2026 FIFA World Cup - General Chat

[BainesontoastNEW]

So anyway we've been promoting Diego Luna in this WC in ads and stuff because he's pretty fun to watch and one of our better players. He's also Mexican American, so we want to display an image that we all aren't all ghouls either.

And he just got cut from the squad.

...Luna-cy?

 

[Rook]

...Luna-cy?

Nothing is more American than playing in 17 of the last 18 matches and then being pushed aside for a couple of Nepo babies.

Luna is truly one of us now.

 

[longers]

The silly adverts have begun

 

[coollino]

USMNT roster

 

[Carlito]

Horrendous England squad from the jarhead.

Definitely getting launched by the first half-decent team they face.

 

[JimEFC_2]

The silly adverts have begun

At the beginning i thought he was in for a random drugs test, he looked so nervous

 

[Drico]

Definitely getting launched by the first half-decent team they face.

Mexico in the Azteca, last 16...

 

[Sharpattack]

A few surprise names included the Japanese squad.

 

[davek]

Was watching that ITVX world cup games series: England v West Germany QF match 1970. Some Everton involvement: Newton, Labone, Ball, and Wright on the subs bench. What drama queens the West German team were. The old games on film from the 1966 World Cup dont show the West Germans to be play actors. I wonder what happened in the intervening 4 years?

 

[Drico]

That series is fantastic. I am actually watching the match you are referring to as I type, funnily enough. The wonders of modern technology...

 

[Drico]

He should be in instead of Saudi boy Toney.

It's been said that Toney is in because he has invaluable experience of playing in half empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime...

 

[Cake]

Henry Winter, a 'leading' football journalist, said not once but 3 times on the last Football Focus earlier, that Alexander-Arnold should have been included in the England squad because he plays for Real Madrid and takes a good penalty.

Not much else to add, really, as it would likely get modded by the swear filter.

 

[Billy Dean]

Henry Winter, a 'leading' football journalist, said not once but 3 times on the last Football Focus earlier, that Alexander-Arnold should have been included in the England squad because he plays for Real Madrid and takes a good penalty.

Not much else to add, really, as it would likely get modded by the swear filter.

That’s the English media. “You can’t drop x”, “Y has to play”, “we need to build the team around Z”.

That’s how we ended up with the Golden Generation idiocy

 

[Drico]

Henry Winter, a 'leading' football journalist, said not once but 3 times on the last Football Focus earlier, that Alexander-Arnold should have been included in the England squad because he plays for Real Madrid and takes a good penalty.

Not much else to add, really, as it would likely get modded by the swear filter.

The biggest problem English football has faced is the national team is almost always selected by the Daily Mail.

Funnily enough, I don't think Thomas Tuchel gives a toss about the English tabloid media...

 

[gonetomorrow]

Wake me up when the final's on.