World Cup 2026

[Wade Garrett]

Glad I switched off as soon as the Argies scored their first.

Predictable.

[Maggie May]

Egypt’s defending sphinx.

[BotleySaint]

I can understand the frustration from Egypt. Especially given the precedent set earlier in the game.

If it was England we'd be indignant 

Edited 4 hours ago by BotleySaint

[skintsaint]

Funny how we never got a proper look at it, oh wait because it was Messi's Argentina that will be it....🤦

[BotleySaint]

Just now, skintsaint said:

Funny how we never got a proper look at it, oh wait because it was Messi's Argentina that will be it....🤦

Unfortunately the corruption shown so far makes that a very realistic possibility.

[Disco Stu]

I'm more worried about facing Norway than the prospect of facing Argentina in a semi-final. They're not all that.

[whelk]

Just now, Disco Stu said:

I'm more worried about facing Norway than the prospect of facing Argentina in a semi-final. They're not all that.

Wouldn’t surprise me if Colombia beat them in quarter finals

[whelk]

Has Messi got a tattoo of Nerys Hughes on his back?

[Sheaf Saint]

10 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

Egypt’s defending sphinx.

Yep. Pharaoh comment.

[Saint Pete]

9 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

I can understand the frustration from Egypt. Especially given the precedent set earlier in the game.

If it was England we'd be indignant 

Yeah, my suspicion is that Egypt goal wouldn't have been disallowed had it been an Argentina one. Argument would have been constructed to say "too far back in the move". 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

12 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

Egypt’s defending sphinx.

Tut Tut. I might be in de-nile, but I thought we'd left puns behind.

[Patrick Bateman]

16 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Glad I switched off as soon as the Argies scored their first.

Predictable.

Bloody annoying, was hoping that lot would get dumped out

[Gloucester Saint]

41 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Tut Tut. I might be in de-nile, but I thought we'd left puns behind.

Their players have done well to work their way up the football pyramid though.

[Turkish]

Columbia  v Switzerland or as it’s been dubbed Charlie v the chocolate factory 

[BARCELONASAINT]

Fantastic game earlier, Egypt really only have themselves to blame. They had the game won and then imploded with some lousy defending and Messi doing what Messi has always done. Yup some VAR decisions were questionable but we all know VAR is shit and thats one of the reasons we enjoyed the Championship so much last season.

I said at the start of this tournament Argentina were not particularly good having watched a lot of their qualifiers. They rely so much on their talisman and he has not failed to deliver in every game he's played in this tournament. He took his goal magnificently.

Should we get to the semi final and Argentina do likewise we should be confident of beating them providing we are not without the likes of Bellingham and Rice who are sitting on yellow cards ahead of the Norway game.

Edited 1 hour ago by BARCELONASAINT

[RedArmy]

1 hour ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Bloody annoying, was hoping that lot would get dumped out

We’ll just have to do it ourselves. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Their players have done well to work their way up the football pyramid though.

I'm not encouraging this activity. Those taking part will get their just deserts.

[trousers]

23 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

Fantastic game earlier, Egypt really only have themselves to blame. They had the game won and then imploded with some lousy defending and Messi doing what Messi has always done. Yup some VAR decisions were questionable but we all know VAR is shit and thats one of the reasons we enjoyed the Championship so much last season.

I said at the start of this tournament Argentina were not particularly good having watched a lot of their qualifiers. They rely so much on their talisman and he has not failed to deliver in every game he's played in this tournament. He took his goal magnificently.

Should we get to the semi final and Argentina do likewise we should be confident of beating them providing we are not without the likes of Bellingham and Rice who are sitting on yellow cards ahead of the Denmark game.

No way! 

[BARCELONASAINT]

10 minutes ago, trousers said:

No way! 

whoops, corrected 🤣

[vectraman]

[Saint Pete]

Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through). So if we can deal with Erling on Saturday, reckon it'll be the Argies in the semi, but wouldn't be too worried about that having watched their game earlier. Reckon Norway may be the bigger challenge as Haaland is so difficult to deal with. 

[skintsaint]

17 minutes ago, Saint Pete said:

Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through).

Colombia beat and draw with Argentina in the qualifiers, so reckon that would be the tougher game for Argentina out of these two.

[Polaroid Saint]

 

(I don't think this has any relevance to the dullness of this game...)

...but I find my self ranking the World Cup Managers on their assumed relationship to The Fall.

Murat Yakin looks like he might have played percussion for The Fall during their early nineties toura of Southern Europe/Near Asia in the early nineties.

Néstor Lorenzo absolutely, I am sure, did the booking and ticketing for Mark E Smith + others during The Falls difficult late nineties period. Looks like a man who knows his way around the whiskey options of a 7-11 or Spar.