Possibly the most outstanding and exciting England game I can remember watching. Fair play to Mexico to making it such an amazing contest. Now to finish my whisky.
Wow !
That was a pleasant surprise, just woke up to the news.
If all you've seen is the news, you don't know the half of it. I feel like I've run my arse into the ground at altitude, and I barely left my sofa.
I'm feeling surprising good, went to bed at 9, set the alarm for 12:45am, went downstairs almost went back to bed even I saw it had been delayed.
Took the dog out for a lush sunrise walk after the match and have just woken up again.
Fair play to England, they'll be dancing in the streets of Govan this morning. Now come on Norway!
Injuring yourself falling over an advertising hoarding while celebrating and getting stretchered off has got to be embarrassing
Great match was that, a real nerve shredder!
My cunning plan to sleep through the match to avoid the hope/desolation rollercoaster has worked out well.
Shall I sleep through the next one too?
Great to see the fake Mexico fans weeping 🤣
Got the feeling that if the game had gone on all day Mexico would never score.
they'll be dancing in the streets of Govan this morning
Actually far more likely to be dancing in the streets of the east end. Much more Rangers/ God Save The King crowd over that way than Govan
Anyone else have a case of Schrödingers Football Game this morning?
Tried to stay up and watch it, but I'm obviously getting old as I feel asleep and was soundo with no chance of waking....
What team did I just watch play against Mexico?
Injuring yourself falling over an advertising hoarding while celebrating and getting stretchered off has got to be embarrassing
Could only be more embarrassing if, say, the entire world was watching...
^^^ Nailed on pub quiz question for the next 20 years! 🤣
Injuring yourself falling over an advertising hoarding while celebrating and getting stretchered off has got to be embarrassing
Much like when Paul Merson was being carried off by the rest of the players following Arsenal beating Sheff W in the FA cup final (I think could have been the league cup as they were the finalists for both in '93) and getting dropped and breaking his wrist.
I found it incredibly funny (being a bitter Owl)!
Injuring yourself falling over an advertising hoarding while celebrating and getting stretchered off has got to be embarrassing
Much like when Paul Merson was being carried off by the rest of the players following Arsenal beating Sheff W in the FA cup final (I think could have been the league cup as they were the finalists for both in '93) and getting dropped and breaking his wrist.
I found it incredibly funny (being a bitter Owl)!
Google says it was Steve Morrow rather than Merson.
Injuring yourself falling over an advertising hoarding while celebrating and getting stretchered off has got to be embarrassing
Poor bloke, the injury looks really nasty too.
Great game, at about 12 when the news came through that k/o was delayed an hour I was really regretting staying up. Managed about 30 mins of napping in the chair. Brilliant game some great performances from England, I was thinking to myself how well Quansah had been playing when he made that tackle to set up the attack just to see him get sent off 😀
That last near 30 mins with added time when Tuchel decided we were just going to sit back and see it out felt like an eternity.
UEFA have now come out and called it shocking. Even Sepp Blatter thinks it's wrong. You know it he thinks it's wrong you've ****ed up.
Chance for the FA to do something right and make a point of not appealing Quansah's red card, because decisions made by the officials and governing body must be respected.
(NWS the decision to 'suspend' the red card for the US player is also the governing body, kind of, but you know what I mean)
Big respect for Jude B in his interview - the officials are humans and they made a lot less mistakes than we did.
So, couple of days of recuperation and then minds on Norway. Some tactical decisions to make there - I can't claim to be an expert of head to heads generally with Haaland and the EPL centre backs but I do know that BDB has had him in his pocket the few times I've seen Newcastle play City. He might not be allowed to be quite as physical in an international game though.
Chance for the FA to do something right and make a point of not appealing Quansah's red card, because decisions made by the officials and governing body must be respected.
Naw, just get Sir Keir to make a phone call. I'm sure that will have the desired result...
Interested in the story doing the rounds (denied by Tommy T) that England were taking viagra, a vasodilator, for help with oxygen carrying to muscles.
They certainly looked up for it last night. Every last member stood firm, and were able to penetrate round the back when they needed.
Some game that, fair play to England - that showed real character. The boost they’ll get from that will be enormous. So many players truly showed up.
Recorded the game and watched it at 05:45 when the dog woke me up. Nice to see England play. Now the tricky domestic issue. My son weds a lovely Mexican lady here in three weeks. Her family are of course coming, after we went out to meet them in February! At least they had a better day in Barcelona.
the funny thing is Baloguns 'foul' was never a red card but Trump has mudied the waters so much no one will care
https://bsky.app/profile/dov.bsky.social/post/3mpycm4fcwc2j
The latest wearyingly predictable ‘you couldn’t make it up’ twist is that Trump has admitted, at the time of watching it, he didn’t actually know what a red card was.
Between them, Trump and Infantino really are trying to ruin football, aren’t they?
Tempted to stick 50 quid on usa to ‘win’ it if it only takes a couple of phone calls
Good news from FIFA HQ, they've confirmed that USA can use their hands against Belgium a bit if they really need to and promise not to do it too much.
The match will go on indefinitely until the ‘Mericans win.
Reading Trump's comments, I think that he may have misunderstood the rules and thinks that USA will only be able to play 10 men against Belgium because of the red card...
"I will tell you this, the people in Belgium, if they win the game, they can be very proud. If they would win the game with a player missing it would be a different feeling. You can't do that.
Ohh, and he is throwing doubt on the ref's integrity, yet he's admitted he didn't even know what a red card was.
"This referee, who is a little bit suspect. If you check his past, I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy, but very suspect... if you like I'll provide you with the past.
The referee's decision to red card - I didn't know what the hell a red card was.
The referee gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much.
Sounds like the Orange Mussolini has just invented the orange card. Bit more than yellow, not quite red.
Infantino's press release is just hypocritical bollocks about the process maintaining FIFAs integrity.
Trump is the new referee overlord now 🤣 🤣 🤣
the funny thing is Baloguns 'foul' was never a red card
well, IANARef but I dunno about that - studs up in a careless collision looks "red-able" to me, but
but Trump has muddied the waters so much no one will care
this was just one more entirely predictable reason to not care about the World Cup. The games themselves are entertaining enough but the context makes them too unpleasant to think about.
Only Dan Burn can deal with Haaland now 🤣
Just seen a clip of Henderson’s injury, forearm looks to have snapped clean in half 😬
Infantile needs to fall in his sword for this.
That was poor, particularly Portugal. Baffling how Roberto Martinez keeps getting top jobs!
