Dr Gloom 19735 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 there's some shit in there, when you consider there's no italy or holland. the world cup is way easier to do well in than the euros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 9 minutes ago, Anorthernsoul said: Poland or Columbia second round. Having nicked out 1st seeding Poland need a lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said: there's some shit in there, when you consider there's no italy or holland. the world cup is way easier to do well in than the euros. One of the issues is that our players are always knackered after the 700 games they have to play with no break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19735 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, Park Life said: Russia with easiest group shocker! who'd have thought it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2759 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 12 minutes ago, Alex said: Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Semi-finals would be... Germany or Mexico. Brazil or Switzerland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19735 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 that's it. i'm putting a monkey on us to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26168 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Easy on there, Guy Ritchie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12736 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 You can officially get excited now. Just got to get this takeover business sorted, spend £50 million next month, finish 13th and then we can actually enjoy some football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30239 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 13 minutes ago, ewerk said: Easy on there, Guy Ritchie. What about a pony and some hooves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tdansmith 2068 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I wonder what time the kick offs will be ? Russia does have a few time zones don't they ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 7 minutes ago, Tdansmith said: I wonder what time the kick offs will be ? Russia does have a few time zones don't they ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/schedule/group-stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tdansmith 2068 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 14 minutes ago, Bizza said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/schedule/group-stage Thank you for that. No lieu days needed just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19735 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Couldn’t ask for much better than that! Evening games in week and a Sunday afternoon kick off. Bring on the inevitable damp squib of disappointment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38556 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 39 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said: Couldn’t ask for much better than that! Evening games in week and a Sunday afternoon kick off. Bring on the inevitable damp squib of disappointment You rang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrossthepond 699 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 (edited) Both halves of me pretty pleased with that. Piece of piss group for England, manageable group for Egypt. Saudi are absolute dogshit, we can get a draw off Uruguay, and Russia are a wild card - shite on paper, but with fanatical fans and bent refs, who knows? Still a decent draw. Edited December 2, 2017 by acrossthepond fixed grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 What's with all the blinking from Southgate.Giggs is the same.I don't see the point of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12736 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 2 hours ago, essembeeofsunderland said: What's with all the blinking from Southgate.Giggs is the same.I don't see the point of it. Blinking is a semi-autonomic rapid closing of the eyelid. A single blink is determined by the forceful closing of the eyelid or inactivation of the levator palpebrae superioris and the activation of the palpebral portion of the orbicularis oculi, not the full open and close. It is an essential function of the eye that helps spread tears across and remove irritants from the surface of the cornea and conjunctiva. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30239 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4949 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 How surprised would any of us really be if essembee didn't actually blink irl. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38556 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 5 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: Blinking …helps …remove irritants If we all blink at the same time, will essembee fuck off? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 12/1/2017 at 5:53 PM, Alex said: What about a pony and some hooves? I'm doing a donkey with a parrot backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Ooooops. