World Cup

[Old Darwen Blue]

Brilliant first half and 3-0 to us. What a player Bellingham is!

 

[Husky]

6-2
You can only beat what's in front of you. Job done.

Just an extension of what in recent times has become a really easy minnow bashing tournament qualification.

Defence is a concern and so is VAR (yes that). I always said that the ability to pick and chose events in a game opens it up to the possibility of even more match fixing, spread betting & other corruption.

2 games in and VAR controversies in both.

 

[Drog]

Iran 20th in the world are no push overs playing in what will almost be a home fixture for them. I'm predicting a 1-0 defeat for England.

OOOOPS!

 

[Robin]

6-2
You can only beat what's in front of you. Job done.

Just an extension of what in recent times has become a really easy minnow bashing tournament qualification.

Just think how much better the World Cup will be in four years when they increase the amount of Asian teams from 4 til 8.

 

[Alan]

Just think how much better the World Cup will be in four years when they increase the amount of Asian teams from 4 til 8.

There could well be some decent Asian teams around in four years. Japan, India and China perhaps.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Wales currently looking awful and one down to the yanks!

 

[Drog]

Keiffer Moore changed the picture after being introduced at HT and wales 'won' the second half and they deservedly equalised through a Bale penalty.
Quite suited that wales got something from the game but that manager Rob Paige resembles Shithouse Keane a little too closely for my liking.

 

[Drog]

So a number of Welsh fans are miffed cos their rainbow hats have been confiscated by Qatari police. Who cares? They were well warned in advance weren't they? Luck a night in the cells wasn't added to teach them to respect the law in other countries. If any get banged up long term for such then this nation had better not help them to get out!
Is this the only gay in the village perhaps?

Here's one that got through.... I must say the Qataris do have a case.

 

[Drog]

Qatar beer ban could cost Fifa staggering £40M with Budweiser 2026 deal

QATAR’S beer ban could cost Fifa a staggering £40MILLION with Budweiser prepared to play hard-ball. The American beer company is one of the World Cup’s official sponsors and were set to provide the…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Drog]

Australia who went into a shock 1-0 lead over France now 1-2 down. The second thanks to a ridiculous piece of play when the gk passed out to a tightly Marked colleague on the edge of his own area! Do they think they are being clever when taking such stupid risks?

 

[Husky]

Just think how much better the World Cup will be in four years when they increase the amount of Asian teams from 4 til 8.

Think I might just start watching from the knock out phase.

Anyway, it was funny to see one of the triggering teams Saudi Arabia beat Argentina earlier today.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

This is quoted from Sky News today. Clearly the Qatari chumps had the same Maths teacher as Diane Abbott.

‘ Qatar has been accused of inflating attendance figures for World Cup matches after claiming crowds exceeded the stadium capacities.
The official figures for the first four games of the tournament all stated crowd numbers that were larger than the official capacity of the ground they were held in, sparking confusion.
Crowd figures:
Qatar vs Ecuador - 67,372 (Stadium capacity = 60,000)
England vs Iran - 45,334 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Senegal vs Netherlands - 41,721 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
USA vs Wales - 43,418 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Overall that means 17,845 people sat in apparently non-existent seats.
This caused some people to accuse the Qatari's of pumping up the numbers for propaganda reasons.’

 

[Husky]

This is quoted from Sky News today. Clearly the Qatari chumps had the same Maths teacher as Diane Abbott.

‘ Qatar has been accused of inflating attendance figures for World Cup matches after claiming crowds exceeded the stadium capacities.
The official figures for the first four games of the tournament all stated crowd numbers that were larger than the official capacity of the ground they were held in, sparking confusion.
Crowd figures:
Qatar vs Ecuador - 67,372 (Stadium capacity = 60,000)
England vs Iran - 45,334 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Senegal vs Netherlands - 41,721 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
USA vs Wales - 43,418 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Overall that means 17,845 people sat in apparently non-existent seats.
This caused some people to accuse the Qatari's of pumping up the numbers for propaganda reasons.’

Is Waggot over there?

Regardless 75.8% of stats are made up.

There are lots of people saying the Qatari stadium migrant worker deaths were artificially inflated for propaganda reasons.

Meanwhile back in the real world The Hun do not miss penalties.
Stupid goalkeeping.

 

[Husky]

Lovely!

 

[Drog]

This is quoted from Sky News today. Clearly the Qatari chumps had the same Maths teacher as Diane Abbott.

‘ Qatar has been accused of inflating attendance figures for World Cup matches after claiming crowds exceeded the stadium capacities.
The official figures for the first four games of the tournament all stated crowd numbers that were larger than the official capacity of the ground they were held in, sparking confusion.
Crowd figures:
Qatar vs Ecuador - 67,372 (Stadium capacity = 60,000)
England vs Iran - 45,334 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Senegal vs Netherlands - 41,721 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
USA vs Wales - 43,418 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Overall that means 17,845 people sat in apparently non-existent seats.
This caused some people to accuse the Qatari's of pumping up the numbers for propaganda reasons.’

I'd imagine the migrant workers have been given various nations shirts and paid to attend, at least until HT as witnessed by the empty seats after Ht in the opening match.

 

[Drog]

German team photo



japanese team photo


Rest of the world....


see what happens when non footballing issues interfere with concentration.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

This is quoted from Sky News today. Clearly the Qatari chumps had the same Maths teacher as Diane Abbott.

‘ Qatar has been accused of inflating attendance figures for World Cup matches after claiming crowds exceeded the stadium capacities.
The official figures for the first four games of the tournament all stated crowd numbers that were larger than the official capacity of the ground they were held in, sparking confusion.
Crowd figures:
Qatar vs Ecuador - 67,372 (Stadium capacity = 60,000)
England vs Iran - 45,334 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Senegal vs Netherlands - 41,721 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
USA vs Wales - 43,418 (Stadium capacity = 40,000)
Overall that means 17,845 people sat in apparently non-existent seats.
This caused some people to accuse the Qatari's of pumping up the numbers for propaganda reasons.’

That’s known as the b***ley method of counting.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Lovely!View attachment 4745

A much better result than the last time that they got together.

 

[Husky]

Iran deservedly beat Wales 2-0

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Iran deservedly beat Wales 2-0

Sounds like Bale was a passenger the whole game. Having a player sent off meant Iran played nine men at the end.