Worth every penny.
Worth every penny.
Why do Senegal and England get an extra days rest over Argentina/Australia?
Hasn't that happened in every World Cup? It just happens.Originally Posted by Waffdon
You really get screwed over if you play in the later groups. I guess you get extra time to prepare for the tournament, which maybe would be a blessing in this situation, but they have quite a bit less time between knockout games I think.
They should play all the last 16 games simultaneously at 11.30am on Tuesday. Then it will be fair to everyone.
Also, if you go in with the type of mentality that another team had an extra day off then you've probably already lost.
I think the semi and final make a big difference an extra day recovery for the final is massive after having crammed in 6 games on 3 and a bit weeks.
I don’t think it makes a difference either way for last 16 match I just never understood the logic
I don't know how you can avoid it. If Argentina/Australia played on the 4th instead, then the winner would get one day less than the other quarter-finalist.
Yes, but I will identify as Scottish or Greek whenever it suits me and there's nothing you can do about it.
You can say British if you want to cover it, but you can't claim Scottish.
I had fun today. I'm actually in the UK at the moment, so the timezone is a little more human than it would otherwise had been.
I had absolutely no confidence in this team before the tournament, so it was nice to be wrong.
Last edited by ItalAussie; 01-12-2022 at 12:59 AM.
It's one of those teams where you look at the lineup and don't see a single name to inspire any kind of hope, but when you actually watch them play, they're pretty well-drilled, and I think Duke and Leckie have undersold themselves in their club careers.
Yeah, I was actually thinking yesterday is Duke a better striker than Denmark have? I think so.
And yet he scored 3 in 89 for Shimizu S-Pulse. Some people just suit the international game, I guess.
Including qualifying the Socceroos have 4 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in Qatar in 2022.
Last edited by Queenslander; 01-12-2022 at 09:55 AM.
Didn't know that ENGLAND's Marcus Rashford's contract expires in 6 months time. Old Arsenal would have snapped him up, but my guess is that Man Ut will wave $400k-a-week in his face and he'll stick around.
He'll have one of those Woodward special contracts with 'options to extend'.
If I were Man U I would certainly keep the trash man around. Whether Ten Hag will want to splurge that much on him is another question. Newcastle could come in with a high offer.
Chelsea need a number 9...
Arsenal were linked with him not long ago.
The Mirror are reporting he indeed has an option for another 12 months, so you can expect that to be taken advantage of.
Still only 25 and perfectly in that sweet spot of being undroppable whilst incredibly damaging to the club's ambitions
Really hoping for a Belgian exit here and Moroccan progress.
Yes please.
I didn't think Belgium stood a chance but Don Bobby has dropped the utterly pointless Eden so this could be good.
Think the Canadian keeper might be on the take.
The Canadian keeper
Carrasco
Why is the ref checking this if it's offside?
What happened to the semi-automatic bollocks?
VAR finding new ways to kill the spectacle. Burn it.
Jermaine Jenas is a simp. And mahow.
They’re checking if the offside player was intervening.
It was never a penalty anyway so justice done.
His decision (not the VAR's) as to whether a player is active.
VAR once again exists to find reasons to stop goal chances and attacking play.
I have it on silent in the office, but the Jenas quote appearing on the beeb feed makes him sound almost Pearce levels of thick as pig shit.
Mertens is a hollow shell of the player he was, drag him off for one of the BLM boys you clueless fuck.
Nope. VAR was saying the guy is offside. They summoned him over to decide whether the offside player was active.
My Morocco shirt is going to arrive while they're still in, Christmas is saved!
Not quite the same level as that famous monologue, but still a pretty stupid take for someone who I assume has more access to info re: VAR checks in the commentary box than we do.
I reckon Morocco could cause quite a few problems for Germany if they end up playing them. Spain, less sure but you never know.
Belgium well on top here but got Jenas too busy fucking spouting from the media narrative script to recognise it. What a disgraceful cunt.
Now got Gary trying to argue against cold evidence and Micah and Shearer chatting shit about Belgium. English football heritage.
Incredible.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ormat-for-2026
Hopefully sense is being seen. Makes it sound like they’ve only just considered the possibility of dead rubbers, though.
Is that line actually anywhere near the Croatian shoulder? Looks like the same point on the arm as on the Belgian player. Either way, lol at cancelling the play for that.
A 32 team knockout stage, fuck me.
BBC have a real hard-on for Wales.
What the fuck is this Wales VT love in? I'd rather see back to back cillit bang adverts ffs.
AHHH but WHAT a second half
Fucking melts
Needed more Michael Sheen tbh.
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