badgerx16

Should England beat Senegal, we would play the winner of the match between France and the second placed team from this group - currently Argentina.

Justice

If the Ukrainian army was set up in the same way as the British then approx 20% of the army strength would be officers, from junior Lt up to Generals. If the 100k figure for officers KIA is correct then effectively all of the officer corps of the Ukrainian army as of Feb 24th 2022 have been killed. Extrapolating this would also imply that the entire 500k strong army that Ukraine started the war with must, by now, be casualties. Personally, I think the US estimate of 100k total military deaths on either side is the most accurate estimate currently in circulation.

Duckweed

As I have added to my previous post, the figure is for total troop losses, not officers alone, but the Ukrainians are not happy that this figure is being quoted in public like this.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/30/7378622/ "The European Commission admitted the mistake regarding the figures of the losses of the Ukrainian military, which allegedly amounted to 100,000 people killed, as Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, announced on 30 November." The given 'best estimate' is that Ukrainian casualties are probably equal to Russian : that is troops in general, not officers alone.

Given that Ukraine, even without Western help, has more than it started with, and much of what Russia had "in storage" is no better than scrap, it is not an easy quantification.

That is Ukraine's claim for Russian losses. Officially, Russia admits to just over 5000 KIA, Ukraine to about 9000.

Actually, given that Vancouver, Boston, and Mexico City are hosting games, it is like Oslo, Baghdad, and Tenerife.

The greatest distance between venues would be like co-hosting in Oslo and Baghdad.

Straight

Tomophobe !

Verified equipment losses and damaged Russia :- https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1 Ukraine :- https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html?m=1

Costa Rica vs Germany will have an all female refereeing team.

As The Undertones might have put it..... "Alex will never be left on the shelf, 'cause Alex, he's in love with himself".

Haven't yet spotted any female Iranian fans wearing head scarves.

Yep !

There are 3 female referees at the tournament.

Phil Foden singing "Send her victorious".

I have slightly amended your text.

So much for liberating them from Nazism.

Never a penalty.

At least you acknowledge Crimea is in Ukraine 🙂