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Not a single one of the ***** in the stadium singing ‘you’re not fit to referee’. Game’s gone.

Going out at the top I’m guessing. He’s shown he can play in Div One therefore ticking off another achievement. Shame though as there’s evidently more seasons in him.

That Mexico v South Korea game is on FIFA. No real jeopardy if both draw. Only reason anything happened was because of the keeper cock up.

I completely agree with you, however…. ….they changed the law so even if it’s not deliberate it can still be penalised if someone ‘touches the ball with their hand/arm when it is in a position that makes their body unnaturally bigger and that position is not the result of their body moving fairly as part of play’ Going away from a handball having to be deliberate has caused more problems IMO.

“This hydration break is sponsored by the Toronto tourist board’.

Yes, though the group winner if they continued to get through would play a QF at the Azteca, possibly against Mexico if they win their group. They’ve only lost something like two competitive games in their history there.

I hope we’ve employed whoever that guy was just to do half time interviews.

Class that. Knew Croatia would be playing zonal so just played it exactly where the defenders wouldn’t be.

PSR is a load of bollocks.

You’ve still got 7 hours of yesterdays football to go yet.

Up there for the best half of the tournament so far for entertainment.

Play centrally for one. Moving him there for this half has been a master stroke.

The point is more about Cape Verde being underrated. They would have qualified if it was a 32 team tournament anyway. If Cameroon had have got a 0-0 draw, yeah people would be rightly impressed, but they wouldn’t call it ‘the biggest shock in World Cup history’ etc.

Because they’ve got Wycliffe Jean on?

I like the fact the fact is not built up around one end so you can see the Seattle skyline. Should have done the same with the King Power but for Raw Dykes Road.

Cape Verde are no mugs and certainly not like Curacao who have qualified because of the expansion and the fact the three best teams in their region are the hosts. They’ve been excellent in Africa for the last few years and probably would have qualified even for a 32 team World Cup after beating Cameroon in the group stages. Hopefully they beat Saudi Arabia and qualify.

Didn’t stay up for Ivory Coast v Ecuador because thought it would be 0-0. Watching it this morning though it was a really good game. Wouldn’t fancy playing either of these sides to be honest.

Oleg Salenko scored five for Russia against Cameroon. Scored another to win the Golden Boot.

This is a everyone beat Haiti, they all draw against each other, and three teams go through with five points kind of group.

As @Finnegan says they were poor then. Got a few dodgy decisions to beat Croatia, drew with Mexico and beat a poor Cameroon before shithousing wins over Chile (on pens) and Colombia before getting battered in the semi.

Three years? What’s going to happen in four years time when we’re in the Champions League?

Scotland going to be the first European side to win a game?

MAGAStan

Entertaining game between two contrasting styles. Hwang in-Boem excellent but Czechs were very much in the game, even though they only looked really threatening from set pieces.

If we keep up this ratio of red cards we’ll be on 312 for the tournament.