The Official FIFA World Cup Thread 2014

[Axl_morris]

Lets beat the yankee scum.

£145 if it ends 3-2 Germany

[ronaldo9]

Yellow on the ref there...

[ronaldo9]

So far, so good. Shaky in the beginning, but seemed to settle down. Interesting to see Jones playing so far up. Like the current situation with Portugal up a goal.

Edited June 26, 2014 by ronaldo9

[ronaldo9]

Thank you, Ronaldo. Can exhale a bit.

[Lio]

Nails all polished and ready for the game later on. Go, Red Devils!! (Yes, girls watch football too.)

[RandallFlagg]

You only watch it cause of Fellaini's luscious locks.

[bran]

USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dan H.]

USA ADVANCES!

[Thin White Duke]

Meh. That's it. Stupid Germany. They couldn't score 4 today, right? Only the first day.

[ColdHeartBreaker]

Oh no

The obnoxious USA chants

[bran]

Oh no

The obnoxious USA chants

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lio]

So if all goes well, we'll eliminate the USA on Tuesday and then on to Argentina on Saturday. But let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet. We're always great in disappointing.

[bran]

suarez only got 9 games and then 4 months for doing the same thing 3 times?

[ronaldo9]

Oh no

The obnoxious USA chants

You know you like it.

[santana]

suarez only got 9 games and then 4 months for doing the same thing 3 times?

It's bullshit, but still better than nothing.

[ronaldo9]

[Lio]

Kompany is injured. Witsel and Alderweireld have yellow.

Edited June 26, 2014 by Lio

[AtariLegend]

suarez only got 9 games and then 4 months for doing the same thing 3 times?

It's bullshit, but still better than nothing.

...But when Shearer or whoever else during their career elbowed other players intentionally multiple times it's okay? Zidane's head butt in 2006 wasn't his first either and he got a 3 match ban (whether he was retiring it or not)

Surzez deserves his ban, but putting social standards aside. That was hardly the most violent or painful thing to ever happen to a player on pitch as a result of another player.

[santana]

suarez only got 9 games and then 4 months for doing the same thing 3 times?

It's bullshit, but still better than nothing.

...But when Shearer or whoever else during their career elbowed other players intentionally multiple times it's okay? Zidane's head butt in 2006 wasn't his first either and he got a 3 match ban (whether he was retiring it or not)

Surzez deserves his ban, but putting social standards aside. That was hardly the most violent or painful thing to ever happen to a player on pitch as a result of another player.

Who was even talking about Shearer or Zidane?

[AtariLegend]

suarez only got 9 games and then 4 months for doing the same thing 3 times?

It's bullshit, but still better than nothing.

...But when Shearer or whoever else during their career elbowed other players intentionally multiple times it's okay? Zidane's head butt in 2006 wasn't his first either and he got a 3 match ban (whether he was retiring it or not)

Surzez deserves his ban, but putting social standards aside. That was hardly the most violent or painful thing to ever happen to a player on pitch as a result of another player.

Who was even talking about Shearer or Zidane?

Shearer is one of the pundits here on the UK coverage that was calling for him to get the longest ban possible. I'm talking about the media here.

[RandallFlagg]

I'm still laughing at Zidane's headbutt even two world cups on. Proper mortal kombat ''FINISH HIM'' shit.

[Nosaj Thing]

Fuck Suarez and fuck Uruguay too. I'm laughing my ass off at them right now.

[Ace Nova]

Surzez deserves his ban, but putting social standards aside. That was hardly the most violent or painful thing to ever happen to a player on pitch as a result of another player.

There's a difference between kicking someone and biting someone. Biting someone is purely barbaric and you can actually transmit several diseases through biting.....

5 Diseases You Can Get From Being Bitten—By A Human

As Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suárez demonstrated yesterday, sometimes people bite others.

Here are five diseases you can get from human chomps.

By Douglas Main

smithsonian.com

June 25, 2014

It's not every day that you hear of a human being biting another. But Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suárez showed us all yesterday that people—even full-grown humans—occasionally bite others. During a match with Italy, Suárez appeared to chomp the shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. "Surely not again," the announcer said. "Surely not again." Yes, Suárez has bitten players during games twice before.

Most cases of human bites involve children or drunk people. (One question nobody's asked: Perhaps Suárez is a drunk child?) One case study of 92 bitten people found that 86 percent of cases involved alcohol (and 92 percent of bitees—the actual technical name!—were men). But these injuries are no laughing matter, as bite wounds can be very serious, even deadly. Here are five diseases than can be spread from bites:

1. Infections. Human mouths contain high levels of bacteria, especially of the variety that can infect human tissues. And bites quite effectively transfer these bugs. "The bacterial inoculum"—that which can be grown out and detected—"of human bite wounds is rich in oral flora, containing as many as 100 million organisms per milliliter that represent as many as 190 different species," Medscape noted. Yes, you have a dirty mouth.

About 10 to 20 percent of human bites become infected, and these can become quite nasty. Most bites, and infections, occur on the hand—in fact, about one third of hand infections come from bites.

"These infections can move quickly and cause major complications, including destruction of the joint, if not treated promptly," according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

One review of 50 cases of human bites found an average of four infectious agents. More than half of the infections contained Streptococcus anginosus, a bacterium in the same genus as that which causes strep throat. Nearly a third involved Staphylococcus aureus, the cause of most Staph infections.

2. Hepatitis B and C. Both of these viruses, but especially Hep B, can come from a bite. Both affect the liver, and this study suggests that anybody who is bitten should be tested for Hepatitis B. It also suggests that the biter be tested for Hep C, since it is more likely that the aggressor will get this (typically) blood-borne pathogen from drawing blood. On that note, if vampires existed, they would likely be a very diseased bunch.

3. HIV. It is technically possible, though very very unlikely, for somebody to acquire human immunodeficiency virus by biting or being bitten. Here is a case described in the Malawi Medical Journal of a woman getting HIV after being bitten on her lip by a HIV-positive sex worker during a fight. Here is another (disgusting) case of a man getting HIV from his son after a fight—in which the HIV-positive foster son bit off the man's thumbnail. It had previously been generally assumed the HIV couldn't be transmitted through saliva, since saliva inhibits the virus, but that doesn't appear to be true in every case.

4. Herpes. Oh great, you can get herpes from a bite. Several studies said this was possible; no specific case reports turned up. It of course stands to reason this could happen since the herpes simplex virus is carried in saliva.

5. Rabies. This may seem like the obvious one. However, though "human-to-human transmission by bite is theoretically possible," it has never been confirmed, according to the World Health Organization.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5-diseases-you-can-get-being-bitten-human-suarez-180951847/?no-ist

Edited June 26, 2014 by Kasanova King

[RandallFlagg]

I watched him bite that player in Holland whilst he was playing for Ajax, he just leaned in like a proper vampire, second time he was like a zombie chomping on Ivanovic's arm, this time he seemed as if he'd been possessed by a sewer rat, that'd be a better excuse than 'these things happen, I collided with his shoulder'.

[MB.]

Well done Belgium!