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2 minutes ago, git2thachoppa said:
When you're BBC or ITV, you basically choose between 2 guaranteed England matches + a semi that may never happen but would be huge ratings vs 1 guaranteed match but 2 likely England knockouts but not the big semi if it happens (and everyone wants a big semi).
Only the most gifted have a big semi.
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It’s not just the Jinx. The coverage on ITV is finger nails down a chalkboard awful. It’s bloody annoying they get to chose almost the entire knockout section.
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5 minutes ago, Tony7 said:
My brother thinks he’s ok this is his exact words when I said what do you think to Prince andrew as I recall you saying he is innocent despite saying never sweats, never met this girl and paid £12 million to someone he never met
when he was younger he had a fling with a 17 year old girl. If it was in UK it would have been legal but In america if your a korman you can have loads of wives, if you’re 16 you can buy a sub machine gun but cannot buy a beer
the girl accepted money from Epstein but after his death she wanted more and the American legal system went along with her any other legal system in the world would have dismissed it. He was naive but not a pervert. So I’m implying he is just shows that. Judge people by what the media highlight. I am sure footballers who have lost their reputation because girls report them for rape are guilty without trial
That is factually wrong. She was procured to have sex with him and was under 18. She was also likely groomed. Paying a person for sex below aged 18 and grooming are both illegal here in the UK
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So in modern Britain it is now an arrestable offence to protest the divine right of the sovereign, apparently not because we are some authoritarian feudal throwback, but because its ‘disrespectful’ and ‘disruptive’ to protest while her cold dead corpse is being hauled around the country so people can gawp at the coffin. I don’t know what’s worse out of how casually reasonable freedom to protest is being cast aside or the dumb ass justifications being offered up to defend it.
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Just now, themadsheep2001 said:
Blame the premier league and EFL, it was left to individual organisations
The wanted to
minimize negative publicity in down market tabloidsshow their respect at such a sad time..3 -
3 minutes ago, CFuller said:
Don't mind the sombre music personally. On Absolute, they've already played Adele (Hometown Glory), Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here), The Beatles (Let It Be), and are now on Neil Young (Heart of Gold). All quality songs.
Just as long as I don't have to hear Freya Ridings' Lost Without You every hour, I'll be fine.
Same. I quite like miserable music
My mum used to say can’t you listen to something a bit more uplifting when I was a teen many decades ago.
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3 minutes ago, Confused Clarity said:
They did proper analysis for the Arsenal game but that was in the studio. All of them were in black for it. Also think the announcement came while they were playing and it was an away game anyway.
It was Darke & Savage on Comms. Savage barely said anything at all.
I think, they'd planned to have the coverage of the game from Old Trafford either pitchside or the box, but this then threw that through a loop. So they just went with how they went.
@themadsheep2001 will probably be able to explain better what actually happened and maybe give an insight if he's allowed to.
They also had analysis for the West Ham game at the same time with a suitablely somber looking Joe Cole providing his insights. It was just the United game which is a bit odd.
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8 minutes ago, Lucas said:
Almost. He’s already King.
Yeah. Was more thinking the ceremonial bit where the arch bishop pops a crown on his head while we all clap, cheer and say long love the king (even though he is already sort of long lived)
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1 minute ago, The_jagster said:
I heard that yesterday and evidently early today is meant to be about tributes to Elizabeth II and today will have more "what happens now" stuff.
At a guess the what happens now is a period where it’s compulsory to be sad and all fun things will be banned. Her son rather than mourn will be required to go all over the shop to deal with scripted ceremonials of faux grief while he deals with his real loss. She is then buried. Then he becomes King. About right? I am sure I have seen this episode before.
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5 hours ago, Christmas said:
Absolutely insane that BBC sport is just news items about the Queen.
What a strange little country
BBC1 with whole day just devoted to news. But news that carries no news other than very old lady dies. It’s frankly insane. Doing my head in already.
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I think England winning the tournament and uniting the nation, while a plastic patriot deliberately excludes himself from such an important moment with a pointless protest, would be a deliciously fitting illustration that people who seek to divide us are on the losing side of history.
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Booing the German anthem is so boorish and counter productive. Not good.
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Just now, HOORAY HENRIK said:
Ref ruining match by giving a blatant penalty.
Yeah his hands were high. It was a penalty.
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11 minutes ago, EnterUsernameHere said:
Tell me a team that has won it with such a poor defensive base or lack of tactical plan. I'll concede if you can.
We conceded 6 goals in 8 qualifying games and none so far in the tournament, it really isn’t that bad. Pickford and our centre halves are a mistake waiting to happen but our record isn’t actually that bad.
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btw Scotland completely matched England in 1996 as well and could consider themselves unlucky to lose. These games have always been difficult and cagey affairs.
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17 minutes ago, EnterUsernameHere said:
I'm nearly banging my head on the wall here...
You can't just disregard performances. Did you play well? No. Did you concede a lot of chances? Yes.
It's absolutely stunning that England think they can both stop whoever they get in the knockouts from having a chance* AND get enough changes to score themselves.
*Could ********* it.
There’s way too much bed wetting from England fans over one mediocre performance (and we were hardly played off the park and had a couple of presentable chances ourselves). This is what tournament football is like and everyone here was good enough and organised enough to get results. Nobody is going to roll over and England is a second tier team lacking in world class creative talent. We have an outside chance and are advantaged by playing at home but we just aren’t a side capable of blowing teams away. It wasn’t the greatest performance and we were below par , but every tournament winner has games like this and throwing our hands up and despairing over one poor performance in a game we didn’t even lose is an over reaction.
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@Rob1981 is spot on in this thread. The group stages are always like this and the tournaments where England have done well have often seen poor performances at the start. If you think today was bad it has nothing on the 1-1 draw with Ireland in 1990, which is quite possibly the worst game of football I have ever seen. All that matters right now is getting through and teams with slow starts tend to grow in international tournaments. Quite honestly I will take another turgid draw against the Czech Republic if that sees us play the group E runner up , rather than the runner up from the much tougher group F, all day long.
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Final: Argentina vs France, 3PM GMT, Lusail Iconic Stadium
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Has there ever been a better World Cup final than this?