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FIFA 2026 WC - general

Saudi Arabia's second of three pre-World Cup friendlies against Puerto Rico delayed due to inclement weather, with both teams scoreless in the first half.
 
Sneaky wager on the a the Netherlands? I saw if you put money on the top 5 to win, you'd come out ahead regardless. The trouble is I don't have 2.5m to spread and it'd cause someone outside that to take the title.
 
I was watching some local news report videos on USA cities greeting nations training in their city.

I quite like it you have towns in texas welcoming the czech and it really brings people together the kind of thing the world cup/Olympics is supposed to
 
melbcityguy said:
I was watching some local news report videos on USA cities greeting nations training in their city.

I quite like it you have towns in texas welcoming the czech and it really brings people together the kind of thing the world cup/Olympics is supposed to
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Plenty of good stories out there. The public broadcaster start the fanfare of the event and then turn to politics. We know it, we get it. Politics is permanent whereas the world cup isn't.
 
NicCarBel

Post in thread 'SIMULATIONS - 2026 FIFA World Cup'

Alrighty - so the group stage is over and here are the full results and standings:1780728163848.png
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Now some notes on who advances and etc that I've noticed as little anomaly's and what now:
  • All positions that were technically decided on head-to-head, were also decided in the same order on the 'traditional' method - with the exception of 3rd/4th in Group B between Bosnia & Herzegovina and Switzerland.
  • Interestingly, if Switzerland were given the 3rd place in the group on the 'traditional' method, they would have advanced as one of the best 8 3rd places - however, Bosnia &...
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Erling Haaland and his Norway team-mates have been accused of 'chauvinism' and 'neo-Nazi' imagery after their World Cup photoshoot.

The Man City striker and the group heading to the US were styled as Vikings on a beach in Oslo in the extraordinary shots.

But the response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway, with critics arguing against the aesthetic due to the Vikings' large-scale raiding, colonising, pillaging and raping throughout their dominant era.

The images were 'chauvinistic and exclusionary', according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet.

And he went even further in an interview with NRK, saying it is 'reminiscent of what neo-Nazis were concerned about ten years ago'.

Jane Haug Skjoldli, a researcher and Norwegian academic recently argued that the Norway kits for the World Cup could be seen as 'hyper-masculine and right-wing extremist', when speaking to Klassekampen.
 
What utter nonsense. Men like these are the ones who fought to keep the Nazis at bay and defend and also expand across centuries. On June 6 it's important to remember that and Norway made its on contribution on that fateful day too.

I bet if it were a bunch of Senegalese in traditional costume it'd be celebrated (as it should) without a whisper of FGM or other regional issues.
 
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