Fabio Capello branded a ‘thief’ after Russia’s early World Cup exit

theguardian.com/ ^ | 2 July 2014 | Shaun Walker

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... “We need to look into his work and ask him to resign,” said Zhirinovsky, according to the Russian media. “But he’s greedy, so of course he won’t. It’s pretty good to get [millions] for doing nothing. The team lost and it doesn’t affect his pay in any way. Thief!” Zhirinovsky, whose public utterances can be truly shocking (he recently threatened to have his aides rape a pregnant journalist), said that even Capello’s appearance was not right. “Even the way he looks makes it hard to like him,” the politician said. “He looks like a schoolteacher.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

Happy 4th of July! :D

First Quarterfinals Day & Fireworks in Russia...

Since 2008, Capello has earned £26m from his time as England and Russia manager, delivering just a solitary World Cup victory over two campaigns.

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Brazil World Cup team calls in psychologist after Chile match tears
Brazil's manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has called on a psychologist to bolster the national football team after a near emotional meltdown during Saturday's nailbiting World Cup game against Chile.

The expert counselling before the quarter-final against Colombia on Friday follows a barrage of criticism by the domestic media after key players sobbed before the penalty shootout in the Chile match.

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Germany confident their ‘better’ team will beat France
Toni Kroos reflected the confidence within the German ranks when he declared that his country had a better team than France and it was merely a matter of proving it in the quarter-final tie at the Maracanã.

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France enters World Cup game vs. Germany eager to erase woes of recent years
you shouldn’t mention South Africa

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“How much did you suffer?”

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"How much did you suffer?"

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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/5lfd/5lfd_20140703-2053a.mp3

[DisorderOnBorder]

Capello still thinks dealing with the English FA was much worse than anything Zhirinovsky would say...

[Tax-chick]

Serves them right for not having a Russian coach.

[1rudeboy]

Russia should get a German coach. Then we could say that our German is better than their German.

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LOL.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

“Even the way he looks makes it hard to like him,” the politician said. “He looks like a schoolteacher.”

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Anyway, looking forward to the games today. France/Germany should be a titanic battle. Oh yeah!

Love the World Cup. Hate when it's over!

[BeadCounter]

Did they say Klose starts? That is a big change but probably a good move. Could be down to some people having the flu.

Good Luck Miroslav.

[cartan]

Thank God that Löw was not stubborn enough to stick to his awful new tactics. The old 4-2-3-1 worked great again. I was convinced that Germany would win as soon as I saw the initial formation.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Semifinal! :)

[cartan]

I’ll be on a business trip in Holland, then. Hope I will find a place where people watch the game, and won’t lynch the only German fan there ;-)

[safeasthebanks]

Capellini has no need to worry. Remember Ann Coulter says there’s no accountability in soccer.

[cartan]

Ann Coulter:

As with Algeria’s glorious 1-1 tie game against Russia, Team USA tied Portugal and lost to Germany—and then advanced. How did the U.S. fail to win in two straight games, but advance in this apparently interminable tournament? I believe we are witnessing the implementation of that favorite rule of soccer moms: “Everybody's a winner!!!”

I love Ann, but math is not exactly her strong side :-p

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Wear an orange clown wig