Lighthouse

There goes Sir Geoff’s record.

Starting to think we might not get Upamecano in January either.

No, I’m absolute confident this will be England’s year. We just need Estonia in the final this time, instead of Italy.

The mental image of a German walking down the street, minding his own business and being tw*tted in the face by a live octopus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63996982

Given that they were already okay with industrial scale rape and murder, I’m not entirely sure what this law is supposed to be enabling. Perhaps they want it enshrined in their constitution, so that they can start handing out medals for ‘exemplary raping in a combat scenario’.

Redmond, on separate occasions, scored eight and nine goals in all comps, in a single season. Boufal either scored one or two. I don't even rate Redmond but he clearly contributed far more overall.

I think you may have overestimated the appeal of an online message board, relative to driving around in an Aston Martin and ploughing page three girls.

Got a 24 pack of Desperados in the back of a kitchen cupboard and honestly, it’s been there since summer. I pretty much only drink at home if I’m hosting a BBQ but will quite happily have two to four at the cricket, football, an après-ski bar or such like. Very rarely exceed that though, hate the feeling of being really drunk or hungover.

Because a player having a good tournament doesn’t translate to being a decent club player. What does having a superb WC have to do with playing for a top European side?

Stephane Guivarch and Roque Junior both started a World Cup final for the winning team once. Let’s not pretend Boufal has suddenly silenced his critics.

Annoyingly, I seem to remember him scoring two of his only three goals that season he moved to Liverpool against Saints. It was our second or third game, away at Anfield. I’ll also add Milan Baros to the list, from Euro 2004.

Well, I look forward to Angers doing just that when the transfer window opens.

Well RVN won the golden boot a few times, I’d say that was doing alright.

She sounds a bit of a lightweight TBH.

Sky rather weirdly phrased this match as, "Argentina attempting to reach their first WC final since 2014." What, one whole world cup since they last reached the final?

Woke isn’t a word I’d normally use in conversation or use to describe someone as it seems to have become a right wing buzzword thrown haphazardly at any liberal opinion they disagree with. However I don’t like people who describe themselves as woke and try to justify it as a positive. The whole self-verification of your own opinions aspect of it is just arrogant. People talk as if their opinion is more valid than someone else’s because they’re ‘woke’ and therefore must be more informed and compassionate. F*ck knows what Space Karen is drivelling on about though. The bloke seems to have lost the plot completely.

Without checking, Huddersfield Derby and Reading must be well down there. Probably a few others too.

TBF the people of Cardiff have been eating pet food for decades.

There’s something vaguely familiar about this Bangladeshi football club but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

There is no tangible evidence for that at all, we buy and sell our players no different from any other club. In fact in summer we got quiet a few signings done relatively early. This was an exceptional case as the transfer had already been dragging on since the summer and Liverpool had been caught out with that Blackpool incident. Virgil was clearly not happy and had burned his bridges, so we agreed to sell him in January for a world record fee for a defender.

I’d rather have him than a man who’s only previous managerial credentials were taking over a club in the UEFA Cup final and guiding them to 12th, 13th and then relegation in three years.

The flip side of that being, imagine a Semmens press conference where he said, "our priority in January is to sell ABK as soon as possible, before any other deals happen and we’ve got a replacement sorted." There would be absolute outrage and yet that’s what people expect another club to do. There is a reason most deals tend to drag on towards the end of any transfer window and it’s not through lack of trying.

If you have a month to prepare and can't get the team to start playing your way in half a season, you aren't a good manager full stop. Hopefully the World Cup has been a good oportunity to get his ideas across to this squad and we can hit the ground running when the league restarts. Whether that will be enough to stay up with this group of players remains to be seen but the answer is not Dyche on a short term contract.

But that can be a couple of seconds before the kick is taken. Usually there’s a good solid minute of arguing and time wasting before that.

I reckon we should have five potential penalty takers lined up on the edge of the box. Once the ref is happy and the 'keeper has finished all of his time wasting b*llocks, then the captain picks someone at random from those five to step forward and take it, immediately. Having less time to overthink things and with the keeper not knowing who to psyche out might give us an advantage.