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World Cup 2026 - USA/Canada/Mexico
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.....aaaand there it is. Game over.0
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Oh fuck off you spawny pricks0
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Balls0
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us neutralise the guaranteed cheating and FIFA bollocks and send this filth home1
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Bollix1
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It's a lovely goal0
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It would be very funny if one of the Argentinians got a ban for a second yellow for the celebration.2
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FIFA would just find some obscure rule that means it allows Argentina to have an extra player in the next match.aliwibble said:It would be very funny if one of the Argentinians got a ban for a second yellow for the celebration.1 -
Red card changed the game unfortunately, the Swiss were on top up to that point.2
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Right bed time!0
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Finish it off with one of the ugliest counter attacking goals you’ll ever see.Switzerland have thrown that away with the sending off.0
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Sleepless night working out fantasy team0
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Betfair odds for the last four, to win the tournament
France 2.64 (13/8)
Spain 4.6 (7/2)
England 4.7 (7/2)
Argentina 5.0 (4/1)0 -
Quite thought provoking with the four top seeds making the semi finals.
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/sport/fifa-world-cup-seeding-rigging-accusation-july-2026/
In November 2025, FIFA announced a tennis-style seeding system for its expanded 48-team tournament. The top four ranked sides would be split into separate brackets, guaranteeing they could not face each other until the semi-finals. Spain and Argentina, seeds one and two, landed in opposite halves of the draw. France and England, three and four, were paired the same way.
FIFA said the change was about “ensuring competitive balance,” which is a generous description of a system that keeps your biggest commercial draws from knocking each other out early.
The protection was conditional on each seed winning their group. All four did, and the quarter-final lineup reads like a broadcast executive’s wishlist: Spain versus Belgium, Argentina versus Switzerland, France versus Morocco, England versus Norway.
Should the favourites hold serve, the semi-finals deliver Spain versus France and Argentina versus England. Two blockbuster ties between the four names the tournament was built to protect.
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Why wasn’t Martinez given a second yellow for leaving the pitch when celebrating their third?
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I'm pretty sure nobody has been booked for leaving the pitch in this WC.The Red Robin said:Why wasn’t Martinez given a second yellow for leaving the pitch when celebrating their third?
TV LOVES such scenes anyway.3 -
Social media already speculating what this lot will get up to in the semi final. Cheating, trying to get someone sent off, foul play.It’s just what they do. The biggest challenge will be getting past that because football wise we are clearly better than them.
France would be another matter but don’t need to worry about that at the moment.
On Weds it’s gonna be Argies doing Argies things and we need to be ready for it5 -
I assume it’s the Messi factor but never understand why so many neutrals love Argentina and we’re the villains. They’re a bunch of cheats. Always have been, always will be.
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I think the tide turned on that after EgyptThe Red Robin said:I assume it’s the Messi factor but never understand why so many neutrals love Argentina and we’re the villains. They’re a bunch of cheats. Always have been, always will be.0 -
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I don't see too much wrong with that: seems to work well in tennis.Raith_C_Chattonell said:Quite thought provoking with the four top seeds making the semi finals.
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/sport/fifa-world-cup-seeding-rigging-accusation-july-2026/In November 2025, FIFA announced a tennis-style seeding system for its expanded 48-team tournament. The top four ranked sides would be split into separate brackets, guaranteeing they could not face each other until the semi-finals. Spain and Argentina, seeds one and two, landed in opposite halves of the draw. France and England, three and four, were paired the same way.
FIFA said the change was about “ensuring competitive balance,” which is a generous description of a system that keeps your biggest commercial draws from knocking each other out early.
The protection was conditional on each seed winning their group. All four did, and the quarter-final lineup reads like a broadcast executive’s wishlist: Spain versus Belgium, Argentina versus Switzerland, France versus Morocco, England versus Norway.
Should the favourites hold serve, the semi-finals deliver Spain versus France and Argentina versus England. Two blockbuster ties between the four names the tournament was built to protect.
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DamoNorthStand said:Social media already speculating what this lot will get up to in the semi final. Cheating, trying to get someone sent off, foul play.It’s just what they do. The biggest challenge will be getting past that because football wise we are clearly better than them.
France would be another matter but don’t need to worry about that at the moment.
On Weds it’s gonna be Argies doing Argies things and we need to be ready for itJust looking at the official Argies Instagram page announcing the England game.
Almost every post from them is Falklands, Falklands, Falklands. Our players are clearly gonna be turning up just to play a football match in a football tournament.
