It's 8:33. Nah, things went kind of down around 4 am. But I feel everyone's going to be in a happy mood today. Need a lot of things done so i figure I'd use the opportunity today. And whatever happens now, it's good.
The English WERE kind of smug and disrespectful. That makes it even better. Croatia motivated by English pundits’ lack of respect, says Luka Modric Lesson learned. Never underestimate your opponent. Vrsaljko: My motto has always been 'do your talking on the pitch
“Imagine if Croatian football had England’s money!” the manager, Zlatko Dalic, had said after beating Russia in the quarter-finals. The last time such a small country made it to a World Cup was Uruguay in 1950, and Uruguay went on to win. Zagreb rocks: ‘We have heart, we are proud and we have been forged in war’
Well isn't this poetic lol Croatia Digs Deeper, Burying England’s World Cup Dreams MOSCOW — Their legs had stopped working long before the end. Their muscles ached, their lungs heaved, their bodies creaked and groaned. Croatia’s players had hit their limits and traveled beyond them, yet again; they had drained themselves of adrenaline; they had passed deep into the red, into the pain. And still, even as their movements grew stiff and their tendons tight, when they were gasping for breath and it looked as though they could not possibly give any more, they kept going, kept chasing, kept running: past England, into the World Cup final, into history. .... All but one of the superpowers have gone: Brazil and Germany, Argentina and Spain are out. Croatia, this nation of four million people, remains. Only France stands between this team and what would, most likely, rank as the most remarkable World Cup victory in history. .... The present belonged to the players he was watching, those that made Croatia the smallest country to reach the World Cup final since Uruguay in 1950, that turned this team into a modern marvel. The players who did not stop running, even when their bodies were screaming at them to stop, even when they could not catch their breath, even when their very bones groaned under the load. They have worked for their prize; they have earned it.