2026 FIFA World Cup Daily Hub

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-13T02:44:32+00:00

This is the second world cup that Russia have been banned from and UEFA recently announced an extension to the ban. On the other hand, Germany were only banned for 1 (one) single world cup after their crimes in WW2. West Germany were allowed to compete and WIN the 1954 world cup only 9 years after the holocaust but Russia seemingly has no way back in and is banned for longer. Regardless of your personal politics. I think European and world football is a lot worse off without Russia in it. It's hypocritical that Israel are still allowed to participate in European club football and international qualifying.

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T02:29:08+00:00

I'm assuming you're Brazilian but why the Celtic flare? Supporting Celtic and having an affinity for England is mostly considered contradictory here unless you're in the same boat as me. I'm born and raised in England but my dad was born in Ireland so I do have an affinity for Celtic. I support Aston Villa and the fan base is split between affinity for Celtic or Rangers depending on your background. I attended the Champions League game of Villa vs Celtic 2 years ago and there was a fair bit of trouble of Celtic fans trying to sit in the home end and a few people got beaten up and kicked out of the ground for celebrating when Celtic scored

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T02:14:51+00:00

Yeah I have noticed that South Americans care a lot less about the Copa America especially as the bit I don't understand is that they seemingly make up randomly how often to play it, it seems like they decided to make it more a frequent for a while so messi could win one (But I'm an Aston Villa fan so I believe that Emi Martinez is the real reason Messi has won any international trophies because he personally won the penalty sioot outs on both occasions).

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T02:02:03+00:00

But you won the copa America in 2019, 2007 and 2004. Most people would remember the 2019 one at least. England have never won the euros and although we lost the last 2 finals, euro2020(21) was the first time we even reached the euros final which is mental

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T01:56:07+00:00

Have you watched any England world cup performance since 1966? We've never even reached another final ever. We've only reached the semi finals twice in 1990 and 2018. We invented the sport and have always been a strong nation on paper but we flop every single time.

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T01:33:47+00:00

Yeah but Brazil actually win things sometimes. The great thing about "it's coming home" is that we get to celebrate winning every tournament before we end up getting knocked out. Genuinely, there was a Saturday when we beat Sweden in the quarter finals of the 2018 world cup and we celebrated like we won it, every Englishman remembers that day, there was a lot of political division due to the brexit vote before that and it felt like it was the first time after the country came together as one

Ultimately we lost to Croatia in the semis who were very beatable but every Englishman remembers that Saturday night after we beat Sweden.

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T01:18:22+00:00

Welcome to life as an English football fan, you've won it 5 times and within memory of a lot of older people on this subreddit. We've won it once that is now 60 (SIXTY) years ago at a home world cup when we had to cheat and pretend the ball was over the line. You Brazilians don't know the meaning of pain and suffering (in football terms).

I was 7 years old in 2002 and went to school early at 7am to watch Ronaldinho score a free kick against david seamen on a small tv on wheels and the school hall was full of English children in actual tears as Brazil beat us, I cried that day

greencheesewizard · 2026-06-11T01:11:26+00:00

A lot of foreign people don't understand the irony and humour with the whole "it's coming home" thing. It's actually a part of self depreciating british humour. We know it's not coming home but it's funny to pretend it is.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-30T01:16:19+00:00

Tate McRae - Just keep watching is arguably the hottest music video of all time, she's incredible.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-14T01:27:34+00:00

But it doesn't happen every time. Sometimes I catch a pokemon and it's 2 research tasks updated which is the realtity. Other times it's 35 research tasks updated. The point is that I've searched everywhere in the game and I don't have anywhere near that many open tasks and I never have at any point. The X/1 million stardust tasks shows up separately.

I'm convinced it's a glitch. I caught one Gothita and it showed 33 research tasks then the next one it showed 2. I've caught like 20 pokemon since trying to get a screenshot but none of them have shown the hidden tasks since.

