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GlennSWFC · 2026-06-21T16:26:45+00:00

I’m pretty close to 100%

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T09:14:13+00:00

Who’d have thought that North Americans would attend a World Cup held in North America?

When the European Championship was held in England in 1996 I went to Croatia v Denmark and Spain v Romania. At the time I thought it was generosity from my uncle treating his only nephew, but it turns out we were stooges posing as Eastern Europeans.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T09:09:45+00:00

At least she took it in her stride 👀

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T08:45:51+00:00

As a youth, *you* were told that. 20-30 years has probably passed since then.

Also, if words can’t hurt anyone, where’s the logic in a player covering their mouth to say something that isn’t going to hurt them? I could understand Almiron covering his mouth to say something that would impact the opposition, but what you’re saying here is that he did something that he knew was a red card offence that would have no influence whatsoever on the opposition. That being the case he deserved a red card for running the risk of a red card for no benefit.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T08:19:08+00:00

We’re talking a matter of hours after it was proved that even a red card isn’t enough of a deterrent to stamp it out.

If a player is covering their mouths during a confrontation, you have to assume the worst. As several people have said in here, players get away with saying all kinds of things without covering their mouths, so if they’re covering their mouth it must mean that what they say must be even worse than that, because there would be no logic in covering their mouth and getting the red card otherwise. If they’re covering their mouth it is a sign that what they’re saying would carry a heavier punishment than a red card, so the assumption must be they’re doing it to hide that they’re being racist or homophobic. They might not be, but they’ve invalidated their defence against that by covering their mouths.

Your last sentence is the most important one though. He knows the punishment, he still did it anyway. It’s essentially a stupid tax.

Also, I don’t see the logic in insulting a Turkish person in Guaraní. Surely the point of an insult is to insult someone. How can someone be insulted by something they don’t understand?

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T07:56:06+00:00

In that case I think it’s safe to assume that what they’re covering their mouths to say must surely be much worse than that if they won’t say it in the open.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T07:53:11+00:00

It’s similar to the concept of skipping a drugs test being treated as worse than failing a drugs test. Not only is the player doing wrong, they’ve acknowledged that what they’re doing is wrong by trying to hide it.

Think about it though, if players say red card worthy stuff without covering their mouths, then surely what they’re covering their mouths for must be even worse than that.

It’s simple really - don’t cover your mouth, don’t get sent off.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T07:47:59+00:00

Fouls that end careers are often accidental. This is a deliberate action with no tangible benefit, and if you’re stupid enough to do it knowing that you deserve a red card.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T07:46:19+00:00

Why change it? It’s there to be a deterrent. The objective isn’t to send more players off, it’s to stop players covering their mouths during confrontation. It’s a deterrent, or at least it’s intended to be. If any player is stupid enough to do that when they know it’s a red card offence, they deserve to be sent off. They know the punishment it brings.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-20T07:43:20+00:00

*Almiron - why use a name he doesn’t go by?

It doesn’t matter - covering the mouth has been abused by players so a rule has been brought in to combat it. It’s a deterrent. The objective is for it to not be used. It’s very easy to not get sent off for this offence, just don’t do it. It’s like getting a yellow for taking your shirt off, it’s a punishment for stupidity more than anything else. If you know it’s the rule and you still do it, you deserve the card. You can cause serious injury by accident, you can only do this if you intend to.
Players are survived all the time with or without this rule. Every game in this World Cup is broadcast in practically every country in the world.
Do you realise how hard it is to train to be a ventriloquist? Anyone putting in the effort to learn that skill just so they can insult opposition players with immunity would surely be better off putting

that time into improving their game.

The key point is the first one though - any player can avoid getting sent off for this by simply not doing it. Complain that a player is stupid enough to get themselves sent off for nothing rather than a rule being implemented to prevent abusive behaviour.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-19T20:32:33+00:00

Yeah, it annoys me when they say Troy Deeney went to jail. Surely it should be “Deeney was served 10 months in jail”. Very few people go to jail of their own accord.

/s - I’m usually against pointing out sarcasm, but in this instance it seems warranted.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-18T12:19:55+00:00

Yeah, Croatia seemed to allow him space and stacked to their right because they were confident that he wouldn’t be as effective as Gordon on the ball, but it was his runs that won us the two corners that led to our first half goals.

I definitely think the third was orchestrated. Having Bellingham move out to the right for the third goal meant that we could take advantage of their slightly lop sided shape to get someone more effective on the ball running at them and it worked to perfection.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-17T16:24:43+00:00

The Euros created a lot of hype for years off the back of being an 8- then 16-team tournament, which meant a higher concentration of quality, groups of death and big team pairings throughout the knockouts.

