PeteFromLeeds

Mexico getting jealous of all of South Africa's red cards and wanted one of their own!

A second red card for South Africa - really not how they'd want to be starting this tournament.

Predictions: England 7 Croatia 4 Ghana 4 Panama 1 With Ghana making it through as one of the best third-places.

Predictions: Portugal 7 Colombia 5 Uzbekistan 2 DR Congo 1 With Uzbekistan not making it through.

Argentina 9 Algeria 4 Austria 3 Jordan 1 With Austria making it through as one of the best third-places.

France 7 Norway 5 Senegal 4 Iraq 1 With Senegal making it through as one of the best third-places.

Predictions: Spain 9 Uruguay 6 Cape Verde 3 Saudi Arabia 0 Cape Verde not making it through.

Predictions: Belgium 5 Egypt 5 New Zealand 3 Iran 1 With New Zealand making it through as one of the best third-places.

Predictions: Netherlands 7 Japan 6 Tunisia 3 Sweden 1 With Tunisia not making it through.

Predictions: Germany 9 Cote D'Ivoire 6 Ecuador 3 Curacao 0 With Ecuador being one of the best third-places.

Predictions: Turkey 5 USA 4 Paraguay 3 Australia 2 With Paraguay being one of the best third-places. (I saw Paraguay in the World Cup again and couldn't resist going for that set of points!)

Predictions: Brazil 7 Morocco 5 Scotland 4 Haiti 0 With Scotland being one of the best third-places.

Predictions: Switzerland 9 Canada 4 Bosnia 4 Qatar 0 With Bosnia going through as a best third-place.

Yeah, South Africa have done well to hold them off but it's clear which team has the upper hand so far.

Only took nine minutes! Maybe my prediction of a draw between these two was a little unreasonable

And I better get my group predictions in for this one sooner rather than later! Mexico - 7 South Korea - 6 South Africa - 2 Czechia - 1 With presumably no third-placer going through depending on how I predict the other ones

No Ochoa on the starting line-up then - I thought they might give him the opening game given the notability that's been given around him being the only person apart from Messi and Ronaldo to be in six World Cups!

Watched the highlights from ITV this morning - was the footage biased or did Costa Rica really not get a single chance in the whole game? That should at least give the team some confidence.

I'm sure there are some where the name of the artist and the name of the song are the same as well! 'My Indigo' by My Indigo comes to mind immediately.

Everything Everything - Regret "Did you think that everything, everything would change?"

1 [1] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 2 [9] Ásgeir - Against The Current 3 [5] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 4 [8] Limoblaze - Super Power 5 [2] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 6 [10] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 7 [6] Antigioni - JALLA 8 [3] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 9 [11] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 10 [4] Leléka - Ridnym 11 [7] Dan Stirling - Bones 12 [20] Kensington - Livin' For 13 [12] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 14 [13] Living Again - Dive Into 15 [16] Lukas Graham - To Know A Girl 16 [14] JONAS LOVV - Ya Ya Ya 17 [15] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 18 [27] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 19 [30] overpass - Is This Real? 20 [17] U2 - Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) 21 [NEW] Wendy Shay - One Goal 22 [18] Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 23 [29] NEEDTOBREATHE - Take Me Dancing 24 [24] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 25 [44] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 26 [19] Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path 27 [49] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 28 [39] Sheppard - Sayonara 29 [21] NEEDTOBREATHE - Strangeness Of It All 30 [NEW] Tors - Wait For Me 31 [26] NEEDTOBREATHE - Say It Now 32 [28] Jonathan Ogden - Day By Day 33 [22] Antytila - ВІДКОЛИ 34 [25] Essyla - Dancing on the ice 35 [34] Seafret - Desert Heart 36 [23] Dermot Kennedy - Funeral 37 [33] The Fray - A Light That Waits 38 [47] Kadzoura - and then? 39 [31] DMA'S - Heatin Park 40 [38] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay

