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Just waiting for someone to say the Scots being cheerful is "performative"

Scots - *have a good time* Miserable English - "wow, what arrogance and delusion!"

Canada were tenacious

Wasn't it Norway vs Morocco? The Eggen Chippo game.

Barcelona defender getting cross

Too right. Dunno why Brits have this whole thing about not putting on heating during certain months. Bloody freezing today.

Free Saturdays can be so useful

It was a bit incoherent so maybe I misread but I think it was a long the lines of "it's the Jews making us all fight each other" or something.

The Anglo Saxons continue to toil under the Norman yoke

I think the "it's all the fault of the Jews" was probably the final straw

Happened to me once where I didn't watch a game but wanted to make it sound like I had so wrote "Perez was shit as per" and it was the one time he was actually good. Got a right pile on of laughing emojis.

Funny how perceptions can differ so much - Burnham strikes me as completely inauthentic and self-absorbed.

There is often an excuse for large scale disorder, it is one of the best ways of affecting change. Although they might not be able to articulate it very well, I think people are tired of living in a country that has given up trying to improve people's living standards and instead seems to focus mostly on managing relations between Britain's now pretty disparate 'communities'. Throw in to the mix an alarmingly high rate of young men not in work or education, increasing cost of living, wage compression, plus social media, and obviously it's not going to end well. It never does, I don't know why the Brits think they'll be any different. Having said all that, loyalists do be loyalists.

Cooked tomatoes are obviously the basis of some of the world's great cuisine. Raw tomatoes are good if they are good, ripe tomatoes i.e. from a warm place, and they are room temperature and served with some bread and feta type cheese. Anglo-Saxons have a habit of serving thinly sliced, ice cold, hard tomato, which is barbaric.

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Nah UK is more boned than Republic of Ireland. They have one of the lowest NEET rates in Europe, ours is now second worse after Romania. There are anti immigrant riots seemingly every summer here now, will only increase I'm sure.

Real collapse of Ottoman Empire vibes to the UK at the moment. An embattled elite trying to keep it all together with talk of shared values that nobody seems to want to believe in anymore.

Slightly nuts to think there have been 6 world cups between this one and France 98, the same as between France 98 and Mexico 1970.

tbh loyalists don't really need much encouragement to riot

Italy-Germany semi final was an all time game. But there were lots of disappointing games as well. Perhaps the 2 most purely entertaining of my lifetime were in places you wouldn't expect - USA and Japan/Korea. Russia 2018 was also a very entertaining tournament. If I had to pick just 1 tournament to relive, it'd be France 98. A combination of great players, some great games, and the atmosphere of a major sporting event in France. But probably just because I was 13. An iconic tournament.

Feel like this is said every summer now. Who knows maybe it isn't just boredom...

I don't really want my daughter growing up in Britain. There is crime including violent crime in other countries but there's an increasing feeling here that we are constantly on the verge of an extremely violent event and even if that's somewhat magnified by social media, it's no way to live life. That's before you even get to violence towards women.

Everton fans were infamous for racist chanting iirc

Our Irish friends about to get in on the action, must be a world cup year.