Football

⚽️ What a shame man. 13 min is all he had in the tank for this game.

⚽️ Mason Mount is clearly a broken player. Made of fucking wheatabix.

⚽️ Pretty cagey game so far. Nothing serious been created. Just a lot of ball passing at the moment with plenty of errors from both sides.

⚽️ So many bodies in the middle of the park. Forest parking the bus here.

⚽️ I’m about to throw something at the TV.

⚽️ This team sucks so hard. Just shit.

⚽️ Slightly boring game. United has had a few good chances so can easily see this ending 3-1.

⚽️ Comfortable game in the end….first time in years? Now hate watching ManCity getting thumped. I’m all for it.

⚽️ Amad is having a bit of an off start to the game. Things are not connecting in the general manner we are used to him.

⚽️ Hojlund and Zerkzee coming on at the same time? Love it.

⚽️ Rashfords link up play at the top is not going well. It’s like he’s doing this for the first time. Also the attack is just not getting it together for some reason.

⚽️ Luke Shaw first game since February. Wonder how long his current fitness streak will last.

⚽️ Not going to lie, I am pretty excited by the new formation. Never seen these players in this combination before so it’s going to be super interesting to see if this works. I’m all for it.

⚽️ What a seriously painful miss. I mean that really should have gone in. Great cross from Fernandez.

⚽️ They just don’t play like a team. Just a bunch of individual moments and seriously bad passes.

⚽️ Shit game but the boys are really trying even with 10 players!

⚽️ I dunno. I really hate this team. They just annoy me.

⚽️ Predicting a 2:1 to City. It’s going to be tight but I really hope it’s a good game.

⚽️ Generally pretty entertaining game so far. Just missing a few goals to really get things going. They’ve had so many chances I can totally see CP smash and grabbing this!

⚽️ Sweet we finally see Ugarte making an appearance. We’ve been waiting for this all summer.

⚽️ Not loving this ref at the moment. Just seems a little random.

⚽️ Rashford finally scoring a goal after like 100 games. Finally.

⚽️ Zirkzee is having a really good game connecting everyone. Really getting involved.

⚽️ Well that’s a different 5min than I thought it was going to be…in a good way.

⚽️ Dalot having a really terrible game. He’s not a right back and this game sadly is exposing just that.

⚽️ Man international break sucks. Especially coming in so soon after a few major tournaments. I’m ok to wait 6 months (a year even?) between any international activity as the scarcity is what makes it special.

⚽️ The attack is not coming together at the moment. Just a little off. A little soft. A little hard.

⚽️ The stationary nerd in me wants to grab EtH and upgrade his BIC multi-pen (and whatever paper he is writing on). You deserve better.

⚽️ Close one for United. Glad for VAR for once.

⚽️ This is the big one…so early in the season. My prediction? 2:1 United.

⚽️ Really close game so far. Should have been ahead (or at least level at the moment). I hope they make a proper game of this and just go for it.

⚽ I love Onana. Now Sancho messed it up…poor.

⚽️ Shame about delay to get the Copa final going. To be fair, this same thing happened 3 years ago in London, at the Euro 2020 (held in 2021).

⚽️ Wasn’t the greatest showing from Mainoo this game. No moment of genius but solid I guess. Now it has to be all guns ablaze.

⚽️ Ok half. Brother team really going for it yet. Someone needs to score to open the game up.

⚽️ Shaw’s currently got Yamal in his pocket…

⚽️ Foden for England hasn’t been great. He’s not stepped up really (like a Bellingham has a couple of times). Wonder if tonight is his night

⚽️ Also don’t need to go long for everything.

⚽️ Keep it for longer than 2 passes England. Tiki taka football can get fucking boring.

⚽️ Good to see Kobbie Mainoo on the pitch.

⚽️ Here. We. Go. I really hope this is another classic final like the World Cup final, however something tells me that’s going to be a tall order.

⚽️ I know there is no way Canada is going anywhere in this match but it is fun to imagine them getting to the final. What an upset that would be.

⚽️ Predictably we’re in extra time. Thought it was going to 0:0, so glad we got to see a couple of goals. Someone needs to score in the coming 30min.

⚽️ Not the most exciting match so far. England is playing OK, just not enough passes through to Mainoo and so they’re always going long. ‘GO LONG!’

⚽️ I wish today’s matches were tomorrow. I’m going to have to watch the Spain v. Germany game knowing the score but by all accounts it was as good as expected. Still looking forward to tomorrow’s crop of games.

⚽️ Diogo Costa is not messing around. Two penalty saves!

⚽️ What an upset it would be if Slovenia make it through…

⚽️ Not going to lie, I’m actually pretty sad for Ronaldo. This was his moment to seal it. Shake it off. Go again.

⚽️ Switzerland trouncing Italy. Clearly not Italy’s year but damn how far they’ve fallen.

⚽️ It’s a proper brawl now. Honestly these hot tempered men should chill the fuck out.

⚽️ Dang. Awful penalty from Brazil. I mean seriously.

