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Belgium's Golden Generation catches a lot of heat for coming up short and there have definitely been disappointments, but they are responsible for three of the country's four World Cup quarterfinal appearances and their third place finish in 2018 is Belgium's best ever. They were pretty great!

courtois last seen getting shoved in the back of a royal mail van

Issue 466 of @wsc.co.uk is out now in newsagents of reasonable repute. Includes me summarising the entire 2026-27 League One season in 750 words while resisting the natural urge to laugh at Rotherham. Plus a @danielgraywriter.bsky.social match of the month and the usual @camsell59.bsky.social joy.

The World Cup isn't the only competition full of European teams being played at the moment, the Conference League, Europa League and Champions League have all started this week.

This lad played in the Europa League with Ferencvaros today. Fully mad

Come back when 18.5m have watched a snooker final. #propersport

Morocco have successfully built enough strong foundations to go from "romantic surprise run in qatar" to potential "disappointment only going out RO16 on home soil 2030".

Ultimately France are the only side in this tournament that look like they could give a top flight club a game.

The #REFCAM footage is amazing. Really getting us right into the middle of the action. #FRAMAR

I was checking which team last beat Morocco and the answer depends on what you mean by “Morocco,” “beat,” and “official.” Senegal if you mean on the pitch. Kenya if you count CHAN. South Africa if you mean the clean senior-team record. African football in one question.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a team as dominant as France at a World Cup. I can only assume they'll be knocked out in very disappointing fashion.

ITV coverage has been objectively better on most levels but they have no Bob the Cat discourse so BBC wins really.

I wish footballers still had nicknames like "the Penalty King".

In the Europa Conference League Caernarfon are 3-0 down to Estonian side Levadia at half-time. They have a Brazilian called Joao Pedro who has scored one and set up another. Hardly seems fair.

⚽️ Harry Wilson yw’r chwaraewr cyntaf i arwyddo i Leeds United yr haf hwn. Mae’r Cymro yn ymuno â’i gyd-chwaraewyr rhyngwladol Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon a Daniel James yn Elland Road

People screaming fix and conspiracy over every football decision is a bit annoying and OTT and also a reflection of the times BUT Infantino has brought it all on himself with his open favouritism, the Trump call and clear corruption elsewhere

TNS lost away in Azerbaijan yesterday. Having your four/five biggest clubs play in a different league system makes things tough.

New Hellas Verona kit has just dropped! Not sure about our new signing!

Can't get over how tragic it is that King Henry VIII missed out on potatoes by just a few brief years. He would have bloody loved chips. 😞

That said, it needed EVERY player to be present to make the gesture work...

EVERY WORLD CUP KIT EVER WORN: Bolivia (home), 1930. This kit was worn in the match against Yugoslavia on 17 July 1930. Each Bolivia player wore a letter that spelled out 'Viva Uruguay' in tribute to the hosts of the 1930 World Cup. kitbliss.co.nz/every-world-cup-kit-ever-worn/1930-world-cup.html

I often flick over to Talking Pictures when nothing else is on. Well worth some of your time.

6/8 teams in the last eight are from UEFA. 75% Only the African champions* and South American champions are non-European in the QF.

Andros Townsend using Switzerland vs Colombia to call MK Dons a "franchise". Good work.

There have been good games but there haven't been many shock results at all. It's pretty much all gone to form.

World Cup teams that won after going down 2-0: Austria 7-5 Switzerland, 1954 quarterfinal West Germany-Hungary, 1954 final* Portugal 5-3 North Korea, 1966 quarterfinal West Germany-England, 1970 quarterfinal* Belgium-Japan, 2018 ro16* Belgium-Senegal, 2026 ro32* Argentina-Egypt, 2026 ro16* *3-2

Despite and also somehow because of everything, the best sport

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Nah Morocco need to be put through a table for AFCON

Tim Vickery calling in to Radio 5 Live just said Argentina's group stage was "More forgiving than a priest after Carnival" #WorldCup

Egypt made the right decision to try and score a winner during the 90. Really enjoyable end to the game. An all-timer.

They’ve structurally built the rules this way too. Can overturn a corner and make it a goal kick but not the other way around. It’s a really bad rules route to go down.

It’s a huge issue with the way fifa are reffing this tournament imo - soft fouls are not fouls, unless they lead to a goal

Egyptian goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir is the son of the goalkeeper who played in 1990 - in the notorious "ashamed" Irish 0-0 draw. Ahmed Shobeir was booked for repeatedly time-wasting in that game, in a match seen as influential to the introduction of the back-pass rule.

LAS MALVINAS SON EGIPCIAS

Could you throw Charles de Ketelaere over a pub?

I’ve always bristled at the idea that this is the most talented USMNT. In a vacuum, that’s true, but the whole world has gotten a lot better too and I don’t think we’re more talented relative to the competition than we’ve been before. I also don’t really agree this team didn’t have heart.

From ScottishFootball.info 🇧🇪 Belgium beat the USA 4-1 to reach the quarter-finals, making the last eight for the third time in four World Cups. 🔝 It’s one of the best quarter-final runs in World Cup history: only 4 nations have ever gone one better and made the last 8 four tournaments in a row.

See? If they hadn't been so intent on getting the suspension suspended the USA could have gone for years with a sense of grievance about what could have been if only Balogun had been allowed to play. Injustice is a basic fuel of football, allowing the imagination to soar, creating dreams of what if.

Lmao here's the goal from Freese's perspective, courtesy of the BBC's 3D World Cup thing

some great games, but this WC will leave such a horrible taste. so many horrendous precedents set; the ticket price multiplier, the effective creation of quarters, the treatment of the iranian team, the suspension of established rules at the behest of the hosts. small succour watching them go out

Pochettino thoroughly debased himself in this tournament and before it with his sucking up to Trump and his gleeful acceptance of open corruption in his favour. He richly deserved this humiliation even if his players didn’t.

oh so it's like rocket league but with people

Yes FIFA is corrupt but....

I would love to get to the next World Cup and get drawn there. I believe that we are still the only UEFA team to play the Ewsgadi.

Time for Roberto Martinez to get the three amigos back together at Wigan?

Three Portuguese speaking countries in the World Cup on Friday, none left on Monday. It is with great regret that I must post this, but……… More like Lose-ophones