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I'd love to see them hold on for a draw and then go through on pens. Insert "So you're saying there's a chance..." meme etc. None of this is a surprise from a country run by people with emotional intelligence that seems to range somewhere between tantruming toddler and petulant pre-teen. FIFA's...

My favourite is them wearing minimal safety gear and riding side-by-each cruiser style, rather than staggered. Yes, please, preach to me about road safety!

Amazing stuff. And Uruguay out, which is a bit of a shock. Poor Bielsa. Sadly looking like Scotland is also out. Some groups much crueler than others. If Algeria can draw or Congo win (doable against Uzbekistan), that could drop South Korea out, and even Croatia if they can't get at least a...

Google Maps sucks for route planning. It's great (mostly) for finding the quickest route from A to B, but trying to get it to follow a pre-planned route is an exercise in frustration. You're better to use a dedicated GPS mapping app, though I'm sure others here are more qualified to recommend...

Depth showed for France today, their backups would start for almost every other country. Hard to bet against them and Argentina at this point, with Spain looking toothless minus Yamal and both Germany and England stumbling. Cabo Verde needs a point against Saudi Arabia tonight to go through...

I'd love to see the Scots get through to the next round. The scenes of them in Boston have become World Cup legend, including drinking the pubs dry. South Africa for Canada next, which is pretty funny considering every single 'permutations' article I read said South Korea or Czechia, didn't...

Had a look, can't remember who I bought through. They all change names regularly to dodge the copyright police anyway. I do remember that using the app yielded much better choices, I'm assuming for similar reasons where the lawyers tend to troll the website rather than the app. There is (of...

A less click-baity take and response. Armour does a lot more than protect against impact. It helps distribute impact to prevent seams bursting or keeping a wider piece of fabric on the road than a sharp point from a knee or elbow, which can make the difference between wearing through or not. In...

Your best bet is probably the Chinese counterfeit sites like DHGate. I refuse to pay the hundreds that Liverpool charges for their jerseys, got one from them last year. It's surprisingly decent, and cost something like $40 after all shipping and tax etc. Of course, it's from last year, so I...

And in this case add a little luck and a LOT of lung-busting running. The impressive thing about this Cabo Verde performance was that they actually went down and still found a way to come back and tie it. Greece winning Euro 2004 gives hope to all the minnows fighting for their lives against...

No matter how hard they try to monetise the life out of the game, FIFA can't ruin moments of magic like that. Good luck! Their keeper has gone from around 50,000 followers on Instagram to over 15,000,000, more than Neuer.

Cape Verde, a microscopic country of 300,000 that most couldn't find on a map to save their lives, has drawn with Uruguay after drawing with Spain in their first game. That's two World Cup winners. If they can draw or somehow beat Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay loses to Spain, they would finish...

Thought Turkiye would do better considering some of the young talent they have. Netherlands looking imperious today (and Gakpo being another Liverpool player who looks very different in national colours). A German friend went to see his team play Cote d'Ivoire, and wasn't too happy until the...

A little of both, plus a systems mismatch (Qatar doesn't have the big players like Bosnia that nullified Canada's attack), plus a relatively early red card that blew the game open for Canada, then a later ugly red that motivated Canada to really put the boots in. A very well drilled defensive...

A friend was at at the Canada game last night. Said it was as fun as any sporting event he's ever been to, despite the horror injury to Kone. They've put themselves in an excellent position to advance and looked a lot more fluid than they did against a big and organised Bosnia. Just need a draw...

It's the worst bit of aging dogs, that and when they get dementia and are scared and confused. Our chow/shepherd mix had back leg issues from middle age, would occasionally seem to lose control and the back end would flop over. He'd immediately recover, but as he aged, his back legs got very...

Thank heavens PSG took that, definitely the lesser of two evils for me. As a constant consumer of podcasts and other Premier League content, an entire summer of debating whether this Arsenal were one of the great sides (they're not) would have been unbearable. I only hope the Premier League refs...

Apparently had had problems with wheelspin coming out of Moss' into the dip, so he tried putting a bigger tire on the back. That solved the wheelspin but made it wheelie straight towards the woods on the right of 5c. The smaller tire went back on.

That's just a sliver of Paul's collection. His basement, attic, and garage at a different house are all loaded. He thinks he has over 50 bikes of various vintages and in states of repair spread through the different storage spots. I'm glad he's my neighbour, he makes my paltry three bikes look...

'Arris was one of the best. CMG Online was a real font of knowledge for then-new me, soaking up everything the old heads had to say on the Soapbox. Learned so much from Larry, Bondo, @TK4 , Blackie, and many others. Even did a spot of freebie work for the site, but quickly realised it didn't...