I'm half Italian and was born there and am fully expecting our team to whip out our cocks and smack the english on the face with it.

Oh, and I'm expecting we will win the game as well

I'm a Croatia supporter. Proud of the way the team played, particularly in the 2nd half, but needless to say I'm extremely disappointed by the officiating.

With Spain vs. The Netherlands being the last game we have the first big match of the tournament. Actually I don't really like either team but I'm hoping that Spain wins this for a few reasons. Of course the most obvious being that I'm German and when it comes to football we and the Dutch just hate each others guts. Outside of football we get along just well though .
The other reason being that I find maybe two or three dutch players likeable. Most of them are ruthless in duels especially the defense which is fairly average. They're talented in fouling the opponents though. Van Bommel is especially brutal and I'll never forget that despicable challenge of Nigel De Jong in the 2010 final against Spain. Worst case his opponent could have died from that attack. I always thought attacks like that should be punished with a ban for at least a year or more.
So hopefully Spain will give them a good beating today


Edit: 20 seconds into the game first foul by a dutch player

As soon as the US is eliminated I'll go back to not giving a rats asshole about international soccer.

was that really a penalty? I don't think so

Probably not but it was very tough to see at full speed. Even with some of the replays it was hard to tell for sure. Other than that the referees do a good job. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the dutch players gets send off in this game. They are playing as aggressive as I expected.

What a goal by Van Persie. 1-1 at the half

I was born and raised here, and even I can see this all happening.

There is not even contact! with 4 ref somebody's got to see that.

but that Goal of Van Persie was pure beauty.

There was a contact. Costa's foot landed on the leg of the dutch defender which was sliding away already so it basically pulled away the leg of Costa. The contact was there the movement was very typical for a foul. It wasn't a foul but it clearly wasn't obvious to see for any of the referees. When I saw that duel I immediately thought penalty and I'm sure most people did.

PS: There's just the main ref, the linesman and the referee assistant behind the goal. Sure there is another linesman and another official but those are like 60 meters away and can't see anything from that distance. Not to mention the fourth official doesn't even take part in deciding that kind of stuff.

The main ref is the one who makes the decisions, however they all speak with their intercoms.

I know that but it doesn't make the eyes of any of the referees perfect

Sob lol
Damn they came with a vengeance

Well the third goal by the Netherlands was clearly a wrong decision by the ref lol.


Edit: Lol Spain is getting pounded now. Horrible mistake by Casillas.

One thing I've noticed with the goals from Netherlands is that they take their sweet time getting back into the game.
You'd think this was the last game hehe

Spain is getting destroyed. If they play like this against Chile they will drop out of the group

Yeah they are getting out hustled
The sucky part is the diff of goals now they have -4
So now they gotta win the other matches by 2+ goals

We'll see if the goal difference will matter in the end but it'll be hard to repair and the better goal difference basically translates to one point so it's definitely not good to have -4 standing there ^^

That was thoroughly entertaining! I actually don't think Spain played that poorly - they had a ton of really good chances, even in the 2nd half. I think the Dutch deserve all the credit in the world for that win.

Proud on our team!!! Proud!! They played so good!!!! TAKE THAT SPAIN!!!!!!

Van Persie and Robben wiped there ass with Spain right now. I'm happy they got there revenge from the last World Cup.

Good game Netherlands! Never expected to see Spain get trashed like that. We might play you guys at the round of 16

Crazy game. Never expected that!

Australia will have to work really hard to get a point out of this game. They really got shit on when they got drawn in a group with these teams