The Official FIFA World Cup 2022 Megathread

[Tony Towner]

I said myself it’s not a binary choice. I wanted Kane to score, I’m very disappointed we’re out but when Kane comes to Molineux I shall happily remind him of his miss. That’s the nature of football

Different levels. When we played Forest away in the FA Cup in 92 I happily sang Pearce lost the World Cup, although in hindsight that was a bit sad as it was 18 months later and we lost.

 

[Keef]

Laura Woods ( no idea) got a photo with THAT guy (no idea, apart from looking like Steve mcclaren ordered from wish)

 

[Tony Towner]

It is pretty curious, as a country a lot of us are rather averse to being very patriotic because it has a lot of negative connotations. Tabloid press make it quite hard as the jingoism and war references can get nauseating and the English flag has a lot of association with far-right politics. I know people from other European countries who are all a lot more patriotic when it comes to supporting their country in sport for instance or have no qualms about singing the national anthem and they find it unusual too. People from Wales and Scotland are usually more openly supportive of their country. I wouldn't want to be like the US is but a lot of Europeans are proud of their country without being some knuckledragger.

I find Southgate to be quite good in that regard actually as he clearly loves England and the role he has and I think he motivates the squad well without delving into jingoism or anything.

I guess it's whether you can seperate yourself from the extremes and just support your nation. There's a lot we do that is quite frankly embarrassing, you only need to look at the way The Sun behaved in Paris today. There's countless other examples l could give where individually or collectively we are an embarrassment, but I refuse to be defined by those people and in moments like today do feel patriotic, not in a xenophobic or flag hugging way, just a sense of where I'm from.

 

[Sniffer]

Different levels. When we played Forest away in the FA Cup in 92 I happily sang Pearce lost the World Cup, although in hindsight that was a bit sad as it was 18 months later and we lost.

Tom Bennett was immense that day.

I suppose being in your early twenties(?) a degree of immaturity played its part too. I cringe at some of the shite I happily chanted along with in the late eighties/early nineties.
It’s about time I apologised to David James for the abuse aimed at him when he was starting his career at Watford.

 

[Tony Towner]

Tom Bennett was immense that day.

I suppose being in your early twenties(?) a degree of immaturity played its part too. I cringe at some of the shite I happily chanted along with in the late eighties/early nineties.
It’s about time I apologised to David James for the abuse aimed at him when he was starting his career at Watford.

Cheeky bugger, I was 19

 

[jd1981]

I was hoping if we went out it wouldn’t leave a what if ghost lurking but that’s exactly what’s happened absolutely horrible it’ll probably feel like hell in the morning and so it should.
Losing top level international tournaments is horrible especially when it’s so nip and tuc.
Absolutely no one can compare to how painful it is to get so close but be so far away,

 

[jd1981]

3 hours after the gamed ended such a meh feeling can’t describe it. Kind of use to it because I’m English but by another part of me feels we should be winning this.
It’s so hard I won’t watch the semis or final just to raw. I’m not bitter it’s just so so hard awful way to lose kanes blast over the bar will join Gaza’s miss or Waddles hitting the inside of the post,

 

[jd1981]

As for the ref hopelessly out his depth, apparently Saka dived for France first goal according to some, yeah ok.
The Kane foul first half blatant foul but outside the box, should be a dangerous free kick.
Booking Henderson for Mbappe tripping over his own feet? Seriously refer back to point 1 for consistency.

 

[WsWolf]

Last night was a bit of a momentous occasion as the first time I've seen Rabiot have a good game. Only watched him about 10 times and never got the hype before.

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1601687981433421825

 

[Templeton Peck]

Nothing much beats the club bias of some fans on twitter. A tweet asking why Trent didn't play has got over 5000 likes. Apparently Mbappe 'ran Walker ragged'. Brilliant stuff.

Villa fan on there questioning why Southgate hasn't built the entire team around Grealish.

 

[Carrotdude]

It’s like the people calling out Rashford only getting a few minutes but Saka and Foden were great all game. Sterling coming on ahead of him was the only thing I didn’t agree with last night.

 

[sycophantia]

Don't think Mbappe had that much influence on the game really, went past Walker once and even then ended up crossing from the goal line.
It was Grizeman imo that was their star player, closed down and pressed well, brilliant on the ball and the best cross of the game for their second goal.
Dunno why people are beating themselves up over the loss, a tight game which we more than matched them, we didn't get the rub of the green and a couple of dodgy ref decisions. We couldn't have done much more, we were better than I expected us to be.

 

[AndyWolves]

Nothing much beats the club bias of some fans on twitter. A tweet asking why Trent didn't play has got over 5000 likes. Apparently Mbappe 'ran Walker ragged'. Brilliant stuff.

Villa fan on there questioning why Southgate hasn't built the entire team around Grealish.

That's just deluded, Mbappe would have torn TAA a new arsehole

 

[jd1981]

Yep big part of winning tournaments is having that slice of luck in tight matches. It’s a horrible one to take. No regrets on the performance.

 

[WsWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1601687981433421825

Can't find it now but Tim Vickery made a really good point that in Brazil, everything is given as a free kick and that by trying to let the game flow more it led to some confusing decisions.

 

[WsWolf]

That's just deluded, Mbappe would have torn TAA a new arsehole

Reece James was the bigger miss. As good as Walker defensively and a much bigger threat going forward.

 

[jd1981]

Can't find it now but Tim Vickery made a really good point that in Brazil, everything is given as a free kick and that by trying to let the game flow more it led to some confusing decisions.

He was clueless and just inconsistent classic example being not giving a foul on Saka in the build up to the first goal. Then doesn’t give the most obvious foul on Kane on the edge of the box. Second half he books Henderson when Mbappe tripped over his own feet.
With the Kane foul almost certain he thought I’ll let VAR work that one out.

 

[Law's Bus]

If there were a call to merge into a UK national side, would there be stronger feelings against it from the English or the other Home Nations, do you think?

As a Welshman, you can get in the sea with that one. I don't mind the occasional thing (like the Lions in rugby), but no, no, and utterly no. There's enough problems with English Imperialism as it is.

Remember that the old Home Internationals is the oldest international competition in the world.


As for England v France, then the better team won I'm afraid. It was close, and England could have won with different refereeing decisions, but ultimately France did enough to go through. If you start missing penalties in the last few minutes of the game, then it's all over.

 

[Tredman]

As a Welshman, you can get in the sea with that one. I don't mind the occasional thing (like the Lions in rugby), but no, no, and utterly no. There's enough problems with English Imperialism as it is.

Remember that the old Home Internationals is the oldest international competition in the world.

Not sure what English imperialism would have to do with it?