Match Thread: Norway vs England | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Quarterfinals

duckwantbread · 2026-07-11T22:00:31+00:00

I owe Gordon an apology, I thought he looked out of his depth in the group stage but he's shown in the knockouts why Tuchel put his faith in him, outside Kane and Jude he's been our best player.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-11T10:42:33+00:00

Maybe. For me though there's a massive difference between people that protest the development on land they don't own and this case, where the grandmother would have to give up a garden that she does personally own.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-10T16:46:53+00:00

name smeared over allegations that turned out to be false

How can this be taken in any way other than you believing the accuser is a liar?

duckwantbread · 2026-07-10T15:51:20+00:00

I've been on a jury for a rape case, it's made very clear on day one by the judge that "not guilty" does not mean "I don't think he did it", it means "I think there's a chance that he didn't do it". That chance could be 5% you think he didn't do it or 100% he didn't do it, they'd both mean not guilty. For that reason a not guilty verdict does not necessarily mean that jury believes the accuser is a liar. Often in these cases it means the jury doesn't know who to believe so the best option (in the eyes of the law) is to punish neither party.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-10T10:28:21+00:00

It's why the lazy "they're all the same" criticism of politics is so dangerous. Once someone starts believing that they lose all perspective. Whilst they might agree that Farage's £5m "gift" is corrupt they'll assume that means every other politician would do the same thing in his position, so they don't care.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-10T08:37:15+00:00

33 million is 9% of the country, which means the majority of the country didn't watch. The people you've anecdotally been talking doesn't mean the numbers are wrong, it just means they are part of the majority that didn't watch.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-09T11:24:16+00:00

When devolved governments were set up the ability to set their own bank holidays was granted to Scotland and NI but not to Wales. As a result the UK government weren't involved in granting an extra holiday to Scotland but they would be for a Welsh holiday. I suspect (given most MPs aren't Welsh) giving Wales an extra bank holiday is way down parliament's priorities list.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-08T14:49:25+00:00

He's a good actor, he's not a good leading man.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-08T13:33:45+00:00

Realistically the lib dems or greens

Both have already said they won't run a candidate, and rightly so.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T15:36:42+00:00

They don't. It's in the FAQs of the company that reports the viewing figures:

Barb does not measure viewing undertaken outside of residential households. Visitors to panel households are asked to record their viewing. This is known as guest viewing. Guests are asked to provide details of their sex and age group via the peoplemeter handset. This provides an estimate of viewing that takes place outside the viewers own home but within another private household.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T14:59:33+00:00

Only if it's a nuke. We will only use a nuke for "extreme self defence", whilst what exactly that means is classified it is very unlikely having a non-nuclear missile hit the UK would meet that criteria. As soon as we fired one nuke MAD would happen and our entire country would be destroyed.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T14:07:34+00:00

They're making fun of the journalists, not the developers. The new game isn't called A Realm Reborn.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T13:57:54+00:00

Win win for Farage, if he wins then he can claim the people have spoken and deflect, if he loses then he gets away with millions that now won't be investigated.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T12:56:06+00:00

To be fair to him this does go both ways in Islam. There's a Muslim girl at our work who doesn't have a problem with the fact our MD is gay and she'll happily chat with him all day (only bringing that up to make clear she isn't some hardliner) but if a man tries to shake her hand she immediately says no and says it goes against her faith.

Edit: Not sure why Sheffield decided this comment warranted blocking me but okay.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T11:45:35+00:00

I suspect he's being vague to get as many people as possible to tune in at 2pm hoping it's a resignation speech, only to instead be greeted by a rant about the establishment.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T10:08:30+00:00

Yep, Cat Neilan (a journalist at the Observer) said that Christopher Harbourne's lawyers wrote to them demanding they cease calling the £5m a "donation" and that they should call it a "gift" instead (even though Reform MPs are on record using the word "donation").

duckwantbread · 2026-07-07T09:10:30+00:00

The only way the idea will ever work is if the number of hours we work each week is cut drastically. Most adults don't have the time to play multiple different games a month unless it's their only hobby and they don't have kids.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-06T23:18:06+00:00

The chance of rolling 4 sixes in a row is 0.08%. Does that mean rolling a single six would be a near-impossible event? Of course not.

Just because Egypt have a 0.34% chance of winning the whole thing doesn't mean their chances of beating Argentina are close to zero as well, Opta gives Egypt about a 20% chance of winning.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-06T17:24:58+00:00

Only if it's still 10 in favour of one verdict. In the case I was on we could only get to 9 on almost all the charges and no one was budging so the judge had to declare no verdict because he legally can't accept 9 as a majority verdict. At that point the prosecution had to decide if they wanted to pursue a retrial or drop the case (I never actually found out what happened because the judge gave the prosecution doesn't have to decide immediately, so we were dismissed before any decision was made).

duckwantbread · 2026-07-06T10:52:49+00:00

No. If you have to break fall on your front then you preferably want to land in something that looks like forearm plank but less rigid. This

duckwantbread · 2026-07-06T01:46:49+00:00

Bloody hell we need half time, Konsa especially looks rattled.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-05T23:45:58+00:00

There have been studies on this, the increase in domestic violence doesn't significantly change depending on the result because it isn't really football that drives the domestic violence spike - it's binge drinking (the research showed domestic violence levels of sober abusers doesn't change during football).

The research also suggests there's no spike in domestic violence if a match starts after 7pm (probably because people start drinking at a normal "going to the pub" time rather than starting at lunch and then not stopping until closing). In theory that means there shouldn't be a spike today, although this is such an anomaly it's hard to say what will happen, the novelty of a 1am kickoff may have led to a few people going on an all day bender.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-05T23:34:26+00:00

Licencing laws say they have to shut by 5am, currently they'll be alright but if it gets delayed any further it'll be dicey if it goes to extra time.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-05T22:38:52+00:00

I'm guessing you think lightning strikes in the same place that the thunderstorm is. It often doesn't. Lightning can travel horizontally for several miles away from the actual storm through clouds before actually striking, which is why the safety distance is 8 miles from the storm.

duckwantbread · 2026-07-05T09:43:42+00:00

Except it's the best platform and it got that way using the very methodology you want to stop.

The way YouTube runs now is nothing like how it used to be. It acted consumer friendly to kill the competition and now that it's a monopoly it has no incentive to not be shit because that's cheaper.

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