Reply To: The Sports Thread
England are up against Croatia, Ghana and Panama and will find it a hard task to win the group but will likely finish first or second.
Scotland got a glamour tie against Brazil (also Morocco and Haiti) and will probably finish third in the group.
In essence there are far too many teams in the competition and there’ll be 8-0 scores all over the place (figuratively if not literally). What are the FIFA World Rankings for if not to invite the top say 24 teams to contest the World Cup? I know it’s nice for Curaçao and Jordan etc to get a share of the limelight but you could make all games count throughout the gap between World Cups without the nonsense of the Nations League etc.
The first World Cup I recall in any detail was Mexico 1970, which included Israel and El Salvador. I collected the stickers, wish I still had the album!
The draw itself yesterday was ghastly, for all sorts of reasons.
Thor, I was at the Man City vs Leeds game last weekend, and we found a way to keep Haaland quiet. Unfortunately, in doing so we failed to contain Foden! Maybe it was just that he didn’t want to score his 100th Premier League goal against the club he supports. I hope he does well at the World Cup, though; I enjoy watching him play.