OK thanks, that's positive.

Read the following https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/f99da4f73212220/original/edbm045h0udbwkqew35a-pdf.pdf Explains how FIFA ranking points are calculated. Make sure you have a basic understanding of algebra to fully understand it.

I'm slightly concerned about him going to a non-English speaking country. From what I recall he was reported as not being keen to learn the language in Germany or Switzerland when he was there, and he seems to me to be a player (and person) who needs to feel somewhat at home in order to thrive...

Did go through to the keeper with me initially, until I looked up the meaning of fanculo after seeing NicCarBel write it a few times! (I'm not Italian lol)

Under current FIFA World Cup regulations, squads have to be numbered from 1 to 26, so 10 must be allocated to a player. Given though the apparent man-love that Infantino has for Argentina/Messi, it wouldn't surprise me to see that Infantino bends the regulations for the next WC so that Argentina...

Wrong (again), these are not the FIFA world rankings.

My mate and I who went to Canada/USA for all four Aussie games this World Cup have decided that we are definitely going o Spain/Portugal/Morocco in four years time. This time hopefully our wives will come with us as well, neither had any interest in going to the USA this year.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/trump-photobombs-spanish-world-cup-celebrations/video/a5f11ef3ac05a1b4debfa6cde6e52911 HAHAHA!!! Rodri trying to get Trump to fuck off out of their celebrations!!! Edit: Sorry if the link doesn't work

No it isn’t, England have made the final (and been beaten twice) in the last two Euros.

You had no idea?!?! Did you actually watch any games or take any notice of results?

Sarcasm is lost on you, isn’t it.

For the first few games the ref might be stopping it every minute at the start of the game. But players (and coaches) will quickly realise that they can’t get away with it anymore (amazing what a few cards and penalty kicks will achieve), and from then on all the bullshit fouls, etc would stop...

SBS also see little value in this game, and apparently chose to save money by not having a studio team and crew (on penalty rates on a Sunday too!)

Shaking my head. FFS!

Dear oh dear, that looks tragic.

I though south west England was known as the English Riviera? I’ve been to Grimsby and certainly missed seeing any Riviera likeness.

Decentric has a weird fixation on player height, and doesn’t help his argument at all by stating taller players like Cole Palmer (1.85 m) as short and average size players like Elliot Anderson (1.79 m) as tall.

What we are critical of is not the performances so much, but the tactics Popovic used and the way he (mis)used some of the players which many believe prevented us from having better performances. The strong belief is that we could have gotten better results and played better football by being...

Hmmm….does a quick Google check….Cole Palmer height…..1.85 m

The KNVB milieu is what I would proffer.

I don’t believe this. The reason being that Trump would not know the word “ameliorate”, let alone even use it incorrectly 😁

Among other things, your argument is superficial. You talk first about whether any of us watched a lot of the last 32 teams in the World Cup (how much of all those teams did you watch?), but then not mention anything else about those teams compared to Australia, eg their playing style or...

I am completely expecting that, given how far Infantino's head is up Trumps arse.

I was in Canada/USA for the Australia games. I did watch other games on Fox Sports and I thought the presenters and pundits on there were ridiculous at times, but they were nothing compared to these imbeciles. Thankfully I didn't watch any Fox News over there, and I can see I dodged a bullet...

FIFA/Infantino is equally to blame. If they had any concern about the good of the game they could have just said no.

"thawing breaks"?????

You would certainly hope so. But I wouldn't be betting a lot of money on it. All FIFA see these days is dollar/pound/euro signs.

I hear the Brazilians are very annoyed that people from all over the world think Infantino is Brazilian, because he is a bald c#&t.

Comparing the women's Asian Cup to the men's in this context is pointless.

Did you watch him at Roar last season? The guy is NPL level at best. Would be nowhere near playing for Australia if eligible.

Well Metcalfe was substituted off prior, so that part at least isn’t true.

Craig Moore taking the pen against Croatia in 2006 too.

Everyone going on about Ryan being a failure for not stopping a penalty are probably the same people who praised Arnold/Redmaynd for the Peru shootout success. The facts are that Ryan faced 4 pens and didn’t save any - not an unusual statistic in shootouts. Redmayne faced 6 and saved 1 - the 6th...

I’m absolutely sure this was the set piece instruction. It has happened every corner and free kick this World Cup, except for the goal v Egypt.

I wonder if our floaty corners are a deliberate strategy from the coaches, although I have no idea why they would do that. I find it hard to believe that our corner takers are incapable of putting in more dangerous corners than we have been doing.