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Well done FIFA


FIFA just going to new levels of contempt....
It'll actually be some achievement to take that title from South Africa, but I think they have the potential to do it.
Infantino peptalk " we know it's a stretch but our team is really committed, really connected and if we can stay together as one team, we think we can make this the worst ever WC. We just have to keep believing."
 
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FIFA just going to new levels of contempt....

Infantino peptalk " we know it's a stretch but our team is really committed, really connected and if we can stay together as one team, we think we can make this the worst ever WC. We just have to keep believing."
In temperatures that could exceed 40 degrees, you'd think this was more about a grift than player safety, the sweaties will be OK they can hid one in there sporran.
Just glad I'm not going
 
Hope this is an absolute shambles.

Empty seats, players denied visas, protests, the works. Hope Trump finds the whole thing embarrassing and starts lashing out at Infantino, hope teams start pulling out, hope it all descends into anarchy.
100% this. No interest at all. I honestly Don't know who England have in their group. Or which players are or aren't going.
 
I was planning to watch the Canada game on 12th June.

Ticket prices on FIFA website (face value not the secondary sale) were $2030 category 1, $1575 category 2 and $950 category 3.

A total f***ing disgrace. They can stick it where the sun don't shine. So if Canada's gane is in a half empty stadium that's why. It's the premium that are charging for host nation games!

Conversely, my category 3 England v Panama ticket on 27th June was $220.
Which is still outrageous.
 
Nah I can't agree with that. Off the top of my head:

Stoitchkov and Letchkov putting the Germans out, Sweden and Kennet Anderson, Amokachi's Nigeria, Lalas, Houghton v Italy, Salenko hitting 5, Said Al Owaairan running the length of the pitch for goal of the tournament v Belgium, Bergkamp, Romario, Bebeto, the free kick goals from Branco and Wynalda, Georgi Hagi and the Romanian side, Argentina v Holland, Brazil v Holland....

If only it would be anything like that Id be very happy. It won't be though.
Your memory is amazing.

I can't remember what I had for dinner Tuesday, let alone a World Cup the year before I went to uni.
 
Used to love the World Cup. f***ing ruined now having the bald crook running FIFA, 48 teams for no purpose and the worst of all in Trumpland. Can't stand the orange buffoon. Hope he gets on the pitch for a photoshoot and someone twats a ball off his head. Just hope an outsider wins it. Morocco? Would at least make a great story.
 
Used to love the World Cup. f***ing ruined now having the bald crook running FIFA, 48 teams for no purpose and the worst of all in Trumpland. Can't stand the orange buffoon. Hope he gets on the pitch for a photoshoot and someone twats a ball off his head. Just hope an outsider wins it. Morocco? Would at least make a great story.
The same Morocco who produced the mother of all bottle jobs against Senegal a few months ago?

Not a hope..
 
Used to love the World Cup. f***ing ruined now having the bald crook running FIFA, 48 teams for no purpose and the worst of all in Trumpland. Can't stand the orange buffoon. Hope he gets on the pitch for a photoshoot and someone twats a ball off his head. Just hope an outsider wins it. Morocco? Would at least make a great story.
Harry Redknapp lost his shit when he got hit by a ball during a recorded interview. Imagine Trump's social media meltdown if that happens to him.

I'll remember that moment for the rest of my life as the big beautiful ball.
 
Mexico is a joke at the minute. They aren’t and won’t be prepared. Cardboard toilet signs at the Azteca, teachers rioting in the streets, training grounds are a mess, mariachis playing racist songs to South Africa etc etc. they’ll get the blame for everything and some of it deserved
 
Mexico is a joke at the minute. They aren’t and won’t be prepared. Cardboard toilet signs at the Azteca, teachers rioting in the streets, training grounds are a mess, mariachis playing racist songs to South Africa etc etc. they’ll get the blame for everything and some of it deserved
I just looked to see when it was awarded. It was June 2018. Things were a lot calmer then.
 
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