World Cup 2026

[Window Cleaner]

22 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Bit early to write them off. Argentina lost their opening match against Saudi Arabia four years ago.

Perhaps but Argentinians had visible potential. Spain have no strikers and their system is ridiculous. Defence looks shaky at times.

Edited yesterday at 20:31 by Window Cleaner

[LiberalCommunist]

Belgium have too much to not have an eventual break-through. Doku still gives me nightmares. 

[John Boy Saint]

Blimey didn’t know Adam Armstrong was Belgian - Raskin looks a look a like

[Dr Who?]

Belgium are not the team they used to be. Egypt 🇪🇬 look pretty handy on the break. 

[Dr Who?]

What a OG that was! 

Edited yesterday at 20:29 by Dr Who?

[Window Cleaner]

1 minute ago, Dr Who? said:

What a OG that was! 

Immediate pressure from a real striker.

[Dr Who?]

Just now, Window Cleaner said:

Immediate pressure from a real striker.

Is he up for grabs? 

[Window Cleaner]

 

11 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

Is he up for grabs? 

Hope not, expensive and injury prone.

[vectraman]

Just watching some of the highlights from games on BBC - what the actual F**k - Aussies v Turkey - comms are calling Turkey, Turkeya. What the hell is going on? We are in England - they are Turkey and have been all my 58 year life. What the hell is up with our pretentious BBC gimps? 

 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

3 minutes ago, vectraman said:

Just watching some of the highlights from games on BBC - what the actual F**k - Aussies v Turkey - comms are calling Turkey, Turkeya. What the hell is going on? We are in England - they are Turkey and have been all my 58 year life. What the hell is up with our pretentious BBC gimps? 

 

No. They were called Turkey for about 54 years of your life. They changed their name in 2022. It's nothing to do with the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

[whelk]

3 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

No. They were called Turkey for about 54 years of your life. They changed their name in 2022. It's nothing to do with the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

Its all bs though - we don’t call Germany Deutschland. 

[vectraman]

5 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

No. They were called Turkey for about 54 years of your life. They changed their name in 2022. It's nothing to do with the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

Thank you for that - you live and learn something new every day!!

[AlexLaw76]

12 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

No. They were called Turkey for about 54 years of your life. They changed their name in 2022. It's nothing to do with the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

So, Turkey then

Edited yesterday at 21:01 by AlexLaw76

[LiberalCommunist]

Has someone been annoyed about the pronunciation for fifty years? That's what I want to know. 

[Badger]

16 minutes ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Has someone been annoyed about the pronunciation for fifty years? That's what I want to know. 

Seemingly the Turkish were annoyed about the spelling. 

[Patrick Bateman]

31 minutes ago, whelk said:

Its all bs though - we don’t call Germany Deutschland. 

Exactly ... we don't walk around being prententious talking about holidays in Espana, or the Deutchland office. But the media (namely the BBC) insist on not saying Turkey. Annoying. 

[aintforever]

10 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Exactly ... we don't walk around being prententious talking about holidays in Espana, or the Deutchland office. But the media (namely the BBC) insist on not saying Turkey. Annoying. 

I guess some people are just easily annoyed. Seriously, who gives a fuck.

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, aintforever said:

I guess some people are just easily annoyed. Seriously, who gives a fuck.

Those that post about it on an internet football forum...?

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

34 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Exactly ... we don't walk around being prententious talking about holidays in Espana, or the Deutchland office. But the media (namely the BBC) insist on not saying Turkey. Annoying. 

It's literally bugger all to do with the BBC.

[Graffito]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

Seemingly the Turkish were annoyed about the spelling. 

They didn’t want to be associated with a big fat bird and frankly who does?

[bugenhagen]

The problem is the English language 😉

I have now decided on behalf of my country, that the BBC can no longer refer to us as Norway. You must all now say "Norge", the way we say it

[Dark Munster]

25 minutes ago, bugenhagen said:

The problem is the English language 😉

I have now decided on behalf of my country, that the BBC can no longer refer to us as Norway. You must all now say "Norge", the way we say it

Ok, as long as you call us England in Norway.

Oh wait, I just looked it up, they do call us England in Norge. Sorry.

[SNSUN]

New Zealand getting their Just desserts.

OK it's 3 something AM in the morning, I'm not in full Pun mode.

[benjii]

It's Nuu Zilund, not New Zealand, now.

[AlexLaw76]

Come on Angleterre!!!

[Sarnia Cherie]

19 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Has the potential for Spain to score double figures

Oops. Not quite.😀

[tdmickey3]

19 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Has the potential for Spain to score double figures

Never making a prediction again 😬

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

8 hours ago, Graffito said:

They didn’t want to be associated with a big fat bird and frankly who does?

I always assumed @Turkish was a bloke. Can't argue with the sentiment though, I suppose.

[East Kent Saint]

3 hours ago, benjii said:

It's Nuu Zilund, not New Zealand, now.

Aotearoa is the Maori name for what the colonisers call New Zealand . It means Land of the big white cloud .

Te Ika-a-Māui is the North Island Maori name meaning The fish of Māui 

Te Waipounamu is the Maori name for the South Island. It means The waters of greenstone .

Good luck with the pronounciation 😄

[East Kent Saint]

50 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Come on Angleterre!!!

Originally called Albion ( from Greek for white (cliffs of Dover) or possibly from Celtic name for the landscape of mountains etc) Then Englaland (land of the Angles ) when settled by Angles and the Saxons both Germanic tribes . This changed to England over time and language development .  