This lot are fucking obsessed and it’s the main driver behind the cheating that’s to come.1 -
I'm not sure they're booking players for that now.The Red Robin said:Why wasn’t Martinez given a second yellow for leaving the pitch when celebrating their third?
The Cape Verde guy who scored that banger v Argentina climbed into the crowd and stood there waiting about 2 minutes for his girlfriend, and he didn't even get booked.6 -
That Embolo second yellow is the most obvious booking imaginable. Why on earth would you dive like that if you knew you were on a yellow card and VAR will check it?9
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Yeah this is what I mentioned last week. Probably hard to comprehend for us Brits how big the Falklands seem to be for them.DamoNorthStand said:DamoNorthStand said:Social media already speculating what this lot will get up to in the semi final. Cheating, trying to get someone sent off, foul play.It’s just what they do. The biggest challenge will be getting past that because football wise we are clearly better than them.
France would be another matter but don’t need to worry about that at the moment.
On Weds it’s gonna be Argies doing Argies things and we need to be ready for itJust looking at the official Argies Instagram page announcing the England game.
Almost every post from them is Falklands, Falklands, Falklands. Our players are clearly gonna be turning up just to play a football match in a football tournament.
This lot are fucking obsessed and it’s the main driver behind the cheating that’s to come.se9addick said:
I mean it’s plainly a bigger thing for Argentinians than it is for English people:jimmymelrose said:
Understand from who? Do you know anybody in Argentina? If you weren’t born when the Falklands Malvinas war took place, don’t you think this is true for many Argentinians? Don’t you also think that many Argentinians were against the government that started the war?se9addick said:
I don’t really get it either (but I wasn’t born when the Falklands took place). I understand it’s a waaaaaay bigger thing in Argentina than it is here though.fenaddick said:
I'm 27 and I don't really get it either but for me international football doesn't really need rivalries anyway. That said, I understand why Côte d'Ivoire might have extra motivation to beat France etc.DamoNorthStand said:fenaddick said:
I suspect these two stories contributeChris_from_Sidcup said:That is pretty crazy, i mean how far do you go back before deciding it doesn't really matter? Oliver probably wasn't even alive when the Falklands war took place.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/07/08/watch-argentina-players-taunt-england-with-falklands-chant/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28498909
In my lifetime, it is probably by far the most emotive of football rivalries but then again I was alive for the Falklands, Hand of God, Simeone etc...... ask my 18 year old son and he doesnt get the Argie hate.
Of course there remains a rivalry but I think people want to exaggerate it by going back to this conflict which most Argentinians consider a folly by the dictatorship. Don’t forget that people generally are against dictatorships in their own country.
That said, most Argentinians think that the Malvinas should belong to them, and I agree with them.
- it’s relatively recent that Argentinian players held a “Malvinas son Argentinos” flag before a game
- the Falkland Islands feature on Argentinian currency alongside some
- there’s some sort of song/hymn that kids sing at school which refers to the islands. I believe signing this hymn is actually a legal requirement in some parts of Argentina.- Argentina fans still have songs about hating the English originating from Falklands stuff that they sing to this day.Absolutely none of this stuff occurs in England and anyone who got particularly het up about the Falklands here would appear demented. Doesn’t mean that every Argentinian person spends all day thinking about the Falklands and the injustice of them not being in Argentinian hands, I agree that most done. But clearly it’s a much more prominent feature of Argentine society than it is English.1 -
Especially against the Argies.fenaddick said:That Embolo second yellow is the most obvious booking imaginable. Why on earth would you dive like that if you knew you were on a yellow card and VAR will check it?
The VAR team were wearing their "Give the Malvinas back" t-shirts.8 -
Maybe he thought Infantino would overturn it, but unfortunately for Embolo, Infantino doesn't give his native country special favoursfenaddick said:That Embolo second yellow is the most obvious booking imaginable. Why on earth would you dive like that if you knew you were on a yellow card and VAR will check it?
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Oh for the good old days under "Honest" Sepp Blatter.killerandflash said:
Maybe he thought Infantino would overturn it, but unfortunately for Embolo, Infantino doesn't give his native country special favoursfenaddick said:That Embolo second yellow is the most obvious booking imaginable. Why on earth would you dive like that if you knew you were on a yellow card and VAR will check it?5 -
Have a watch of this.One for the conspiracy theory 😉😂0
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Looking at the 4 semi-finalists, you have one team (France) who have cruised through, playing some really good football, but none of the other 3 have been reached their full potential.
It'll be interesting if we are able to raise our game in the SF (and hopefully final) but the same can be said for Spain and Argentina.0
