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And most Engerland games are so tedious, I’d recommend taking acid to enliven them
Even hearing the 'Great Escape' theme these days makes me feel a bit sick.
Might be worth watching to see Maguire repeatedly getting caught out of position or giving away the ball in dangerous areas.
It would be more interesting to spike the teams drinks with acid, shudder to think where your imagination would go having a bad trip in midfield with slabhead behind you
Funny you should mention that. That would explain McFred in the second half of last season
would explain Ronnys interview as well !
That's absolutely bizarre
It may work out well for Ten Hag and United. He can get rid of Ronaldo from the dressing room and unify the team somewhat. Hopefully United will sack Ronaldo.
Hopefully United will sack Ronaldo.
If the rumours are to be believed, they’ve already started legal proceedings against him for breech of contract.
He’s making himself look like a right bell end. What a way to end your career.
A bit like the acid idea, I'd propose football games to have a modern jazz interlude, at some indeterminate point in the game the players all stop and mark time, while the player on the ball goes off on a mazy dribble, scoring at both ends, maybe dribbling down the tunnel and onto the food concession concourses...... eventually returning to the pitch to a smattering of applause whereupon the game just restarts as if nothing has happened.
I’ve got the Italia 90 documentary lined up for tonight so I can be all nostalgic and old.
Everything this World Cup won’t be
If the rumours are to be believed, they’ve already started legal proceedings against him for breech of contract
It'll tell us who wears the trousers.
Well with 1 month to the new year Infantino has given Putin a run for his money in the Lost the Plot award.
I see he’s showing the same astute cultural sensibilities and ability to read the room as his predecessor.
There must be an Alan Partridge led recruitment bureau set up to headhunt FIFA morons.
FIFA Boss Infantino telling the West off about being hypocritical about Qatar, we can only hope that all of this will at some time spell the death for FIFA, they just don't care about how they look or act.
A man who is apparently paid $250,000 a month saying he feels like a migrant worker and he understands racism and homophobia because he’s a ginger
Righto
He's just a shit Mick Lynch lookalike
In some rather good World Cup news, the Guardian have got Marina Hyde writing a column in it. If you’ve not read her footy stuff before, she knows her stuff
https://twitter.com/marinahyde/status/1593703034013433856?s=46&t=OhkN5igg4ny1dyEFGFBxww
That Guardian article is brilliant! Well worth a read - made me laugh at the absurdity of it all…
I'm new to Marina Hyde but will bookmark this.
Out for a beer tonight, ready with selfie to send to my work colleague who's in Qatar.
He used to like beer until yesterday.
Watching the BBC coverage in the build up to the opening game.
Fair play to the pundits and the coverage. They're not reluctant to severely criticise the corruption that got the tournament here, the treatment of the workers involved in building the infrastructure and the lack of tolerance towards homosexuality etc
+1, bit of a catchy slogan but Lineker said he was there to report, not support.
So, first question of the WC. Why do all national anthems sound the same, as in they're all variations on a western style military march? No arabian influence at all on that Qatari one?
Yep, it was good although I do wonder if they'll be on the next flight back home
I hope Ecuador absolutely spank them, 6-0 will be nice.
This could get embarrassing
Edit: I think they just found some bribe money they'd forgotten about🤔
Phantom offside…Qatar to win WC
Nope, first ball in at the freekick would be the assumption, but wlt see that proved.
Nope, first ball in at the freekick would be the assumption, but wlt see that proved
Probably correct, doesn’t fit with conspiracy theory though…
Ooo, penalty!
OK, wrong but seems decision was right anyway. People forget it's two players between the attacker and the goalline, it most usually is one plus the GK but when he's off on walkabout.....
and now.... he's not made the best start has he?
dreadful header, technique all wrong 😉
Sitter…
replay made it look offside anyway
VAR may not have seen it 😂
I properly LOLed...
you grasping shitmuncher
HAHHAHHAHA - it gets better...
And so it is that – game after game – “dignitaries” from this vicious, censorious, homicidal, women-hating regime will turn out to sit in a giant fanny.
That line in her article made me laugh so much my chest hurt (maybe related to a 4 week old Covid cough)
Hyde is usually excellent
Ooof that looked painful
Football still has a long way to go when it comes to head injuries - ridiculous sequence of events there.
Yea, that was an absolute farce.
England are so utterly boring to watch, is there a team that plays the ball backwards as much as they do? And I'm not basing that all on the first 30 minutes of this match, I notice it any time I watch them. Also, Jude Bellingham, I really don't get the hype so far he's given it away and had poor touches.
Well that didn't age well did it!
Also, Jude Bellingham, I really don’t get the hype so far he’s given it away and had poor touches
Yeah the touch for the goal was terrible... 😀
The other team can't score if they don't have the ball, is the mantra. Secondly, chasing the ball around and closing down is harder than it looks. Eventually someone opens a gap, where we have struggled in the past is to spot the gap opening and having the technicians to exploit it. That might not happen until the second half when fatigue sets in (or it might after 35 odd minutes vOv )
It's a major improvement tactically and technically vs the up and at'em style of the past, where we'd be the ones chasing the ball because every time we got it we'd be looking to immediately play forward, lose it, and then start chasing again.
Oi ! No spoilers !!
