wykikitoon 20156 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Go up and down the A1, the central verges and central reservation look similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20156 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Kane fave with the bookies for top scorer. Shame it's all against USA and will mean fuck all when we're out in the quarters. The dribbling cunt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21627 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 On 14/11/2022 at 22:25, OTF said: Well this all seems legit to me I was almost feeling tepid towards this WC because my optimism for NUFC is infectious and because of Trippier, Wilson, and Pope. Also somehow drew both England and Wales in my work sweepstake. But after watching this charade, just fuck off. All suspiciously Middle-Eastern men, no women, no drunkeness, completely fake. FIFA and this WC are a joke. Until I get my fix of buxom lovelies wearing next to nothing and a dollop of hooliganism on the side, the WC can get fucked. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20156 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, Renton said: I was almost feeling tepid towards this WC because my optimism for NUFC is infectious and because of Trippier, Wilson, and Pope. Also somehow drew both England and Wales in my work sweepstake. But after watching this charade, just fuck off. All suspiciously Middle-Eastern men, no women, no drunkeness, completely fake. FIFA and this WC are a joke. Until I get my fix of buxom lovelies wearing next to nothing and a dollop of hooliganism on the side, the WC can get fucked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Yeah it’s not a real World Cup if beer n ching laden ENGERLAND fans aren’t throwing plastic chairs across city centre plazas whilst simultaneously getting water cannoned by the local Polizei * *Unless it’s Russia of course where the penalty for such behaviour is conscription to the army to fight in Ukraine, or if the offence is particularly heinous the stiffer sentence of deportation back to Sunderland, Wigan or Wakefield is mandatory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: Yeah it’s not a real World Cup until the cameraman spots a fit Brazilian lass wearing a yellow bikini that's fighting to keep her chebs in while she's jumping up and down FYP 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 ...and lets face it, we're not likely to be seeing THAT in Qatar. Which is criminal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7295 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Renton said: I was almost feeling tepid towards this WC because my optimism for NUFC is infectious and because of Trippier, Wilson, and Pope. Also somehow drew both England and Wales in my work sweepstake. But after watching this charade, just fuck off. All suspiciously Middle-Eastern men, no women, no drunkeness, completely fake. FIFA and this WC are a joke. Until I get my fix of buxom lovelies wearing next to nothing and a dollop of hooliganism on the side, the WC can get fucked. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Yeah it's going to be the most corporate-looking World Cup of all. And all so that corrupt fuckers received huge brown envelopes. Stinks to high heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 They were saying on the radio this morning that it's £11 a pint and you're limited to four. Sounds like it's going to be a right barrel of laughs for visiting fans over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Renton 21627 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Toonpack said: How the fuck can they get away with this in Europe. I know that if you go there, you have to instal their apps at the airport. The advice is to buy a burner phone. If you need to buy a burner phone to attend the WC, you know something isn't right. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7295 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 4 minutes ago, Renton said: How the fuck can they get away with this in Europe. I know that if you go there, you have to instal their apps at the airport. The advice is to buy a burner phone. If you need to buy a burner phone to attend the WC, you know something isn't right. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Toonpack 9431 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 This WC is going to be an utter shitfest isn't it, can't wait 🤣 The icing on top of the corrupt cake. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Craig said: Yeah it's going to be the most corporate-looking World Cup of all. And all so that corrupt fuckers received huge brown envelopes. Stinks to high heaven. I think we’ve been on this trajectory since USA 94. Iirc they didn’t even have a professional ‘soccer’ league when they won the bid. There was a rather staid feel about it relative to four years earlier. This (and Russia last time out) is the logical conclusion of just chasing the bungs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Those "fan" videos. First set of England fans I've ever seen that don't look like lobsters. Where's all the shaven heads and the VIOLENCE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13873 Posted November 16, 2022 Author Share Posted November 16, 2022 I still say all of these fake fans are preferable to vuvuzelas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21627 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Alex said: I think we’ve been on this trajectory since USA 94. Iirc they didn’t even have a professional ‘soccer’ league when they won the bid. There was a rather staid feel about it relative to four years earlier. This (and Russia last time out) is the logical conclusion of just chasing the bungs. From my memory: Argentina 78: [incredibly vague to me, remember winding up my Scottish realives]: canny Spain 82: canny again, still can't get my head around the round Robin format Mexico 86: lush, then again I was 15, oh my. Italia 90: supremely lush [at Uni, best days of my sad life!] USA 94: England not in, Diana Ross miskicked ball, just utter shut really [start of my PhD] England 96 [honourable mention], peak britpop, nufc fantastic, peak lush France 98: Zidane, lush [why the fuck am I still doing a PhD?] Japan/Korea 2002: howay man with this timezone shit [at this point I am starting to dislike England, first proper job]. Shit. Germany 2006: can barely remember this tttt, got a T shirt of it when I visited Berlin though. Must have been shit. South Africa 2010: those annoying vuvuva, vuvel, vulvav, fucking noisy things, Shakira. Shit. Brazil 2014: I know its nearer in time, but I literally only remember Germany trouncing Brazil 17 nil or something, when they were captained by side show Bob. Shit. Russia 2018: didn't watch it, couldn't even tell you who won. The nearer we get to the present time the less interested I am and the less I remember. I've probably got alzheimers. Qatar 2022: not even any blart, will be shit. Edited November 16, 2022 by Renton 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawb 4266 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 That’s just a timeline of you getting older tbh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21627 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 1 hour ago, strawb said: That’s just a timeline of you getting older tbh Of course, kind of the point. As with all things when you get older, it's almost impossible to quantify how much things change are external due to things actually changing, or you yourself changing. Also true of music in particular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15531 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 I really enjoyed USA 94, to be honest. No England felt like a relief given how dire the mood was around the national team at the time, I was just old enough for my mam and dad to go on holiday and leave me home alone so I could stay up and watch the late-night matches, and I was able to adopt my half-country Sweden and ride that wave all the way to third place. Shame about the final being terrible but that's hardly unique to that tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Yeah the final 4 years earlier was fucking gash as well. The one in 1986 however was brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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