Trying to wind down after this morning's World Cup excitement ? How about the latest #Brainticket episode for your listening pleasure, with new #Prog music by Motorpsycho, Yes, Gong, Soft Machine, Big Big Train, Stephan Thelen, Crippled Black Phoenix, and Tori Amos. 🫨🎧☺️

Man. After that performance you don't deserve to go out, Cabo Verde. #ARGCPV

just as we all predicted — argentina miraculously withstanding a furious shooting gallery by a dominant cabo verde attack to hang on for a 3-2 extra time win.

This is the plucky underdog story this World Cup needed. #ARGCPV 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💙💙💙 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

CAPE VERDE GOLAZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND WE’RE TIED AGAIN 🫪🇨🇻💥

Transfer value of the Argentinian national team: $1 billion GDP of Cabo Verde: $3.45 billion

Stop the tournament, Gianni, we have a winner. #ARGCPV

OH. MY. GODS. #ARGCPV

This is the plucky underdog story this World Cup needed. #ARGCPV 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💙💙💙 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Look, forget Ronaldo or Messi. Clearly, Vozinha is the GOAT. #ARGCPV

Oh YES. Go you beautiful sharkies… 💙 You. 💙 Can. 💙 Do. 💙 This. 💙 #ARGCPV 🦈

Faaark. Really, really rough on Herrington to burden him with this too, after such a fabulous tournament for him. Surely someone else could have stepped up. #AUSEGY Anyway, all eyes now on Cabo Verde ending Argentina’s run. 🇨🇻✊🇨🇻✊🇨🇻

No pressure then Matty. #AUSEGY

Australia is rightly world-famous for its beautiful Beaches. #AUSEGY 🧤💛🧤

Look, clearly I’m totally new to football and have never watched a match before, but now that we’ve started, can I suggest that perhaps we should try to score again ? #AUSEGY

Oh, the ref’s from Uruguay. Now it all makes sense – they don’t really believe in fouls there. #AUSEGY

Hmm, we got the 1:1, but now we seem to have stopped attacking ? #AUSEGY

😴⏰☕️ OK then here we bloody G🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱… Let’s go Australia ! #AUSEGY 💚💛💚💛💤💤

It'll be a steep learning curve for them, but I'm looking forward to Nine doing journalism now. 🕵️

They, err, what, ABC News ? Didn’t need that image in my head during breakfast, thanks. 🧤💉🤯 #ENGDRC www.abc.net.au/news/...

Hey ABC TV Queensland: a single month-on-month decline in the median Australian house price of 0.4% does not seem to justify the heading ‘PRICES PLUMMET’. Maybe just stick to the actual facts, hey.

You know, I could absolutely live with the idea of Mexico winning the World Cup. Right there, in a final played in the United States. Getting their winners’ medals handed to them by the Wrinkled Orange. 🇲🇽✊

Here’s what those ‘secret’ documents are going to say: “This is absolute nonsense. Even the government’s own public servants are privately telling us they are fully aware this so-called ‘ban’ is completely unenforceable and bound to fail.”

Just a one-handed slap save, as you do. #NEDMAR 🖐️

Germany and the Netherlands going out on penalties on the same day would have some kind of neat symmetry if I'm honest. #GERPAR #NEDMAR 🫲🫤🫱

Also, looks like Germany has caught the English Penalty Disease. We must urgently withdraw all German players from the Premier League and impose a complete quarantine on British Isles before it spreads any further. #GERPAR

Right. So Germany still haven’t progressed again to a round of 16 since they won the World Cup in 2014. Probably won’t either, until their next scheduled win in 2034. #GERPAR

Yeah, Baumann would have… Wait a minute. 🫨 #GERPAR

Just quickly queueing up five “Yeah, Baumann would have had that” posts. #GERPAR

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Maybe sub on Baumann for the penalty shootout at least, Julian ? Just an idea. 🤔 #GERPAR

That is some bullshit. #GERPAR

So will there be mini-hydration breaks half-way through the extra-time halves too, Gianni ? Or did you actually fail to think of that additional grifting opportunity ? #GERPAR

Yaaay, 30 more minutes of this. How lucky we are. #GERPAR

On the upside, Germany may well have the makings of a world-beating Walking Football team here. #GERPAR 🧑‍🦯‍➡️

This is what it looks like when expertise leaves the government, but refuses to disappear.

They just continue to insist that there are massive crowds showing up to this thing despite the fact that this is also the 200th anniversary of the invention of the camera.

Good GODS – somehow we managed to score ? Against Paraguay ? Did not see this plot twist coming. #GERPAR Phew, I guess now we can stop attacking, and hang on for the penalty shootout. 🫣

Congrats, Paraguay. That’s a well-parked bus. #GERPAR 🚌

Yeah, Baumann would have held that. #GERPAR 🙄

If only the Australian government spent as much time and effort on crises that aren’t entirely made up – like, you know, climate, housing, gambling, domestic violence, etc. You passed a law that demands the impossible. What did you expect to happen ? 😫

If only the Australian government spent as much time and effort on crises that aren’t entirely made up – like, you know, climate, housing, gambling, domestic violence, etc. You passed a law that demands the impossible. What did you expect to happen ? 😫

Jeebus Fitzgerald Cripes. Definitely not a prearranged result then. 😲🫨🫣 #ALGAUT

The #ALGAUT national anthems are still being sung, and the SBS commentator has already managed to refer to the 1982 Disgrace of Gijón match between Germany and Austria that put Algeria out of that cup (en.wikipedia.org/wik...#ALGAUT. Nice work. Time to right some wrongs, perhaps.

German football news headline on the #COLPOR match: “Ronaldo disappoints again”. 🤣

Unless I’ve missed it, this World Cup seems to be the first major tournament in years without wall-to-wall advertising for the Saudi murderprince’s deeply unserious NEOM vapourware project. 🤪 Looks like they’ve now switched to greenwashing fossil pollution giant Aramco instead. 🛢️🔥

📡 Is it Saturday already ? Then #Brainticket is the show, and space is the place. Featuring excellent space rock from Ozric Tentacles, My Brother the Wind, Øresund Space Collective, and E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr. #Prog 🛰️

That is hilarious on so many levels. Thanks LinkedIn – what would I do without you ? 🤣

Bit nervous about this. #PARAUS 🫤