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I’m trying to get excited about this World Cup, but to no avail :-((.
I’ve just watched Sky Sports World Cup preview with Gary Neville, Jamie Redknapp, Jamie Carragher & Karen Carney. Utterly depressing viewing. Same old, same old. Picking players for the starting XI not playing for their clubs, or totally off form.
I’m hoping this thread can get the juices flowing.
Do any of you think England have a chance?
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FIFA World Cup thread. on 17:13 - Nov 20 with 2386 views
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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FIFA World Cup thread. on 17:30 - Nov 20 with 2306 views
Tell that to Boavista. They never had that big an attendance even when they won the Portuguese league in the early 2000s being Porto's second club. They get about 6k these days in a 30k stadium. It's the same story with the other stadia built for Euro 2004 that aren't used by the big 3 clubs.
The 30k stadium in Charleroi rebuilt for Euro 2000 has since had to be scaled down to a more modest 15k to suit the attendances of Sporting Charleroi who use it.
Some marvelous method acting by the crowd, Sir John would be proud.
There was one point when Ecuador scored they panned to their fan area and some weren’t celebrating. 10 minutes later they show the same group and the ones who weren’t celebrating a goal, a goal ffs, we’re all joining in and jumping around.
Money talks, bullshit walks
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FIFA World Cup thread. on 18:23 - Nov 20 with 2077 views
Was like a Scottish Cup final when one of Ragers or Celtic are not in it, men against boys, Not sure if Ecuador are any good or not but they won that easily
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FIFA World Cup thread. on 18:47 - Nov 20 with 2017 views
So your faith is restored because having quoted an erroneous and libelous article alleging Ecuador had taken a bung, the outcome has convinced you otherwise.
Be careful what you rely on.
Q reminded me of the runners up in the 1986 League Cup...did well to get to nil and should have done better.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
I don't really follow that argument, there's plenty of other willing countries between Qatar and Scotland. The cost of building a load of stadiums for a single tournament, in this day and age, potentially taking teams grounds, redeveloping them, and then leaving clubs with one third filled soulless bowls where they used to have their own grounds of character, is not one I'd choose. So, for me, Scotland co-hosting with Ireland, Wales or another similar insignificant country (You there, Karl?!) would make for a great world cup finals, and make more sense economically. The savings on stadium building could be passed on to fans by subsidizing travel when/if they have to travel from Wales to Scotland, whatever. The distances still wouldn't remotely compare with travelling across America for a set of games.
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FIFA World Cup thread. on 19:38 - Nov 20 with 1877 views
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