Chris2K

Rui Costa once scored an audacious chip which I saw on Football Italia, I tried it at school the next day and it went poorly. I got under the ball, but to the extent it went almost vertical and nowhere near the goal. I did score a similar one to this Kevin Gallacher volley once, but when I told people it was "better than Kevin Gallacher" they had no idea who I meant.

Infantino has given a press conference saying this is "the best World Cup ever" (lol, no), that the group stage format of the 2026 World Cup will be "reconsidered" (good) and that he wants friendly tournaments between different confederation teams every March (yay, more unnecessary travel).

Kinda shows the difference there, Morocco had an almost identical chance but didn't take the shot because it wasn't on, it wasn't on for Mbappe either but he still had a go and it broke perfectly.

This has been a far closer game than expected, but by this stage under-estimating Morocco is a silly thing to do.

I think we all knew at the time this wouldn't age well.

Lionel Messi is a very good footballer.

Good grief, that ball could have gone anywhere at any point and yet somehow it's now in the net.

Obvious penalty. Perhaps lucky to only get a yellow.

I feel like it has to be. It's like Dixon is contracted to cover the semi final and final, but the contract doesn't say how many people he commentates with. It also allows us to directly compare them, and unsurprisingly it's like comparing a gold bar with a turd.

Stella is the McLaren replacement, a rare example of an internal move in this off-season. Sauber in 2024 and 2025 is going to be so strange, literally a team there as a place-holder for two whole seasons.

It looks like Andreas Seidl is leaving McLaren to take up the Sauber post, although it's more of an Audi move. What a strange game of team principal musical chairs this is. Capito's exit looks to be a sacking rather than him having another job lined up as well.

I've only just noticed that the ITV line-up is England, England, England, England, Ireland, with two English hosts. What a variety.

That was beyond close.

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I dunno, Mbappe is celebrating because the opposition missed, Ronaldo would be celebrating if his own team missed and he hadn't been allowed to take it.

He scored one, and had nothing to do with the two England have conceded. Kane is no more to blame than anyone if England go out.

Oh Harry. I can hear the trolls going after him already.

Mount wasn't even going to reach it, madness to knock him over.

Everyone's busting out their trick play free kicks this round.

Woof. Rocketed into the corner. Definite foul on Saka though.

If you get the chance, rewind to the anthems and watch Kyle Walker's face after he sings "queen".

On to Kiwami 2...

On a more positive note, I am so looking forward to watching Portugal's new generation without Ronaldo and Pepe to make me automatically hate the team.

Bye Ronaldo, fuck off to Saudi Arabia and never come back.

HAHA Fuck you Pepe! GET IN THERE