darren1983

It's a clear pen. Harsh on the keeper (and yellow is daft) but it's a foul. If you knock the ball past a player in the middle of the pitch and then run him to him it's given as a foul. I don't get the moaning here.

It's the perfect game for them so far.

This entire World cup I've tuned in about 5 minutes before kick off and watch youtube at HT so miss all the people talking about the game or in most cases talking about England

I don't really support England so that doesn't bother me, I just don't like to see people happy

All Argentina aren't we? Messi wins the world cup and we can't really have Gunman lording it for the next 4 years can we?

He also turned down the Brentford job when we were in the championship (before we appointed Dean Smith) as he didn't want the scrutiny of being a "high profile manager" so can't see him fancying the England job if Brentford in the championship was too high profile for him

I actually think you're more right than wrong. I don't think the football has been great but the drama has been insane and that's what people will remember.

"best world cup" is a bit odd to say because the first halves of pretty much every game have been ****. The final 20 mins of every game since the final group games have just been proper mental though to balance it out

So extra time is your fault then

Wout there it is!

This ref has totally turned me into a Dutch fan here. Jesus Christ he was ****ing awful

Game on

Messi took out half the Dutch team with that pass

Football is a simple game. Play for 2 hours then Croatia win on pens.

Hard to argue tbf

But he's also a ****ing good footballer

I thought picking a film from the early part of your retirement years would have appealed to you but sadly not

Croatia might be the only people to love ET more than Elliot did

They've been linked with Raya recently - I hope they go for Meslier

South Shields Season 2024/25 Vanarama National League League - Was a strange season in the end as we did way better than I thought we would. We started slowly by losing 3 of our opening 5 games (winning 1) but then found our feet and only lost twice in the the next 5 months to put us in the title race with Chesterfield, I say title race but I don't think we were ever any better than a couple of points behind them but then in Feb and March our season seemed to fall apart as we only won 4 of 11 games as our away form fell apart including a 6-2 defeat away to an Oldham side fighting relegation. We would either give away a dumb penalty or let in a very late goal (we had a run of giving up 6 pens in 6 games and another run where there was a decisive goal after the 85th minute in a run of 8 games in 10. Was annoying) and often times we managed to combine them both to really anger me as we dropped as low as 5th. However out of nowhere we suddenly found our best form in April and May as we won our final 7 games to end the season in 2nd spot. In the playoffs we first faced Eastleigh (won and lost 1-0 to them in the league) we played alright and were leading early but they pulled it back then with 20 mins to go we we found ourselves behind, luckily a quick response frpm us before 2 late goals saw us set up a final with Halifax (3-3 draw and 4-0 win) sadly the final would not be as exciting but a pen for us just before the break gave us the lead, mid way through the 2nd half they had a pen but our keeper pulled off a great save to keep us ahead and despite a couple of scares we held on to win promotion! The playoffs ended well for us. Tbh this has gone far better than it ever has for me so I would be fairly happy with a few seasons finishing bottom half of the league as we slowly build ourselves up. FA Cup - We made the first round again. We lost in the first around to a league side again. We were 2-0 early and pulled it back before, shock horror, we gave away not 1 but 2 pens to be knocked out. FA Trophy - We made the quarter finals again. We lost again. Just one of those days we didn't turn up in the middle of our iffy run fo form Transfers - Obviously none in but we loaned a couple young players out Squad - getting smaller and older which is not an ideal place to be in, will hopefully be able to promote one or two youth players this summer Finances - looking good after promotion and a trip to Wembley Youth Intake - Not great but OK. Solid I guess. Didn't tag many but I did make a change in my HOYD this summer so allow me to introduce Michael Coulson Fenton Tarrant YP02A - an OK looking CB, needs a lot of work Jonathyn Mellanby YP02B - - a decent looking DM Craig Mills YP02C - I like him for a CM role but needs to work on his physical side for sure Career Overview Season League Position Note’s & Achievements 2023/24 NLN 1st Promotion as champions, first coaching badge 2024/25 VNL 2nd Promotion via playoffs, started 2nd coaching badge, improved youth recruitment

Whole thread of Moroccan fans celebrating in London

Amazing how much better a team gets when they drop Ronaldo

And then the game would kick off

Eto'o

That's a great save from Alisson.