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World Cup 2026 - USA/Canada/Mexico
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Group B must be up there as the lowest ranked group in history surely? World rankings are the Swiss at 19th, Canada at 30th Qatar 55th and Bosnia 66th3
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A World Cup of 48 teams and still Italy can’t get in.8
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That's not the greatest of achievements given that the likes of San Marino, Faroe Islands and San Marino have won as many men's competitions as we have in what is almost 60 years now. We've been very easy qualifiers and good losers when the chips are down but that's as far as it goes.DaveMehmet said:
They still fucking managed to beat us in the Euro final thoughAddick Addict said:You would have been laughed by the whole of the footballing planet 30 years ago if you were to suggest that Italy would fail to qualify in the future for three consecutive world cups.
I suppose the real question is this - would Italy fans swap that one Euros win for not going to three consecutive world cups?
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What about Michael Owen?AFKABartram said:Watching the end of the Italy game on a US channel with American commentators. “The game is tied at 1” (it’s 1-1)
I am never going to complain about Alan Smith co-comms ever again4 -
Iraq are the final team through after a 2-1 win against Bolivia.1
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There’s gonna be some absolute shite in this 48 team World Cup15
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Cant wait for a return to some proper KO times once the World Cup starts, having a match start at 10pm was a bit much last night9
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Yeah but enough about Scotland...AFKABartram said:There’s gonna be some absolute shite in this 48 team World Cup4 -
And still Italy can’t get in!AFKABartram said:There’s gonna be some absolute shite in this 48 team World Cup7 -
Group A: Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Czechia
Group B: Canada, Bosnia, Qatar, Switzerland
Group C: Brazil, Morocco, Haiti, Scotland
Group D : USA, Paraguay, Australia, Turkey
Group E: Germany, Curacao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador
Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia
Group G: Belgium, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand
Group H: Spain, Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay
Group I: France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway
Group J: Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Jordan
Group K: Portugal, DR Congo, Uzbekistan, Colombia
Group L: England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama2 -
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Best teams from each continent (by FIFA ranking) that didn’t qualify…
UEFA: Italy (12), Denmark (20), Austria (24)
CAF: Nigeria (26), Cameroon (45), Mali (52)
CONMEBOL: Venezuela (49), Peru (53), Chile (54)
CONCACAF: Costa Rica (51), Honduras (66), Jamaica (71)AFC: UAE (68), Oman (79), Syria (84)5 -
Pretty much all the works cup groups are absolutely dog turd. Apart from the England and France ones.0
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That’s a proper World Cup. Absolutely love it.Callumcafc said:Group A: Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Czechia
Group B: Canada, Bosnia, Qatar, Switzerland
Group C: Brazil, Morocco, Haiti, Scotland
Group D : USA, Paraguay, Australia, Turkey
Group E: Germany, Curacao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador
Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia
Group G: Belgium, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand
Group H: Spain, Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay
Group I: France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway
Group J: Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Jordan
Group K: Portugal, DR Congo, Uzbekistan, Colombia
Group L: England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama4 -
And then only 1 team gets knocked out of two-thirds of of them.Charlton and on said:Pretty much all the works cup groups are absolutely dog turd. Apart from the England and France ones.
Feels like it'll properly get going at the last-16, 88 games in.3 -
Its going to be like the Euros going forward again, a lot of games like what we saw last night against JapanLow block, defend for the 0-0 so you might scrape through to the KO's with 3-pts, and if you can hit the opponent on the break and snatch all three points then even better1
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I can’t believe that Sweden are in the World Cup having finished bottom of their group with 2 points just because they got in the play offs for winning League C in the Nations
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In the long history of FIFA incompetence, this ranks very high.MrOneLung said:I can’t believe that Sweden are in the World Cup having finished bottom of their group with 2 points just because they got in the play offs for winning League C in the Nations
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Having stunk out their group they are then "away" to Ukraine, a war-shattered team, playing in that well known Ukrainian city of ..er..Valencia.
Then for some reason they are at home to Poland who finished 2nd in their group took 17 points from their 8 games.
Meanwhile their neighbours Denmark, a far more illustrious footballing country in the last 40 years, are also out, having also finished 2nd, with 11 points from 6.
They've been pony since the Bosnian money-changer hung up his golden boots, so it's not surprising that finally they have another striker worthy of the name who is also of immigrant origin and has Hungarian as well as Swedish citizenship.
The current Swedish league champions are "a tiny team from a remote fishing village next to the Baltic Sea"
Good, got that off my chest, now I'll just cut and paste it to my Swedish mate😉. Thank you for your attention.
