Sir Steve Howard

Hello darkness, my old friend

People love to complain about overly complex lyrics within some chants. No excuses for the Ben Nelson chant not to take off. 1) It's a banger 2) the only words are his name

LDU's ground is high altitude so a bit of the Bolivian national team about it. Still absolutely shambolic they couldn't see out a 3 goal head start ffs. Flamengo down to 10 early doors but had no issues shutting up shop at Racing. The final will probably be more entertaining with these two in there but Brazil-Brazil again is getting tedious

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The game is going ahead. They're in the competition and playing home games in neutral territory. It's a farce. Let's not open a can of worms but these fvckers should be nowhere near UEFA comps anyway. Look at the map.

Russians were banned before you could blink yet the Israelis are still here, would argue that is the opposite of antisemitism

Shouldn't be in the competition at all ffs

Grandad Bowl didn't disappoint

Nothing good has ever come out of CONCACAF I'm afraid, considering that outside of USA/Canada it's football mad. Mexico perennial chokers. USA's best player is at Cov ffs.

Shambolic UEFA don't get a representative in the playoffs (because whoever it was would obviously walk it). CONCACAF getting 6 spots and 2 in the playoffs is taking the piss. Last time UEFA had an intercontinental spot was 2002, playoff was Ireland v Iran w/ home and away legs, incredible tie.

Surely PAK clear favs defending that, 2 down already

Quite a long-winded backstory but could be in San Marino's interest to throw a qualifier if November. They play Romania, who are above them in nations league qualifier order and currently third in WC group. If Romania finish second, San Marino would then be on the cards to make the playoffs despite finishing bottom of group, as Romania would have made playoffs in own right rather than NL standing. Romania need to overhaul GD to reach Bosnia though so we could be left with the farcical situation of San Marino needing to lose by a certain number of goals to progress. Would very much bring the game into disrepute. Obviously would be great to see it happen

Yeah Rwanda no pushovers, beat SA 2-0 in reverse fixture

Nigeria can make it due to Eritrea chopping out another group. All results against bottom place are discounted to level playing field. In most groups the runner up will have beaten bottom team home and away but in group C Zimbabwe are bottom and have drawn with Nigeria, Benin and SA at home. Nigeria couldn't even beat them at home either so in the runner up standings they only have two points knocked off. They'll finish on 15 and will have better GD than Niger. Also romp is a funny way of saying SA only need to win by 2+ if Benin draw.

This group is mad. SA should be home and dry by now but beat Lesotho at home then got awarded 0-3 loss for fielding ineligible player. If Nigeria beat Benin 2-1 they'll be inseparable and it will go down to 8th tiebreaker of booking points.

Anyone going must be absolutely loaded/devoid of any sense

My favourite ever domestic away, incredible end despite the result. How football should be.

wild take, T20 and One day performances don't correlate to our sparkling county champ form

They get paid fvck all realistically, so there's one obvious answer

All 4 at least seemingly well matched as well, Aus winning in SA from so far behind was mad. Games in ARG are the best, such a football crowd whistling the opposition kicker etc.

Wouldn't go as far to say that they underperform locally. Prior to loss at Eden Park last week (where NZ haven't lost in a million years), they'd beaten NZ four times on the spin. Could still end up winning the rugby champ as it's so close. Realistically Rugby Championship is the best competition in rugby by a mile, all games this year have been incredible.

Feel your pain

ITV lured by who half the country now support

Roma was diabolical but don't agree on Napoli front.

Hate brendan as much as the next guy but this isn't correct realistically. Away at 'minnows' (very much up for debate who fits into this): AEK won 2-1 Zorya lost 1-0 but still won group. Slavia 0-0 then bottled at home. Randers walloped 3-1. Legia away abysmal performance but not counting them as minnows, Villa also got done there