6 June 2026 1 [1] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 2 [9] Ásgeir - Against The Current 3 [5] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 4 [8] Limoblaze - Super Power 5 [2] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 6 [10] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 7 [6] Antigioni - JALLA 8 [3] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 9 [11] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 10 [4] Leléka - Ridnym 11 [7] Dan Stirling - Bones 12 [20] Kensington - Livin' For 13 [12] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 14 [13] Living Again - Dive Into 15 [16] Lukas Graham - To Know A Girl 16 [14] JONAS LOVV - Ya Ya Ya 17 [15] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 18 [27] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 19 [30] overpass - Is This Real? 20 [17] U2 - Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) 21 [NEW] Wendy Shay - One Goal 22 [18] Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 23 [29] NEEDTOBREATHE - Take Me Dancing 24 [24] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 25 [44] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 26 [19] Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path 27 [49] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 28 [39] Sheppard - Sayonara 29 [21] NEEDTOBREATHE - Strangeness Of It All 30 [NEW] Tors - Wait For Me 31 [26] NEEDTOBREATHE - Say It Now 32 [28] Jonathan Ogden - Day By Day 33 [22] Antytila - ВІДКОЛИ 34 [25] Essyla - Dancing on the ice 35 [34] Seafret - Desert Heart 36 [23] Dermot Kennedy - Funeral 37 [33] The Fray - A Light That Waits 38 [47] Kadzoura - and then? 39 [31] DMA'S - Heatin Park 40 [38] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 41 [54] Johan Asgarde - Rebirth Mark 42 [43] Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not 43 [32] Booshle G. - Not Alone 44 [42] Jonathan Ogden - Forever & Always 45 [35] Mumford & Sons - Badlands (with Gracie Abrams) 46 [36] U2 - Resurrection Song 47 [60] Stanleys - Pass The Time 48 [37] Dan Stirling - Bruised / To Be With You 49 [53] Living Again - Let Me Be Yours 50 [48] Rend Collective - Salt And Light 51 [40] Jonathan Ogden - Running 52 [61] Jonathan Ogden - Brighter Day 53 [41] AIDAN - Bella 54 [50] Limoblaze - God Did It 55 [64] De'Borah Powell & The Benefactors - Never Far 56 [65] The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir 57 [45] Rend Collective - Do It All Alone 58 [62] Jay Smith & Ingrid - Glasshouse 59 [76] Folabi Nuel - Happy Song 60 [46] The Temper Trap - Giving Up Air 61 [51] Jonathan Ogden - In The Light 62 [59] Seafret & James Morrison - Driftwood 63 [79] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 64 [52] Annette Pfab - Wherever I Go 65 [55] Jonathan Ogden - What If 66 [77] Jonathan Ogden - My Safe Place 67 [63] Civilized Creature - Think I'm Ready 68 [69] Cannons - Light as a Feather 69 [56] The Snuts - Summer Rain 70 [75] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 71 [70] The Sherlocks - In Your Hands 72 [57] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - All Roads 73 [73] Theresa Phondo, Esther Chungu & Tio Nason - Daily II 74 [74] Indochine - No Name 75 [66] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - The Tide 76 [67] Muse - Be With You 77 [68] Seafret - Signal Fire 78 [NEW] Marsali - Ne idi 79 [78] Stephen Stanley - Never Mine 80 [71] Son Mieux - Dark Before The Dawn 81 [72] Smash Into Pieces - Hollow 82 [NEW] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Home (World Cup 2026) 83 [84] Jamie Pritchard & April Ballad - Tend 84 [81] Stephen Stanley - Change 85 [80] Jamie Pritchard - Surprise

Wow that's a lot of new entries in the lower end of the charts - and pretty much all from non-chart regulars as well! (when I watched the recap video which only shows the new entries I'd assumed the OCC had put in a rule to block old songs from the 75-100 section with there being so much new stuff) Particularly happy to see Kingfishr make the Top 100.

And in other news which I missed earlier in the year - World Athletics have seen sense and decided to reject Turkey's attempt to 'recruit' 11 elite athletes from other countries: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c3ex2717742o

The Diamond League series is underway! Just started watching the most recent one in Milan - great result for Molly Caudery in the Pole Vault getting the win there! And Emma Zapaletalova seems to be going from strength to strength in the hurdles after her medal in the World Championships last year.