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Day 1: Qatar vs Ecuador - Match Discussion Only Please.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I just feel like there's some sort of line between being Bernard Manning and a bit of gallows humour about a state with some fairly draconian laws.
At some point it means we have to delete Borat from our memories because of the amount of cultural stereotyping going on in that film.
First time in the history of anything that Ecuador has been described as a giant!No giant killing tonight
This isn’t really the time to be discussing our match at the Etihad.
Appalling match.. Honestly, just a bizarre nonsense really. Totally odd!
I mean maybe it was just a bad day at the office for the Qatar players but they looked miles away from competing at this level.
Ecuador didn't even need to play well and they still had the game won inside 30 minutes.
Ecuador didn't even need to play well and they still had the game won inside 30 minutes.
First half was a decent watch. Second half is where you’d expect the team losing to throw everything to come back. This lot are beyond shite and half the crowd didn’t fancy sticking around either.
Thanks for clarifying that.
I can’t wait for FIFA to talk about how much of a success the opening day was
Better to start bad and the tournament getting better as it goes along. Some tournaments start petering out in the knockouts
I'm backing Ecuador now. I've been there and it's a lovely country, plus I want an underdog team to support.
Exactly my thoughts
Agree. I literally was falling asleep during the 2nd half as Ecuador took their foot off the gas and Qatar were beyond terrible.
Qatar don't use any of those punishments, the issue is stereotyping all Arab states as one.
For me this World Cup is the wrong place at the wrong time, but I wanted to watch this game in an attempt to get me in the mood but feck me both teams were just a bit shit.
Also why did the BBC not show the opening ceremony? deliberate perhaps because of the circumstances? which I’m down with, but usually you get the whole build up vibe which I was hoping would get me gee’d up for this World Cup… also the disallowed first goal? what the actual feck? I’ve watched it several times and I’m still baffled.
Also why did the BBC not show the opening ceremony? deliberate perhaps because of the circumstances? which I’m down with, but usually you get the whole build up vibe which I was hoping would get me gee’d up for this World Cup… also the disallowed first goal? what the actual feck? I’ve watched it several times and I’m still baffled.
Man imagine how bad they would've looked if they actually had to field true Qatari players
Worst hosts ever on and off the pitch and I don't partiularly think Ecuador are great either. They were just against a really bad side.
They were pretty poor, they’ll struggle against a good team. Go with Denmark or something instead, they could do very well
If not a couple of posters are going to find themselves in front of the firing squad.
I have to agree, it felt very bizarre all around. Can't believe this is an actual world cup!Agree with this. Where I live, we have sizeable Syrian and Palestinian communities and they are genuinely lovely people and often very warm and humorous.
I think some people desperately need to get out of their bubble and meet people different from themselves. Too many comments in this thread have crossed the line between criticizing regimes and cooperations to sweeping generalizations about groups of people they have never met.
Qatar are abit shit aren't they. This was probably their easiest game on paper too.
Amazing
This is what happened and this is close to reality.
Read this to nurture yourself.
So Qatar’s own fans all fecked off at half time in the opening game of their World Cup out of boredom? Shambles.
Good first half, shite second half.
Hope we will have better matches than that as group stage openers.
Hope we will have better matches than that as group stage openers.
The Ecuadorian guy has probably been invited back to that local guy's house for dinner, chai and shisha.
The middle east is a vast spectrum. The people of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon are very warm and welcoming.
The gulf states on the other hand leave a lot to be desired.
World class bandwagonery.
On the coverage I saw the Qatar fans were pretty good? Looked like only a small section but they were bouncing all game long.
Some people are really gonna get triggered by this post.
So they built 8 stadiums for this World Cup
What will they be used for when it's all over?
Unless they get an attendance allowance I cant see them being filled with local football fans
What will they be used for when it's all over?
Unless they get an attendance allowance I cant see them being filled with local football fans
Agree.
I don’t think they were real fans Pogue…
Maybe they can airlift one to us to replace old Trafford?
It captured the kind of joke (doble sentido) while also describing the outcome (overdone)
Two birds one stone
Wow, trying to defend people leaving early as it was a slow second half. Unreal.
Calling it now, Qatar won’t pick up a single point this tournament. Shambles
Because they play world cups all the time, they’ve won at least 10. This game is below them all, who are Ecuador anyway?