badgerx16

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 🙂

Oh come on, you spent weeks, ( months ? ), telling us that Ukraine was a lost cause. Of course things are very difficult over there, but so far they have not folded, and civilian morale seems to be strong. Almost every instance in the last 120 years where attempts have been made to force a nation to surrender by terrorising the civil populace has failed, including the British and Americans completely flattening every area oif habitation in Germany withover 5000 inhabitants. ( By 1945 Bomber Harris had actually run out of targets for the RAF ). The Ukraininas are putting an awful lot of effort into repairing the damaged infrastructure, and are getting huge amounts of supplies to assist in that area.

Half of the PL play other PL teams.

That is like saying the Germans after the battle of Kursk in 1943 were not losing the war on the Eastern Front. They have lost at least a third of the territory they occupied at the point of their furthest advance, thay have lost the only regional capital they had managed to capture, Their Black Sea Fleet is cowering in safe harbour after being forced back by a country without any operational surface warships, their aircraft are falling out of the sky due to lack of maintenance and spares, and despite months of effort they still have not got anywhere near taking Bakhmut. According to the MoD they have even resorted to removing the tactical nuclear warheads from some air launched missiles and replaced them with concrete, reducing these weapons to high velocity bricks.

Yes, but that does not alter the facts about their arms supplies to the Ukrainians. The statement that they had not reacted to the SMO was incorrect. Are the Russians still winning ?

And the Canadians since 2015 - what is your point ? Are the Russians still winning ?

I have posted a reply on the Russia thread.

Moved from the World Cup thread; Germany sent 1000 anti-tank and 500 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine within a week of the invasion starting. On March 24, exactly a month after it started they sent 2000 more AT missiles, and committed to over 2000 more AA systems. By then they had also given permission for the Dutch and Estonians to release German manufactured heavy weapons to Ukraine. ( Remember, the German constitution had forbidden this before Putin forced them to re-assess things ). https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/germany-approves-delivery-of-rpgs-from-netherlands-to-ukraine https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-germany-to-send-2-000-more-anti-tank-weapons-to-ukraine-report-2839664

Taking things off topic, but this is just total bs. 5 days after the invasion started, every country in NATO had already committed to military assistance for Ukraine. Within 2 weeks of the invasion the non-NATO countries Sweden and Finland had also chipped in.

Children ( Cymraeg : When I lived in Wales I always imagined road signs indicating " Heavy plant crossing" meant there were large children about ).

Presumably you always contact online vendors before completing a purchase so as to verify that they exclusively use Royal Mail ?

Rhinestone

You could be the better man and simply ignore them.

Canada !!!!! Goal scorer plays up front for his country, left back for Bayern Munich.

Fairly good chance of Argentina, Belgium, and Germany all failing to reach the knock-out stages.

So, in that case you should set an example in keeping it on topic.