Lionator

I am not optimistic but I really hope this sticks and we can get a two state solution and Gaza can be rebuilt, 🇮🇱 can live without the threat of H*mas while not taking over the West Bank.

Reminder to play the ball not the man. These guys are here because it’s a better life for them, although any Pole or Lithuanian who thinks modern Britain is better than their country is insane. Hell even the whole western part of Ukraine is better than here these days. The system is the issue, cheap labour, lack of labour of British workers, declining living standards etc.

Looks like we’re actually getting a ceasefire in the ME.

I would love to buy into the idea that Libya (a literal oil bed) is somehow complicit in a conspiracy to get Cape Verde (islands that’ll be sunk in 50 years) to the World Cup.

the mighty Central African Republic. They’re not even in the centre of Africa .

Through my hazy memories of watching it at school at 8am, Brazil basically wanted it more in the end. Seaman missed a cross, Beckham chickened out of a tackle etc. And yeah the officiating in that 2004 was pretty suspect but then Ricardo had the game of his life between the sticks.

That era was pretty mental to be fair. Remember us beating Argentina in a friendly in Geneva and it be like we won the World Cup. Everyone would tune in for every England game whether it was Albania away or Macedonia at home.

Looks like Ghana are about there. An attack of Kudus, Fatawu and Semenyo ain’t bad at all. Shame their main striker is pish.

UAE can definitely beat Qatar. Very similar conditions, what even is a ‘home’ game for Qatar anyway?

coming to a city near you soon. Or even better, a missile. Just hope it’s not nuclear tipped ey.

Cape Verde bottling it v Libya. Gonna have to beat the mighty eSwatini (formerly known as Swaziland) in the last game to qualify.

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