2026 World Cup

[Wymsey]

Spain are on a rampage in Turkey.

[The boy Linacre]

On 23/08/2025 at 08:58, Super_horns said:

Donald already putting his Trump sized hands on the World Cup .

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly4pk542d1o

The guy is just a hanger on in sports of the most obscene sad nature, just caused chaos at the men’s US Open final, sad. 
 

[Super_horns]

Spain on fire in Turkey .

Germany eventually breaking NI’s resistance.

[Lionator]

Cape Verde about to put themselves on the brink of qualification by beating Cameroon. 
 

South Africa nearly there too. Tshabalalaaaaa.

Edited 9 September 2025 by Lionator

[Guest Bilo]

Armenia beat the Republic of Ireland earlier. There was a time when the Irish were usually there or thereabouts in the qualifiers, but now they're miles off it. Quiet decline.

[Brainy]

1 hour ago, Bilo said:

Armenia beat the Republic of Ireland earlier. There was a time when the Irish were usually there or thereabouts in the qualifiers, but now they're miles off it. Quiet decline.

I read the BBC run a poll asking if this is the worst defeat in their history. I'm not an expert on Irish football history however this current team are rubbish, and I imagine they think Armenia are on par with San Marino/Liechtenstein etc. They're absolutely not and I imagine it's a fairly hostile place to go as well as being long distance, I'm not at all surprised they lost. Surprised Ireland were even 1/2 to win

Edited 9 September 2025 by Brainy

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Bilo said:

Armenia beat the Republic of Ireland earlier. There was a time when the Irish were usually there or thereabouts in the qualifiers, but now they're miles off it. Quiet decline.

Sad thing is theyve actually got a stronger league now and a lot of their younger players play wider across Europe

[bovril]

Austrians having a good trip to Sarajevo for once

[StanSP]

Norway scoring 10 against Moldova. 

 

Asgaard came on at 64 mins. Scored 3 by the 78th...

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

Austrians having a good trip to Sarajevo for once

Home side can't make their shots count this time, then? 

[StanSP]

Rashford isn't good enough for this England side any more. 

[spacemunky]

After a comfortable win in Romania, we follow it up with a 1-0 win in Swansea.

 

Maybe not exactly European giants, but it's a good sign for us in the build up to us co-hosting the World Cup.

[Wymsey]

10 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Rashford isn't good enough for this England side any more. 

Seems like his issue is often a lack of confidence and/or loss of motivation; which is a shame, as he did have a decent spell at Man Utd before it went pear-shaped towards the end.

[Spudulike]

9 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

After a comfortable win in Romania, we follow it up with a 1-0 win in Swansea.

 

Maybe not exactly European giants, but it's a good sign for us in the build up to us co-hosting the World Cup.

How did our new lad get on? Saw that he was subbed off after 62 mins. Hopefully not an injury?

[spacemunky]

14 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

How did our new lad get on? Saw that he was subbed off after 62 mins. Hopefully not an injury?

Was passing the ball well and set up a decent scoring chance. I'd say he was one of the better players on the Welsh side.

 

Wasn't an injury, I don't think.

[Lionator]

4 hours ago, spacemunky said:

After a comfortable win in Romania, we follow it up with a 1-0 win in Swansea.

 

Maybe not exactly European giants, but it's a good sign for us in the build up to us co-hosting the World Cup.

There’s a non zero chance you do better than the USA. I would expect Mexico to go furthest out of the host countries though. 

[spacemunky]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

There’s a non zero chance you do better than the USA. I would expect Mexico to go furthest out of the host countries though. 

Probably depends a lot on the groups.

 

As long as we do better than we did last WC, I'll be happy.

[Jattdogg]

22 minutes ago, Lionator said:

There’s a non zero chance you do better than the USA. I would expect Mexico to go furthest out of the host countries though. 

We are winning it all! 

 

2-1 win over england.  You heard it hear first....and last

 

CANADA BABY!

 

I'd likely cry if England played Canada at any point in the tournament. Would be so hard to pick a side. One team of mine I've always wanted to see win the world cup is England. 

 

Never thought that I'd ever see Canada make the world cup but we did that last time. Need to get a  win this time around at least!

[Super_horns]

Bolivia will be in a play off after beating Brazil 1/0 to come 7th in South America.

 

Wouldn’t fancy anyone going there and getting a result with the atmosphere literally leaving players short on breath !

 

EDIT: Maybe not as apparently the play offs are at neutral venues ?

Mexico

Edited 10 September 2025 by Super_horns

[StanSP]

13 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Bolivia will be in a play off after beating Brazil 1/0 to come 7th in South America.

 

Wouldn’t fancy anyone going there and getting a result with the atmosphere literally leaving players short on breath !

Ecuador finishing 2nd too is quite good! 

[RonnieTodger]

Uzbekistan and Jordan have booked their place

[Super_horns]

5 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Uzbekistan and Jordan have booked their place

Yes think that was before this round but nice to see new teams get in .

[CosbehFox]

Was reading how Moldova with a qualifying record of 0-0-5 and losing 11-1 yesterday are near certain to get a qualification playoff spot after winning League D of Nations League! 

[shen]

9 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Was reading how Moldova with a qualifying record of 0-0-5 and losing 11-1 yesterday are near certain to get a qualification playoff spot after winning League D of Nations League! 

Bizarre team. They were very much in the mix to qualify for Euro 24 conceding just 10 in 8 games and taking 4 points off Poland.

[Super_horns]

Does Donald think he is running the show ?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czdjqvyvdd1o