Chris2K

I know 0-0 games are frequently entertaining, but we had two 0-0s during work hours yesterday and another one so far today. It's getting difficult to convince my non-football fan work colleagues to keep the radio on 5 Live if nobody's scoring any goals.

I feel a bit stuck right now, I want to take out the Titans because the concept of better open world traversal is a big selling point, I've beaten one but the Sky one just mauled me. Theoretically that means I need to train up my team, but by doing that I worry I'm making the gym battles and hideouts too easy. Those of you who have got further - do the gyms and hideouts change levels depending on your progress or levels?

On a positive note, at least every goal Giroud scores will be annoying Benzema.

I've been watching a lot of Robot Wars recently, so hearing Jonathan Pearce this sedate is quite weird.

I believe they've woken up.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie... 0-1, 0-1, 0-1.

Well now I've gone looking for Kevin Keegan quotes. I don't think anything ever tops "They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that."

Whilst it's perhaps not as big a moment as his first game at Brentford, it's wonderful that Christian Eriksen is playing in a World Cup.

To be fair, there was another team that had a 37 match unbeaten streak that ended last year and they didn't even qualify for this tournament. And of course if Argentina lose this then the 37 match streak remains the longest... go Saudi Arabia?

This would feel a lot nicer if it wasn't Saudi Arabia causing potentially the biggest upset in World Cup history.

It happened on 5 Live too. Meanwhile the penalty lottery continues, "consistency" is as much of a banned word as "rainbow".

Weird that the US fans think that Wales are shithousing with their injuries, but it's Wales who look more likely to get a winner.

Silly challenge to make in the area.

Absolutely deserved goal, sublime finish too.

Same for me in terms of age range, although my favourite was always Kimberley for... adolescence reasons. The Green Ranger/White Ranger story was probably the first storyline I remember seeing on TV for a kid's show, and as a result Jason David Frank is someone who stayed in my mind. Like Amy Jo Johnson his willingness to make cameos and go to conventions, leaning into his Power Ranger past rather than ignoring it, is all you can hope for from someone in that position. Plus his MMA ventures were always fun to follow, I remember his name coming up a lot as someone CM Punk should fight. Such a sad end, hopefully he is at peace now.

The fans in the ground are staying for the second half, a blatantly disrespectful act against Qatari tradition.

I'm assuming this means Gianni Infantino isn't gay today. Whilst it seems unlikely, there's a part of my mind thinking that the referee today might be told to turn around and book every England player that takes the knee, but surely that would cause too much of meltdown. The Qatari TV station that Gary Neville is working for (with Richard Keys, John Terry and Andy Gray, what a quartet that is) has deleted all footage of Neville's criticisms of Qatari regulations. So much for him going over there to help spread the message.

It seems the One Love captains armbands aren't going to go ahead, as FIFA is threatening that any player wearing one will be immediately booked. I assume this comes from the FA saying they'll pay any fine levied at them, so FIFA went after the players instead. What a great bunch.

Whilst I'm enjoying it, the new game world experience leaves me feeling a bit uneasy. You've got wild Pokémon running up to you being friendly, but they're just setting themselves up to get attacked. I had a group of Psyducks run up to me whilst I was training a Pikachu, two of them got taken down, the second one getting scared after the first one was beaten, one then started running for its life whilst Pikachu ran after it hunting it down like some kind of grizzly horror movie. Its taken 25 years but this mechanic might be the thing that makes me feel guilty about what this game is actually about. Adding emotions to the cannon fodder isn't making it a pleasant experience. The normal battles don't feel as bad because at least they're defending themselves.

Just to compel Mick's misery, here's Haas telling him to stop doing donuts after the race. Mick's response sounds so sad.

This second half has not been worthy of comment.

Well there it is. And I still don't know which player was offside and at what stage.

Certainly describes a lot of the people in the crowd.

I always knew these Italian referees could be trusted . Penalty! This Qatari keeper is a walking liability.

Murmurs going around that it was for a foul on the keeper, not offisde It also wasn't a foul on the keeper. Nope, just a bullshit offside decision.