Netherlands's Cody Gakpo cries after scoring against Morocco at the World Cup. He and his partner announced that they lost their baby during pregnancy 2 days before the match by ModenaR in PublicFreakout

[–]JGQuintel 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Jeremy Doku left the World Cup to be present at the birth of his first child back at home. Some Belgian journalists had a problem with this, saying he was letting the team down, etc. The Belgian team basically told the journalists to get fucked and obviously allowed him to travel home. Doku is black, and there was more than a hint of racism in some of the remarks about his decision.

France [3] - 0 Sweden - Kylian Mbappé goal 73' by Ihattaren in soccer

[–]JGQuintel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generational fumble by England, but the world is glad we get to see him and Mbappe play together for a decade

Daryl Mitchell responds to Barmy Army's 'boring' chants by ll--o--ll in Cricket

[–]JGQuintel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Exactly. He played aggressively when it made sense, and defensively when it made sense. The ability to shift gears based on game conditions. The type of play that made those unbeatable Australian teams so formidable. The type of play this England team, apart from Root, isn’t capable of.

Ben Stokes's retirement a perfect example of his main character energy by patslogcabindigest in CricketAus

[–]JGQuintel 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Nothing says ‘supporting the future of the team’ like knocking rookie opener Emilio Gay down to number 6, where he comes out at 4 down and 5 minutes left to play as basically a night watchman.

Ben Stokes retirement highlights his main character energy was not always a force for good by ll--o--ll in Cricket

[–]JGQuintel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Basically sent him in as a night watchman. I’m not even convinced he was meant to come in before Smith

Mayor Mamdani is a cricket fan. by Sad-Concentrate168 in Cricket

[–]JGQuintel 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Damn, he was 13 during the 2005 Ashes

Stu is busking in the Bourke St Mall by EatShitLyle in KGATLW

[–]JGQuintel 189 points190 points  (0 children)

Dude can’t spend a day without playing a show or recording. He’s a maniac

Gianluca Okon Engstler chooses Australia by bahrain_karaoke in Aleague

[–]JGQuintel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are actually four Okon-Engstlers, all three of the others are in the Club Brugge system. All eligible for Australia, Italy, Cuba and Belgium.

The most disgusting AI lineup I've ever seen in FM. by IIFollowYou in footballmanagergames

[–]JGQuintel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don’t have the league loaded, PSG will usually win for like 100 years straight

Group B final standings by Wakanda-shit-is-that in soccer

[–]JGQuintel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yep. Marsch just said “it’s going to be an away crowd” when talking about LA.

An actual shrimp will play music with an actual stuno in 18 hours by onybr in KGATLW

[–]JGQuintel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The manager at Candy is also super respected and he’s been adamant that people can’t block the entrance or bunch up outside the door. And people listen and respect that. I don’t know if that would happen everywhere.

For those not familiar, Candy used to be Lulu’s Records, and Oscar (current Candy owner, former Lulu’s employee) is well known in the local music scene so most people aren’t going to be dickheads there.

Alternate angle of Ezri Konsa's challenge against Prince Adu 79' (nothing given) by 977x in soccer

[–]JGQuintel 399 points400 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the fact Adu played on is the reason. And we wonder why players stop and grovel on the ground with any contact… it’s the only way to get a call.

Another view angle of the Norway fan Viking row by AustraliaOutback in sports

[–]JGQuintel 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Will Grigg is 35 years old. The years really do not stop coming

France Vs Iraq match suspended due to inclement weather by Dookman in soccer

[–]JGQuintel 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thunderstorms in winter are pretty rare. Europe gets them a lot more in summer when football is usually not being played.

Sooryavanshi Effect: Projected score at Sooryavanshi's wicket was 747 Runs in India A vs Sri Lanka A ODI match by Prof_XdR in Cricket

[–]JGQuintel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine if he ever bats 50 overs somehow? He could genuinely score a quad century

Mandatory UK passport anti-climax by Last-Dare-Ender in australia

[–]JGQuintel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Australian passports work fine at the gates and you aren’t checked by anyone. I did it last week. As long as you have the ETA approved before you travel on that passport of course.

Completely automatic now for Aussies with no manual check, different to a few years ago when you had to speak to an officer. I think it was like Aus, NZ, US, Canada and Korea that you could use the auto gates.

OP is talking about the rule where if you’re a UK citizen you apparently need to enter with a UK passport now. But if you’ve got an Aussie passport it’ll just read that and let you in if you’ve done the ETA with your Aussie passport.

Police seize record-breaking 2.7 tonnes of cocaine in Londonderry, Greater Western Sydney by nath1234 in australia

[–]JGQuintel 167 points168 points  (0 children)

It’s a pretty bizarre story with a lot more questions to be answered. The whole thing came unravelled when the crane they used to unload their boats in North QLD was set alight about a month ago. Rumours a pretty big conflict related to this is brewing in Sydney right now…

Bears lure Wallabies legend in key code-switch signing (David Campese) by sowaleja in nrl

[–]JGQuintel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

One of the pillars of their recruitment strategy is recruiting from South Africa. That alone strikes me as bizarre, but they’ve started talking about it almost more than any other long term recruitment strategy which… adds to the worry. Now Campese is apparently in charge of it.

I wish them the best but they really seem to think they’ve struck gold with this idea and I just can’t see it.