the history of Liverpool FC

[Mower Liberation Front]

Still undefeated against England in World Cups.