World Cup 2026

[Midfield_General]

France have been brilliant going forward but their keeper Maignan has been dodgy. Bazzed out the way of it for the Senegal goal and was lucky to get away with two others. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Midfield_General

[whelk]

To think it wasn’t that long ago that Olise was playing for Reading

[ecuk268]

Great second half with both teams going for it.

None of this passing across the back rubbish.

France looking strong.

[skintsaint]

27 minutes ago, whelk said:

To think it wasn’t that long ago that Olise was playing for Reading

Shame he chose to play for France over England. Think he had a choice of another nation as well 😅

[trousers]

Iraq concede playing Russball...

[Picard]

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

Shame he chose to play for France over England. Think he had a choice of another nation as well 😅

Father Nigerian, mother Franco-algérienne.

[John Boy Saint]

Blimey I was going to go to bed - this game has the ingredients to be a bit bonkers

It also looks like the Land of Giants v Lilliput

Edited 17 hours ago by John Boy Saint

[Baird of the land]

See messi can get away with red carded challenges unpunished.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

1 hour ago, Baird of the land said:

See messi can get away with red carded challenges unpunished.

Didn't watch it.

But how anyone can possibly still pick Ronaldo over Messi in the "GOAT" debate is ridiculous.

Guarantee in the Portugal game tonight Ronaldo will spur numerous chances (assuming he plays) by selfishly attempting to win the game single handedly.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Messi hat trick.

Messi becomes oldest goals scorer at a World Cup. 

Messi becomes joint World Cup scorer of all time.

Cristiano Ronaldo has just thrown has Weeatabix on the floor, stoned out the hotel and demanded an interview with Piers Morgan so say how unhappy he is.

[Baird of the land]

46 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Didn't watch it.

But how anyone can possibly still pick Ronaldo over Messi in the "GOAT" debate is ridiculous.

Guarantee in the Portugal game tonight Ronaldo will spur numerous chances (assuming he plays) by selfishly attempting to win the game single handedly.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Been has a fluffy piece on the clothes worn by the England squad.

"individuality and style" says one expert, failing to notice that the individuality has a crowd of blokes looking like identikit dolls.

[Patrick Bateman]

34 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Been has a fluffy piece on the clothes worn by the England squad.

"individuality and style" says one expert, failing to notice that the individuality has a crowd of blokes looking like identikit dolls.

Well, they had a choice of black suit top, black shirt or black over shirt. With a black or cream polo underneath. I mean that's a huge variety of individuality of M&S gear, especially when paired with identified loafers. Although Kane has no socks on, rebel. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Well, they had a choice of black suit top, black shirt or black over shirt. With a black or cream polo underneath. I mean that's a huge variety of individuality of M&S gear, especially when paired with identified loafers. Although Kane has no socks on, rebel. 

I noticed Kane's lack of socks. He has gone down in my estimation, as I suspect he would not wear socks with sandals. 🙂

[Midfield_General]

2 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Messi hat trick.

Messi becomes oldest goals scorer at a World Cup. 

Messi becomes joint World Cup scorer of all time.

Cristiano Ronaldo has just thrown has Weeatabix on the floor, stoned out the hotel and demanded an interview with Piers Morgan so say how unhappy he is.

Assuming Ronaldo plays tonight he would have made history by becoming the first player ever to feature in six World Cups... had Messi not done it last night, thereby beating him to it by one day 🤣

Edited 6 hours ago by Midfield_General

[CSA96]

Last night Messi (38, 39 next Wednesday) also took the record of oldest hat-trick scorer at a World Cup off of Cristiano Ronaldo (33 when he did it) 

[ecuk268]

Found this guy who does a report on each game from a US viewpoint.

I found it quite amusing.

 

Soccer Guy

 

France Soccer Club recover from a lame-ass first quarter to go take the W against Africa, as the Soccer Cocks show why they're widely anticipized to go rival the USMNT in this World Cup World Championships of the world.

 

Africa dominized the first quarter, and shoulda got the go-ahead in overtime before some guy messed up with the soccer goal interior wider than a big-ass Texan ranch.

 

After the halftime show, the Cocks showed why they are so hard to keep down as Kylian Mmmbop, playing like a total jackass in the first quarter, woke up and started trying real hard. After an African deefense guy messed up with his depossession slide, it looked like he was gonna go get the deathstrike, only for the referee to go take a look at the Go Take Another Look Tablet and decide he took a voluntary simulization plunge. Kinda mad, Mmmbop dusted off his cleats and, just a minute later, put the first stain on the sheets.

