Might as well make a thread for them.

 

Think the viera lad for Arsenal is Portuguese 

i think where its held affects who wins. 

these "hispanic" teams wont do it the middle east. imo. bar costa rica maybe (anglosphere surnames)

think croats or france might cope best with the foreigness of it. 

england might win it if its ever held in australia or wherever in june. its probably why they got so far in 2018. 

31 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Think the viera lad for Arsenal is Portuguese 

Aye though he's apparently not played full international yet and not in the nation league squad for next week 

Decent squad this 

Portugal World Cup 2022 squad: The Nations League squad for September

GK: Diogo Costa (Porto)

GK: Rui Patrício (Roma)

GK: Jose Sa (Wolves)

DF: Joao Cancelo (Manchester City)

DF: Diogo Dalot (Manchester United)

DF: Nuno Mendes (PSG)

DF: Ruben Dias (Manchester City) 

DF: Tiago Djalo (Lille) 

DF: Pepe (Porto) 

DF: Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund)

DF: Danilo Pereira (PSG) 

MF: Joao Palhinha (Fulham)

MF: Matheus Nunes (Wolves)

MF: William Carvalho (Real Betis)

MF: Ruben Neves (Wolves)

MF: Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)

MF: Joao Mario (Benfica) 

MF: Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)

MF: Vitinha (PSG)

FW: Joao Felix (Atlético Madrid)

FW: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

FW: Diogo Jota (Liverpool)

FW: Pedro Neto (Wolves) 

FW: Rafa Silva (Benfica) 

FW: Rafael Leao (AC Milan)

FW: Ricardo Horta (Braga)

too many dogheads to be decent. 

 

10 hours ago, deane koontz said:

20 years since Brazil won a World Cup they're due on.

 

Women's team?

22 hours ago, gonzo said:

Ive gone from being my usual England gammon we are going to win the world cup to be happy if we reach the quarters.

Watching that front line of Real last night, fuck me what would they do to Stones and Maguire 🤦‍♂️

Going through our probable 11 theres only Pickford, Kane and Foden flourishing at the minute.

 

that the partnership thats been to a semi and final and kept the most cleansheets / coceeded the least

Edited September 20, 20223 yr by L/H White

Maguire is in serious decline. Not arsed about past tournaments, he's not good enough right now.

We lack pace in the centre of defence.

21 minutes ago, Traf said:

Maguire is in serious decline. Not arsed about past tournaments, he's not good enough right now.

We lack pace in the centre of defence.

I agree he's not in the best of form, and i'm all for picking players on form

But i dont like to tinker with the spine of the best england team we've had since 66

I assume, Pickford, Stones, Maguire, Rice & Kane are unshiftable

Think Bellingham comes in for Phillips

To those who watch Serie A, what about this Tomori lad?

4 minutes ago, Traf said:

To those who watch Serie A, what about this Tomori lad?

Hes decent but faces nothing like the pace of the premier league and fuckers like Vinny J and Rody G.

And before any euro ponces hammer me Ive been watching loads of Seria A and its ace. Reminds me of our Championship games. Loads of high lines and teams going for it.

 

How reassuring. After hearing Southgate's latest press conference there's an excellent chance we will come out on top in Qatar. Of the virtue signalling league of course.

The football? Haven't a clue but FFS let's focus on the important stuff.

Latest Guardian Football podcast has some fella from the FSF just back from Qatar. Sounds like going the WC will be a right laugh 😕

Tbf they usually wheel out doom porn for any hosts that isn't a fancy European country. We were even expected to be met with rampaging nazis at the last World Cup in Russia. Same at the Ukraine/Poland euros.

 

Just gotta accept 1000s of slaves have died making the stadiums where footballers will be kicking bags of air about and the gays can't be bumming each other all over the place

Edited September 23, 20223 yr by deane koontz

Good mob from Bolton gone tonight 

On 20/09/2022 at 09:48, gonzo said:

Hes decent but faces nothing like the pace of the premier league and fuckers like Vinny J and Rody G.

I think we need more players that can deal with euro style football, than the bigger powerfull type in the prem.

 

 

decent side out

not sold on saka tho

Why is Toney not on the bench is he injured or something?

2 keepers on the bench too lol

Speaking of the san siro  

Inter and AC have agreed to knock it down and build a new ground 

Seems a shame 

Are we  building for 2026 and beyond???

With this mismatch of players and tactics may as well get Big Sam back

Think I'm just gonna try and watch it for the football on offer from the others. We seem hopeless at the moment can even see us struggling to get out that group! We just seem to be clueless.

Am hoping Southgate has a masterplan but even allowing for our last two tournaments can't see it 

Tudge. 

Just can't seem to control a crisp pass when one comes. Too slow to use the ball.

Wank crossing too. That said, the Italians were biz too.

Dull match, and a dull competition. 

Brightest thing was James' hair.

Watched the last 20, dull as dish water.

don’t know why folk bother shelling out good money to watch this lot