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I'm not disagreeing with you, just felt like Megan needed to come to the party.

He's always looked like a sprinting lizard to me, the way he skims across the ground at speed. 🖤🤍

Some of this stuff arrived yesterday, tried the jacket on and it fit nicely, felt cosy and of a pretty good quality. Then I had a look at the front and the Castore logo has not been applied properly so instead of saying Castore it says rASTO. Shockingly poor quality control. They're offering a 25% discount which I will probably accept as I can't be arsed sending it back and it will likely only get worn during the colder games of my football season. If only I could figure out how to remove the rest of the letters.

Credit to them for the best sporting long con of all time. For FIFA, lay down with dogs....

Rob Jelly shot

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Peter Lovenkans

Aperol Spritz Hall Nicky Buttweiser

Everyone should just drop "Qatar" when referencing it and just call it the World Cup and only comment on the games from now. That said, it is quite humourous to point out how shit a job they are doing which further shines a light on how poor a decision it was from FIFA. In that respect it's like shining a torch on the sun.

How is this Qatar team ranked 51st in the World? No need to answer that.

Haha rude!

Exactly, now that it's impossible for it be taken off them they can do what they want.

The England team are pretty tolerant of various pants, but apparently draw the line at flares. Fun fact: It's not the width of the pant that is a concern but rather the exponential nature of their widening.

Imagine being so filthy rich that you want to buy hosting rights to the biggest sporting event in the world, not so you can improve the international perception of your country, not for the betterment of your country, not for the people of your region (because you're routinely in disputes with them including several active ones), not to leave a legacy for future generations (because the additional infrastructure is almost exclusively temporary or semi-temporary), not even because you're enamoured with the sport or to honour the tradition of the sport in your country (you've never qualified for the World Cup and your immediate neighbour, with whom you're in a lengthy dispute with, holds the upper hand over you despite having roughly half your population.... but don't fear - your team has remarkably improved in very recent years, wholly unrelated to the fact that near half of your players aren't from Qatar).... but rather so that you can have some sort of smug satisfaction about forcing people to live according to your rules and about the mere fact that you were actually able to buy it. What a time to be alive.

Went to three games in South Africa, including Australia getting punished by Germany. Honestly the vuvulzela's weren't that bad at the ground once you get used to them (that's what you have to tell yourself so you don't go completely mad at the stupid fucking things). By the third game I brought my own to the game to add to the atmosphere....

Sorry for your loss Craig.

He missed the squad, but he's an outside chance of hosting the World Cup in 2030.

If you're unlucky enough to be there that's got to hurt. Once again fuck FIFA and the former president Blatter who 'courageously' now comes out saying it was a bad choice. No fucking shit you fat headed fuckwit.

I ordered a club polo and a couple of the current jackets the other day on discount. Preparing to be underwhelmed with the quality, but thankfully that probably won't matter as I'll rarely wear them anyway. Wish they didn't have the Fun88 sponsor on them. The Castore stuff I have already is better quality than the latest Puma stuff I got. The last Puma shirt I bought is the most plastic feeling strip ever.

Unlikely to have been related to the matching keffiyeh you were wearing.

True, the cross-breeding royals are getting the worst treatment, so much so that I heard they won't be allowed to compete at the next Crufts.

Yep, mongrel, mixed-breed, mutt, designer dog whatever you want to call them. Cavoodles are selectively bred for the combination of traits from Poodles (hair not fur - this is awesome, no fur everywhere, smart and trainable) and Cavaliers (gentle, affectionate, shorter muzzle) and something they call hybrid vigour that prevents some of the genetic issues that they could otherwise get if they were purebred. That said purebred is just selective breeding of dogs with certain physical or temperament based traits anyway, just done many many years ago and often bringing about significant health issues. Anyway, dogs are awesome, especially this one.

If you've got as far as flying to Qatar you either must know that it's not right and don't care or you're living in a fantasy land.

That's a great point that I hadn't even thought about until now. We're not going to have any World Cup fanny on show, fucking corrupt money hungry FIFA committee members. It doesn't even pass the pub test* let alone the level of scrutiny that an organisation like FIFA should have enforced. It's indisputable that it's all about money. It's only the smallest consolation but at least we know that despite spunking absurd amounts of money to get and then host the World Cup it's going to improve the perception of the country (and general area) to effectively noone, and in fact it's more likely to have a negative effect. I don't even think it's an attempt at 'sportswashing' more a status based move, but I suppose needs to be considered along with the purchase of PSG as well. * Australian term, meaning a conversational level analysis (as in pub chat) of something amongst the general public.