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Totally bonkers. Such a shame that goal didn't stand, extra time would have been fun. I was also enjoying Sad Face Ronaldo. I don't know how accurate that ball touch technology is, but the replays I've seen since suggest the flight of the ball was unaffected by the Croatian player, and so the...

I don't like Kane, but I respect him massively. Weirdly underrated, a bit like Salah, because he never got on the global celebrity carousel like Vini, Mbappe and Yamal. Watching him with Bayern, he's developed so many dimensions to his game beyond poaching goals. Him and Olise should be front...

Exactly. I feel like shooters already have so many advantages. If keepers have to stay on their line, all this tip-toe nonsense should be discouraged and shooters should have to maintain a consistent speed in approaching the ball. You want to tip-toe? Fine, you don't get to suddenly speed up to...

Most infuriating experience I had was at the private one on Centennial in Hamilton about a year ago. The number machine was broken (naturally), so they had a plastic bin with numbers written on paper for you to take. Line was hours long, people out the door, but I'd taken the afternoon off work...

I'm with you when it comes to sides like the Netherlands, who had no business being so conservative against Morocco. I mean, I guess that's what you get when you appoint Ronald 'Everton' Koeman, who has never been a dynamic coach, but still... Even Japan, I thought they had the legs and the...

Germany awful, Netherlands cowardly. Both Nagelsmann and Koeman will be gone by the weekend, could be Klopp and Slot taking over respectively. The Dutch playing for a shootout only to look utterly confused once they got there was something to behold. Good news for Canada is Morocco worked...

Literally all other changes listed are rule or rule enforcement changes. This has nothing to do with gameplay or player protection, it's purely about financial extraction. And anger about these added breaks has nothing to do with tradition, it has to do with not liking being exploited. If the...

Biggest goal in Canadian men's soccer history, I think. Bigger than the Mexico win in the Gold Cup just because of the size of the stage. Canada will be firm underdogs going forward, the draw was brutal with Netherlands, Morocco, Germany and France in the same quadrant. Still, they have...

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...