I'm going to wait until Saturday morning and watch the highlights on Transworld Sport
I know it's "only" Iran, but this is a great display so far.
As a Welshman……England look good.
3 very good goals. And yep it’s only Iran, but you can only beat who is in front of you.
Can you come every game St Colin and comment about how shit we are, if that's the effect 😉 ?
And given the abuse three young black lads got after the end of the last proper competitive game we played, is it OK to be disproportionately happy that three young black lads seem to be running the show for us
Also, Jude Bellingham, I really don’t get the hype so far he’s given it away and had poor touches.
Only scored one and made one, what is he playing at?
We could end up losing a player due to injury with some of these Iranian challenges, annoying given the scoreline
Also, Jude Bellingham, I really don’t get the hype so far he’s given it away and had poor touches
The professional sportswriter that writes for the BBC website has a counter view
This is starting to feel like Jude Bellingham's England coming-of-age display. He's having a stormer.
Only scored one and made one, what is he playing at?
This is his 18th cap?
Glad I have this on mute, the sound of Micah Richards losing the run of himself during the break is cringeworthy.
England are playing well but Iran are very poor.
England are playing well but Iran are very poor.
The movement is superb though.
I do think Iran were probably pretty shaken by the injury to their keeper.
England are playing well but Iran are very poor.
I'm reserving judgement. They conceded only 5 goals all qualifying and are ranked 16th in the FIFA ranking. We may think different after they've played Wales and Team USA Soccer
Harry Maguire can't be concussed, that's a brain injury which requires a.....
(or as the possibly urban myth goes:)
physio, shouting to manager: he's got to come off, he doesn't know who he is!
manager shouting back: well tell him he's Pele and move him up front
good sub Gareth!
Great performance - out of form players scoring goals, a lot of positives. Let's hope we've not peaked too soon.
Can you come every game St Colin and comment about how shit we are, if that’s the effect 😉 ?
Sure no problem, I can easily manage that 😉
I am pleased for those young lads.
Great match, some really excellent performances and just because it's against Iran makes no difference. It's a world cup game, anything can happen.
Stcolin showing they no little about football and probably just on the anti-england bandwagon that should have disappeared years ago.
Bigger tests to come, but momentum is key.
Yeah, can only go one way from here....
pessimist! There are tougher games to come but tournament football is about getting the results you need, and building confidence and momentum. This could easily have been like Tunisia in 2018, where we scraped a late win. The camp will be buzzing tonight, and that counts for a lot.
LOL really... that's a bloody ridiculous decision.
Doesn't matter but how that's been reviewed when the one in the first half didn't get a look is baffling.
Stcolin showing they no little about football and probably just on the anti-england bandwagon
So my little opinion on the internet means I know nothing about football and hate England?
I'd like to see England do well, and Wales. I like a lot of the players. It was great to see them make the Euro final.
looking at Saka and Bellingham's post match interviews, the FA's saving a fortune in razorblades with these lads, they're not even shaving yet!
In a sport that is often decided by 1 goal, VAR today is a joke.
In the worlds richest sport, they need to spend some cash to properly sort out the protocol’s.
In a sport that is often decided by 1 goal, VAR today is a joke.
In the worlds richest sport, they need to spend some cash to properly sort out the protocol’s.
Yeah it's pretty ridiculous - Ecuador's opener yesterday, no review of Maguire's pen, then a review of the the shirt pull on the Iranian.
It needs consistency.
Cricket and rugby ar3nt flawless with their tech, but I feel the players generally have faith in it. I don’t think players or fans do in var.
Let’s hope we’ve not peaked too soon.
I'd take a 6-2 opening win over a 0-0 draw and be reduced to hoping that we'll peak later in the tournament.
As a Welshman……England look good.
I've never heard a Welshman say that. As an Irishman I was dressed as the Ayatollah.
It's cold.
Well, I've got USA in the office sweepstake, somewhat confused tonight.
Not really, hope Wales do them properly.
I’d take a 6-2 opening win over a 0-0 draw and be reduced to hoping that we’ll peak later in the tournament.
Wales fans: Hi
This looks rubbish. I'm not sure Wales are gonna get past the USA and I think they need to to progress.
Wales not starting too well. Wouldn't be surprised to see USA down to 10 men at some point though, that might even things up.
USA look incredibly fit, speed of their press is amazing
Much better second half for Wales. USA are being troubled by cramp. Not a head injury so why can't they play on?
foul on Bale at the end = denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity as keeper was miles off line?
USA look incredibly fit, speed of their press is amazing
Paid for it later, though.
A game of two halves.
As an English/American household Mrs10 and I are viewing the matches today differently. I'm happy with the US result, Mrs10 on the other hand is a bit disappointed.
Well done Wales
foul on Bale at the end = denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity as keeper was miles off line?
Posted 1 hour ago
I mean, it was, but the way the rule is written, it couldn'tdn't be, even though it was. I imagine they never conceived of that situation.
Shame they don't have some system of looking at incidents and fixing mistakes.
whoa whoa whoa......
In this weird world cup of human rights abuses, bribes, intolerance, I'm now truly outraged.
What colour is that Dutch kit?
I don't think Newcastle will beat Argentina this morning
Argies have conceded 2 in 5 mins against the Saudis !
Ooooof!
That was a bloody lovely finish for the 2nd... The first was good too of course.
I still see a few more goals in this