World Cup 2018 countdown!!!!

[Batman]

What time is kick off, villa are stream8ng their friendlies against Telford and Kidderminster at 3pm so I'll be watching them

[Master]

Finished lost 2 nil.

[Master]

Good final so far 1-1 but Croatia the far better team!

[Master]

That was never a penalty. VAR should not have been used. In slow motion everything looks deliberate.

Hope that is not the goal that decides the world cup final

[Master]

That should be the end Progba making it 3-1 France.

[Master]

Definitely the end 4-1 Mbappe.

[Master]

Well the goalkeeper for France has made a howler 4-2. Maybe just maybe.

Great world cup tournament, the best since 2006 for action.

[Freedom]

Mistakes by officials led to two goals by France.

With competent officiating, Croatia would have had a very good chance of winning.

But what a great run they had, for a little country with four million people. They can return home proud.

[walrus]

Damn my bandwagon didn’t get me too far

[Memphis]

I didn't really care who won to be honest until the two French goals went in. I started to root for Croatia at that point because they were properly hard done by on both goals. Griezmann fell over nothing for the free kick, OK it happens, a lot and everyone does it, but the pen should never have been. Like Master has said, everything looks deliberate in slow mo. If you're taking that long to make a decision, you should stick with the original I think. VAR is to clear up the howlers.

Playing catch up to France is an unenviable position. Pogba and Griezmann just looking to punish you and with Mbappe's pace, they did it expertly.

[Freedom]

Harry Kane wins the Golden Boot.

[Master]

The heavens have opened and rain coming down just needed the Croatian leader to have see through top in that rain.

[Freedom]

Clear and obvious dive: https://www.clippituser.tv/c/elgzzv

then the easy goal: https://www.clippituser.tv/c/vxyedk

Perišić "handball" in the box vs France: https://www.clippituser.tv/c/ypyvqn

[Mark TKO]

Didn’t watch but had a fiver on mbappe to score.

They said the England side was too young to win it this time yet France younger.

Why do we not produce flair players ??

[Memphis]

I think produce is the wrong word. These players aren't produced. If they were, we'd all have them all the time. They are born that way and along their football journey from boy to man they are encouraged and nurtured to become the talents we see at senior level.

When I was playing football at a pretty decent standard as a 15/16/17 year old, really talented players were being overlooked in favour of the biggest fittest fuckers who could muscle a ball into a net on a monotonous basis. Which was great, until the playing field started to level out physically and they were out of their depth technically. I could see it happening before my own young dopey eyes. We're not talking Sunday league fuck abouts here with managers who just happen to be free on a Sunday morning or have access to a van, proper coaches at championship clubs who really ought to have known fucking better even back then.

I think we've learned many a lesson over the last 20/25 years and we have started to see the fruit of those lessons in the players we have being far more technically accomplished than their predecessors and able to retain possession of a football much better. The real x factor players though, you cant teach that, you cant create a training drill to build a Hazzard De Bruyne partnership, you cant give them what they've got. You can help it along it's way, but it has to be there from the beginning.

With a bit of luck coaches are a bit more switched on these days and can spot the real players with the brains and flair to unlock defences and give them a go rather than binning them off in favour of a big lump who can run.