# Omnibus World Football Thread 2020-2022 (edited) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-soccer-fifa\ **Created:** [August 16, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264 "2020-08-16T15:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 77
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1522 "2025-07-13T21:18:22Z")
And now Donnarumma goes bonkers after the final whistle. Don’t know what triggered him, but looked like he might get some trouble in the aftermath. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1523 "2025-07-13T21:22:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Never seen a more pathetic foul A real girlie move, and that in front of the president who asked the Juventus players in the Oval Office what they thought of women playing against them and wouldn’t it be unfair (to whom was not clear). I hope he was distracted or asleep by then, so late in the game, otherwise he might reach the wrong conclusions. Oh, wait… > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > And now Donnarumma goes bonkers after the final whistle. Damn! I closed that tab too early? The German commentators were getting on my nerves. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1524 "2025-07-13T21:28:33Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Damn! I closed that tab too early? The German commentators were getting on my nerves. I followed the game the other way around from you, on the TV with sound muted, listening to music and browsing the Dope. Maybe that’s the better approach to watching over-hyped, blown-up football tournament finals? (I saw there even was a Super Bowl like half time show, though I didn’t know any of the artists. And of course, Trump watched the game side by side with Infantino 🤮) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1525 "2025-07-14T00:21:40Z")
Those Donnarumma to Chelsea rumors take on some additional excitement now… ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1526 "2025-07-14T01:48:24Z")
Diego tried to organize an international player’s union, they should’ve listened to Him. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1527 "2025-07-14T01:49:10Z")
I’m happy because one of my favorite teams in the world won the tournament, my beloved “Anyone-but-PSG”. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1528 "2025-07-14T01:59:05Z")
I’m generally on the side of not-PSG, not-Real Madrid, and not-Chelsea, so this was a rough tournament for me. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1529 "2025-07-14T07:55:35Z")
That, and not-Bayern too. It was no fun. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1530 "2025-07-14T16:16:44Z")
CWC is definitely a third tier competition in my own list of favorites but there was apparently a very nice crowd on an unpleasantly hot afternoon. I’m becoming increasingly concerned about fixture congestion. Grueling numbers of games have a serious downside (looking at all of you American-centric sports, too). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1531 "2025-07-15T08:50:52Z")
Copying a link from the neighboring thread about the trump adminstration’s continuing clusterfuck into the football thread, because the trophy handed to Chelsea was fake. The 47th president of the USA kept the original in the Oval Office because it shines so nicely, he couldn’t resist. And Mafiantino, of course, did not dare to oppose: > **[Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the...](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/trump-kept-gold-club-world-143527223.html)** > > Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself. Truly a worthy successor of Sepp Blatter. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1532 "2025-07-15T09:07:31Z")
I dunno. I mean, he’s an oily, gladhanding shitheel, don’t get me wrong, but he’s going to have to suck up to trump through the World Cup, particularly because, with matches sprawling across Canada and Mexico, he’ll really need the orange infant to want it to succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1533 "2025-07-18T03:00:11Z")
England beat Sweden today in the Women’s Euro tournament in a penalty shootout that featured…9 combined misses. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1534 "2025-07-18T06:30:32Z")
So… thirteen of the players on the field were married? 🙂 A little more precisely, there were two misses (both by Sweden), one shot on frame but off the post, and six saves. A few of those shots saved could have been struck a little more forcefully. England’s equalizing (er, equalising) goal was scored by Michelle Agyemang, which must be a common surname in Ghana as the U.S. has a striker also from there named Patrick Agyemang. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1535 "2025-07-27T12:27:27Z")
Spain v England in a couple of hours, who ya got? England has been pretty good in the late stages of their games, Spain has pretty balanced in its overall play. Saw that tv viewership for the semifinals was up significantly from the last Euro. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1536 "2025-07-27T16:26:15Z")
It’s hard to bet against a Spanish team in a major tournament final. And just as I type that, they score the opening goal. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1537 "2025-07-27T17:14:19Z")
And a very fine header by Russo for the equalizer. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1538 "2025-07-27T18:34:46Z")
England just barely hold on for penalties. A lot of their usual PK takers are subbed out though… plenty of pressure now. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1539 "2025-07-27T18:47:12Z")
England win after Spain miss 3 out of 4 penalties. Oof. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1540 "2025-07-27T18:48:43Z")
¡Mierda! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264/1541 "2025-07-27T18:53:47Z")
England _win_ on penalties? I didn’t know they were allowed to do that! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-world-football-thread-2020-2022-edited/918264.md?page=78)