MrDuck

6.5mil according to the BBC

Wait... what? How does it make sense to let someone other than our best penalty taker take a penalty?

Cantona on Neymar ?

All they have to do is give out a few 3 game bans for people doing this and watch how quick they stop. We have the technology!

Apart from Neymar being a cockwomble. That was very predictable

Ideal result in Uruguay game would be a Portugal loss, but Suarez getting sent off and banned ?

He's scored every other game in a career of about 500 games. Reckon he's doing something right...

Yeah, cos if there's one thing you can be sure of about Bruce, it's that he's that kind of person ?

I can't agree with Uruguay at 3, but they're certainly more accurate that the FIFA rankings!

Herd's face has a distinct "how did it come to this?" look about it...

This is the age group you want playing though. It's the failure to bring them on further that hurts, and I think the FFA are largely to blame for this. I've been playing here in various leagues for nearly 20 years, and the one consistent thing has been a complete lack of organisation, plan, and most importantly money invested in the amateur leagues. Colleague of mine was on the books of Brisbane Roar a few years back as an apprentice, but had to jack it in as the money was so terrible, he just couldn't afford to live. Then he had to stop playing in the top state league, as the money was virtually non-existent yet the training required meant he couldn't hold down a full time job. You're right about the costs - I recently had to pay $500 for my 10 year old daughter to play in the girls U11 league!

That hasn't been the case for a while though. In terms of participation, football outranks other sports by a mile. It's only in terms of TV viewing figures that other codes are ahead.

Not having a dig at you ThunderPower, but I think it's a bit tiresome that this is often wheeled out as an excuse. I think the joke that is the FFA is largely to blame for the state of Australian football, as you say, but I don't think our population is relevant. Comparitively: Netherlands - 17mil Belgium - 11mil Portugal - 10mil Sweden - 9mil Switzerland - 8mil Demark - 5mil Croatia - 4mil Uruguay - 3mil Iceland - 300k

Madness to start planning for a quarter final game when there's a last 16 game to be played first. All the teams we'll meet from here on in are very good, we should be trying to keep our winning momentum going.

Auf Weidersehen Pet

30 quid extra to buy that shirt with a Blues badge on it. Jeez that's embarrassing ?

Demitri Petrados is pretty handy, but he's already 26. Skillful player though.

He's a spent force that shouldn't be anywhere near the world cup. May as well have dug out Viduka!

Table Football, South American style. Or Portuguese. Take yer pick!

Perhaps. I just find it hard to be anything but exceptionally cynical with regards to FIFA these days.

Offers more than Cahill these days, in fairness.

FIFA are not going to allow the tournament's most marketable player to be sent off and banned, it simply won't happen.

Is Lingard still shit? Strange watching Ashley Young as the team's senior player. I think he does a good job using his experience, keeps a cool head - we definitely need a player like that in such a youthful team.

Yep, Sweden had a crystal clear pen against Germany even without VAR, ridiculous.