Giant

How depressing to see some of the idiot England fans smashing up an Ikea store, jumping up and down on cars and generally causing drunken havoc in towns up and down the country. Why can’t they just celebrate like normal people do instead of tarnishing the image English football fans? Probably the same types who invade pitches at the end of a season.

Come on Uruguay, Latin America needs you.

Whichever team get to the WC final from this side of the draw will be the worst ever team to reach that lofty position. Every team that was in the other half of the draw, including those that lost, is better than any of those in ours.

Neymar does make a meal of things but he faces constant fouling, like most of his predecessors for Brazil.

England have the easiest route to the final of all time.

Colombia’s best player, Rodriguez aka James, might well not be playing v. England. Off early in first half today. He was brilliant v. Poland.

Brilliantly summed up.

Three cracking games today, very good World Cup so far.

Mexico’s fans are fantastic, reminds me of the Rovers on tour last season.

The Beautiful Game. That was a brilliant football match. No other sport comes near it.

I think Morocco was probably too big a risk from a security point of view, too many jihadis in N. Africa.

Presumably there will be 3 places for each of the hosts, all from Concacaf confederation. It’ll be interesting to see how FIFA decide which confederation loses qualifying spots. Fifa probably gave it to the US to make sure they are in the WC in 2026, not that most yanks know they aren’t even in it this time, or care.

No idea why this link doesn’t work, cut and pasted below. 1. Antoine Griezman2. Neymar3.Andreas Iniesta4. Christians Ronaldo 5. Tony Kroos 6. Lionel Messi7. Harry Kane8. Paul Pogba9. Mo Salah10. Lula Modric11. David Silva12. Eden Hazard13. Sadio Mane14. Christian Eriksen 15. Keisuke Honda16. Ricardo Queresma17. Mesut Ozil18. Robert Lewandowski19. Tim Cahill20. Angel Di Maria21. Thibaut Courtois22. Louis Suarez23. Gylfi Sigurdsson24. Ilkay Gundogun

I’ll post the answers in a couple of days, you’ve got 8 right so far!

And here’s a bit of fun for everyone..... World Cup Players Emoji Challenge. 1.?☝????? 2.?‼️ 3.&?in????⭐ 4.❌☕?️??‍♂?‍♀??? 5.?ny ? 6.??? 7.? 8.??? 9.??? 10.???? 11.??? 12.??☘☢ 13.?? 14.✝⛪???ik☀ 15.???? 16.??????? 17.??‍♂??️?? 18.?‍♂??‍♂?⛷ 19.???⛰ 20.???????? 21.??⚖??☝?✌? 22.?is ?? 23.?????☀ 24.?????

Another song being belted out in the bar at M.K. Dons was to the tune of Something Tells Me I’m into Something Good by Herman’s Hermits. It sounded great... Woke up this morning feeling fine, Got Blackburn Rovers on my mind, Mowbray................( forget this line), Something tells me Rovers are going up.

The tune it is sung to is Sloop John B by the Beach Boys.

He did well, and on his general knowledge round too. Got a few nuggets in about winning the Prem when he got his trophy. I wonder what it would be like to have a Rovers fan as the PM??

Terrible score at present with Huddersfield winning. This would clinch their play-off place, making their game at Birmingham irrelevant from their point of view. We need them to be needing to get a result at St. Andrews.

How many more of these cryptic banners will the Slayer be posting? Sound like a Candle in the Wind, blown out by emisions from someone's backside.

That is a ridiculous statement to make. If you'd have looked carefully, "phoney" Tony's tie is a Rovers club tie.

My sentiments exactly.