June 13, 20187 yr The 2026 World Cup will be in USA/Canada/Mexico. It's a shame, I really wanted a Morocco world cup. The USA becomes the latest country to have staged the tournament twice since it was last in England. Mexico will be hosts for the third time since then.
June 13, 20187 yr Author Spain have sacked their manager a day before the World Cup :lol: They sacked their manager as he decided to join Real Madrid after the World Cup.
June 13, 20187 yr Author Apparently Spain's Under-21 manager Albert Celades will replace sacked manager Julen Lopetegui in the dugout for their first World Cup match against Portugal on Friday, according to reports in Spain.
June 13, 20187 yr Yikes, Spain was one of my favorites to win it all. They had been 16-0-4 in their last 20 matches under Lopetegui. We'll see what effect this has. Very pleased that the World Cup will coming back to the U.S.
June 13, 20187 yr That’s very petty by the Spanish FA! Could be a huge error on their part. I’m on holiday for a huge chunk of the World Cup anyway, but I’m Australia so the games will be at I think 10pm 12am and 3am local time. So I’ll probably miss the majority of them. Should see Germany’s first group game before I leave for my hol and then I’ll be back for the last few games, the good ones
June 13, 20187 yr Spain have no chance of winning the World Cup now! Sacking their manager a day before the tournament starts is possibly the worst thing that they could have done. I wont be surprised if we'll see unrest within their team similar to the meltdowns from the French team during the 2010 World Cup.
June 14, 20187 yr Looking forward to the banter on twitter about Glenn Hoddle during this tournament. The tweets about him are so funny :rofl:
June 14, 20187 yr Author This may not be the best opening match. 2006 between Germany v Costa Rica was a cracker.
June 16, 20187 yr Author Danny Murphy from the BBC has been absolutely embarrassing so far. And in the same match saying Ronaldo's first wasn't a pen before sheepishly u-turning, then later talking some random gibberish about an S Club 7 song for crying out loud.
June 19, 20187 yr A couple questions for people watching this outside the UK. What did their broadcasters have to say about England's performance? How well (or otherwise) do they think VAR is working? Do they think VAR should have been used to give England at least one penalty last night?
June 28, 20187 yr BBC / ITV picks have been announced for the Round of 16: Saturday 30 June 15:00 France v Argentina - BBC 19:00 Uruguay v Portugal - ITV Sunday 1 July 15:00 Spain v Russia - BBC 19:00 Croatia v Denmark - ITV Monday 2 July 15:00 Brazil v Mexico - ITV 19:00 Belgium v Japan - BBC Tuesday 3 July 15:00 Sweden v Switzerland - BBC 19:00 Colombia v England - ITV
June 28, 20187 yr Took a half day off work on Monday and Friday next week - strategic football thinking Brazil Mexico on Monday at 3 :)
July 4, 20187 yr Author Quarter-final picks Uruguay v France - 6 July, 3:00pm- ITV Brazil v Belgium - 6 July, 7:00pm- BBC Sweden v England - 7 July, 3:00pm - BBC Russia v Croatia - 7 July, 7:00pm - ITV
July 6, 20187 yr Quirky fact, courtesy of someone on Twitter - each of the quarter-finals, played on July 6 and 7, is between a team whose English name has six letters and one of seven letters.
July 6, 20187 yr Love a quirky fact! The best I've heard (and admittedly it turned out to be a hypothetical scenario) was that if Sweden were to play Denmark the 3 letter TV codes used for both teams during broadcast would spell out 'SWEDEN' whilst all the remaining unused letters would spell out 'DENMARK'.
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