I’m pleased they drew.

If they’d won they would’ve rested players in the 3rd game, lost momentum, unsettled the team & lost focus.

This way they have to perform in the final group game.

Posted 2 months ago

Commentators and their ability to ruin a game for you.
Ally McCoist?
Just shut up 😈

Posted 2 months ago

Argentina going for Oscars rather than the World Cup? I think this may be an interesting game.

Posted 2 months ago

I was thinking about the, ‘ you can’t wear a 🌈 arm band or we will send you off’ FIFA ruling and when I saw a USA player with red white and blue dyed hair I wonder….. Rainbow 🌈 hair! Or even better, the squad each do one colour, so when they line up for the anthems the rainbow is there but individual players can’t get a red card! Am I genius? Let’s start an appeal on social media 🌈🌈😁😂🌈🌈

Posted 2 months ago

This game is very much like the England USA game – dull and no end product!

Posted 2 months ago

Messi!

Posted 2 months ago

“Messi!”

Tidy!

Posted 2 months ago

Love Messi we went to watch Barca in 2012 when he was at his pomp. We were right by the pitch when warming up and he was incredible just jiggling the subs. Along with Maradonna they were the most unstoppable players I ever saw in the flesh.
I captined my uni team but watching him knew I’d never be quick enough to tackle him.

Posted 2 months ago

Messi mopes around waiting for his team to make him the opportunity to do THAT!

Kane drops deep to make the opportunities for the people who aren’t there because he should be.

Posted 2 months ago

Kane drops deep to make the opportunities for the people who aren’t there because he should be.

That’s a concise and accurate summation

Posted 2 months ago

Kane does this for his club and just struggles to be the front man all the time, that’s the biggest difference between him and Haaland, Haaland knows when to come back to help, and when to stay up top and work some space and wait for his team to do their job. Kane just tries too hard and wants to push everything, that can work against you at times though.

Posted 2 months ago

Has Gareth Southgate been secretly advising Japan on tactics? They do the hard bit against the Germans then throw it all away with a cowardly performance. Baffling. 🤷‍♂️

Posted 2 months ago

There’s a lot of it though, I was watching Denmark with 4 mins left and 2-1 down passing it across the back line 20 times.

Posted 2 months ago

Anyone else watching the BBC UHD versions, it’s pretty good.

Posted 2 months ago

Well Belgium had that coming. Another team of superstars who’ve looked really poor as a unit. They were lucky against Canada and no way deserved the win

But to get done with the identical set piece move for a second time…

Posted 2 months ago

Big names but many past their best…..Hazard, Alderweierld, Witsel, Vertonghen.

They probably should have won a tournament. But they chose to employ Roberto Martinez?

Posted 2 months ago

Football… bloody hell! 😳

Posted 2 months ago

Really enjoying watching all these so called big teams having their arses handed to them by teams who are supposedly there to make up the numbers. England should take note.

Posted 2 months ago

BBC pundits talking about Belgium lazily passing the ball across the back rather than forwards. It really is the curse of the modern game. What this tournament needs is an Ireland circa 1990.

Posted 2 months ago

What this tournament needs is an Ireland circa 1990

Said no one. Ever.

Imagine having McGrath and Sheedy in your team and playing like that 🙈

Posted 2 months ago

Surely you mean Camaroon?

Have you watched the 3 part Italia 90 documentary on Sky? It’s absolutely bloody brilliant!

Posted 2 months ago

BBC pundits talking about Belgium lazily passing the ball across the back rather than forwards. It really is the curse of the modern game.

I think managers look at teams like city who do it, and don’t realise it isn’t about just passing between defenders, it is about the work ethic of the midfield always being on the move to create space and/or a mistake in the opposition press, then a pass out through the lines can quickly move the ball upfield. And even in city’s case when the midfield don’t have the right work rate, they have a bad day.

IMO there are actually very few managers who really know how to create patterns of play through the training sessions, and a lot who just regurgitate the training they did as players and ask the team to emulate patters they see without understanding the link between them.

Posted 2 months ago

What baffled me the other night was when Pickford was taking a goal kick, both centre halves stood in the box to the side of him and he repeatedly hoofed it up the park, turning over possession.

Posted 2 months ago

That has been an England tactic for a few years now, or make a half arsed attempt to play out from the back, pass back to Pickford to again hoof up field and gamble possession invariably losing it. Again for me it is a problem of players not making options for a pass.

Posted 2 months ago

I guess as well Pickford looked to his left, saw Maguire, and to his right, saw Stones – row z it is.

Posted 2 months ago

This is a bit more interesting isn’t it 🙂 some dull games lately but the Croatia Canada game is getting entertaining.

Posted 2 months ago

I guess as well Pickford looked to his left, saw Maguire, and to his right, saw Stones – row z it is.

I was just going to ask… did you watch Ten Hag’s extremely brief experiment with trying to get Slabhead to play it own from the back?

It didn’t last long

Croatia are looking a bit tasty here. Fair play to Canada though. They’re giving them a game!

Posted 2 months ago

‘England should take note.’

It lookslike they have. They’ve won one, and drawn one against teams who aren’t too shabby, with a team that’s got a lot of youth. Not sure which miracles the various pundits/critics/moaners want really?

Posted 2 months ago

Battle of the giants now, pretty even so far, but of a chess match.

Posted 2 months ago

Interesting match, both teams going for it

Posted 2 months ago

It amazes me how many players at this level fire corners in that don’t make it past the first man

Posted 2 months ago

Well that was a good goal! Game on!

Posted 2 months ago

It amazes me how many players at this level fire corners in that don’t make it past the first man

it bemuses me when they try and steal as much as possible when placing the ball then hoofing it over everyone. 🙂

Posted 2 months ago

Surprised there’s no football after match programs such as Fantasy Football League etc. Could do with a hilarious critique of this world cup.

Posted 2 months ago

Could do with a hilarious critique of this world cup.

one might be happy with any critique at all. The Beeb appear to have gone with the “**** it lads, everyone seems to be having fun,” line. There’s oodles of shit going on out there and the meeja are ignoring it.

Posted 2 months ago

Playing truent from work: this Cameroon v Serbia game is a humdinger.

Posted 2 months ago

well, it was until you said and I started to watch, now goals have totally dried up.

(actually still is, even without goals)

Posted 2 months ago

The fleeting glimpse of a sprinting pitch invader with a rainbow flag has livened this game up

Posted 2 months ago

Ronaldo’s claimed that goal but I don’t think he touched it…

Posted 2 months ago

His massive ego diverted it in (even though it was going in anyway)

No way did he touch it !

Posted 2 months ago