Lionator

There’s always scare stories before a major event but they should not be playing the USA, especially the western states in mid June, it’s dangerous. The temperatures will be higher than in Doha at a similar time of year and that world cup got moved to December. Fortunately the next one in 2030 will be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco during the hottest months of the year so the weather won’t be a problem!!

To be fair Uzbekistan have nearly qualified for the last two world cups and have had a solid team, but yeah there’ll be some joke African and North American teams qualifying I think.

For international football nerds like myself this is a very exciting window. The African qualification stage will conclude. Senegal and DR Congo in a straight shootout. Senegal should do it. A three way between Benin, South Africa and Nigeria. Benin and Nigeria have to play each other while South Afric have two fixtures they should win and therefore should qualify. Cape Verde need 3 points from 2 games to guarantee qualification over Cameroon. Ivory Coast and Gabon straight shootout. Ghana, Madagascar and Comoros Islands in a three way. While we have vested interests in Ghana, either of the other two qualifying would be INSANE. Then we have the Asian qualifiers Group A: Qatar, UAE, Oman Group B: Saudi, Iraq, Indonesia id love to see Iraq do it. And then the North American qualifiers in their second of three group stage phases.

2002 - beaten by the last great Brazilian team, man for man better than England. 2004 - drew with Portugal who were on home soil and lost a shootout. 2006 - star striker let them down by getting sent off. Luck is involved in a lot of these things. The Southgate generation had a lot of very lucky draws where they didn’t meet a good team until the latter stages, when they always got found out. That team could’ve won something but 1%’s went against them. Doesn’t mean they were a bad side.

He’s cosplaying Enoch Powell except he doesn’t have authenticity unlike Enoch (I listened to yesterdays rest is history episode). An utterly pathetic man.

Trump is insane isn’t he? Hasn’t got the foggiest clue what’s going on strategically.

I don’t think Xi Jinping is some kind of environmental messiah, truth is that it’s lucrative for China because the global majority trust them more than any other major nation or bloc (EU). Look how many of our solar panels come from China too. They simply know how to get stuff done, cheaply, even if that’s unethically, while mostly following science which is a very low bar.

He may be a tit wizard but it’s the most serious the greens have ever been.

Current immigration policy is a product of economic decline over two decades, lack of growth and lack of opportunities for British workers. Gaps need filling, the economy needs to run, it’s a race to the bottom and pulling up the drawbridge will accelerate it.

Wtf is going on in France? The new government resigned within hours and the PM after only 4 weeks? they had an election last year and it only made it worse, genuinely what’s the way out? Macron resigning? Electoral reform? Not what we need.

It’s a symptom of the lack of transparency in the club. People believe conspiracies because the club doesn’t present any alternative narratives as nobody does interviews. Now she’s left, people feel comfortable in speaking out and it’s clear that she was most likely not the problem.

Wolves Burnley and Forest

The only annoying thing about Maresca is his stubbornness with his own style. As a man and manager he’s a good balance between emotionally intelligent and a bit theatrical.

Funny that the widely mocked Palace v Brighton Derby actually has a shorter distance than Ipswich v Norwich

Last two World Cup finals have been 10/10 games tbf.

Who stops us from top two on the basis we will only improve?

Sort ourselves out and us and CovScum will piss this terrible league.

Less about the drag queen party, what about Leicester?

At a drag queen party so missing it, how we playing?

He’s very solid albeit the bar is very low at the moment. He talks a good game, actually focuses on economic stuff which is absolutely the direction the left need to go and seems to have something about him. Much better than the Corbyn party nonsense.

Marinakis will have those fans shot if they don’t watch it

MidgetLand 1-0 up.

On the other hand, and as Trump’s Syrian envoy Tom Barrack said the other day, thinking of this issue as 🇮🇱 and 🇵🇸 is also complicated as the Middle East doesn’t work in a nation state way, and when there has been an emphasis on the nation state, you end up with lunatics in charge (Saddam, Netanyahu, Assad). People from that part of the world instinctively see the world in a much more ethnic/tribal sense than our western perspective of nation states.

While I understand how it looks hypocritical this oversimplifies the situation. One can hope for social change and also be anti-mass murder of an ethnic group in their homeland

This is ok, and it’s understandable why people feel this way. But it’s also true that what BN and the I*DF are doing is much of the same, with an even more powerful hammer.