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/peru-paolo-guerrero-world-cup-drugs-test-fifa-year-ban?CMP=fb_a-football_b-gdnfootball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) The World Cup is just around the corner now. Few people deeply care about England these days, too many let downs, too many wanks in our squad. That was the case in 2014. Forget about England though, 2014 was probably the best World Cup we ever saw, looking at the 48 fixtures below I'd be amazed if this tournament is anywhere near as good. As far as I can see there's three decent fixtures, highlighted below, out of 48 group games, in Group B alone there was 3 top class fixtures in Brazil with holders Spain, Holland and Chile. So I'm not cumming in my pants. Let's hope I'm wrong. Thursday, June 14: Russia v Saudi Arabia (Luzhniki) Friday, June 15: Egypt v Uruguay (Ekaterinburg) Friday, June 15: Morocco v Iran (St Petersburg) Friday, June 15: Portugal v Spain (Sochi) Saturday, June 16: France v Australia (Kazan) Saturday, June 16: Argentina v Iceland (Spartak) Saturday, June 16: Peru v Denmark (Saransk) Saturday, June 16: Croatia v Nigeria (Kaliningrad) Sunday, June 17: Costa Rica v Serbia (Samara) Sunday, June 17: Germany v Mexico (Luzhniki) Sunday, June 17: Brazil v Switzerland (Rostov-on-Don) Monday, June 18: Sweden v Korea Republic (Nizhny Novgorod) Monday, June 18: Belgium v Panama (Sochi) Monday, June 18: Tunisia v England (Volgograd) Tuesday, June 19: Poland v Senegal (Spartak) Tuesday, June 19: Colombia v Japan (Saransk) Tuesday, June 19: Russia v Egypt (St Petersburg) Wednesday, June 20: Portugal v Morocco (Luzhniki) Wednesday, June 20: Uruguay v Saudi Arabia (Rostov-on-Don) Wednesday, June 20: Iran v Spain (Kazan) Thursday, June 21: France v Peru (Ekaterinburg) Thursday, June 21: Denmark v Australia (Samara) Thursday, June 21: Argentina v Croatia (Nizhny Novgorod) Friday, June 22: Brazil v Costa Rica (St Petersburg) Friday, June 22: Nigeria v Iceland (Volgograd) Friday, June 22: Serbia v Switzerland (Kaliningrad) Saturday, June 23: Belgium v Tunisia (Spartak) Saturday, June 23: Germany v Sweden (Sochi) Saturday, June 23: Korea Republic v Mexico (Rostov-on-Don) Sunday, June 24: England v Panama (Nizhny Novgorod) Sunday, June 24: Japan v Senegal (Ekaterinburg) Sunday, June 24: Poland v Colombia (Kazan) Monday, June 25: Uruguay v Russia (Samara) Monday, June 25: Saudi Arabia v Egypt (Volgograd) Monday, June 25: Spain v Morocco (Kaliningrad) Monday, June 25: Iran v Portugal (Saransk) Tuesday, June 26: Denmark v France (Luzhniki) Tuesday, June 26: Australia v Peru (Sochi) Tuesday, June 26: Nigeria v Argentina (St Petersburg) Tuesday, June 26: Iceland v Croatia (Rostov-on-Don) Wednesday, June 27: Korea Republic v Germany (Kazan) Wednesday, June 27: Mexico v Sweden (Ekaterinburg) Wednesday, June 27: Serbia v Brazil (Spartak) Wednesday, June 27: Switzerland v Costa Rica (Nizhny Novgorod) Thursday, June 28: Japan v Poland (Volgograd) Thursday, June 28: Senegal v Colombia (Samara) Thursday, June 28: England v Belgium (Kaliningrad) Thursday, June 28: Panama v Tunisia (Saransk) My five predictions are: England to win two group games, but lose to Belgian, being put out in the Second Round off Colombia. Some bitter Scottish fool wearing a Scotland top at one of the England games in the opposition end as happened in Brazil (see below). Argentina to disappoint, Messi to retire from international football...again. Germany to play shite but at least make the Semi's. Brazil to win it. Edited March 28, 2018 by McFaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30239 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened if Argentina do it after their shambolic preparation and qualifying campaign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12736 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Think a lot of the group games might be decent affairs actually, on the caveat that teams go for it ala 2014 and don't try to play it cautious. Obviously some will but you can always count on the South Americans to go for it, Egypt have Salah, Senegal and Nigeria both have pacy, attacking sides IIRC, Iceland were decent values at the Euros and so on. Having watched Holland and Italy against us recently, I'm not sure it'll be any worse for those two sides not being there even though the Italians would probably still make the quarters. Might just be an opportunity for certain players and sides to make a name for themselves. I don't know if it could happen or if they'd meet before but an Argentina/Portugal final with Messi pulling Ronaldo's kegs down would be a laugh. I reckon England will go out in the second round to one of Columbia/Poland/Senegal since they're three good sides and we'll probably shit our pants. I fancy Brazil as well; their attacking options are class but the back four is unreal, not to mention Fernandinho in front of them. The opening game will be absolutely shit though, we can guess that much. That first Saturday though I'll be half cut by half 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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