The Footie Thread

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There are 4 games on the first night instead of the usual 1, England play on the 1st night, apparently, according to some muppet on 5live, the last time that happened was 1966 and it could be an omen
Honest to God are we going to have to suffer this sh*t until November ?
 
Whilst it might end up being irrelevant if Scotland or Ukraine beat us, I am underwhelmed with that group. Was hoping for Brazil or Argentina as a glamour game even though the group appears, on paper, to be competitive (England aside as they will comfortably top the group)
 
Are there too many teams/groups? Looking at the draw I don’t think I see the ‘group of death’ where we have to fear a big nation to be eliminated. But I see a lot of east groups for Netherlands, England, … . Spain/Germany seems the only group doubling up big teams but both should comfortably go through (hopefully).
 
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larmen said:
Are there too many teams/groups? Looking at the draw I don’t think I see the ‘group of death’ where we have to fear a big nation to be eliminated. But I see a lot of east groups for Netherlands, England, … . Spain/Germany seems the only group doubling up big teams but both should comfortably go through (hopefully).
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Certainly looking like the main teams will be getting through the group stages and into KO’s - could be some juicy games in the last 16
 
larmen said:
Are there too many teams/groups? Looking at the draw I don’t think I see the ‘group of death’ where we have to fear a big nation to be eliminated. But I see a lot of east groups for Netherlands, England, … . Spain/Germany seems the only group doubling up big teams but both should comfortably go through (hopefully).
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Definitely no group of death but for the integrity of the event don't you want the best sides into the knockout stages?
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Definitely no group of death but for the integrity of the event don't you want the best sides into the knockout stages?
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Yes and no. We want upsets, but also the best teams ;-)

But I am not keen on someone scoring 6 goals in fairly ‘meaningless’ games to win the golden boot, and there are some star strikers with 3 give away games in front of them.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Definitely no group of death but for the integrity of the event don't you want the best sides into the knockout stages?
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How do you define 'the best sides' then?
Surely either 'those that make it through the Group stages that are the best sides' or 'those that don't make it through the Group stage are not the best sides'! And that particularly applies where there is no obvious 'group of death'.
 
I presume there are lot of people on here who won’t be watching the World Cup?
 
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