Regarding Japan's goal, looking at all the angles on the BBC website I don't think all of the ball is over the line. However it's not absolutely conclusive, and as the linesman ruled it out in real time, I'm not sure how it can be overturned as a clear and obvious error based on the angles seen.

Because we have to fit 46 games in somehow and the Premier League only 38. Personally, I can't wait for it go get back. 8 days and counting.

You’ve been skimming the board then Chaddy as I bring it up regularly. Shittest stand in the ground and it’s price is up by around 33% in 3 years. It should be an entry level stand, but they think it’s right to charge the same money for those facilities as for the rest of the ground. That, apparently, is doing ‘all they can’ to increase attendances. Remember when the season ticket prices came out in May.and you said £399 was too much, they should be £300 and individual match day prices should be £20 weekends and £15 weekdays. ((Link here if you want reminding). What changed, other than being seduced by Waggots dulcet tones?

Bellingham has showed a few decent touches but I don’t get the Foden hype. He’s a good player, and in an amazing team gets in a lot of good positions to score plenty of goals. But he isn’t some generational world talent as far as I can see.

https://youtu.be/_YIx1eyK4yc Denmark V Tunisia. Go to 4 minutes in on there. Fair play to the ref.

Guy slides in to tackle with his arm behind his back and Fernandez puts ball through the guys leg and hits the guys hand behind his back as he is going to ground. Ref waves play on. VAR says ‘clear and obvious’ error. Ref then agrees.

More VAR nonsense there with that penalty to Portugal.

I watched the "Germany 1 England 5" game in Scotland in 2001. The Scots knew we were a group of English and took the piss out of us from about half an hour before kick off right up until Gerrard scored to put us 2-1 up. Most of them had left by the time we scored the 4th. 😀

Wales changed it and went more direct to Keifer Moore. I’d get Toney on and do the same. Oh wait…..

Give over Jim. They've just got beaten by the equivalent of Ramsbottom United haven't they?

Well this game was dreary for 70 minutes then suddenly perked up.

The only thing I found was it is against the law to ‘encourage other people to commit illegal acts’, and there were worries that displaying a rainbow flag would fall under that law …. which is pretty flakey.

Well I’ve just tried to find if that is true that it is illegal to display a rainbow flag in Qatar without success . However there are plenty of reports from December 2020 along the lines of this - FIFA and Qatar says rainbow flags allowed in 2022 World Cup FIFA have properly caved in since then.

Hope JDT watched that. In the first half Plan A saw Wales get outplayed. 2nd half saw a completely different game plan and a huge transformation in the balance of the game. Good coaching from the sidelines.

I though the first one was grappling from both sides and the second one was a shirt pull. I'd have given neither, but if there's a lesson to be learnt it's don't take a grab of someone's shirt. Shirt pulling is always a bit more black and white than when there's physical pushing and holding.

I thought both VAR penalty decisions were correct 🙈🙈

Preston Half Season ticket £55 cheaper than Ewood.

And yet they’ve still had more shots than we did last Sunday 🙄

My favourite World Cup for non-England games was 1994. It was forecast to be a damp squib, but it was iconic for me. I was probably the right age for it to make a big impression, but despite our absence it was filled with Romario & Bebetto, Hagi, Stoichkov, Baggio, The Ireland games, Klinsmann and a Maradonna swansong. I probably watched more games at that tournament than any other

Reading the last few pages, Sunday has scarred some of our posters more than they realise. They're desperately trying to find some sort of high ground to try and comfort ourselves and strike back against the result. If I was a Burnley fan I'd be pissing myself reading this. We got hammered. JDT ballsed it up. Suck it up, don't rise to the (relatively tame) jibes and let's hope that by March he's learnt his lessons.

It's on Bet365

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League_International_Cup Porto seem to take this seriously, have won the competition twice and have been runners up once. Most of our players with first team experience will be absent. Porto 5/6, Draw No Bet seems a knocking bet.

Having an intense dislike for someone you are about to play, and also being ranked surprisingly high, doesn't mean you will be "up for it". Unfortunately 😒

So why have every other club who they have played this season managed to carry more of an attacking threat than we did? How have Luton, Blackpool, Hull, Preston, Cardiff and Stoke managed to not only put up a half-decent showing and take points off them if nobody an compete with them because of money? Why did we carry on with the same build-from-the back tactics at 1-0 after it had massively failed for the first 60 minutes?

We got mullered football-wise first half but we limited them to 3 chances. We got mullered second half again, except they eventually broke through as they had been threatening. We got absolutely destroyed at 4-2-3-1 because we could get the ball to the 4 advanced players. This is because we couldn't keep the ball when we passed it out from the goalkeeper when we had 9 players sat around or own area. So once we have only 7 players there and keep playing the same way we go even worse. It was such a bad performance, we became are the only team to play Burnley this season that managed less that 3 shots in the game, and that includes two lower league teams. It was an absolute shit show because everybody's hero JDT is stubborn and unadaptable.