The Actual World Cup 2022 Thread

Jules72

bosstrabs I know they’re undefeated for something like 35 games, but is the quality really there in that squad? (Messi apart)

Mad_Cyril

Jules72 I know they’re undefeated for something like 35 games, but is the quality really there in that squad?

This minded me of that Monty Python sketch about the Romans!

Jules72

Mad_Cyril 🤫….. an unbeaten run is worthless if versus crappy teams and I have no idea who they’ve been playing

Jules72

Mad_Cyril so the unbeaten run has been against lots of Latin teams (Bolivia, Ecuador etc)…. Hardly any European ones… so on the basis of the opposition they’ve beaten and a squad that actually doesn’t look all that amazing, I wouldn’t read too much into the unbeaten run… having said that, there’s no single outstanding team at this tournament - any of 5-10 countries can win it imo (including Argentina)

bosstrabs

Jules72 ….. an unbeaten run is worthless if versus crappy teams and I have no idea who they’ve been playing

Also I reckon Uruguay and possibly Chile, Colombia and Peru are at least as ‘good’ as some of the middling shite in the European qualifying groups, like Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, WALES and so on…

SM001

Brazil and Argentina have the squads capable of winning it but in recent World Cups they’ve shat the bed when up against a European team.

Jules72 an unbeaten run is worthless if versus crappy teams and I have no idea who they’ve been playing

Theres no easy games in the CONMEBOL qualifiers or Copa America unlike in Europe where we have San Marino, Andorra etc

Cankles-McJeggings

Infantino should be burnt alive. How far has he got his dirty Iti hand in the till? Absolute cunt of a man. Rancid from top to bottom FIFA is. Won’t be watching a single game. 🤮

Mad_Cyril

Jules72
No need to go all Hugo!

The way it reads in plain text just made me chuckle is all

bosstrabs

Jules72 so the unbeaten run has been against lots of Latin teams (Bolivia, Ecuador etc)…. Hardly any European ones… I wouldn’t read too much into the unbeaten run…

I didn’t say anything about the unbeaten run. I did tacitly suggest tournament winning ‘minerals’.

Jules72 having said that, there’s no single outstanding team at this tournament - any of 5-10 countries can win it imo (including Argentina)

Actually it always seems that way going into a World Cup. It’s only in hindsight that it seems ‘obvious’ a particular team would won. Example: West Germany were 5th favourites going into the 1990 World Cup, behind Italy (the hosts), Brazil, Holland (having won Euro 88) and Argentina (the reigning champions).

It was only after they hammered Yugoslavia 4-1 in their opening game while Holland and Argentina laboured through their groups that people started to say they were the obvious contenders.
(Source: recently re-watched the 1990 World Cup official vid)

Smallman1

Brazil or Argentina for me.

You heard it here first.

Smallman1

Dave has just named every single team in the World Cup to win it.

bosstrabs

Smallman1 Dave has just named every single team in the World Cup to win it.

Smallman, can we have ‘pints’ in London in January when I’m back so I can glass you in the neck?

Wally

bosstrabs Gonna need a lot of pints

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs London in January when I’m back

Shall I set up a pole for some dates Dave?

bosstrabs

Wally No, it will only need one and it will be done in the first 25 minutes.

Hursty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63688479

Well in Eric 😆

Wally

Hursty

Wally already posted, but MC didn’t want to engage as it’s from Twitter, which is apparently only used by right wing extremist conspiracy freaks

Mad_Cyril

Hursty already posted, but MC didn’t want to engage as it’s from Twitter, which is apparently only used by right wing extremist conspiracy freaks

Can you provide me the deets, can’t remember saying this?

Amps

Hursty as it’s from Twitter, which is apparently only used by right wing extremist conspiracy freaks

Woah, woah, woah!

Hursty

Mad_Cyril your reply to this rumour earlier on in the thread?

The second part is answered in the Elon Musk thread, not directly your comments

Mad_Cyril

Hursty your reply to this rumour earlier on in the thread?

The second part is answered in the Elon Musk thread, not directly your comments

Ah, I see what you did there

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