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I tend to watch a lot of Argentinas games and watched most of their qualifiers in their South American group. I honestly was not impressed with them or the overall quality of South American football, in fact i think they have gone backwards. Obviously i have watched every one of their games so far in this World Cup and i still maintain they are bang average and rely heavily still on Leo to produce moments of magic, which to be fair he has done but the opposition haven't been up too much. If we stop Messi we stop Argentina. The one thing I would ask from our supporters is to stop making excuses before a ball has yet been kicked and adding fuel to the fire of these ridiculous conspiracy theories that FIFA have rigged the tournament for Argentina to get to the final. If we want to go down that route then we may as well admit FIFA have rigged it for England to get this far!

It was a freekick to Norway everyday of the week. Nothing contentious in that decision at all

It's not luck, a game is for 90 minutes plus injury team, Spain grind down teams with their relentless pressing. It's not surprising teams switch off towards the end of games as they get more physically and mentally tired. Would we be saying England are lucky if they scored goals at the end off games??

I said at the start of the tournament France were my favourites and nothing has really changed my opinion. That said Spain play beautiful quick one touch football and they play with wonderful confidence. I really hope they can go up another gear and send the French packing and we have a Spain v England final. That's a win win 😉

these two sides couldn't score in a brothel

whoops, corrected 🤣

Fantastic game earlier, Egypt really only have themselves to blame. They had the game won and then imploded with some lousy defending and Messi doing what Messi has always done. Yup some VAR decisions were questionable but we all know VAR is shit and thats one of the reasons we enjoyed the Championship so much last season. I said at the start of this tournament Argentina were not particularly good having watched a lot of their qualifiers. They rely so much on their talisman and he has not failed to deliver in every game he's played in this tournament. He took his goal magnificently. Should we get to the semi final and Argentina do likewise we should be confident of beating them providing we are not without the likes of Bellingham and Rice who are sitting on yellow cards ahead of the Norway game.

absolutely correct!

The fact he gets to play is not the players fault and he will not have instigated this and I hope the Belgium players are not as petty as some.

Was it a red card in the first place? Personally i do not think so and thought the ref bottled it. Is it correct the red card has been overturned? Morally yes because it wasn't a red card incident. However there is no appeal process for red cards in this tournament so FIFA have resorted to using some never used before clause in their own rules to overturn it. Corruption? yes but we all knew this the minute rat boy (Ronaldo) was allowed to play in the group games despite being suspended due to his red card prior to the finals. FIFA are so openly corrupt they don't even try to hide it. They need their poster boy and the host Nation (because as far as FIFA are concerned America are the only host nation)

Harsh yellow for Larin, he was fully entitled to go for that loose ball

cmon Larin

I'm expecting a very difficult match against Mexico, not because i think they are a particularly good side (they are not) but because we have not played well in this tournament so far apart from 45 minutes against a poor Croatia team and because the altitude will really make it incredibly difficult. Anyone that has holidayed in Peru and visited Lake Titicaca will have experienced the huge difference being at height makes on the human body. 90% of the group i travelled with were unwell for hours because of the change in altitude. Hopefully England win and then it's on to to Spain v Portugal and i just pray to god Spain smash Portugal and send that nauseating strutting peacock into International retirement never to be seen again!

JWP is the complete professional and i have no doubt he has kept his fitness up. He would be a great asset with his experience and in the games i did see him play while out on loan last season i thought he looked one of the better players in the Burnley team. Don't compare him to Romeu who i warned people his legs had gone. Walcott and Lallana were just huge mistakes who clearly were finished.

Hi, I thought i would give you all an update that i have received in the last half an hour from Jordan. I must admit i started to cry. He went out last night with a group of locals to search a building that had collapsed and due to the lack of enough rescuers had so far not been looked at for potential survivors. They have no heavy digging equipment and are just using their hands to remove rubble. They have in the last hour located a male still alive after 9 days of being buried. They have hours ahead of themselves patiently and carefully digging to get him out but it is a miracle they have found someone still alive. I'm not religious but even I am praying for them. Thank you so much to anyone that contributed towards the donation. Jordan has been able to help so many that have lost everything.