[skintsaint]

52 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Aotearoa is the Maori name for what the colonisers call New Zealand . It means Land of the big white cloud .

Te Ika-a-Māui is the North Island Maori name meaning The fish of Māui 

Te Waipounamu is the Maori name for the South Island. It means The waters of greenstone .

Good luck with the pronounciation 😄

What was it called before the Maori colonised NZ though, if we are doing this properly?

Edited 14 hours ago by skintsaint

[dsrdorset]

Anyone else turning down the volume for the pre-match & half time pundits? Total woke nonsense muppets

[Football Special]

11 hours ago, Badger said:

Seemingly the Turkish were annoyed about the spelling. 

@Turkish needs to update user name to Turkiyaish ASAP please 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

6 hours ago, SNSUN said:

New Zealand getting their Just desserts.

OK it's 3 something AM in the morning, I'm not in full Pun mode.

FIFA introducing sponsored trifle breaks.

[Window Cleaner]

12 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Exactly ... we don't walk around being prententious talking about holidays in Espana, or the Deutchland office. But the media (namely the BBC) insist on not saying Turkey. Annoying. 

For us perhaps, but if they don't pronounce names correctly they'll get remonstrations from embassys and the like. Gotta be PC nowadays.

[AlexLaw76]

Netherlands drew with Nippon the other night, good game to be fair.

[Window Cleaner]

1 hour ago, Window Cleaner said:

For us perhaps, but if they don't pronounce names correctly they'll get remonstrations from embassys and the like. Gotta be PC nowadays.

Talking about being PC, I see that the président of Senegal has said that it doesn't matter who wins this evening, Africa will have won anyway. Now sir, I don't think you should say that, certainly not in France anyway.

[Saint86]

James Bree's moment? 
 

[Lord Duckhunter]

3 hours ago, dsrdorset said:

Anyone else turning down the volume for the pre-match & half time pundits? Total woke nonsense muppets

It’s fucking woeful isn’t it? 
 

Used to have proper football people , who had proper opinions. Now it’s all so predictable and stale. 
 

1982. 3 piss artists, but the one of the greatest players ever to have played, one of the greatest managers & one of the greatest goal scorers. Now they’ve got no marks like Big Ange, nodding dogs like Ian Wright & some munters from a different sport. 
 

 

[East Kent Saint]

4 hours ago, skintsaint said:

What was it called before the Maori colonised NZ though, if we are doing this properly?

No one lived in New Zealand before the Maoris and it was originally named Staten Landt by a Dutch explorer who thought it was attached to South America . The Dutch cartographers renamed it after their Zealand area when they knew it wasn’t part of South America. 

Edited 9 hours ago by East Kent Saint

[dsrdorset]

1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

It’s fucking woeful isn’t it? 
 

Used to have proper football people , who had proper opinions. Now it’s all so predictable and stale. 
 

1982. 3 piss artists, but the one of the greatest players ever to have played, one of the greatest managers & one of the greatest goal scorers. Now they’ve got no marks like Big Ange, nodding dogs like Ian Wright & some munters from a different sport. 
 

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one!! What a line up that was. Happy days

[suewhistle]

Is Lord Duckhunter a parody account? Like that comedian The Pub Landlord?

[Window Cleaner]

21 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Is Lord Duckhunter a parody account? Like that comedian The Pub Landlord?

Don't think so, been here a long,long time.

Wasn't the name some sort of référence to Rupert Lowe?

[John Boy Saint]

1 hour ago, East Kent Saint said:

No one lived in New Zealand before the Maoris and it was originally named Staten Landt by a Dutch explorer who thought it was attached to South America . The Dutch cartographers renamed it after their Zealand area when they knew it wasn’t part of South America. 

Didn't the Maoris originate from South America or was it the other way round - there is something linking the Inca and Maori language I read or watched somewhere, and something from when I was at school, just as colour was coming in, about the Kon-Tiki sailing the possible route? Might have been them Polynesians - they got everywhere in that part of the world until the bloody Spanish gave them a cold! 

[qwertyell]

4 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Story of Tino's career, unfortunately. He had so much promise, but his body will prevent him reaching his potential. 

[Badger]

4 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

It’s fucking woeful isn’t it? 
 

Used to have proper football people , who had proper opinions. Now it’s all so predictable and stale. 
 

1982. 3 piss artists, but the one of the greatest players ever to have played, one of the greatest managers & one of the greatest goal scorers. Now they’ve got no marks like Big Ange, nodding dogs like Ian Wright & some munters from a different sport. 
 

 

Didn’t Mick Channon appear on the panel in 1982 as well ? 
 

He was certainly part of it in 1986, coining the name Gary Line-acre.

[Sarnia Cherie]

Tino Livramento has picked up a calf injury in training so won't play in the World Cup. Shame. I liked him when he played for us. 

[pingpong]

19 hours ago, vectraman said:

Just watching some of the highlights from games on BBC - what the actual F**k - Aussies v Turkey - comms are calling Turkey, Turkeya. What the hell is going on? We are in England - they are Turkey and have been all my 58 year life. What the hell is up with our pretentious BBC gimps? 

 

Do you still call Netherlands Holland? How do you think persia will do this time round?  

 

[Sheaf Saint]

3 hours ago, suewhistle said:

Is Lord Duckhunter a parody account? Like that comedian The Pub Landlord?

Not intentionally, but his posts often make more sense when you read them in Al Murray's voice in your head.

[Convict Colony]

Am looking forward more to Babalyon v Norðrvegr and Manchuria v New Spain this week some great games.