141 thoughts on “Oy vey!”

  1. Seriously – anyone else watching Germany-Brazil – is this really happening? Not some kind of weird dream?

    1. Watching. It’s insane. This game will go down in history….no kidding.

    1. I assume Germany is going to start pulling fans out of the stands to play for them.

    2. I agree. Germany is an amazing team, but Brazil is also having an awful game.

  3. I’m freaking out. This is crazy. I’ve just been laughing like a maniac.

  5. Brazil is shellshocked!!! Wow I turn it on and it’s already 5-0 and still 15 minutes left in 1st half. Might be 10-0 before it’s over. This is going to be the biggest defeat in Brazilian history. They are never going to live this down. Lot’s of Brazilians are gonna be drunk tonight.

  6. Follow @mlse (El Cafetero) on Twitter –
    https://twitter.com/mlse

    “Brazil hasn’t lost a competitive home game since 1975” well, this one hasn’t been competitive so that steak is still alive

    Billions spent on stadiums but I bet the Brazilians wish they’d saved some money for white towels

    1. Hemant Mehta just piped in on Twitter –
      Hobby Lobby’s contraception coverage offers better protection than Brazil’s defense.

      1. I can just keep posting great Twitter comments –
        Was always told there was not a direct English translation for “Schadenfreude”. Don’t need one now. Seeing it live.

        1. From @DaveLozo
          OK, Twitter. This one’s over. You’ve spent most of your great jokes. But we need 45 more minutes out of you, maybe more. You can do this.

      1. Only to the extent that the “halo effect” of soccer extends over her, and that she is at the mercy of that portion of the Brazilian population whose sense of self-worth and Purpose of Life is determined by the outcome of this sacred religious ritual involving moving a spheroid from Point A to Point B.

        Will “Brasileiros” be going out into the streets rioting and turning over cars if they don’t get their way today?

        I see in the New York Times today an article about Brasil no longer playingthe “Beautiful Game.” Is that what is happening today?

  7. Well if Germany is really that good, then US team must be pretty good team.

    1. Germany really are that good,Bob,and the US are a perfectly decent side who progressed at least as far in the tournament as their abilities permitted:keep trying (isn’t that the American way?).

  8. Germany blew a 4-0 half time lead in a “friendly” a year or so ago (wound up 4-4). But I don’t see any equivalent of Zlatan among their opponents.

  9. Saw the first German goal, turned around to send an e mail & turned around again and it was 4. WOW

    1. How foolish of you! 😉

      I waited until two goals were scored (the play was very exciting) before I turned around to respond to emails, so only missed #s 3 and 4. Fortunately I have rewind so I went back and watched the missed ones.

      Then I took a 30 second bathroom break in the second half and missed goal 6!

    1. Why, why would they do that???

      Losing a game of this magnitude in such a fashion will have enormous negative lifelong consequences for these players. Therefore, it would require some very, very substantial rewards to offset all of that.

      Yet all of these Brazilian players are paid huge sums of money to play football. So tell me, why in world would they do this?

      What is their incentive??? Have their lives been threatened or something?

    4. Bullshit. Google “Barbosa 1950” and think again if selling a game like this would be worth it for a Brazil player.

    5. No way – they simply centered their team and play around one person … who happened to get injured. Without him they (mostly) ran around like chicken with their heads cut off. It was sad to watch. But then again (as Brazil’s coach put it, I believe) it was fun to watch the German team play like Brazil at it’s best …

  14. Well, tear up my bracket now.

    Now we will hear the inevitable claims of match fixing, as if any compensation that these Brazilians would get from that would offset the lifelong infamy and humiliation they will suffer from this.

      2. Even if the Brazilian football team were the most venal collection of people born, they could not lose like this – it would be risking future reputation and possibly real physical risk.

        And at home it’s a humiliation.

        1-0 you could argue, but not something like this result.

  15. Mercy rule in effect. Only one minute of stoppage time despite FIVE goal celebrations.

    With 16 goals, Miroslaw Klose is now the all time leading World Cup scorer.

  16. Writing on deadline and Jerry’s Oy vey! made me go down to the kitchen area to see.

    3. Nope. Well, not unless you’re Brazilian maybe.

      Being English we have a usually* tongue-in-cheek rivalry with Germany, and see Brazilians as easy-come-easy-go party-goers but in this case:

      – Brazil have played pretty ugly football throughout the tournament, plus were very poor tonight.

