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It actually blows my mind that the last post in here was on November 11th. I just popped in to check how your European campaign was going.

This been posted yet? https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/i2QCywLypT

Occam’s Razor applies here I think, Alex

How is Tarkowski not booked there? Such a cowardly foul.

Fuck me that’s a horrible tackle.

Wow. 65 whole games missed through injury. How have Arsenal survived? And as many as *checks notes* four whole players missing today. Thank goodness we’re getting all our players back now. How many were missing today? Seven. Fuck off Arteta.

Get in!!!

Wasn’t expecting to see Camelon pop up on the BBC. They were my local Juniors side when I lived in Falkirk - sadly just let in a late equalizer in the Cup.

Christ, Arsenal are going to win it by January at this rate.

We threw away a potential result there on Wednesday and we're patching a team together every week. I think you've got every chance there.

Particularly apt mistake there. Edit: I see SGTF got there first. Honestly Disco, there are multiple levels of clever wordplay there (recent Israeli football hooligan issues, Swiss connections to Nazi gold etc) so you could have legitimately pretended it was satire.

He was and is an absolute diamond, fortunately. Sol Campbell is one of my little pet quirks actually. I’m one of the very few Spurs fans who has some sympathy with him, or at least the him when he was playing. I went to a huge chunk of the games he played for us. When he came in Spurs were falling apart on and off the pitch and he had a huge amount of responsibility put on him even in his first few games. We’d have him on as a full back and senior players would give him the ball and expect him to do so much. He was obviously going to be great but he came in at precisely the wrong time - we were heading down while football and so many other teams were heading up. Sure, he fucked us over, but he also gave us a ton.

It’s not super-complicated for me I think. I grew up in England and have spent most of my life living in the community/country so I support England. It wasn’t a choice any more than being a Spurs fan was a choice. I just always have.

Ukraine, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland please.

That’s unfortunate, England have been really good the last few games. I love watching the Home Nations, generally want them to win and was made up when Ireland qualified. That said, this Scottish team somehow blundering their way through is hilarious. They’ve been absolutely awful. Put this ref on the list as yet another illustration of English refs not actually being as bad as they could be. Classic bad reffing from a top European ref - make cards a total lottery, favour the home team, feel free to flat-out guess what actually happened based on player reactions if you didn’t see it. Would love all the Home Nations and Ireland to qualify from the toughest FIFA WC qualifying system.

Hang on, who mentioned Israel? Just pissing about . That said, maybe CONMEBOL teams are a bit over-ranked. I mean, Uruguay have played precisely two European teams this decade, losing to Portugal and drawing with, erm, the Basque Country. No matter, I’d leave any argument about the relative difficulties of the qualifying paths to Kaiz’s TikTok. More interested in Yorkie’s point about qualifying in general which is becoming more and more pertinent. There do seem to be far too many matches and far too much travelling.

If after beating the mighty Bolivia at home you then barely beat Peru (90th minute winner) draw at home to Venezuela and then lose the next three qualifiers to Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina you shouldn’t have a chance at playing the World Cup.

Harsh. Teams win tournaments despite not being the best, and we have a handful of absolutely top class players, including Harry Kane. We have a couple of fragilities but so does everyone else. We need a bit of luck, like all teams that win tournaments. Luck with injuries, luck with the draw, luck with refs. And we need real togetherness. Now it may be that the press’ bullshit is so intense that it brings the team together - that’s a real thing - but right now all it’s doing is making everyone’s life harder and that really could have an impact. I don’t want or expect happy clappers and I know that when it comes down to it the red tops will put out their usual bollocks about “England Expects” or “Krauts” or “Argies” or whatever. But what they (The Mirror is the most obvious one, but there are others) are doing now is transparent and pathetic and frustrating.

I’ve been catching glimpses in between cooking and every time I watch one of theirs is on the floor crying. Some classic European reffing guessing going on.

Username checks out.

They’re a whiney cheaty lot these guys.

What he said. It actually worked really well with Foden but I suspect if he needs more presence he might go with Rashford. As far as O’Reilly I’m not sure yet. He seemed nervous the other night but improved, and I’ve only been catching bits of tonight in between cooking but he maybe seems a little too casual at times.

That was my guess without really thinking about it all that much.

Latest interview with Tuchel in the Mail: Right lads, let’s go. Who do we reckon?

This may be the single worst goal I have ever seen: https://www.reddit.com/r/footballcringe/s/Vgmm61P00I