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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.

Corruption 1 - 4 Football

Big Rom!!!! 4-1

There were 11 Englishmen in the Azteca, There were 11 Englishmen in the Atzteca and the referee from down under sent one off and the referee from down under sent one off…

@sylofox I hope you watched that game today and fell a little bit more back in love with the game. Today, on the back of that news about Balogun, getting to play against Belgium - football was at a low point. Then a game that gave us everything I love about the game, the game itself was immense, the crowd were unbelievable and sitting back now and watching all the videos of people watching around the world and enjoying that spectacle is everything. For the first time in forever, I can’t stop talking about, reading about and rewatching that game.

By the way, how good was Pickford tonight! Struggling to think of a better performance by an England goalkeeper. Some unbelievable saves!

I think I’m going to get on the beers until 1am now, then rewatch the game at 1 so I can relive it from the England fans experience over there, then go into work tomorrow still pissed and try and get through the day In solidarity with everyone back home.

Spot on - the only thing I’m surprised about this World Cup and I shouldn’t be really, is that they are so obvious about it. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

Were Portugal or Argentina guilty of political interference in the game? Did any of those teams have their president or politicians call fifa and directly ask for their players to be allowed to play? Everyone was critical of the Ronaldo decision, but this is on a whole new level.Any political interference in the game should result in a suspension and teams being barred from competing in World Cup and FIFA sanctioned games - this has happened recently with Nepal, India, Kenya and others have all had relatively recent sanctions placed on them for political interference in the game and the governing of the game. It was a red card, just because another player got away with it from a poor refereeing decision, it doesn’t make this any less a red card.

It was a red card, but regardless of that fact. There’s no appeals process in world cups. There never has been and really shouldn’t be, especially in the days of VAR. This is the worst incident of corruption I’ve heard of in any sport - and by FIFA who are littered with incidents of corruption. The fact that Nepal were suspended from FIFA last week for political interference, then this week the US president is calling and directly interfering in the biggest competition in the world is an absolute disgrace. The US should be kicked out of the competition. But they won’t because $$$$

I don’t think anyone can beat us ever again after that…