Was it the correct decision for me to go to bed at a sensible time given my 5.30am start? Yes. Will I be salty about missing seemingly one of England's greatest games of all time anyway? Also yes.

There's something poetic about Neymar's last contribution in a Brazil shirt being a petulant foul at the end of a resounding defeat.

Yeah that'll do. This Brazil team are poor, but Norway are also so much better than people are giving them credit for, even beyond Haaland and Ødegaard.

Already seeing people sharing an AI picture of Trump and Infantino kissing and this is your reminder that you don't have to be homophobic to express your displeasure at the corruption of straight men.

Just open corruption now then, is it? www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Oh piss off Russell.

Let's have a Charles and Lewis shootout for one lap.

Ahahaha Vershatten moment. Bye bye mate.

Every time Charles LeClerc wins a race my brain goes "oh yeah, sometimes he does good stuff".

well that was quick

3-0 flatters Morocco, but that's always a risk when a team has to go all-out attack to try and get back in the game. Canada can be very proud of their tournament.

Interesting tactic from Matt Ryan to dive twenty minutes before the penalties have been kicked. That's why he's a penalty specialist I guess.

I'll never understand sending the kids up to take penalties. Experienced players have got to take that responsibility and pressure off them.

I like the fact that the crest on Australia shirts always seems to be MASSIVE.

Thinking Ange Postecoglou is one of the good ones and then he does and takes a job in Saudi Arabia.

So it looks like Klopp to Germany. Maybe I'm stupid, but I'm not sure how a manager who takes a while to get his system across by relentlessly drilling players every day will get on with just a handful of training sessions a year. He's great, but maybe not suited to managing a national team.

Senegal were two goals up with ten minutes to go, having been the dominant team for the entire game. They really only have themselves to blame.

God I wish commentators and pundits would stop calling it 'THE' MLS. The Major League Soccer.

I kind of want Belgium to do this now just because it would be mad.

Senegal, what are you doing.

Do Belgium know they need to score? And also to stop the other team from scoring?

There seems to be a lot of (I assume young) fans complaining about our new shirt having both stripes, and a darker shade of blue, both of which have been a prominent feature in our history. I'd actually say we've had a richer shade of blue like this more than pale blue. Definitely buying.

I'd like to see Senegal go further than Morocco in this tournament. What happened after AFCON still stinks to high heaven.

The question now is, do I do a dual sleep cycle thing so I can watch England get turned over by Mexico and still be up for work at 5.45?

I can't get over how much Anthony Gordon looks like yer cool lesbian auntie that lets you drink as long as you don't tell your mum.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

We're now into the round that would still have been embarrassing to get knocked out of in a previous World Cup. Still, better than being German or Dutch. Well, in football terms. Maybe not with regards to everything else going on.

Turgid, terrible performance. Still scraping a win. Maybe stumbling our way to a final that we don't belong in. There's only one man that can be feeding Tuchel these tactics.

I didn't think I could flinch in disgust any harder than when Infantino appears on the screen, but they just showed John Terry 🤢

The best player in the world ensuring that the team doesn't face much deserved scrutiny. Hero.

The Tuchel experiment is done. In truth, it should never have happened. It's like wondering what would happen if you squeezed a shit in your bare hands. "It could be really good, it might surprise us". No. It won't.

I had no strong feelings about DR Congo, but seeing their players waving imaginary cards makes me hope England buck up their ideas and destroy them. No action a player takes on the pitch makes me hate them more than waving their hands like that.

Yes that was very England. Now let's watch 80 minutes of them not being able to break down a low block.

Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices

I thought this would happen at some point but not for another console generation at least. Very disappointed. I'd say what's the point in buying a console anymore, but who can afford a PC these days? What a sad world. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

France are scary.

Irrespective of what happens in the remainder of this match, Brazil are at risk of another Germany 2010 if and when they come up against a top team. Imagine what France would do to them.

I think FIFA have succeeded in eliminating the World Cup branding. I've seen so many people saying "are you watching FIFA", "did you see that goal in FIFA", etc. The fact that this is most Americans' first exposure to the World Cup is helping them.

Brazil just don't seem to have a midfield. Just a big gaping chasm in the middle of the pitch whenever Japan get the ball.

This has the feeling of a Last 32 game. By which I mean, it doesn't feel like either of these teams should have made the knockout round of a World Cup.

We drove through Bromsgrove today and I don't think I've ever seen so many St. George's/Union flags in my life. Feels like there should be some kind of scale to show the correlation, but until someone does the actual maths, I'm designating Bromsgrove as the most racist place in the UK.

I know nobody in an England shirt has been great, but Rashford is having a particularly limp game. I love the lad but he feels like the logical first change.

This five-second throw-in rule from FIFA is such a transparent ploy to force a certain style of play. They don't want long throws, goals from set-pieces etc. It's not marketable as a product. So it's "sorry, no time to get your players in the box".

Djed Spence is naturally a right-back, and we have a fit and very capable left-back in O'Reilly. That's such an easy choice, I can't get my head around Tuchel going for Quansah at right-back.

Iran and Egypt have both lodges complaints about their match today being one of the designated Pride fixtures because it goes against their customs and beliefs. We had to respect local customs in Qatar though? Funny that.

Fuck you Ecuador. (I'm sure Ecuador and its people are lovely, but this is sad Scotland talking).

I'm tired

I generally haven't craved meat since I stopped eating it around fifteen years ago. But man, I've been watching tiktoks of a guy eating at different delis in New York, and boy do I want one of those giant eggy meaty subs.

Utter scumbags

I've got friends arguing with me that the GTA6 nonsense isn't unreasonable. "They'll never delist it so why is not owning a disc a big deal?" "Every game launches with bonus content". Desperate to suck on the exhaust of capitalism and smile as it slowly sends them into a permanent sleep.