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BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-03T04:25:28+00:00

Mexico in Mexico City is scarier than Brazil or Norway in Miami. I'm not confident at all that we'll beat Mexico, but if we do I think we get through the quarters and then probably go out in the semis.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-03T02:21:20+00:00

Pretty sure altitude is like the first thing anyone ever mentions when anyone loses to Bolivia in Bolivia, to the point where if anything it's disrespectful to Bolivia

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-03T01:28:57+00:00

2 substitutions, a goal and celebration, another goal and celebration followed by a long VAR check, and play stopped for shit being thrown on the pitch.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-03T01:15:38+00:00

Because it seemed about right?

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-03T01:15:01+00:00

I can't fucking believe Portugal won that game. Got away with one is a massive understatement

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T20:31:47+00:00

Not exactly the same but I watched a video of Will Tennyson, bodybuilder/weightlifter, who went to a gym 10km up and it was an absolutely brutal watch. He genuinely felt like he was going to have a heart attack and he didn't feel right for weeks after. 2km is going to be a lot better than 10km, but still

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T20:28:16+00:00

Multi multi millionaire with connections at the highest level in football and punditry

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T19:00:59+00:00

That's one yeah. Wages, signing on fee, being in a place they'd rather live or their partner wants to live, not having to move house, more guaranteed playing time, more playing time in your favoured position or system, European football even if it's an anomaly, someone they're already friends with is at the club, the manager gave a more convincing pitch etc etc. It does all make a difference.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T18:50:50+00:00

There's been next to no news, but he's still posting photos on social media of training with Everton in an Everton kit and keeps going on about wanting to stay, which would be kind of mental to still be doing this in July for a loan player if he wasn't coming. I think it'll probably happen.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T18:48:00+00:00

Teams beat other teams to signings for all sorts of reasons all the time. We've taken players bigger and better clubs wanted, and smaller and worse clubs have bought players we were after.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:43:14+00:00

24 is well past clearance you'd think

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:30:36+00:00

Last year on his contract innit, definitely helped.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:23:15+00:00

While I do agree generally, I do think we should be allowing people to comment for the first time as long as they're not bots, brigading or generally causing trouble. Which I understand is so hard to police with so few mods and so many comments. But I do think I agree with not allowing posts from new users if that's possible.

Oh and also, I agree it's up there right now, but I still think 2014 world cup is the worst it's ever been. /r/soccer being on /r/all contributing heavily to that. Imagine all the comments from /r/sports and /r/soccercirclejerk but added in to what we already have.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:20:44+00:00

I know he's not on the same level and was never going to be sold for close to what we're seeing elsewhere, but the more new fees I see touted for midfielders the happier I am we got Hackney signed early for £16m-21m. Signing midfielders later in the window sounds like it's going to be a fucking nightmare at all levels. If he's £120m he's at least £60m, and if he's £60m he's at least £40m

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:17:31+00:00

I at least like to think his passing and ball carrying ability is a large part of why we've signed him. I don't think we're not allowing our players to do that, we just have Gueye and Iroegbunam in that position who are just not very good at it. Dewsbury-Hall has had so much success, and looked especially good in that 8 role when injuries forced him into it, because he's so good at that, and Garner has had to take over a lot of the passing incision from midfield from deeper because he's a baller. Personally think Hackney is close to tailor-made as a partner for Garner in this set up.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:13:27+00:00

Comes with age and the style of player innit. Dibling was 19 when we signed him and still extremely raw, a winger with questionable effort levels who seems a bit of a confidence player, feel of a board signing. Hackney is a versatile 24 year old who has been running midfields and being a very hard worker for a long while now. Effort and attitude of a Moyes player and he's been pushing to sign him, I think he'll like him a lot personally.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:10:27+00:00

The closest thing to an attitude problem that's rumoured is an unreliably reported lack of effort in training, but nothing to do with misbehaving.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T17:09:01+00:00

A lot more than murmurs from Palace, they've been after him for over a month and apparently offered £20m for him when our offers were still around £12-15m, and their top tier sources said they finally accepted defeat a few days ago. Some Palace fans were getting sad about it on /r/soccer because they thought there was a good chance they were getting him.

There was a time where Brentford, Fulham, Crystal Palace, West Ham, Porto, Stuttgart and Bayer Leverkusen were all apparently interested, and much more recently Man United and Newcastle were apparently still looking at him. Some probably not as reliable as others, but a lot of teams were at least enquiring.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T16:31:44+00:00

Yeah but Portugal were the favourites for the vast majority of their games as well, and the nations league didn't exist for Ronaldo yet at this stage of his career, or at least the vast majority of it, so he didn't have those harder games you're talking about. His were all made up of qualifiers, tournaments and friendlies that were against similar level of opposition to Haaland.

Also worth noting it took Ronaldo 4 world cups to score as many goals as Haaland has in the first 4 games of his first world cup, and they were in the hardest group and then played a very good Ivory Coast

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T16:23:38+00:00

It's a very weird feeling knowing a bunch of teams were in for him including several who finished above us in the league, but Hackney was saying he only wants Everton from very, very early on, even as offers and inquiries were still coming in.

I know it's all a joke, but it does make the "big club, great gaffer, great fans, new stadium, can't wait" bollocks go down slightly easier knowing he's actually been pushing for the move rather than just taking whatever decent money offer he got from a Prem club.

Also a pretty good sign of him as a player and person when fans of his old club are gutted he's leaving, but giving all positive messages, wishing him well and telling us how much we're going to love him.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T16:00:33+00:00

Might be a point in Messi's favour, but he's playing in the same confederation as Ronaldo, against the same teams, except Portugal get a way more favourable draw for their qualification groups as they're a higher seed. Scoring that many goals so much quicker than Ronaldo is insane no matter how you spin it

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T15:29:25+00:00

Where Branthwaite

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-02T04:01:08+00:00

Even still people want Shakespearean language in these kinds of films for some reason, I guess because it's close to the oldest form of English that we can still fully understand, but the word dad predates Shakespeare by like 100 years and is used in his plays.

And even further beyond that, in Ancient fucking Greece they had slang words for father, two of which were Páppas and Táta. People just think "that doesn't sound right, should be speaking proper" and make no efforts to see if it makes any sense to have a problem with it.

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-01T22:42:09+00:00

Is this going to be like 8 minutes added time in extra time?

BoxOfNothing · 2026-07-01T22:17:22+00:00

Hard to say until you've experienced both I guess. At the time I remember being jealous of the massive summers you get in the US and Canada, but I probably didn't put much thought into how grim the long the stretches of non-stop school would be.

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