Might give this one a swerve.

There's only so much sycophantic, smoke blowing up the a**e of Ronaldo I can suffer.

Someone as bad as ours eh. About 5/10 minutes ago the commentator on ITV (can't remember his name; don't care), comes out with the most cliched, obvious comment with the game at 0-0: "Well this game needs a goal". Of course the f**king game needs a goal, because if every game finished 0-0,...

They just cut to Ronaldo in the stands.

Jesus, he's carrying some timber!

You don’t have to play that game. Does your current phone still do everything you need it to, if yes and you don’t feel the need to be seen with the latest model, just go sim only and save a bunch of spondooliks. I did this a couple of years ago. Bought my phone from Apple and then told Vodafone I ...

As a neutral, I enjoyed that!

The African teams are like a breath of fresh air. It feels like: "F**k it. Let's just go out there and play football"

sendô wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:44 am Some of you lot are right miserable ****ers.

Yup!

See you in the irritate thread later then sendô.

TheHandOfDog wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:09 pm The commentary on some of these games on BBC and ITV has been so poor

I've just come on here to post something similar.

Jermaine Jenas: The epitome of keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you're a c**t, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

Am I enjoying it? Well I'm watching it, but I'm not exactly scheduling my life around catching every game.

I think one of the things that is taking the shine off the whole competition is the behind-the-scenes grubbiness of it all.

Buy one thing online and you’ll get bombarded. I don’t recall the last meaningful e-mail I received. But this is it Jim. I can pretty much stomach and instantly delete the emails leading up to "Black Friday" (another American import), but when "Black Friday" was done and dusted ...

Deano for me.

As tragic as his injury was for us, had he'd stayed fit and become one of the best strikers in The Premier League, we wouldn't have had him very long anyway.

Still getting s**tloads of "Black Friday" emails.

Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 11:57 am The Chancellor has just announced that electric vehicles will no longer be exempt from road tax from April 2025.

Well what a surprise!

Right up there with old "Buy a diesel car: Cheaper fuel and cleaner than petrol" routine.

Great result for Morocco.

For all the big names and shear quality Belgium have had in their squads over the years, they've got to be one of the biggest underachievers in World football.

In Germany they have a technology where teh advertising shown on the adversiting hoardings is different for TV viewers in England than what is actually being shown on the hoardings in the ground If I remember correctly, F1 mooted this idea quite a few years ago. The basic principle was that all the...

Up the Junction wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:50 am The average time a ball is in play is under 60 minutes. I agree with Pete wholeheartedly.

You're pretty much bang on there UtJ.

Eggs Jnr. 1 read somewhere the ball is in play for around 55 minutes.

I bloody hope so, as I reckon if the players packed in the time wasting as they'd know it would be added on anyway that we don't end up with a clock stop method. I do like the added on time in this tournament, but I do think if it was implemented into domestic football, it would be open to (ahem) f...

Not really watching it with much intent, but from what I have seen, it looks a more exciting game than last night.

........And is it me, or has Ian Rush lost his Scouse accent over the years? From what I seem to remember, you almost needed subtitles when he was interviewed.

As p**s poor of a game it was last night, there is a very tiny bit of me that understands that maybe Southgate and Co. did their homework on The USA and set up "not to lose". If you're going to do this again during the tournament and/or going forward in future competitions Gareth, could yo...

I'm sorry, but that was absolutely p**s poor.

Morocco Mole wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:08 pm Front three aren’t getting a lot of service. Midfield has been poor tonight.

It's been poor all round to be honest.

They've been strolling around as if it's a dead rubber.