The Final: Argentina v France

[Papa Shango]

Well I think that Lionel looked quite dashing in his see through smock personally.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

 

[Martin Alvito]

We need to get Messi’s mobile number and send him a WhatsApp.

‘Oi Messi! Pay your taxes you ‘kin criminal. From everyone @ GOT x’

Think we delete the last sentence, use a VPN and blame an Aussie, myself.

 

[polish]

lol

Why on earth would they be?

What a wonderful life it was living in a socialist country. Happen to have the same experience?

 

[gonetomorrow]

What was that thing Messi was wearing? I missed the presentation.

 

[ilikecheese]

Pay your taxes you 'kin criminal.

Ummm...

Diego Maradona served with £33m tax bill by Italian authorities | Diego Maradona | The Guardian

Italy's tax collection agency has notified Diego Maradona that it will begin procedures to freeze his assets in Italy to pay off his tax debt of £33m

amp.theguardian.com

 

[toffee82]

Tell you that though.

If Salah played for Argentina, was better at footy and Pickford never assaulted Van Dijk he would be the GOAT

 

[Martin Alvito]

What was that thing Messi was wearing? I missed the presentation.

I looked it up since I have things to do, though I've been enjoying the celebration and resulting discussion. Apparently, it's called a bisht. You only get to wear one of those things over there if you have high social status - imam, royal, tribal leader and what not.

The implication seems to be that the Qataris were crowning him the king of football by putting it on him.

 

[Old Blue 2]

THE champagne moment of the World Cup! ???

 

[TyphooToffee]

Forward, backward, diagonal, irrelevant, still off his line before contact with the ball.

But not before the ball is kicked

 

[twoblue]

Argentina just won a World Cup with a Brighton midfielder that wouldn’t have made the England squad.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Let's just say that on this side of the pond there are some people with very strong opinions regarding Castro.

Yeah but Dr Ernesto G is simply one more in the pantheon of Argentine gods to level headed people.

 

[davek]

What a wonderful life it was living in a socialist country. Happen to have the same experience? lol

I wish.

Yours wasnlt under socialism btw. It was Stalinism.

 

[jonnyboy316]

What a dramatic game of football. I would rather of seen France win. I really don’t enjoy the dark arts on display from so many of the Argentinians.

As for Messi one of the few marks against him earlier in his career was a lack of charisma and leadership. He did not appear to be a leader of men but he found something in the last part of his international career to put that to bed.

Mbappe’s stock goes up as well. What an equalising goal. France were just not at it for the first hour. The better team won. Will be interesting to see if further information comes out about illness in the French camp. The future looks bright for them with the amount of talent they are producing. They will be the team to beat at the Euro’s

 

[toffeemeister77]

Oh god, we've got to go back to the abject misery of domestic footie now, haven't we? Booo.

Exactly what I was thinking.