⚽️ Let’s hope this Brazil game is a good one. Not going to lie, I’ve not been enthralled by the football on display at the Copa America.

⚽️ Costa Rica have properly parked the bus over there.

⚽️ Also not loving the Brazil kit for this tournament. I love the vibrant yellow of years past, rather than this faded yellow. Maybe a meta observation of the team itself (even though I rate a lot of their players).

⚽️ These VAR decisions are so marginal it’s just stupid at this stage. I’m with Howson on this, thick lines for everyone.

⚽️ Watching Brazil vs Costa Rica. Honestly before I moved to North America, this was not something I would have even attempted to watch. Now, all of this feels local in a way.

⚽️ Serbia is a very physical team. Making England work pretty hard.

⚽️ Shame Scotland has gotten a proper battering tonight. Really want them to get to the next stage at least. Hopefully not an ominous start to Germany’s campaign…the Germans always turn up to these things.

⚽️ Ten Hag stays! This actually was totally the right choice. All those in the British media that tried to get him fired should be on his list now as he continues his fuck-you-tour. Love it.

⚽️ ‘Every time Manchester City loose, football wins’.

⚽️ Can’t wait for Ten Hag’s ‘Summer Fuck You Tour’ to begin after he comes back from holiday.

⚽ Having said that I could not be happier for Unami Emery. Go back to the Emirates and spank them with 2 goals. What a dude.

⚽ What the hell happened to both Liverpool and Arsenal? I mean, United is one thing, but c’mon…the evil empire is totally going to steamroll over this thing…again.

⚽ That was not good. Willy and Mainoo not having a vintage time…

⚽️ What a great game of football. I mean seriously, everything you could want in a game like this.

⚽️ Liking the non turtle neck look from EtH.

⚽️ Rashford missing a complete sitter. I mean c’mon. Should have totally gone in.

⚽️ Oh my gawd. The total flop has finally found the back of the net!

⚽️ Ok we got all the B team on this now. Fucking awesome. Final score prediction 3:1.

⚽️ Anthony. What a colossal waste of money.

⚽️ Wan Bissaka easily one of the better players. Pocketed our Salah…but it’s his first game in a long time. Get it but damn annoying.

⚽️ Something has to happen in the next 25min to change things. Don’t see anything the manager can do to change this around, not with that wafer thin bench.

⚽️ Wan-Bissaka currently has Salah on lock down. Loving that.

⚽ Pretty uneventful game tbh. Routine, but at least just done.

⚽️ I know shouldn’t complain but apart from the Bruno free kick, not all that exciting a game.

⚽️ Sluggish game but two penalties…it’s going to happen sometimes right.

⚽️ Chelsea vs Liverpool. I’m going with Liverpool on this one. 3-2. Really hope it’s not a snooze fest. That would suck.

⚽️ One all. 9 minutes to go. Waited long enough boys.

⚽️ This is a terrible game for Manchester United. I mean, seriously this is going to be embarrassing.

⚽️ A great Ted Lasso episode. This year has been a little miss more than hit, but hopefully going to end strong.

⚽️ Really enjoyable game. All big to small teams should have a player advantage. Makes the game so much more fun to watch.

⚽ Alright. MUN against LEI. Looking forward to seeing what happens in this insane group of fixtures.

⚽ Not a great game. So frantic but no real quality from either side.

⚽ There is no way that was a red card. Fine, wrong location of hands. So stupid

⚽️ Mad footballing prediction. Both South American teams go through today. C’mon 🇧🇷 & 🇦🇷.

⚽️ It’s great to have the Euros on while living in Europe. All the matches are at the perfect time. No classics yet but overall a good tournament so far. Only ding is how tired most of these stadiums look like.

⚽ Really looking forward to the Argentina vs Nigeria game. Has all the ingredients to be one of the classic games of this tournament.

⚽ Notes on the Iceland vs Nigeria game:

  • Hoping Iceland pull an equaliser against Nigeria, along with Mexico they’re my two favourite underdog teams.
  • How the hell did Nigeria just score twice in 20 minutes? Where Argentina had no way in?
  • VAR comes to their rescue…and he hoofs the penalty. What is going on with the penalties this World Cup?
  • Argentina can actually make it through to the next round now, after their abysmal performance yesterday to Croatia.
  • Both goals by Musa are some of the best individual performance goals I’ve seen in the world cup. Didn’t think they had it in them to be honest.
  • A great second half in this game, makes this group qualifying a fascinating one to watch.

⚽ This match is turning out to be a complete classico. This is what the world cup is all about. I’ve watched more football in the last 2 days than I’ve watched over the last 4 years combined. Totally worth it.

⚽ After some pretty heartbreaking matches for Egypt and Morocco, we’ve got the very first super match of the World Cup between Portugal and Spain. My money’s on Spain.

⚽ As we approach just 4 days before the start of the World Cup, these handy charts will be nice to keep in mind as the stats (and goals) start rolling in.