 

Africa tried real hard to get the equalization and looked like they had got it when Sorrymiss Jackson inserted from a cute angle only for the denial flag erection to deny him.

 

With the completion whistle approaching, Des Champs dipped into the sub shack, sending on Bart Cola. It didn't take long for Cola to go prove he's the real thing, adding a second goalshot with a wedge kick over the goaltender.

 

Africa inserted a constiptation goalshot in overtime, but Mmmbop had the last say, detonizing a cleat rocket of French fury right into the upper ninety from real faraway land, sending the guys up in the bleachers into raptors.

[Nordic Saint]

Another Messi vs Mbappe final?

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Nordic Saint

[SNSUN]

18 hours ago, SNSUN said:

Cracker of a game coming up at 8. I also hope to be awake for the Norway game and the Argentina game but I think I'll give Austria vs Jordan at 5am a miss. 

I conked out ten minutes into the Norway game last night and woke up on the sofa with a half drunk beer and resentment that I'd missed two games I intended to watch. 

Let's see if i last for the England game...

[badgerx16]

I like Norway's shirts and the runic font used for the names and numbers.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

I like Norway's shirts and the runic font used for the names and numbers.

In cross-over news, Restore UK is looking to retoactively deport people a lot further back than expected.

"Descendants of Viking invaders can be identified through their affection of sporting apparel," said Rupert Lowe, through a world class radio broadcast, consisting of 2 cans and a bit of string.

[Turkish]

15 hours ago, trousers said:

Iraq concede playing Russball...

it was the players not the tactics, the players had anxiety. 

[badgerx16]

8 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

In cross-over news, Restore UK is looking to retoactively deport people a lot further back than expected.

"Descendants of Viking invaders can be identified through their affection of sporting apparel," said Rupert Lowe, through a world class radio broadcast, consisting of 2 cans and a bit of string.

Given almost all of the "upper class" are descended from the Normans, and all the Royals are effectively imported, we have the opportunity to have a truly "top to bottom" social revolution.

Edited 2 hours ago by badgerx16

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, ecuk268 said:

Found this guy who does a report on each game from a US viewpoint.

I found it quite amusing.

 

Soccer Guy

 

France Soccer Club recover from a lame-ass first quarter to go take the W against Africa, as the Soccer Cocks show why they're widely anticipized to go rival the USMNT in this World Cup World Championships of the world.

 

Africa dominized the first quarter, and shoulda got the go-ahead in overtime before some guy messed up with the soccer goal interior wider than a big-ass Texan ranch.

 

After the halftime show, the Cocks showed why they are so hard to keep down as Kylian Mmmbop, playing like a total jackass in the first quarter, woke up and started trying real hard. After an African deefense guy messed up with his depossession slide, it looked like he was gonna go get the deathstrike, only for the referee to go take a look at the Go Take Another Look Tablet and decide he took a voluntary simulization plunge. Kinda mad, Mmmbop dusted off his cleats and, just a minute later, put the first stain on the sheets.

 

Africa tried real hard to get the equalization and looked like they had got it when Sorrymiss Jackson inserted from a cute angle only for the denial flag erection to deny him.

 

With the completion whistle approaching, Des Champs dipped into the sub shack, sending on Bart Cola. It didn't take long for Cola to go prove he's the real thing, adding a second goalshot with a wedge kick over the goaltender.

 

Africa inserted a constiptation goalshot in overtime, but Mmmbop had the last say, detonizing a cleat rocket of French fury right into the upper ninety from real faraway land, sending the guys up in the bleachers into raptors.

Hes been going for years, its a parody account, very funny.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

4 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Given almost all of the "upper class" are descended from the Normans, and all the Royals are effectively imported, we have the opportunity to have a truly "top to bottom" social revolution.

I'm with you Wat Tyler!

[S-Clarke]

I know people often pit Ronaldo and Messi together, one is better than the other etc, but honestly we've been lucky to be part of a generation with two unbelievable players. 

They made 50-60 goals in a single season the norm in their peak, they're still playing at the highest level in their late 30's/40's and contributing. They are insane. I don't think we'll have a double act like that again.