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Well, of course

Never seen us utterly dominate possession in a World Cup game like this in my entire life.

We are all Costa Rican today.

I think I speak on behalf of the majority of AFC countries when I say that a lot of the West Asian teams are full of cheating shits.

Shame Qatar managed to score a goal. I was hoping they would derive not even an ounce of pleasure from this farce of a tournament.

Wish we were in this group. Can’t believe fucking Iran, Japan, and Saudi might all advance without us.

USA v. Iran in a do or die match for both teams is low key kinda fascinating.

Watching Kane lumber around unthreateningly is giving me Shola flashbacks.

(Alan Pardew teleports into the dugout to sub on a left back)

Mostly just want USA to win this now because these American commentators are so over the top they sound like they might ejaculate live on television.

The year is 2022, I don’t even recognize 90% of the players on the pitch, yet somehow Jordan Henderson is still playing for England.

The ones in Blue are England right? USA look like shit.

Enjoyed that Korea game today. Never felt like we’d score but just nice to see that we’ve sufficiently developed as a footballing nation that we can not look totally out of place physically and technically against a team like Uruguay. I’m sick of being the Asian try-hards who have to overcome lack of skill by grafting harder than everyone else. Looks like we’re finally playing first-world football now. The result is whatever. It’s not like we’re ever winning this tournament anyway.

Hearing a rumor that Newcastle may sign Ronaldo and the idea not seeming totally unrealistic is as sure a sign as any that I’m getting old.

We're out of the relegation zone if we win? This can't possibly be true.

Using his eyes and seeing that the player clearly can't play more than 30 minutes because he hasn't played a full game in over two weeks and just flew in from halfway across the world a couple of days ago?

Joelinton-Guimaries is going to give opposing teams nightmare with their athleticism.

You don't score more goals solely by buying a striker, you score more goals by buying midfielders and wide players that improve your possession and your build up play. I feel that we've done that. It just wasn't realistic to expect the club to go get a world class striker somehwere in January when nobody wants to sell, especially not to us.

Honestly if you're feeling down about our window just go to Sky Sports and look at the in/outs for our relegation rivals and see if you'd rather have any of theirs. January is a tough time to remake your squad and we've done just about the most we possibly could have.

8-ish? Trippier and Bruno are A+++++ signings that could conceivably be with the club for a long time as it grows and would have been completely beyond our reach under the previous regime. The rest are fine, okay deals. That would be a decent set of incomings for an entire summer under normal circumstanes, never mind a January transfer window where we are fighting relegation, don't have a director of football, and every other club is adding another 10m onto their prices just for us.

We are acquiring multiple first-choice (or recently first-choice) players from teams that are better than us (i.e. any other team in the Premier League). I realize that they're not exciting foreign names, but it's hard not to be better when you're doing that.

That looks like us done for the window. It’s not a disaster. Should always expect less than you hope for on deadline day.

Well, I’ve just realized that when you’re 8 hours behind UK time deadline day morning starts right around when you’re usually trying to go to sleep. That sucks.

I’m surprised the athletic doesn’t have a deadline day stream like they do for basketball. Or do they?