I will finish your sentence "end of" -----the good life, enjoying sports, happiness and getting through a day without being royally PISSED OFF!!!
France is a cancer as far as I am concerned and it will spread and kill off the host--meaning me and other like minded individuals.
I admit the new media hero Mbappe is good but he was acting like a punk at the end. And for the life of me how did the refs miss TWO blatant fouls on Hazard towards the end of the game?
Lukaka is an overrated stiff bore and Belgium looked a lot better once Mertens ( and his crosses) entered the game during the second half. Tough loss to swallow and all of a sudden France looks a little less disjointed. They looked disorganized early in the tournament which fooled me into thinking they were ripe to get picked off. Rest assured Mbappe will be shoved up our collective asses for a long time now and the blackness of France will be exalted for their athleticism. Makes me sick.
And why are the younger players in general black? Where are the young white stars. Why aren't they allowed to play?
I was thinking the other day that this WC hasn't been a whole lot of fun. Sure Brazil got knocked off which is always a great thing and I certainly enjoyed watching Eden Hazard play but the Messi disappearing act really did mess up my mood from the start.
The nightmare scenario of having an England France final is close at hand. Croatia can beat England but I am not confident they can win the title.
Terrible outcome and the last thing this world needs is for the caste system to get an extra boost and it just got a turbo charged one.
This is a really disappointing result for our side. "France" is the team I rated the least palatable from a caste perspective in the entire round of 16, while Croatia was the most palatable in the 16. So if Croatia beats "England" it will be the best caste team vs. the worst. Unfortunately I can't watch the match tomorrow because of that stupid job thing.
I agree. It's sad how far we've come in just four years. For those of you who've been here through the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, I remember debates about how teams like Germany and the Netherlands in 2010 weren't the best to support because they "only" had 8 white starters. If that were the case for this World Cup, we'd be doing back-flips supporting them. Heck, some on here even expressed reservations about supporting Germany against Argentina in the Final because they had "just" 9 white starters, with the two non-whites not even being among the leaders or important players in the side. Alas, those appear to be the "good old days" at this point.
In this World Cup, we'd kill to have a final between the 2014 Dutch (8 white starters) and German (9 white starters in the Final) sides. It's just a sign of how things have fallen. Like Shadowlight side, if Croatia doesn't advance, it'll be hard for me to enjoy the Final whatsoever. After a great run of all-white or nearly all-white Champions in Major tournaments (Italy in 06, Spain in Euros 08 and 12, and WC 2010, then Germany in 2014), the last two Portugal (who won the final without Ronaldo and playing nearly all of the game with just five whites, three of whom were defenders and the GK), and now very likely, similar sides in France and England. A very worrying trend, to say the least.
It's worst for me with England. The "Golden Generation" (Rooney, Lampard, Gerrard, etc.) were supposed to deliver England something. Instead, they hilariously failed in most of their tournaments. Now, the new, more multi-kulti side is one game away from the Final. Not exactly great optics. A "Golden Generation" filled with white talent like that fails, and now the "new" multi-kulti team is doing better than those guys ever did. Never mind that Kane, Pickford, Stones, Henderson, etc. are what makes the team go. Everybody sees the majority of blacks running around the pitch and thinks "that's what makes the team better." Euro 2016 and very likely this World Cup (unless Croatia pull off a miracle) have been the worst setback we've had in sports. IMO it validates all these European clubs buying and preferring all these African and various minority players over actual Europeans, which will only make it worse.