Daaaaaad! Posted June 5 Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said: Just read that Guillermo Ochoa's in the Mexico squad. Absolutely love that guy, possibly my favourite keeper of the last 20 years. Definitely one of the most under-appreciated. Seems fitting that the most “World Cup” player that I can think of (in that I know nothing about him outside of his tremendous performances at World Cups) should have his last tournament in his home country. What a guy. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted June 5 Paid Members Posted June 5 27 minutes ago, Daaaaaad! said: Seems fitting that the most “World Cup” player that I can think of (in that I know nothing about him outside of his tremendous performances at World Cups) should have his last tournament in his home country. What a guy. He really is a great keeper. I'm not sure why a bigger club never brought him in. I know United and Liverpool looked at him on various occasions but never took the plunge. But he's been excellent wherever he's played. Quote
Merzbow Posted June 5 Posted June 5 I haven't kept up with the ticket prices until this popped up from More Perfect Union, it's worse that TKO era WWE prices. A lot of it's down to the first cup using dynamic pricing and horrible resale practices. Anyway, I'm supporting Ghana for Brandon Thomas-Asante. He hasn't had much international play but I'm betting he gets a fair few minutes thanks to his form this past year for Coventry. Quote
TibBo Posted June 5 Posted June 5 Annoyingly it looks like the matches were 16.30, 17.30, 21.00, and 00.30 for the 94 World Cup. 3am-5am is taking the piss Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 5 Author Members Posted June 5 3 minutes ago, TibBo said: 3am-5am is taking the piss For the fairweather fans yeah. Austria vs Jordan at 5am is where the big boys play Quote
Daaaaaad! Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Let's face it; Bolivia are basically Brazil. We're going to win the whole bloody thing. 🏴 Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 8 Author Members Posted June 8 This Kevin Bridges doc, where he travels to Brazil to search for the beauty still in football, was really superb. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002xb10/kevin-bridges-in-search-of-the-beautiful-game Well worth a watch just to see the Brazilian ultras trying to understand what he's saying Quote
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted June 8 Paid Members Posted June 8 8 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: This Kevin Bridges doc, where he travels to Brazil to search for the beauty still in football, was really superb. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002xb10/kevin-bridges-in-search-of-the-beautiful-game Well worth a watch just to see the Brazilian ultras trying to understand what he's saying Agreed, I watched this last night and thought it was a great watch. They could make a whole series of this, there's loads of potential for some fantastic locations. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 8 Paid Members Posted June 8 (edited) Slightly off topic but I watched this great documentary on the Marshall Islands national team from the YouTuber "Zealand". It's really fucking good. For a YouTuber and his brother, the quality is astounding. This series should be on a prime streaming service. I love the timing in context to the World Cup. Such pure grassroots football by comparison. Edited June 8 by tiger_rick Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted June 8 Paid Members Posted June 8 Link won't embed but this is wonderful:- https://bsky.app/profile/douglasmack.bsky.social/post/3mnqr7eakps2j Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 8 Paid Members Posted June 8 20 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: Link won't embed but this is wonderful:- https://bsky.app/profile/douglasmack.bsky.social/post/3mnqr7eakps2j Looks like KDB's Mum didn't tick the box to allow his photo on social media. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted June 8 Author Members Posted June 8 The most highly rated referee in Africa has been denied entry to the States, and now won't be one of the officials. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cnv9drg0qzgo Great start. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted June 9 Paid Members Posted June 9 Turns out Somalia is on a no-fly list. Good job they didn't qualify. Could they not have just used him for the games in Mexico and Canada? Saw a World Cup puzzle and quiz book at Tesco and toyed with the idea of picking it up, but they seem to have sold out of them. Quote
Rossman Posted June 9 Posted June 9 What is the reality the stadiums will be barely full for the group games? With the high ticket prices, some countries being banned visas (Haiti, Iran, Senegal and Ivory Coast) so fans can't travel. Will locals go & watch them? Do locals get cheaper tickets in the US? On 5Live yesterday morning they were in Mexico at a world cup parade. They pulled over a Mexico fan who was so excited for the world cup. They asked him what games he was going to see. He said none, because they're too expensive. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 9 Paid Members Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Rossman said: What is the reality the stadiums will be barely full for the group games? With the high ticket prices, some countries being banned visas (Haiti, Iran, Senegal and Ivory Coast) so fans can't travel. Will locals go & watch them? Do locals get cheaper tickets in the US? Have seen that there are around 180,000 tickets available for games featuring two lower ranked nations. They'll be giving them away closer to KO like the club World Cup. They'll clearly have packed houses for the big teams and the knockout rounds that they'll spin. 9 hours ago, SuperBacon said: The most highly rated referee in Africa has been denied entry to the States, and now won't be one of the officials. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cnv9drg0qzgo Great start. Infuriating this. As is FIFA's lack of backbone. The BBC have a really good summary piece up this morning. One of the lines says "Back in 2017, during Trump's first term, Infantino had suggested a US travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries was incompatible with tournament regulations, and could invalidate the country's hopes to host the tournament in 2026." Here we are in 2026 and Trump can do what he want. 15 of the Iran delegation have been denied Visa's. Iraq's official photographer can't enter. One of Iraq's strikers was held for 6 hours by immigration. Breel Embolo had to fly out a day late while they reviewed his ESTA. It's a disgrace and FIFA are complicit. At least the next Olympics is somewhere sane... Oh. Quote
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