From The Sports Desk

[Ecurb]

"Hydration breaks"? One reason to watch soccer is that you get 45 minutes of commercial-free action -- unlike every American sport. I hope greed doesn't take over soccer.

France looks great. They trot our Mbappe, Dembele and Olise in their forward line: three of the top 10 forwards in the world. The American press loves Messi (and he is the GOAT), but Mbappe is better right now.

The three home nations are 5-1-0, although against lesser competition. I can't see them winning against France, or Spain, or Argentina. England could have won against Ghana, but they looked lacking in ideas. I don't fancy Brazil or Germany. I'd love to see nations from federations that have never won do well: the home nations, Japan, Morocco

[tailor STATELY]

Go Scotland ! A link to a meme I generated with ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a3c4a917cb4...27f8addf2cb063

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Not much use it seems: At present Scotland 0 x Brasil 3.

[tailor STATELY]

Final 3:0...Oh well, the aliens will just have to continue their invasion

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Sancho]

So the other day my Señora and I went to one of our local hangouts, a Mexican restaurant/sports bar, for a big ole heaping plate of nachos and some baseball. We couldn’t help but to notice all the staff and most of the patrons were wearing red-white-and-green jerseys, and all the TVs in the joint were tuned to the same channel, which was broadcasting a rain delay of the Mexico/England game. Stupidly I asked the barmaid if she would mind changing one of the TVs to the Mariners game.

She looked at me in a way she would look at a half-bright eight-year old and said, “Oh no, senior, dis will no be possible. You wan more salsa?”

I said, “Sure. Hey, Y’all got the soccer game on? Who’s playing?”

She just rolled her eyes and headed back to the kitchen.

[tailor STATELY]

Lol

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lololol, Sancho!
You can say for good that you came alive out of the restaurant after that request. Mexicans seem to be very much like Brazilians when it comes to football!!

[MANICHAEAN]

How many officials are there no? One ref, 4 linesman, 3 VAR & 1 in reserve? Seems excessive.