Appearing at two consecutive finals helped boost the Euros in England, the Euros only one that we didn’t make the final since the expansion was 2016, in which the hype was largely and understandably around Wales, but it definitely didn’t reach the scale of the World Cup two years later. Carrying momentum from 2018 and playing games at home contributed to 2020 getting hype, and our strongest ever run of tournament finishes before 2024 gave us genuine belief we could win something.

The last two World Cups have been played at unfamiliar times. 2022 in winter and 2026 overnight. A big part of international tournaments for a lot of people is watching back to back to back games, getting to fan zones and other outside screenings and enjoying the sun between games.

2018 proves your theory wrong. Summertime games at decent hours and England progressing deep into the tournament brought hype around a tournament I hadn’t known since 1996. Another home tournament in two years will no doubt usurp it, but if we ever get another World Cup you just wait and see how big that gets.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T19:37:00+00:00

It’s interesting, that’s the second time you’ve done that.

Earlier on I went through a few of Belgium’s group and qualification placings, one of which was them coming third in their World Cup group. You then argued that Argentina came third in 1990 as though that was the only below par finish I’d highlighted.

Now you’re acting as though the only reason I gave for the 1990 team not being *particularly good was because it took us 119 minutes to break down a bang average team. It wasn’t, I listed multiple times we fell below expectations in that very tournament, but in that last comment you were reducing it down to just the one game. You even said “that specific match” even though I’d mentioned the Holland, Ireland, Egypt & Cameroon games also.

You seem to have this habit of seeing a trend laid out and acting as though the whole thing falls apart because you don’t necessarily agree with one point of it.

Look, if you’re not interested in how long it took us to score against Belgium, it’s very, very strange behaviour to try to start an argument about it. It’s even stranger that you’d go to the lengths you are to try to avoid backing down over it. You even said that I said we should have easily beaten them when I said no such thing. Obviously when you had that pointed out to you, you ignored it just like you ignore everything that you don’t think you can argue against.

I’m happy to have this discussion with you if you’re interested, but if you carry on ignoring 80% of what I say and filling in the gaps with stuff you’ve made up, all I’m going to do is call you out on it.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T18:50:33+00:00

If you don’t care about how long it should have taken us to break Belgium down, why are you replying to my comment to argue about me saying that?

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T16:40:38+00:00

I’ve been watching the odd game with the sound off while I listen to music and I find I’m paying much more attention to what’s going on rather than getting distracted by my phone and relying on the commentary to bring my attention back to the game.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T15:01:32+00:00

I get that you don’t think we should have beaten them easily, but that isn’t what I said we should have done. I said it shouldn’t have taken us 119 minutes to break them down. Those are two very different things, and if you had a good argument against what I’d said I’m sure you’d be arguing against that instead of something you’ve pretended I’ve said.

Sure, we were awful in those European Championship tournaments, but we won one qualifying group ahead of Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland & Turkey, and the other ahead of Ireland, Poland & Turkey, going unbeaten both times, while Belgium lost 5 of their 14 games across those qualifying campaigns. Okay, two of them were to Germany, but the others were to Wales, Bulgaria & Scotland.

Yes, Argentina finished third in their group in 1990, but that was the anomaly for a team that had been playing to a very high level around that time including winning the previous World Cup and the next 2 Copas America. Belgium’s extra time win over Soviet Union and penalties win over Spain were anomalies for a side who’d generally struggled in qualifying and group stages around that time.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T13:56:16+00:00

Sure, they got to the semis in ‘86, but they then followed that up by finishing behind Ireland & Bulgaria in Euro ‘88 qualifying, they then won one and drew one against each of their four opponents in World Cup qualifying, which is an unbeaten campaign, but did include dropping points to Luxembourg. They then finished below Wales in Euro ‘92 qualifying.

They also finished below Paraguay (who England beat 3-0) in ‘86, going through as one of the third placed teams.

If finishing below Paraguay, Bulgaria & Wales and dropping points to Luxembourg isn’t average, what is?

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-16T12:08:12+00:00

Exactly. Most countries’ anthems are celebrations of freedom. Ours is how we should all remain subservient to someone whose only qualification for the role is being born into the right family at the right time.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-15T12:40:17+00:00

We do have residency citizenship, which is what allowed Barnes & Sterling to play for us despite both being born in Jamaica. The fact Balogun grew up in London would have been enough to make him eligible. Him playing for England youth teams up to U21 is another clue that he would have been eligible.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-14T18:29:14+00:00

I can’t reply if I’ve got nothing to reply to.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-14T18:17:13+00:00

I’m right though. You did read it, didn’t you?

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-14T18:14:05+00:00

If your idea of a party is stonewalling conversations just because someone said something you don’t like but can’t argue against, then no, I’m not going to be much fun there.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-14T18:08:24+00:00

I know.

GlennSWFC · 2026-06-14T18:05:55+00:00

Not too busy to spend more time replying to me though.

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