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So after watching Charlton use those tactics for 46 games, we'll have another month of them in the summerForeverAddickted said:Its going to be like the Euros going forward again, a lot of games like what we saw last night against JapanLow block, defend for the 0-0 so you might scrape through to the KO's with 3-pts, and if you can hit the opponent on the break and snatch all three points then even better
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Crazy the biggest World Cup in terms of teams and Italy fail to make it, the Italian fans must be fuming!!.0
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"Then for some reason they are at home to Poland who finished 2nd in their group took 17 points from their 8 games."PragueAddick said:
In the long history of FIFA incompetence, this ranks very high.MrOneLung said:I can’t believe that Sweden are in the World Cup having finished bottom of their group with 2 points just because they got in the play offs for winning League C in the Nations
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Having stunk out their group they are then "away" to Ukraine, a war-shattered team, playing in that well known Ukrainian city of ..er..Valencia.
Then for some reason they are at home to Poland who finished 2nd in their group took 17 points from their 8 games.
Meanwhile their neighbours Denmark, a far more illustrious footballing country in the last 40 years, are also out, having also finished 2nd, with 11 points from 6.
They've been pony since the Bosnian money-changer hung up his golden boots, so it's not surprising that finally they have another striker worthy of the name who is also of immigrant origin and has Hungarian as well as Swedish citizenship.
The current Swedish league champions are "a tiny team from a remote fishing village next to the Baltic Sea"
Good, got that off my chest, now I'll just cut and paste it to my Swedish mate😉. Thank you for your attention.
The reason is that the playoffs were set up with pre-determined home and away sides, so that the finals could be played immediately after the first round. That's also the reason Bosnia were home to Italy - the draw said that Wales would be at home, but for some reason Wales weren't there, so it was played in Bosnia.0 -
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Why no Trent then?0
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Kick off schedule image and spreadsheet, some brutal 5am games
https://x.com/bencrellin/status/2039283939622175187?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
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Proper shit times most of them, half the fun of the WC was the fact games were generally on all day from lunchtime2
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Ok, what’s the least appealing game considering kick
off times.I am going Uzbekistan Colombia at 03:002 -
Pardon my French, but fuck. This one really hurts being a Denmark supporter.
Had three match balls. THREE! After missing USA 1994 (still gutted), I was really looking forward to this one.
Worst pain since 1993 in Seville, where Denmark couldn't beat a 10-man Spain, after that w@nker Bakero committed a clear freekick on Schmeichel, which the blind ref managed to miss and Hierro then headed it home for a 1-0 win.
First match ball:
At home to Belarus (who we beat 6-0 away). Only managed a 2-2 draw. The manager rested a few players... (that itself is a sackable offence). Belarus scored twice in three minutes halfway through the 2nd half when Denmark decided to have a nap).
Second match ball:
Then away to Scotland. Conceding within a couple of mins after a McTominay scissorkick in over 8 feets height. Then back in the game at the hour mark and in control. Then getting a player incorrectly sent off (2nd yellow). But VAR can't check for 2nd yellows, only straight reds. They've since changed this rule...great!
Scotland up 2-1 a few mins later. Denmark equalise in the 82nd minute. Scotland scores the winner in the 93rd after a failed Danish clearance.
Third match ball:
Then off to Prague, where we lose after penalties in a game where we had 77% possession. And the Czech's score a worldie after a couple of mins, just like Scotland did.
Fuck off football, just fuck off!!!
(At least give me three points vs Bristol - pretty please).
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Follow up tweet says England group games are 9pm, 9pm, 10pm.Callumcafc said:Kick off schedule image and spreadsheet, some brutal 5am games
https://x.com/bencrellin/status/2039283939622175187?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
If England win the group the knockout matches would be 5pm (R32), 1am (R16), 10pm, 8pm, 8pm
If England finish second in the group the knockout matches would be 12am for R32 followed by four 8pm kickoffs in a row.
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Well that could have been a lot worse. I'll take that.Callumcafc said:
Follow up tweet says England group games are 9pm, 9pm, 10pm.Callumcafc said:Kick off schedule image and spreadsheet, some brutal 5am games
https://x.com/bencrellin/status/2039283939622175187?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
If England win the group the knockout matches would be 5pm (R32), 1am (R16), 10pm, 8pm, 8pm
If England finish second in the group the knockout matches would be 12am for R32 followed by four 8pm kickoffs in a row.2
