Dandy Man

He's hit that too well

Stone the crows

Danny Murphy I think, maybe it's a harder job than I imagine but it is baffling how shite most of them are

Aussies going to get humped here aren't they

It's ironic because Poland have got a relative wealth of decent strikers who play or have played at top clubs in Europe: Lewa, Zielinski, Milik, Piatek. But they play such negative limiting football

Saudi's have got a big chance of qualifying out of the group on the evidence of this match so far

Bit unfair, few decent young players and Zielinski is very good, Milik is no mug either. They just play horrible football.

Poland probably flying under the radar a bit - got a strong starting XI and Lewandowski's last chance to do something of note at an international tournament. Still Mexico will no doubt qualify from their group then promptly get eliminated in the knockouts, it's what they do

Didn't realise they had got him to look at it lol, terrible having work get in way of football watching

Correct decision, VAR doing some good

Peter Walton going off script, collectors item

Hartson on co comms been the biggest negative of the match so far, impressed by Tunisia

They'll be dancing in the streets of Riyadh tonight

This has been a cracking match tbf

I agree it's basically impossible to turn offsides into an exact science and a bit of a buffer zone where if it is a centimetre or two either way then it goes with the lino's decision would be good but issue is that linesman are increasingly not flagging and leaving it to VAR if it is marginal

Good to see the lesser team pushing up and being positive anyway

Looks like they've managed to make the VAR offside system even worse, some effort

One made out of shipping containers is going to be shipped out to Uruguay and reassembled if they get the joint bid for 2030

Keeper had dived out of the way before Messi had even lifted his foot to strike it

Peter Walton agrees with the decision, could not have seen that coming

Yeah no amount of bribery is going to help this Qatari team

I mean yeah that's obviously the logical conclusion but this is not really a logical World Cup and I can honestly see it happening, they're going to be best acclimatised to conditions and are pretty much guaranteed sympathetic referees

I have a sneaking suspicion that circumstance will conspire for Qatar to somehow qualify from their group to be honest, hope I'm wrong and would prefer to see them get hammered by Ecuador now but Ecuador don't really do hammerings

For the Trippier one, I think there was negligible money involved anyway, according to reports at the time one of biggest bets was one of his friends who had 300 on at 4/11 so little over 100 profit, bookies will only lay small bets in these markets for obvious reasons.

Trippier had supposedly sent messages telling his mates that he was going to Atletico and they could "lump on". Whether or not he should have faced any sanction is debatable but it is inside information that was clearly provable in via messages so it is probably fair enough. Still think it's only the careless/stupid that get pulled up on these things and any player who even makes half an effort to not get caught won't get caught - unless it is actual fixing and there is a ton of money going down in obscure markets that would obviously raise some red flags (proving any direct connection would be another matter though).