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I meant to post about that because it's really well done. Keep an eye out for the player portraits with a circle around them as they have a little extra title.
Marten de Room's "Hard worker," feeling like a backhanded school report, Mason Mount the "complete player" making him sound a lot more exciting than he is, Ismaeel Mohammed the "Joker", so you know to invite him to parties and Sir Daniel Rashford of course has "social activist."
Scrolling through that link (which is excellent by the way) really hammers home what a shambles our defenders are. I'm concerned for coming up against anyone half decent.
https://i.imgur.com/KnlT27S.png
It's a beautiful sight
Junior Hoilett:
Warnock in.Quote:
Finds a way to look back positively on all four of his relegations from the English Premier League. Has worked under Sam Allardyce, Harry Redknapp and Neil Warnock, who he refers to as his favourite.
I got South Korea in the work sweepstake. Let the madness commence.
Is Son still injured?
He's wearing a protective face mask in training so he'll probably be risked.
Son with a fucked up face is probably better than Lee Dong-Gook fully fit. I presume Lee Dong-Gook's still in their squad. He hasn't ever not been.
Huh, that's a real player. I thought you'd just made up a racist name at first.
Google says former player though.
Phonics had the siren fired up and all.
Hwang Hee-Chan probably fills that role. He looked semi-decent for a couple of weeks last season.
There's also the potential commentary headache of Jeong Woo-yeong & Jung Woo-young.
Mane officially OUT.
Already coming up Southgate.
Just need the French to have some sort of mutiny so we can be waved through to the semis again.
They've banned beer at stadiums (in contravention of FIFA's deal with Bud, which was going to be allowed) with a couple of days to go. luv you Qatar.
Well, welp, welp, FIFA, if it isn't the consequences of your actions.
I assume they happily will accept the decision in the name of respecting local customs and focusing on the football?
:D
The next World Cup hosting will now be awarded to man-made islands on international waters where no local laws apply. Moonshine and dogfighting in every fan zone, marry your cousin if you want
Officially banned.
:happycry:
Next up rainbow iconography.
Corporates still allowed of course.
19,000 and you’re having to drink Bud? Poor bastards.
Anyone going deserves everything they get to be fair. The weather is unbearable, fun is illegal and there's a fair chance you're getting stoned to death if you hug your mate after a goal. This is going to be worse than South Africa and those cunting Vuvuzelas ruing every game.
America is only four years away.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
Reckon this works out quite well for Budweiser. Getting more advertisement now than they would have if folk were allowed to get pissed
I would certainly expect people who hadn't drunk any Budweiser to have a higher opinion of them than otherwise.
How much Bud have you had today?
I suppose there is an argument that saving people from paying £12 for '500ml' of Budweiser maybe rights a lot of the humanitarian wrongs associated with the tournament.
Anyone for World Cup Fantasy Football?
https://play.fifa.com/fantasy-classi...eague/YWBC1796
https://www.theguardian.com/football...e_iOSApp_Other
It is quite lol how image-conscious the Qataris are. I've learned through my own contact with the Arab world now that these guys just scream and shout like little girls if anyone badmouths them.
I think these lads have misunderstood how sportswashing is supposed to work.
At what point does this transition from being all rather funny to being a bit of a problem? When they start rounding up people not respecting their 'culture'?
English hooligans to the rescue, tearing downtown Doha to pieces.
Was it not when they minced several thousand slaves putting up the stadiums?
I think it's inevitable some kind of problematic event will occur during the tournament - whether a planned protest spectacle, or some kind of clampdown. The thing is for us, how can I put this, white western fans, I don't think we appreciate just how little of a shit the rest of the world gives about things like gays and dead migrant workers. I'd say maybe 12 or 13 of the 32 competing nations are from cultures that give a fuck.
Apparently not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Depends who you mean a problem to? I think most people who aren't either actively profiting from it or from broadly similar cultures already see it as a problem, don't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
FIFA might be having doubts now it looks like Qatar might start backtracking on shit they've promised to do to placate FIFA's pretence of caring about anything other than the bottom line... but even then it's only because stuff like the Budweiser thing might affect their bottom line.
It'll be very interesting to see who wins ("wins") the 2030 tournament.
I think it's good that Gary Neville and David Beckham are there to raise the issues because I think we wouldn't have heard about most of this otherwise.
It's all a bit embarrassing when England fans kick off abroad but it would be good scenes if they did it this time round.
Will they be able to get tanked up enough to start fights?
They'll only let the paid actors in anyway.
For the England faithful what it lacks in inhibition-reducing alcohol it'll make up in rage-inducing brown people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
And complaining about the heat.
Not sure I can squeeze in the 10am slot. 1pm games will have to be extended lunch.
I handed my notice in today and had barely any work anyway so I'm quite ready.
:lol:
Guernsey. :lol:
Genuinely looks like one of the worst ways you could spend an afternoon.
Christ.
David Luiz was genuinely awful in this game. Players having a bad game is fine, but his lack of discipline and continued stepping out from the back and leaving huge gaps was fucking atrocious.
His interview after the game was good. He'd just made his £50m move to PSG.
The whole tone of that farridge/Tissier conversation is amazing.
'...than the woke Mr Southgate!' *smug, knowing glance to camera*