      – Germany gave a masterclass of control and ruthlessness in the first half that could only be applauded.

      The best team (by a mile) won, with even the home crowd cheering them towards the end of the match. The weird thing is how complete the destruction was. At 3-0 it was funny, but by the end it was embarrassing. I don’t know if you noticed how muted the German team’s reaction at the end of that match was!

      * Our tabloids go ugly sometimes but that’s another matter.

  20. From Ricky Gervais on facebook:

    “This won’t be the first time that thousands of Germans will have to lie low in Brazil for a while for their own safety.”

      1. Although he’s now deleted it, Joe Root from the England cricket team tw**ted that “The only person wearing yellow tomorrow will be leading the Tour de France”

        Close!

    3. A few years ago I went on training in Boston. A very nice man named Frank, who worked for Boeing, explained that he had gone a vacation to Brazil and all the Brazilians knew he had German ancestry and he found that so strange. I had to explain to Frank why that was. He was so surprised as he didn’t honestly know. 🙂

        1. Frank was his first name. I forget his last name but it I think it was a German name.

          1. I can’t understand how anyone could determine a probable geographical origin without a surname. I could tell you quite a lot about Betancourt/Betancur and Echevarria e.g.(which are commonplace Latin American surnames) but you probably don’t need any input 😉

      1. It´s not illegal. But trust me, nobody´s going to sing it here (save a couple of idiots).

        1. You’re right, thanks! I thought the first verse was as it specifies some borders which have been in other countries at least since the war, but indeed, it was only illegal shortly after the war, unlike the Horst Wessel Lied.

          But no, I’ve never heard anyone sing it either outside a nazi parade, not even after 7:1 victories…

  30. Brazil still has a game to play (third place). They can’t just flee from the country.

        2. I think they’d find staying in Brazil would be preferable to going through German winters. (Brazilian players in the Bundesliga always seem to miss their play back after the winter break!)

  32. Germany stake their claim as the most consistently great (over time) international side ever. And they are. I agree with Seamus Malin that the greatest ever side -so far-was Brazilian,but the Germans run them close.

  33. A few words about the evils of soccer/football from the Russian Orthodox Church:

    “Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the squad] might as well wear women’s knickers or a bra,” Shumsky wrote. “The liberal ideology of globalism clearly wants to oppose Christianity with football. I’m sure of it.

    “Therefore I am glad that the Russian players have failed and, by the grace of God, no longer participate in this homosexual abomination.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/08/russia-world-cup-priest-boots-homosexual-abomination

    And I guess Jesus, looking at that scoreline from up on the hill would be nodding his head, if he could.

          2. LOL if by “modest” you mean wishing to evade proof of corruption. 🙂

    1. And we are. Seriously, I´m a German Football maniac, but nobody saw anything like this coming. And we know from 2006 how hard it is to lose a semifinal when everybody expects you to win your home World Cup. I really feel sorry for the Brazil Team, they´ve got character and don´t deserve what happenend tonight. Germany was good, but it surely was a lifetime experience, every shot a Goal. Just the Schürrle goal: You only score like this on a perfect day. Sorry to use the word destiny on this Website, but determination seems a little weak 🙂

      1. I’ll disagree with you here. Brazil are not a great team. They’ve got some very good players, but the 2 that held them together were out and the rest collapsed. That isn’t what I call character! Even when they were there Brazil were not playing the positive football that made them famous.

        The Germans played as a team in the true sense of the word. Certain people over here (UK) have been talking crap* about Ozil’s performance, but I think that he also had a good game even without scoring.

        I was quietly fancying Netherlands after their demolition of Spain in their first game but this German side are looking very dangerous. Are they going to be the first European side to win the tournament when it’s been hosted in South America?

        *I have no idea why this is. Maybe it’s related to Arsenal but I don’t have an opinion there!

  35. So what’s the bet, Faux news will be doing Obama – Brazil performance comparisons? Perfect opportunity to showcase Obama derangement syndrome.

  36. Genuinely astonishing, without doubt the worst defensive performance I have ever seen from a “proper” international team (i.e. not North Korea or San Marino etc).

    Brazil actually had some half-decent attacks in the 2nd half and the consolation wasn’t undeserved, but the 1st half defending was just gobsmackingly shambolic.

