Patrick Viera's head is a perfect sphere. It looks round no matter which angle you look at it from.
Weird feelings of football
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Son never scores 'simple' goals, he only scores screamers from outside the box.
Villa have never had a full house at home. There's always been visible empty blue seats.
Whenever they show Fergie in the stands during a game we go on to get absolutely embarrassed
That’s pretty much every televised game?
Carlos Queiroz has been at every World Cup but has never actually won a game.
what, that we get embarrassed or that fergie's there?
To be fair, the camera cuts to him pretty much every time we go behind in a game.what, that we get embarrassed or that fergie's there?
I really need his agent contact to manage my personal career: he fails in every NT job he has been in the last decade but still manages to get offers. This time he didn't even made the qualification stage as Iran manager, but somehow got offered the job just for the WC.
That's actually amazing. Don't need to do any of the actual work, just show up for the party and take the inevitable group stage exit that everyone expects.
Thought I heard on commentary he failed to qualify with Egypt and Colombia, so have looked it all up. Apparently Iran sacked the guy who qualifed them for the tournament in record time and replaced him with Queiroz, but he was also Egypt manager when they lost the playoff to Senegal, and Colombia manager during qualifying where (according to wikipedia) their performances after restarting from covid "slipped disastrously, with a 0–3 home loss to Uruguay (its worst ever home loss for 82 years) before being shockingly thrashed 1–6 by Ecuador, and this finally put the end of Carlos Queiroz's reign as Colombia's boss". Wow.
What was the last world cup with baggy football shirts? 2002?
There is an alternate reality where Sporting Lisbon are still in the Champions League and that's why you have thousands of people online talking about Ronaldo returning there and taking a pay cut so he can play CL football.
Maybe the camera only shows Fergie when we get thrashed.
All Liverpool fans on the caf are from Belgium.
Whatever is going on right now isn't actually the World Cup. It's just a bunch of international football matches that seem to have more significance than usual.
From the matchday thread
Just about 50% of the players at this World Cup play their club football for Brighton.
Switzerland haven’t ever lost a match yet have never won anything
Teams or national teams that make a big game in group stages and make it super hard for every opponent there go out very easily in the first KO round
Despite leaving the Mackems in 2018 and retiring from playing football after a stint at Reading the following year, John O' Shea still marshalls the back line for Sunderland at the sprightly age of 41.
Just hope Korea and Japan can break that spell. Korea has no chance against Brazil but I'm sure that Japan can beat Croatia.
Keepers who dance are goat tier penalty stoppers
Underdog GK's always save a pen.
Spanish goalkeepers go on strike during penalty shootouts.
2006 I reckon. Shirts were still hefty then.
2010 Adidas definitely had a specific shirt for tight fit. Had an X type thingy on it.
I guess you could argue that they get more practice either in training or in matches because it's expected that they'll face more? I do agree with this feeling though.
can put that one to bed now
Only clubs who play in white, red and blue kits win trophies. I've yet to see clubs with green, black, yellow etc kits win a trophy.
Might also be psychological. In general a keeper isn't expected to save a penalty, so there is very little pressure on him. But a penalty taker for the favourite team is under massive pressure, as he shouldn't even be in the situation that he has to score a penalty.
This makes it more probable to shoot a weak one which can be saved.
What if I don't consider the EL as a worthy trophy?A team yellow beat us in the EL
That penalty shootout with Villarreal was very peculiar to say the least. Reality had to bend that much for a club in yellow to win that night.
Surely the SPL is though and Celtic won that a fair few times.What if I don't consider the EL as a worthy trophy?
Brazil?
This is actually true.
WC 2022, 1/8 final -> pens, beat Japan
Euro 2020, 1/8 final -> ET, lost to Spain
WC 2018, 1/8 final -> pens, beat Denmark
WC 2018, 1/4 final -> pens, beat Russia
WC 2018, 1/2 final -> ET, beat England
Euro 2016, 1/8 final -> ET, lost to Portugal
WC 2014, out in group stage
Euro 2012, out in group stage
WC 2010, didn't qualify
EURO 2008, 1/4 final -> pens, lost to Turkey
So, since 2008, the only knockout game that they played that didn't go to extra time was the final against France.
It still feels like Portugal are the EC holders, especially without Italy at the World Cup
There’s always a player wearing a protective face mask in every Chelsea starting XI.
And he's just started doing his stand up show again too.
Didier Deschamps has been in charge of France for 25 years