Aus Fox

He’s in the Swan and Rushes watching the France Spain game.

We’ll shit ‘em! Four Nil Bellingham, Kane, Saka and Burn all to score. It’s coming home!

Yeah the guy I was chatting to said Mbappe, Messi, Kane… as his top 3.

Just having a chat with someone at work about the player of the tournament for this World Cup and our opinions were vastly different, so I thought I’d put my top 3 in here and see everyone else’s. obviously there’s 3 huge games to go, but so far unless someone does something amazing in the next two this is the 3. 1. Michael Olise - I think he’s been pure class every game and a huge reason France have brought it all together. 2. Jude Bellingham - in the big moments Hey Jude has risen to a whole new level. 3. Rodri - the best Spanish player by far, and the main reason they are still alive in this tournament. If everyone does a 1,2,3 and I’ll use the votes before the semi final to announce an official FoxesTalk Player of the tournament.

Footballs coming home!

I think in a weird sort of way, Spain are the only team that can beat France, but at the same time Spain can be beaten by any of the other teams left in the competition.

There’s something special about heading to the pub at 5:30 in the morning, not knowing if you need coffee or a pint. I think the excitement for football is coming back strongly this World Cup.

Can we petition FIFA to move the semi final to the Azteca if it turns out to be Argentina v England. We have some unfinished business to attend to.

The only way NZ can host the World Cup is to cohost with Australia. The biggest problem Australia has is June July is peak AFL and NRL season, there’s no way those codes will allow the use of the biggest stadiums for football for 2 months mid season. Which is a real shame, because I’d love it and I think Australia would be an amazing place to host the World Cup and already has much of the infrastructure ready to go.

Don’t let CBs take penalties

Don’t let CBs take penalties…

Thought the keeper had that one

So revised 1/4s after this mornings games: France v Morocco Belgium v Spain England v Norway USA v Scotland. Confirmed by FIFA this afternoon

I actually think the best thing that can happen for the three North American countries is for them to move into the CONMEBOL confederation, or merge CONMEBOL and Concacaf. This will mean the teams get to play high quality opposition and grow more regularly, play in the Copa America, got through qualifying against the best teams and be better prepared when the next World Cup comes around.

I think more than anything this shows where US football is on the global stage. As soon as they’ve come up against decent opposition, they’ve been completely outplayed.