    Sometimes only “Oy vey” will do.

  37. Well that was worse than what they did to Australia, England & Argentina last time. And very decent in victory too, I must say. I really like this team.

    In England people have been complaining that playgrounds and places where kids can play football have been disappearing from the cities, despite the Premier league being a billion+ pound business. Here in Germany, the Football Association invested in building enclosed areas with high fences in parks & playgrounds all through the country, and simply inviting kids to play football.

    This team is a product of that policy.

    Really sport is for kids. Adults can play too of course, for fun & fitness etc, but they won’t do it unless they loved playing as kids.

    1. Actually to be more concise, a touchdown worth six points plus a kicked point after touchdown (PAT) for American style “football”. Otherwise, one wonders if some Brazilians will be rioting tonight?

  39. There’s been a good football team here tonight, and there’s been some brazilians… 🙂

  40. In one century (if Global Warming, Al Qaeda, ISIS or Republicans don’t make us disappear) people are going to be referring to this game, the same way they refer to the Maracanazo in 1950.

    2. Brilliant. Messi you might want to pray, though it will do you no good if this is in your future. If you defeat Germany then you will be god.

    1. Nobody has,my friend;we have witnessed a little bit of social history of the significant kind.

      1. That’s the problem! The money probably wasn’t well spent no matter if Brazil had won or not. But before that game, a majority probably was willing to let that pass, now the public opinion might be turning. And because of what? The fact that Brazil didn’t win …

    2. I wonder how many fewer/more goals Germany/Brazil would have to have scored for it not to occur to The Telegraph to utter that pearl.

  44. Just wondering what readers would come up with as comparable hammerings of one top team by another in top competition.

    2. Seattle (43) over Denver (8) in SuperBowl XLVIII, but I am biased having “growed up” in Seattle.

      1. The last Aus victory was worse than this, I would argue. I doubt Germany would beat Brazil 12 games out of 13 on the hop! (And I also doubt Brazil would respond by promoting the coach and sacking their best performer!)

    5. In non-sporting context (unless you consider chess to be a sport), we might consider Bobby Fischer’s two 6-0 whitewashes of leading grandmasters in the 1971 Chess Candidates tournament: Mark Taimanov & Bent Larsen.

      These guys weren’t duffers, by the way.

      Poor old Taimanov was punished by the soviet authorities (who wrongly suspected him of losing for ‘political’ reasons) by taking away his salary & refusing to let him travel abroad.
      (After Fischer beat Larsen they relented.)

      1. As the joke went at the time:
        Have you heard that Solzhenitsyn is in trouble? They have found Taimanov’s book on the Nimzo-Indian defence in his luggage.

  45. I was upset that I missed this match today, but I had a ten mile hike scheduled and did the right thing. On my way back, I was walking through Mtn. View and some guy in a German team jersey came bursting out of one of the tech firms there and was running around the parking lot screaming and jumping in the air. I knew something good had happened, but WOW! what a blowout.

    Now I don’t feel so bad about picking Germany to beat Brazil 2-1 in the final game, since they couldn’t meet in the final. I would have lost the score part anyway. I thought it would be closer…

  46. Saw the fifth goal while waiting in line at the bank; that was all I got to see. Pretty much all I needed to see.

    Watching Pompeii right now. What an awful movie. But hey, the volcano’s got nothin’ on what the Germans did to Brazil today.

  47. I think the Brazilian team is despondent and “deflated” following Neymar’s fractured vertebra, it lost its impetus and enthusiasm. The German team basically shot at the ambulance, as the French expression says. (“Tirer sur l’ambulance” means to make things worse for somone who is already in a desperate situation.)

  48. Well the result was not a resounding success for those who believe in the power of prayer!!!

    1. It merely proves that Allah is god, as the German team has some members with an islamic cultural background. Obviously, only then their prayers would overrule all the christian ones.

  50. The Brazilian fans as a mass lacked humility (perhaps all fans do?!) & put ridiculous pressure on their distinctly average team, which was unfair to those poor players.

  51. Could I suggest Brazil take a leaf from English-Australian cricket matches – //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes .

    So, burn the goalposts (after the competition), keep the ashes in an urn, label it “The Death of Brazilian Football”, and henceforth fixtures between Brazil and Germany be dubbed “The Ashes”.

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