Thanks, everyone has helped cover the cost of the emergency appointment and x-rays but I’m still a long way short on the treatment so I’m boosting this again

moving a big tv around a low key woated job

i was out this evening and missed the game, but this seems so close to a plausible first choice xi that it might be tuchel showing his hand?

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have their been any good articles on the tactics of pochettino's usmnt?

welp, time to move the tv into the spare room so i can turn it into an office/entire life room for the next six weeks.

Everyone should sub to Grace so they don’t miss out on some of the best WC analysis around. You may also see a wild Cat make an appearance on the 24th 👀

bbc can't afford to broadcast the most popular event of the year from the country it's happening in, and nor can it afford to make its most well known scripted series. money might be a touch tight there.

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it should be illegal to have stuff i would want to do happen during the world cup

i do not think you will be able to guess what this guy is complaining about lmao

The answer to 1 has always just seemed: because he has no base. it's baked in that the PM will be unpopular on one side, but if you're also unpopular on the other side then the overall numbers are going to be bad.

Football nerds: is it CONCACAF or Concacaf?

ok, world cup preview newsletter has a 1200 word introduction, now i can write the bit about previewing the world cup.

seen fancy chefs make it where they slice the potatoes ultra-thin and basically deep fry them, try to remove as much starch as possible and get them to really crisp up. and i'm just like: they sell those pre-made at every random shop. they sell them at petrol stations.

travelling to the 2030 world cup in spain and getting denied entry because sometimes i make what i call a "spanish omelette" with crisps from the shop instead of potatoes i thinly sliced and cooked in oil.

fully on world cup time now. this is the afternoon to me.

the first episode of the gareth southgate tv series seems designed to irritate @jair1970.com in that the only coaching they seem to do is practise penalties.

absolutely incredible levels by u.s. immigration to unite the world in sympathy for *a referee*

genuinely really surprised that from what i can see, neither bbc or itv are doing proper highlight shows for the world cup. it's mainly just highlights online now.

so excited to see all the big club fans who definitely don't care about international football and would rather their players got a rest actually insist they're Not Mad that their guy is sitting on the bench for his country.

according to google trends at least, we are at pretty much the exact same interest level in the world cup as at this point last time in the uk

In the WC regs specifically a third strip isn't deemed a requirement except for GKs - it's a minimum one dark and one light kit. But FIFA's equipment regs separately note that "Each Team is encouraged to have a second Alternative Playing Kit", and it's due to contrast rules. bsky.app/profile/grac...

the main downside to a public-facing online career is not getting to do this

why are we doing third kits for a world cup. come on now.

almost at the time when i get annoyed at people thinking it's "jewels remain still gleaming".

couple of people ran the gotcha about the women's world cup and like, you know that's also run by fifa, right. it's the same bad people. they don't change depending on which gender of tournament they're running.

Canada vs Bosnia-Herzogovina in Toronto on Friday will be the first World Cup game in 20 years played in a country the Economist's Democracy Index considers a "full democracy".

idk if i were an international football manager right now, i'd instruct players to conserve energy and take zero risks in the warm up games.

cut price tv deals in usa, china, india. business geniuses at fifa.

Klopp said all the way back at Dortmund that he thinks his methods would not work if he can't speak the language. He nearly turned down the Liverpool job because he wasn't sure he spoke English well enough. And he basically can't speak any Spanish.

alan curbishley

this is the problem with financial disparity. celtic should be failing, but they're too rich for that to happen.

going to add olise to vini, mbappe, bellingham and florentino has just the man to fit all those attackers into the team: jose mourinho.

harry kane, come on, this is the one month i actually like you, don't advertise google gemini.

in a week's time onwards, you're going to hear all the football media people still on this side of the atlantic moaning about how late they're having to stay up. not me, though. i was born for this.

it is his choice. but this seems like a very dumb choice.

i'm sure this definitely won't be used as an excuse to charge a fortune for water bottles in the stadiums

Breel Embolo not celebrating after scoring against Cameroon, his country of birth, is one of the images from the 2022 World Cup that most stays in my head. It's a poorer tournament for not having him.

The other option was Morocco, which would've had totally different issues. I don't know what the good option was here, except changing the rules about the size of the tournament or which continents could bid.

up to 2018 in the world cup what went wrong series. feels wild that this is now at the point when myself, @themlg.bsky.social et al were writing stuff about it for statsbomb.

A friend told me India’s deal is with a public broadcaster so them trying to charge an arm and a leg for rights really didn’t work

fifa striking broadcast deals so so late for tiny markets like india and china, i'm guessing below the reserve price, isn't exactly convincing me this is working out.

along with everyone else, i don't think the "more teams = more games = more money" thing is working out.

recap of today's events: massive dental bill test came back and i've had strep throat for two months bank decided to close an account i rely on, which they claim they told me about six months ago. it's been a day.

Ok. So I went to the dentist and it was bad news. I got hit with a big bill. Any help would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/5770fb997

Ok. So I went to the dentist and it was bad news. I got hit with a big bill. Any help would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/5770fb997

if this happened it would take all my strength not to go full "fifa has an office at TRUMP TOWER"