Ah, in the end it felt like a fairly uncontroversial semi. I'm glad not to have to wake up at 5am next week though here in Australia - we'll chime in when we wake up at 6 and catch the last of it, and hope it doesn't go to penalities so we can make it to work.
I love the world cup so much - it does what it says, re connecting people, but then we don't have Argentinians as neighbours, haha, only a French woman who we have not seen since they lost. We could only dream of France v England to drink wine with the neighbours, but what a pipe dream.
Don't Argentians have a religion around football? As in, literally, the Maradonian church? :P
I loved the camera pan to the ecstatic Argentinian fans and the crying English knights. Two polar emotions.
I love how you get history, politics, sport, everything in the world game. Bring on the next four years.
My English husband isn't too sad - he thinks England did well to get where they were, and they could never beat Argentina.
There was a massive bar fight at the end of the game, with a Chinese man hating on foreigners for some random reason - totally unrelated to the football lol, but it softened the blow with a sufficient distraction that had the police come round.
I'm also please I don't need to do that again because it's already wrecked my sleeping pattern, urgh.
Hah, you mean like the Argentinians setting fire to our flag, spitting and stamping on them, and having threatening signs about killing us? Lovely people eh! Then again if anyone has a fun drama reason to do that it's them.
Yeah I mean it was a fun journey and we'd only get disappointed against Spain a few days later so it's no biggy. I'm just annoyed because they failed for the same reason they always fail. Everyone thought it was the previous manager's weak, boring and defensive style, Tuchel being more aggressive and such. But the exact same thing happens even under him, so it's just an inherent failure built into the team for some reason they can't shake.
Basically, score one goal, then defend for the rest of the game until the opponent scores.
If they just lost fair and square in a solid battle of two greats, I'd be super satisfied.
Also pretty annoyed that there's an entire 1:15 video compilation of every foul Argentina committed, some of them clearly red card offences, and had nothing happen to them. One was 5 seconds before they scored a goal.
But then we knew that was going to happen going in...
I don't know about all of that drama. Sigh. England lost, Argentina played well, I'm sure they were dicks as well, and yes, many countries have good historical reason to hate the English, but it's probably time they moved on.