The World Cup Squads and Preamble; And it's ... Live!!

BubblesNeverDies

Anyone else think that Sofiane Boufal looks like Adil Rashid?

Slacker

The Portuguese manager looks like a world weary headmaster who can’t wait for his retirement.

buffybegood

Fantastic, Portugal lose to Morocco 😊😊😊

Ravel49

The way this is going it’s going to be a Morocco Croatia final 🤯

MIAHammer

Ronaldo straight off to the dressing room in tears whilst the rest of his team stay on the field.

Slacker

MIAHammer said:

Ronaldo straight off to the dressing room in tears whilst the rest of his team stay on the field.

Yeah, classy.

BubblesNeverDies

Ravel49 said:

The way this is going it’s going to be a Morocco Croatia final 🤯

How dreadful would that be.

Ravel49

For me it would be but appreciate that peeps like the underdog 👍🏻

IronHerb

MIAHammer said:

Ronaldo straight off to the dressing room in tears whilst the rest of his team stay on the field.

I’m sure he said it’s all about the team. 🤔

Fortuneseeker

Ironherb, Surely it was Team Ronaldo?

Ravel49

For me now it’s anyone but Messi

IronHerb

For me it's Messi above anyone.

thornburyiron

Everyone seems to be writing Morocco off but they’ve beaten Belgium, Spain and Portugal and only conceded one goal in 5 matches and that was an unfortunate own goal by our very own Aguerd.

alderz

Morocco 🇲🇦 > Croatia 🇭🇷 > Argentina 🇦🇷 > France 🇫🇷

I don’t want Mbappe winning it again, I really don’t like him. It would be a nice narrative if Messi won it, but the Argentina side are horrible and I’d like Martinez to never win anything again. I like Croatia a lot, they’re a good side. And I can’t see how anyone other than Croatians, Argentinians, and French wouldn’t want Morocco to do it. That would be incredible.

IronHerb

Well I don't.

buffybegood

Croatia or France for me, can't stand Argentina (it will take more than 36 years to forgive the cheating so-and-so's) and the whistling by the Morocco fans (yeah, I know it hasn't just been them, but they've been as bad as anyone) rules them out for me.

Ravel49

The World Cup is done for me now
Throughly enjoyed it
And that is a comment I did not think I would be saying
But with England and Purple Ronnie (vimto) out I don’t care anymore.
15 days and we are back people

PrestonHammer

I couldn't care less who wins it as I won't be watching but if I'm forced to pick someone, then it's Croatia for me. They wear my favourite international kit hahaha

chicagohammer

I will rooting for Morocco, would be quite the story

claretandbluesky

Of all our players to come back to us with a possible World Cup winners medal I am sure no one thought it could be Aguerd ! Morroco for me.

OutcastLondoner

Morocco for me and I don’t care about who wins from the rest.

thornburyiron

It could be Areola and he won’t even play

Kuchinghammer

Ravel49 said:

The way this is going it’s going to be a Morocco Croatia final 🤯

Ah, I might watch then. Slacker will be relieved to know that 😉

Giant_Hammer

I think the commentator said that Morocco had only lost 3 or 4 times in the last 4 years in 40 matches or so and have only conceded 1 goal in this tournament. As you can tell I wasn’t giving the commentary my fullest attention.

jay_in_cpt

The Brazilian ref Wilton who had an “ indifferent “ performance in the Last game has been retained by FIFA and remains in Qatar along with others including Anthony Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿… However as ex site member Suzanne named him “child ref” Michael Oliver has not been retained… 🤷‍♂️

buffybegood

jay_in_cpt said:

The Brazilian ref Wilton who had an “ indifferent “ performance in the Last game has been retained by FIFA and remains in Qatar🤷‍♂️

What a surprise, FIFA appear to have an agenda, trying to ensure representation from smaller leagues despite an absolutely dreadful performance in our QF.

Fortuneseeker

For those who haven't seen the list of retained referees -

Anthony Taylor (ENG)
Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Danny Makkelie (NED)
Szymon Marciniak (POL)
Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (QAT)
Muhammad Abdulla Hassan Muhammad (UAE)
Mustapha Ghorbal (ALG)
Cesar Ramos (MEX)
Ismail Elfath (USA)
Raphael Claus (BRA)
Wilton Sampaio (BRA)
Jesus Valenzuela (VEN)

IF the top players are complaining that the refs should have officiated in the highest levels of club football, some are saying it has to be the Champions League, will eight of these pass the "fit and proper" test?

jay_in_cpt

Orsato from Italy is ref tonight and Ramos from Mexico is ref tomorrow if anyone is interested...
My money would be on either Makkelie from The Netherlands or Poland's Marcinak for the final..

IronHerb

Players complaining about refs? Wow, what a surprise.

buffybegood

IronHerb said:

Players complaining about refs? Wow, what a surprise.

With justification after the Argentina v Netherlands and France v England matches imo.