A thread for players starring at the World Cup who would be realistic suggestions for WFC.... (The idea is kind of for players we may not already know who you have seen in a game on TV)
Antoine Cheeseman is announcing his plans for next season in a special TV programme this evening. Assume he isn't coming to us?
What a bizarre (and by bizarre I mean he's an egotistical self promoting bore) video he released earlier saying how we must all be fed up of the speculation over his future, only to then say he'll tell everyone later. He could easily have announced it in that bloody video but no, it'll be just enough 'later' to fuel that media speculation still further. I tutted no end at that so livid was I.
I hope the tut was with arms folded. A simple tut on its own is not worthy of being classed as livid.
Arms folded, tutted and then an exhalation of breath in a derisory manner. I may even have rolled my eyes at one point.
To be fair, I read it on SkySports Transfer Centre Live! update page. I'm happy enough just reading the gossip. It's rare for me to bother watching anything WFC related so there's no way I'd click this.
I had to look up the quote but boy does it sum up the actions by Griezmann today. That the video was released via a company called Moviestar+ just sums it up perfectly. I've no idea who the hell Moviestar+ are, nor do I care, but my old brain is struggling to comprehend why a footballer would release a series of quotes and then video messages to announce... he's going to stay where he has been working since 2014. Conceited, vain and happy to play along for money as I presume his sponsors will have been happy for his visage to have been so visible throughout this story of a man not changing the geography of where he works on a daily basis.
1 The World Cup isn't a rumour - I can confirm that It's happening. 2 It's a truism that you should never sign anyone (except Ardiles) on the strength of their World Cup performances
Already mentioned above but I thought Layun played well yesterday, not showy but effective. Anybody think we may have let him go too soon?
Get yer twigs out for the lads! And your carrots and any other lucky charms you might have about your person! England expects ....* * but may, just may, be disappointed.
12 minutes in and as suspected, Panama look like a team that won a child’s competition to be there...
The World Cup is rather like the Premiership or FA Cup in that only a few teams are ever going to win it. The rest might cause a shock or two but will fall by the wayside by the last 16/Quarters/(& semis at a push). It'll be Spain, Germany, France, Brazil or Argentina who win it. I can't even see a team ever 'doing a Leicester'! When they increase the finals to 48 teams for 2024, many of the games will be the equivalent of the preliminary FA Cup rounds but in the end the same few teams will win it. Qualifying will be even more of a waste of time than it is now, with, what, 20+ European teams going through, some of whom finish 3rd in their groups? A bore-fest all round, all in the name of FIFA making more money for itself.
Saudi Arabia already won that in the first match. Almost looked like they were trying to throw the game. But that could not happen in Putin's Russia!
Excuse wrong thread but:- Come on Enger-land Media frenzy over demolishing squeezing past a magnificent poor Tunisia. Our players were world class average and it is clear we have the team to take us all the way to the final knock out stages. If we win our next 2 games everything will be hyped up to unbearable levels with talk of 66 all over again. Millions and zillions of column inches and everybody’s opinion (and I mean everyone including the predictor cat and Robbie Savage’s mum and probably Teresa May) on how good we the players and Gareth Southgate are and can we really do it this time? We’ll be brilliant a damp squib in the first knock game and romp limp on to the quarters with another squillion column inches hyping us up to fever pitch. In the quarters we will put in a brilliant sh!t performance and before the burst balloon hits the ground there will be a thousand inquests and interviews on what went wrong and if only Lingard and Sterling could do for England what they sometimes do for their club (score a goal)! and a final conclusion we are building for the NEXT generation of overhyped overpaid prima donnas. You heard it all here first many times on this forum. Come on Enger-land
Football pundit and part-time politician Therese Coffey tweeted that England played like a Sunday League team.
Tbf, Saudi Arabia just changed their manager, they used to play defensively, now they try to play football--it's just they simply don't have the players for it. Take nothing away from Russia's goals, they were average for large spells of the game, but they did score some pearlers. I doubt this particular game is fixed, but the fact that Russia drew the Group of Life? Who knows...