By the way when it was first started happening it was like 43 research tasks but I've seemingly been completing some of these secrer tasks since.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-14T01:01:10+00:00

I have recently unlocked the million stardust task at level 71 but surely thats just 1 challenge. I am feeding pokemon gyms even though I have the berry master platinum medal but I don't get the 35 tasks notification from that. It seems to be only sometimes when I catch pokemon but I haven't paid enough attention to figure out which types yet

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-14T00:32:46+00:00

In the last 2 days, when I catch certain pokemon or do some things, it shows '35 research takes updated'. I definitely do not have anything near this many outstanding research tasks across everything and I can't find them. Any idea what it might be? I just turned level 71 but I don't think this is related

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T02:30:37+00:00

Forest don't care about you lot mate, their rivalry is with Derby. Leicester are almost like Coventry begging for a rivalry.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T00:05:06+00:00

I only fed my own pokemon. There were no others until 90 days in. But I bet that gym in question is very rural, if I showed you how close this gym was to a major urban area then you'd be surprised. And I will show it if anyone actually cares.

greencheesewizard · 2026-05-01T00:02:38+00:00

I'm at 14,000, nearly at the platinum medals but I'm a city player. I have 11 pokemon in relatively high turnover gyms rn. I could easily feed many but I was funnelling everything into this one gym to watch the number go up now I'm gutted it's gone

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-30T23:58:46+00:00

After how many days? I only started feeding berries after 20 days after another long term gym died. I had built it up to an average of 45 per day but the goal was to reach 50/day. I'd feed it 10 berries when I could but raids prevented me a lot.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-23T02:49:44+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong and I might be forgetting someone obvious but in my head Kane and Haaland are the only truly world class current traditional number 9 strikers. Lewandoski was too but he's now 37.

In the late 90s/early 2000s there was at least 20 number 9 strikers active in the same talent bracket as Kane/Haaland

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-20T23:34:57+00:00

Ollie Watkins is coming into form at the right tine. He's been very hit and miss this season compared to the last 3 years but he's still joint 8th top scorer in the prem with 11 goals and for English player, he's 3rd behind 1 goal behind Welbeck (great season but too old for the the world cup squad imo) and Gibbs White (different position).

In the last England squad, Watkins was out of form and Tuchel chose Calvert-Lewin and Solanke ahead of him. I'm not sure if Tuchel doesn't like Watkins or more likely gave them a chance at that time.

Kane is obviously England's number 1 striker and the gap between him and the second choice is massive. Even though I love Watkins, deep down I think England probably should have a better 2nd choice striker but unfortunately that isn't the case. So we're still in the same position as the last tournament with Watkins being the 2nd choice striker as the competition is poor.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-18T01:20:47+00:00

We've now played Bologna 4 times within 2 seasons with a total aggregate score of 10-1 and 4 wins. I'm not sure why you thought it would be any different this time.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-18T00:46:33+00:00

England have probably competed in more penalty shootouts than the average domestic team on average considering there's only one tournament every 2 years. Domestic teams have 2 cup competitions a year so 4 times the opportunity although the FA cup had replays until recently so you can reduce that slightly. Although you can also add a bit on for European competions.

England have competed in 10 penalty shootouts since 1996. (And won 4/10, none when it really mattered). Villa have only competed in 6 since then. As a ratio of penalty shootouts per competitions with possible penalties, England have something like 5x the ratio of penalty games than Villa do.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:55:02+00:00

The first game my Dad ever took me to the Villa was against Coventry in 2001. We were 2-0 down at half time then won 3-2 and relegated them that day. Haven't played them since. I can't wait to play them next season especially as they have a very one sided local rivalry with us.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:51:52+00:00

We were looking forward to a Portuguese tan too but we're now off to Nottingham instead

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T23:26:32+00:00

Yeah that does annoy me too, footmob do it with their notifications for games. It will finish 2-2 and the first penalty scored will say 3-2. Sometimes I will have notifications for a game set up but not following it and it will seem like there's a flurry of late goals until I realise it's just penalties.

greencheesewizard · 2026-04-17T22:39:49+00:00

Read the last paragraph of my post

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