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FIFA 2026 WC - general

Not even the Superbowl half time show is 30min. I just can't see it happening given football half time is 15mins and the players will want to come back out like any other match.
 
Post game this morning I am so happy for football that the French got punted out ! :)
Happy days
Of the 3 remaining I’m happy whoever ends up winning though I’d enjoy a Messi double for the bants haha
 
JS96 said:
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Bloke is such a prat.
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Does he not understand what endonyms and exonyms are? “Falkland Islands” is the English name, Islas Malvinas is the Spanish name. Legally, the Falkland Islanders are a British overseas territory administered by the UK but claimed by Argentina (hence the Falklands War of 1982, which lasted just 10 weeks). Demographically, English is the first language of the majority of Falkland Islanders as the majority are of British descent (with about 10%, mostly immigrants, speaking Spanish natively, with all students learning Spanish in school).
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Does he not understand what endonyms and exonyms are? “Falkland Islands” is the English name, Islas Malvinas is the Spanish name. Legally, the Falkland Islanders are a British overseas territory administered by the UK but claimed by Argentina (hence the Falklands War of 1982, which lasted just 10 weeks). Demographically, English is the first language of the majority of Falkland Islanders as the majority are of British descent (with about 10%, mostly immigrants, speaking Spanish natively, with all students learning Spanish in school).
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He's doing it to be provocative. The history of the islands is the reason for this. Does he call Japan Nippon?
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Does he not understand what endonyms and exonyms are? “Falkland Islands” is the English name, Islas Malvinas is the Spanish name. Legally, the Falkland Islanders are a British overseas territory administered by the UK but claimed by Argentina (hence the Falklands War of 1982, which lasted just 10 weeks). Demographically, English is the first language of the majority of Falkland Islanders as the majority are of British descent (with about 10%, mostly immigrants, speaking Spanish natively, with all students learning Spanish in school).
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I don't disagree with any of that but it is a bit more complex than it seems. The Falklands have been claimed and/or inhabited by a number of people including pre-colombians, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Argentina. All of those countries up and left the islands at one time or another only to be replaced. In England's case, it was previewed as part of the Napoleonic wars by two invasions of the River Plate as European powers scuffled over the plunder and colonisation of the Americas and control of the trade of slaves and goods. Those invasions served ultimately to strengthen local resistance and the independence movement.

Colonisation is fucked up, the Falklands War was fucked up, the Junta was fucked up and so was Thatcher's England.
 
Punchanello said:
I don't disagree with any of that but it is a bit more complex than it seems. The Falklands have been claimed and/or inhabited by a number of people including pre-colombians, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Argentina. All of those countries up and left the islands at one time or another only to be replaced. In England's case, it was previewed as part of the Napoleonic wars by two invasions of the River Plate as European powers scuffled over the plunder and colonisation of the Americas and control of the trade of slaves and goods. Those invasions served ultimately to strengthen local resistance and the independence movement.

Colonisation is fucked up, the Falklands War was fucked up, the Junta was fucked up and so was Thatcher's England.
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Except other than the brief military occupation during the Falklands War, the only other time Argentina administered the Falklands was for seven years in the 1800s, when there was a small settlement with a military presence from 1826 to 1833, when the Royal Navy kicked them out.

The Argentine case stems from the belief that Spain handed them over upon independence in 1816 after years of peaceful rule by the Spanish. Other than that, while the British did obviously colonise the islands, there’s really nothing to say that Argentina had them.

Most importantly though, almost everyone there wants to be British. The 2013 referendum, which was free and fair, saw 99.8% of the 92.0% of Islanders who voted vote “yes” to remaining a BOT. There were quite literally only three people who voted “no” (at least one of whom wanted independence, according to a local who reported it in an article by The Guardian). Even Argentine Falklanders reportedly voted “yes”.
 
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