Wullie

I'll have the shakes by half 3.

Great to see the ref stand strong there, you can't give a penalty for that to decide the game, ridiculous. They need to start adding another box on the end of the clock to show the time they're adding to the added time.

It's amazing during a World Cup just how quickly I condition myself to there being football on at all times. Half 12 and I'm sat here with my subconscious going "Why is there no match on now, this is RIDICULOUS" Hate the hour between games, I'm enjoying the extended added time as it means there's less time to wait for the next game.

Ampadu/Musah 20/1 Betfair, seems the really obvious card double on that game.

I'd rather watch Qatar Ecuador again than this.

Can't turn down 9/1 for 2 shots on target for the lad up top for Senegal, Dia.

I didn't say the ball was being played "into the box" did I?

That freeze frame is the ball being played.

It's absolutely nothing to do with the number 13. The offside player is the leg stretched out below the keeper.

Bale as well.

Mate of mine got Kane first at 22/1 in time. Must have just been as by the time he told me it was gone.

365 have removed Kane from the prices. I was about to take him anytime and England card in the first 10 at 66/1.

Yes. There's a player jumping, he wins the header. The legs are a different player. He's the next player to touch the ball.

There are 2 Ecuador players within that yellow circle. One winning the header, the other offside, he's then the next player to touch the ball.

When the Ecuador number 2 wins the header against the goalkeeper, the knee of his teammate (right next to him) is offside. Once the ball has bounced it's that teammate who then heads it back across goal.

Needed Wednesday to get a second goal, fucking knobheads.

That Arsenal thing is absurd

Seems extremely tenuous to me @midds. I just looked up that red card, it was for a second yellow in the 95th minute that the referee (and the camera) didn't even see. The linesman gave it after Toney clashed off the ball with a Luton player who got a straight red for shoving Toney in the face. I reckon I'd make it a bit more obvious if I'd bet the farm on it. The thing I always think whenever there's an accusation of a player taking a deliberate card for money (Xhaka was accused of it at Leeds last season) is that loads of people look back on it and go "omg how did we not realise it, that was so deliberate" without taking into account that almost every card looks deliberate if you want it to. Look at the last 5 minutes of Newcastle vs Chelsea and you could easily construct a case that half our squad was on the take, including the subs.

What's this?

Something like this though, punishment should be about how serious an individual breach of the rules is, not how many times a rule is breached. Does anybody really care if he's, for example, put 232 accumulators on over a number of years? Anything more than a couple of games and a fine would be ludicrously disproportionate in that instance. He could be putting a quid on at a time for all we know.

Have I missed something? Are there details about what Toney has supposedly been betting on that I'm not aware of that would warrant a season ban? We know that Trippier gave inside information and encouraged his friends to profit from it - I share the view that if the bookies are going to use their own inside information to price bets like transfers, then fuck them if someone takes advantage the other way, but that's not the rules. It's impossible to speculate on Toney without knowing exactly what he's done. The spectrum of wrongdoing for a footballer gambling on football is extremely broad and the number of bets he placed tells you absolutely nothing in isolation. If he's been putting a hundred quid on an 1000/1 acca every weekend or having a punt on Spanish yellow cards, how on Earth would that warrant a longer ban than Trippier?

Daniel Sturridge did the same as Trippier and then ended up not moving, bet his mates were delighted.

It was Madman Le Tissier but he never received a ban or any sort of punishment. Admitted it after retirement I think.

Barton had been betting on games involving his own team, including against them, which probably acted as an aggravating factor.