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With Croatia likely to win their group they would play 2nd place from Group c - probably Denmark, possibly Australia. Then it would likely be either Spain/Portugal or Uruguay/Russia in the QFs. The winner of Serbia's Group E will be on the the other side of the draw so they couldn't meet until...

If Iceland beat Nigeria tomorrow then Argentina will have to hammer Nigeria and they'll need Croatia to beat Iceland. It doesn't look good. But then, they don't look good.

Caballero's mistake had been coming since about the 5th minute against Iceland when he gave them a scoring opportunity on one of his first touches of the ball. He nearly gave the ball to Croatia in the first half of tonight's game too. He's just not good on the ball.

The way the British commentators are anticipating a Tim Cahill substitution you'd think he were some kind of 38-year-old Australian Maradona.

It ricocheted off Diego Costa so it was lucky. Of course, if you create more chances you are more likely to 'make your own luck' as the saying goes. I wouldn't read too much into Spain having more passes as that's usually the case even when they lose.

Poland letting down the white race. Rebaljo's rant is going to be epic:icon_popcorn:

Japan v Columbia was entertaining, though not exactly high quality, football. I felt a bit bad for the Columbian defender who was sent off as his arm wasn't in an unnatural position as he was jumping. A yellow card and a penalty would've been enough punishment. So the guy's World Cup may have...

I was thinking of Belgium as a team potential dark horse - not anymore. I suppose they could get better but Panama are really poor so this is not good from Belgium. Rebajlo - Your "Australia has been robbed" video won't play in my country. I'm guessing it's the usual excuse-making. One of the...

I forgot to mention that Julian Brandt played well after coming on as a sub - he replaced Werner, who was quite poor - fairly late in the match. I guess I wanted to mention it because there was some controversy about him being chosen over the mixed race player Leroy Sane of Man City. I was...

I was thinking the same thing. All those white-looking Mexicans on TV make it look like Mexico is somewhat European and thus, from a European perspective, more familiar, and more likeable to ordinary white people when, of course, they are amongst the worst savages on earth. I know from first...

Denmark's goal scored by a mixed race player who was eligible to play for Tanzania:buenrollo: Peru's penalty was hilarious.

N I wasn't being critical of your use of "shockingly bad" as it does indeed describe this Saudi team. I believe this match flattered the Russians so they need to keep it in perspective. OTOH the decisive win should give them a confidence boost going forward.

Mo Salah is apparently going to start for Egypt. If he plays Egypt might be OK, so Russia needs to run up the score, if possible, against "shockingly bad" Saudi Arabia just in case goal difference becomes a 2nd round qualification factor. (Uruguay is the other team in this group).

SWITZERLAND: 10 Whites: 7 blacks; 1 mestizo; 4 Albanians; 1 Bosnian Muslim We wuz robbed!!! Northern Ireland should be there instead of this disgrace of a Swiss team. Anyway, Russia leads Saudi Arabia 2-0 at half-time. The Russians are actually the lowest ranked team in the tournament...

Looking forward to all those Russian Caps (including Putin's friend Ovechkin) meeting Trump at the White House.:)

At the NHL on NBC twitter account they highlighted Devante Smith-Pelly's goal, calling it "filthy" - slang, I guess, for amazing. Yet as some of the responses say it is just a routine goal: https://twitter.com/NHLonNBCSports/status/1003106690668154885 It's like when a black athlete manages to...

I'm rather concerned that the so-called French team might win this World Cup. Not only do they look quite good but based on their line-up in tonight's friendly against Ireland they might end up being darker than Brazil. Poor Egypt may have lost Mo Salah for the tournament after that Sergio...

Africans and football in the news: West Ham United have suspended their director of player recruitment, Tony Henry, after he left them open to accusations of racism and potentially unlawful discrimination by telling agents in the transfer window that they don't want to sign any more African...

Yesterday I watched about ten minutes of the NFL - the first I've watched all season - because I had a visitor who was interested in the Detroit Lions. Anyway, with their season on the line Detroit seemed to convert a long 3rd down pass with about 3.40 to go. The ruling on the field was that...

They were even more memorable at the 1978 World Cup. Forget three goals in six second-half minutes, what about losing 6-0 to Argentina in 1978 when the host nation just happened to need a very big win to advance. Absolutely nothing suspicious about that. Only thing I remember about Peru was...

The Russians got as good a draw as they could've hoped for. Even better, the weakest team in the group, Saudi Arabia, is their first opponent, so they've a chance to get a win under their belt early on and build some confidence. I've read that the Egyptian team is actually quite good. I didn't...

First of all, thanks for the comprehensive analysis of Australian soccer. Though given how it sounds to follow Australian football - a lot more :mad: than :icon_popcorn: - it's probably not good for your state of mind, and perhaps overall health. Anyway...you mentioned Hiddink. Recently...

Fox picked the worst possible time to outbid ESPN for the World Cup rights. As you say the time zone isn't good for US TV. Then disaster of disasters the USMNT didn't qualify. But at least, they probably thought, they'd get good ratings in NY, Boston, Philly, California, and a couple of other...

It's possible, though unlikely, that four of those five teams could all be in one group therefore eliminating two of them right away thus making the tournament even less white. Not sure what I was thinking. You can't have four European countries in the same group.:drink9:

Of the 32, how many are all-white? I believe it is only Poland, Iceland, Croatia, Russia, and Serbia. It's possible, though unlikely, that four of those five teams could all be in one group therefore eliminating two of them right away thus making the tournament even less white. The last...