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Booooooooooo.

This is wonderful. Chance of a dark horse World Cup winner on the rise if these type of results continue. Germany look like a poor imitation of themselves - they play the same way, but everything is sloppy. The myth of Loew to end? I feel quite bad for Reus, he waits his entire career to play...

You can't just ignore 7 years of a player's career and 4 years of the other. Messi has been a world class footballer from almost day one, it took Ronaldo years to reach his level. Ronaldo has improved an incredible amount and deserves all of the credit for improving so much, but Messi has been...

Your argument conveniently ignores that he dragged his team to a World Cup final four years ago. Is Ronaldo a better leader? Quite possibly. A better player? There is very little to substantiate that argument. I don't understand why you would ignore what they have done for their clubs...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lionel-messi-is-impossible/ He outdoes Ronaldo in almost every major statistic despite being two years younger and his international record is comparable to Ronaldo's. He won the golden ball at the last World Cup for the tournament's best player, which I'll...

Don't be silly. Higuain has been a success at three of the biggest clubs in the world in both Serie A and La Liga. His goal scoring record is incredible for all of those teams, including Real Madrid. He cost 90 million euros. Dybala is even better. Otamendi was the best defender in the Premier...

Not quite as satisfying as Spain getting thumped in 2014, but it's not too far behind. Messi deserves better, but watch the media use this as a stick to beat him with for the rest of his career. It's a team sport innit.

Dreadful team, desperately hope Iceland go through now. Sampaoli is a good manager, but he was the wrong appointment for this squad. His system relies on pressing, which this squad doesn't have the energy or discipline for and width, which even the great attacking players in this system can't...

I've actually found it really entertaining how bad these teams have been. Argentina are going nowhere in this tournament. Would be surprised if Croatia do much either. Teams of individuals. Not much Messi can do when everything around him is chaos.

He can't even dog ffs Next England manager. EDIT: seems as though 1FF has censored images of Stan Collymore. Good policy.

Yeah, Peru have completely shit the bed in front of goal, they could have won this by a few goals. They've bossed the majority of the game and are very creative in midfield. Denmark will probably go through in second instead of them, the universe doesn't want us to have fun. :( Carrillo has...

Natural when their all-time best goalscorer in on the bench. Hopefully we'll see him soon. Farfan obviously much better in a supporting role.

I can't take Clattenburg seriously since I found out that's his real accent.

Messi shouldn't be taking penalties, he's never been good at them. Aguero is one of the best penalty takers in the Premier League. That's an ego move more befitting of Cristiano. He was their best player in the last World Cup. Man of the match in a Champions League final. Football is a fickle...

Neither of them were/are the active Madrid manager, so it's easier to be impartial without the media blowing decisions out of proportion or an active Madrid/Barcelona player feeling that some sort of bias is at work. I don't think Del Bosque had much gelling to do either, Guardiola had done all...

Someone posted this on the Guardian article and it's changed my mind about the scenario to be honest, makes some very good points that aren't immediately obvious. Madrid might have made his position untenable.

What the utter fuck. Sounds like the chief was butthurt and made a rash decision, mental to do this before the World Cup. I regret betting on them now, but will be happy if Spain implode. Anyone but Spain/Germany.

Not usually one to defend Hugh, but Ramos and Navas are both very good players and your pretty bizarre logic won't prove otherwise (Real Madrid are a lot more than Ronaldo and Ramos takes top forwards out of games on the regular). It's not as simple as starting for Real Madrid makes you the best...

FOOTBALL'S COMING HOME

It's weird how dismissive people are of the effects of a concussion. It's almost as though the situation must be black and white for people to actually believe in a concussion, like the player is either fine or he's staggering around like a drunk. See Courtois's dismissive comments today because...