Sir Steve Howard

Pakistan need to wallop Sri Lanka to get through ahead of NZ. 65 run win or chasing down within 13ish overs is my rough estimate

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Imagine knocking India out of their home World Cup though 

The only good thing about watching India this WC is the silence when opposition hit a boundary/take a wicket. Inject it.

However we will inevitably lose to them and it would be unbearable so preferably Windies do the job for us, then I could actually enjoy the SF.

SF opponents Windies/India.

Goes without saying but all WI aren't we

7 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Arsenal definitely got the best draw but will mean more pressure on them .

 

Not much reward for Chelsea or Spurs coming in the top 8 really .

The reward was a bye to this round

Zimbabwe's bowling efforts in S8 so far:
254 vs WI
256 vs India

Won the toss and bowled both times.

22 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Was always going to end up as a virtual knockout match against the Windies for India. 

 

Hopefully WI can still be ahead on NRR after this one so any no result would send them through. 

You can bet your bottom dollar that some new rules would be conjured out of thin air if India were about to be washed out of the tournament.

14 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

It pains me to say but Ibrox is the best football stadium in the UK.

Even more painful to say that the City Ground is great, would also chuck in the Hawthorns

13 hours ago, AKCJ said:

I mean thats a stone wall penalty, no?

gets the ball, striker (who he can't see) is trying to head the ball off the deck.

not taking the piss here, never a pen.

12 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Me and my pals had a top weekend in Eindhoven. We stopped at Ghent on the way and Genk coming back.

 

FC Eindhoven 3-2 Almere City 

Last minute screamer won it, felt like non league level despite it being 2nd tier and Almere being in the top division last season. 

Fell in love with the place tbf, just everything you want from a match day and so pure. I haven't celebrated a Leicester goal like I did their winner and I'd only been there 2 hours.

 

Genk 0-3 Standard Liege 

I think Genk looked leggy after winning in Zagreb in the week and never got going. Both sets of support amazing. Genk halted the game with pyro and fireworks at the start of the second half and Liege didn't stop all game.

 

I love visiting Belgium and Netherlands, just so easy to get to, yet so different for all the right reasons.

 

Looking forward to planning another.

what, ever?!?

4 hours ago, Deeg67 said:

Absolutely baffling to me that any neutral could root for Chelsea against Wrexham.

Hope Chelsea wallop them

1 hour ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Peterborough (A) 1-5 in 2018.

 

Great day out and we took a very good end. 

 

I'm pretty much against modern football and love grounds with character, but that away end has been a massive upgrade on the terrace. 

Couldn't disagree more

On 10/02/2026 at 16:42, An Away Move said:

Saw an article recently about how football clubs are killing pubs with Fan Zones. I never thought about that but now can’t ignore it. 

who tf is going to our 'fan zone', looks like hell on earth

17 hours ago, Harpenden Fox said:

Good call this. Obviously want us to win, but if not us, let it not be India or Australia.

Obviously it's anybody but India

20 hours ago, Lionator said:

People just get completely caught in their context and moment. It’s why we should probably teach more emotion regulation stuff in schools.

 

I gave up playing local cricket as week after week my team and opponents were verbally abusing each other, threatening violence and generally just being arses. Nobody needs it, it’s supposed to be the release away from the grind.

This is exactly why I love playing sunday league football. Bandit country.

58 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

 

This is absolute heritage.

The goal, the commentary, the limbs.

"and there's Marshall walloping it in"

7 hours ago, Lionator said:

Neither of those should be even in the event. One pretending she’s Kazakh and the other from the other war crime country. It’s a disgrace. 

Not sure if this is satire, shall we ban all Yanks while we're at it?

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

Apart from Villa, is there a team you definitely wouldn’t fancy Forest beating over two legs?? I have a terrible fear.

Fenerbahce for a start

33 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

They need to stop allowing so many teams from one country joining and reduce the number of teams qualifying.

 

It shouldn't be anyone's right to qualify.

 

If it was up to me I would let only the winners of the leagues and cups qualify.

 

Make clubs like Arsenal, Spurs, Newcastle, Villa, Atleti, Sevilla, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Roma, Lyon, Monaco etc earn their spots in the Champions League by actually winning things.

 

I hate that Newcastle lost 12 league games last season yet qualified for the Champions League in 5th place.

I know it's out of character but Spurs won the Europa last year. Newcastle won the league cup.

I understand the sentiment of only allowing clubs who've won stuff in, but this contradicts your above point on poor sides being allowed in.

If we returned to European cup entry requirements, you'd have Real Madrid beating HB Torshavn by a cricket score over two legs

1 hour ago, AKCJ said:

All teams playing at the same time is fun but I still don't prefer this method to the old group stage.

 

We have lost 5 teams who play in one of the top 5 leagues out of 36 clubs. We were a goalkeeper scoring a 97th minute goal away from that only being 4 teams.

 

The UCL is needlessly bloated with some really poor sides. 

there are 4 more teams at this stage than there were previously, two of which being newcastle & villarreal. admittedly the latter have been dire but wouldn't say the prev method was noticeably better in terms of quality.

what you're seemingly suggesting is more in line with Super League proposal. 18 of the same 'elite' teams would become so stale in my eyes. No more Bodo/////Glimt

1 hour ago, BKLFox said:

Going into the next rounds is this format an improvement on the previous and does it make for more jeopardy?

I’m thinking not really as now Arsenal (just using them as an example but goes for 2nd, 3rd etc placed) coming 1st means they can’t play anyone lower than 15th & when they get through that then no one lower than 7th (or something like that)

Wouldn't it just be better to open it up to free balls & luck of the draw with yes maybe given home advantage for finishing this 1st phase in top 8 or what ever but after that round it’s back to luck of draw.

It’s still geared around ensuring the supposed big teams are still around in the 1/4s

this is a poor take

3 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

What a moron 

Woolen taunting penalty then is defending Puka for the subsequent TD play hahahah

2 hours ago, Sir Steve Howard said:

swing and a miss for AFC

NFC making up for it

1 hour ago, spacemunky said:

Just rooting for good games at this point.

swing and a miss for AFC

4 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

The Crawley experiment last med long then  

 

Rehan opening? 

 

Interesting outfits on Harmison and Gower. 

great to see Lord Gower on comms after the disastrous Ashes TNT effort