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leffe186

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24 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Don’t know if I’m supporting Morocco at the World Cup or not. 
 

I prefer having teams I’m rooting for and against.  Neutral I want to avoid.  
 

im neutral on Norway. I want to be pro Morocco but I might be neutral. 


I think it’s best to wait until you’re actually watching the games to decide. I’m already thinking I’ll support Iran but they might actually be a bunch of cheats :lol:

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2 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said:

Ederson called up to Brazil squad after Franca tore his groin in yesterdays game. 


Brazil going into a World Cup without a rightback feels off. That being said, very happy to see Ederson getting a chance. 

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Casey

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3 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Absolutely sickening this mind, it should’ve been near the Sweden training camp.

Not being funny like, and it's terribly sad that it happens, but is this even news? I say that as a resident/immigrant/expat (however you wanna phrase it).

 

There are sites that report statistics for mass shootings (one example), and it shows there have already been 4 mass shootings since including one with 12 injuries and another with a death. It's madness like and pretty depressing if you ponder too long, but unless The Athletic is trying to broach a fairly deeper systemic sociopolitical topic than their standard fair I wouldn't really consider it newsworthy even if it happened in the same zip code as the England training camp.

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12 hours ago, Casey said:

Not being funny like, and it's terribly sad that it happens, but is this even news? I say that as a resident/immigrant/expat (however you wanna phrase it).

 

There are sites that report statistics for mass shootings (one example), and it shows there have already been 4 mass shootings since including one with 12 injuries and another with a death. It's madness like and pretty depressing if you ponder too long, but unless The Athletic is trying to broach a fairly deeper systemic sociopolitical topic than their standard fair I wouldn't really consider it newsworthy even if it happened in the same zip code as the England training camp.


I would just flip it round. Reporting on this despite it being everyday life in the US is worth it because in most of the World (which is trying to come over to the US for a party and a celebration of the Beautiful Game) it absolutely is news. It’s mental. I think it’s OK to suggest - once again - to Americans “you know this isn’t normal or inevitable, right?”

 

I haven’t seen the details of this one because I was keeping an eye on the one in Toledo. I’ve no idea how close or serious it actually was. But I do think - even ignoring the deeper systemic sociopolitics - there’s some value in saying “this is fucked up, and before we all come back what’s your plan to address it?”

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2 hours ago, BlueStar said:

Drinks prices in the stadium for England's friendly against New Zealand

 

* Excluding applicable taxes

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That's capitalism for you...

 

I'd assume you're allowed to bring your own water, right?

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Abacus

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I'm planning to switch off and not watch this world cup. I'm sure that'll scare them when it's billions of viewers minus one [emoji38]

 

The price gouging by FIFA for any fans actually going has been absolutely ridiculous. As importantly, from a sporting point of view, too many teams and therefore too many pointless games meaning I'll have no real interest in most of them whatsoever. 

 

I remember early phases in the Euros and World cups years ago where there were three meaningful group games every day, at different times allowing you to watch wall to wall football.

 

If England get to the final, I'll doubtless watch that in the pub. I probably should have already done that during the Qatar world cup.

 

No slight meant to anyone that's excited about it and really sorry if that sounds miserable, just tired of FIFA's greed.

 

I know, old man yells at cloud.

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I'm just instantly overwhelmed looking at the group stage schedule. I'm sure there'll be some interesting games but feel like I can't be arsed to work out what to watch. 

 

When do the knockouts start?

 

I'm feeling very old man cloudy too, mainly because the time zone means my chances of having a window of a random game up while at work have gone to zero.

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16 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Absolutely sickening this mind, it should’ve been near the Sweden training camp.

Goddammit Hall!

 

Take your exclusion on the chin!

 

No need for violence like this...

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3 minutes ago, Ed Vinegar said:

I'm just instantly overwhelmed looking at the group stage schedule. I'm sure there'll be some interesting games but feel like I can't be arsed to work out what to watch. 

 

When do the knockouts start?

 

I'm feeling very old man cloudy too, mainly because the time zone means my chances of having a window of a random game up while at work have gone to zero.

The knock outs start after the group stages...

 

#oldmanjokes

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There's a few reasons I'm not as excited as I have been for previous tournaments. Obviously the disgusting price gouging, visa issues and Trump propaganda sticks in the throat. I would never have thought a US world cup would actually be worse than Russia and Qatar in terms of negative feeling but here we are. But my main lack of excitement probably just comes from the format.

 

As ever the expanded tournament is not just a problem of reduced quality. Although I think this will be an issue, and too few European teams have been included in the additional 16, I can probably get away with that in the spirit of things. I certainly watch worse quality football on a regular basis.

 

However going from 32 to 48 immediately means you have the shit group stage format. If you go back to 2022 most of the groups had jeopardy for the big sides going into the last game, and plenty of upsets. You lose most of this knowing 3 points probably puts you through and only losing 33% of teams rather than 50% from the majority of the tournament's fixtures. It's the same issue from a sporting sense that the CL suffers from now. Nothing really matters until the knockouts.

 

I also think there's a massive lack of star power in the top of the game at the moment, as the sport has shifted towards collectivism and coaching at the expense of individuality. I can't remember a world cup that had quite so few big names I was particularly looking forward to seeing.

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24 minutes ago, leffe186 said:

I would just flip it round. Reporting on this despite it being everyday life in the US is worth it because in most of the World (which is trying to come over to the US for a party and a celebration of the Beautiful Game) it absolutely is news. It’s mental. I think it’s OK to suggest - once again - to Americans “you know this isn’t normal or inevitable, right?”

 

I haven’t seen the details of this one because I was keeping an eye on the one in Toledo. I’ve no idea how close or serious it actually was. But I do think - even ignoring the deeper systemic sociopolitics - there’s some value in saying “this is fucked up, and before we all come back what’s your plan to address it?”

I think the sane and well-adjusted people here (from a European perspective) do realise it's not normal. I think they're also aware that making changes along these lines is nigh impossible as it stands. There's just not enough in the population with desire to see the alternative, nor is there the willingness to spend money on social policies to mitigate it.

 

There of course should be reporting of these things, however The Athletic is not reporting on the 4 other mass shootings from Friday right? They're not a news outfit that covers homocides and mass shootings so realistically they're doing it for traffic, which is fair enough, just a bit distasteful and not really relevant to their readership.

 

Anyway not really the thread for this. 

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9 minutes ago, Casey said:

I think the sane and well-adjusted people here (from a European perspective) do realise it's not normal. I think they're also aware that making changes along these lines is nigh impossible as it stands. There's just not enough in the population with desire to see the alternative, nor is there the willingness to spend money on social policies to mitigate it.

 

There of course should be reporting of these things, however The Athletic is not reporting on the 4 other mass shootings from Friday right? They're not a news outfit that covers homocides and mass shootings so realistically they're doing it for traffic, which is fair enough, just a bit distasteful and not really relevant to their readership.

 

Anyway not really the thread for this. 


Is it not just reporting on this one because it’s close to the England camp?

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