World Cup 2014 Interesting Stuff Masterpost

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I am relatively happy, the team I cheer for didn't win, but my default team after them did. And they played nice football, sometimes.



Bastian Schweinsteiger: archetypal nearly man now the toast of Germany - http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jul/14/bastian-schweinsteiger-germany-world-cup

Nine-year-old girl’s adorable letter to cheer up David Luiz - https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/nine-old-girl-adorable-letter-cheer-david-luiz-095017611.html

Who Won the World Cup of Arm-Folding? - http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/07/03/world_cup_player_introductions_a_deep_analysis_of_how_soccer_players_fold.html

Switzerland's unlikely World Cup heroes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28085070

An article singing Miroslav Klose's praises - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27960930




Mario Goetze with the trophy - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/91781107504/photo-credit-damir-sagolj-reuters

In which David Luiz and Neymar conspire to make me cry -
http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/91194126179/taechic-i-only-wanted-to-see-my-people
http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90889585764/ive-had-the-dream-of-playing-in-the-world-cup

Giorgio Chielli being adorable and showing he has a sense of humour - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89992575224/blogkhaledlb90-a-maid-at-the-hotel-where-italy

Vincent Eneyama being lovely - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90164684044/vincent-enyeama-joking-with-the-referees-and

Romelu Lukaku and Kevin de Bruyne celebrate after Lukaku scores vs the US - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90557309739/romelu-lukaku-and-kevin-de-bruyne-celebrate-after

Huntelaar celebrating his goal vs Mexico - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90350004294/huntelaar-has-one-heck-of-a-leap-photo-credit

The Mexican coach celebrating after one of the goals vs Croatia - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90348538899/from-mexico-vs-croatia-photo-credit-paul

Mexican coach celebrating after one of the other goals vs Croatia - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89745739149/soccerinbrazil-whats-better-ochoa-running-all

I may, at present, be annoyed with Suarez, but this is an excellent photo - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89361731689/englands-present-chief-tormentor-photo-credit

Stephane M'Bia and Ivan Rakitic after the Cameroon - Croatia game - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89256499534/stephane-mbia-and-ivan-rakitic-after-the-cameroon

Joe Hart shaking hands with Andrea Pirlo after the Italy - England match and his wonderful reaction to *that* free kick - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/88880809554/can-we-talk-about-joe-harts-reaction-to-pirlos

Players being adorable in the presence of mascots

Dirk Kuyt being adorable - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90752683934/dirk-kuyt-being-adorable

Mario Yepes being adorable - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90251368189/mario

Mark Bresciano being adorable - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/88978715794/calcio-nel-cuore-icymi-australias-mark

Photos of fans being awesome:

The famously behatted and betrophy-ed Brazilian fan, handing his trophy over to nearby German fans, because football fans can be awesome - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/91267688974/wnyc-this-sad-brazilian-fan-was-shown-crying

England fans having a sense of humour about the whole mess - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89883871504/from-the-england-vs-costa-rica-game-photo-credit

Argentinian fans being their gloriously unreasonable selves - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89883570639/i-dont-wish-to-suggest-some-of-the-argentina-fans

Some Uruguayan fans taking their persecution complex a little too far - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90350501624/i-think-this-group-of-uruguayan-fans-win-the




Scolari and Dani Alves having fun before it all went horribly wrong - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89361442604/dani-alves-and-phil-scolari-having-fun

Samuel Eto'o being adorable - https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/cameroon-star-shares-heartfelt-moment-young-fan-223259156.html#more-id




The Pornhub twitter playing it oh so right - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/91197315159/cleoselene-miltonsong

In which there are terrible puns - Van gaal has krul intentions

Probably my favourite of the Suarez memes - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90060800034

Jurgen Klinsmann also playing it well - https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/day-off-cheeky-klinsmann-urges-us-fans-015059688.html#more-id

My favourite of the Google doodles - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89051740209/todays-google-doodle-is-perfect

Alan Hansen speaking for all of us on the topic of David Luiz - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/91249851034/luiz-gave-one-of-the-worst-performances-i-have

How Greek fans greeted their team coming home - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/90752811499/greek-fans-were-even-better-as-they-greeted

The Aussie fans winning hearts and minds - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/post/89574193489/brazil-360-england-are-out-and-now-we-can-just-enjoy