Jaspa

Morocco's anthem certainly has a twang of military dictatorship about it

It was a red card. I think Argentina have been exposed to a degree, their fullbacks are shocking, they'll find the semi in Atlanta tough against either England or Norway. It was laid out on a platter for them in Qatar, but I don't think it'll work out like that this time. Thing that stands out about them for me are their fans, they're so energetic and rambunctious, filling stadiums and so vibrant, I thought their nation was going through repeated severe economic challenges for a while now... they seem to be doing quite well for themselves and very proud.

If you were to analyse every single foul committed by England, are there many cards if any which were unjust? People bolting more onto it than it needs to be. The last round of fixtures have really stirred up the conspiracy theory/fixed side of things. It's the sharp edge of the tournament now, a whole day without a fixture signals in were nearing the end. World Cup Final in 11 days. Seeing Norway have a "sickness bug" going around, not believing anything out there like that now . Be bonkers if England make the Final, country will be buzzing.

So much for your high unemployment rate Colombia!

Absolute bobbins

Looked very much a pen, stray leg dangling out there stopped the Swiss lad

Goalie trying to look injured after clattering into Embolo

Suisse looking much better this half

Yeah tbh. Kansas(base), Dallas, Dallas. That's for me relying on AI for research

No, Argentina have actually had to bounce all over the place. They've based in the same city as England, Kansas City, but look at where their games have been. France were really lucky with how the draw fell into place.

Get this to extra time. Tire both of these out abit more please

If we do play Argentina btw, this'll be the stadium it's played in.

Their defence is majorly flawed. All well and good if Messi is on his game and sinking 2+ goals a game, but when he's off it they certainly don't have a di Maria to ask other questions any more. I knew they'd tire at some point as they have a had an incredibly challenging travel schedule, France lucked out where Argentina got the opposite. I just didn't expect it quite yet. Fair play Egypt. Traditional powerhouse of African football. Huge moments for them.

Would've been nice to play Argentina in the Semi aswell(should we have hypothetically beaten Norway)

Argies starting to play dirty

****. Thought this started @6pm

Where's Jozy Altidore when you need him, ay?

Surely some shenanigans are pulled tonight, can't have all of the home nations out just yet. Team USA needs to go out proud and loud, surely

Youri wtf?

De Bruyne, Doku and Lukaku all on the bench for Belgium

Sometimes you just leave things in chats like that, it's not formal and everyone should know what you actually mean. It's like when people say "with my bare hands", my mind immediately jumps to the thought of that person having bear paws for hands, and if I needed to type that into a chat I'd possibly just type in bear hands for the sake of it, and would think of anyone being annoyed by it as being a wally

Pre-ordered when it was announced. Thing is I'm stuck over on Xbox, had an account on there since the mid-00's, Series X sat collecting dust, have no current gamepass/live/whatever equivalent subscription running. Thing is all I'm hearing on Microsoft/Xbox is they're scaling back the business, maybe leaving the console market. It look almost 2 years for GTA V to hit PC. I'd rather not have to go through the rigmorale of selling my Series X, using up my rewards points, cancel my preorder, abandon my OG gamertag to then have to buy a PS5/peripherals/subscriptions and get used to the naff controller layout with non-removable batteries just got GTA VI. Faff and expensive.

Are Spain just that good at controlling and strangling games or were Portugal just too reserved? Zero goals conceded in 5 matches España