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  1. nature of the beast. TO maximise TV revenue games are not played concurrently, therefor you will always have this issue and its forever been one. Its just something you have to deal with in international football, oftern games during international breaks are only 3 days apart as well so its not unusual
  2. I expect the worst it’s what happened with England, but while France are great going forward if rice can get on top of Griezman and bellingham can play around rabiot (who is their weak link in the middle, he’s prone to switching off and he is no Kante) it’s not going to be a cake walk. Our defence isn’t the best but neither is theirs. If England play defensively we lose, if we press the middle we have a chance. Walker vs mbappe will be interesting, but the plan has to be not to deal with Mbappe but starve him of service and over run the middle
  3. Difficult start, but took control. clean sheet and also first time in history England have won knockout games in three consecutive tournaments
  4. Going to be fun at work, I work for a French company in the UK and regularly work in Paris. Next week is in Paris I’m going to be subject to the full French onslaught
  5. The QO is irrelevant, he has a contract for next season at 1.4 mill and is a UFA after that
  6. It’s one of the hardest trophies in sports to win due to the attritional nature and the number of rounds. im loath to keep adding to that, but accept there is an issue with a league that has a single prize and teams that may go a very long time without not even winning but getting remotely close to it. added to the fact the league is a commercial venture based on franchises rather than clubs, so there isn’t even tenure and security for teams especially if attendance drops due to performance. there needs to be more than one carrot. Yes the Stanley cup is the ultimate pinnacle of the NHL, but maybe have some lesser cups through the year in a knockout format and not a series format so anyone could win on the night. maybe also have a play in round as I like that, and throw the cup winners into this round if they didn’t already qualify. obviously would need to be thought out more but for me the issue isn’t the number of teams competing for the Stanley cup (if anything I would reduce the number) but the lack of alternate ‘trophies and history’ In the EPL clubs at different stages have different goals from winning the league to qualifying for champions league /other European comps, to going on a good cup run. I get a huge difference between open and closed leagues but if the NHL had a knockout cup completion that wasn’t part of the regular rankings a team feasibility could be rebuilding, yet still push for wins in that way without impacting draft position
  7. VVD hasn’t even been the best defender at Liverpool this season let along the premier league let alone the world. He has been exceptionally poor, found wanting and beaten for pace and position so often. that said he is a very experienced defender at the top level and the Dutch defence is probably one of the best and even the quality of defenders they left at home is astonishing. I do actually fancy them against Argentina. Argentine have plodded their way through the competition so far, and have come unstuck against high energy team, and havnt shot that much. while the Dutch are the highest of energy teams they are very solid at the back and can stifle an opposition. for me it has 1-1 at FT written all over it (watch is be an absolute goal fest now and me have egg on my face)
  8. Getting seeded in pot one only is relevant normally about 6/12 months out when they use the rankings to determine it. Yes it means that you avoid the big hitters, but doesn’t mean those in pot 2 will be if a lower rank than the hosts. also with the number of teams going up to 48 and going into 16 groups of three be interesting how they do the seedlings. Tbh next tournaments structure is a steaming pile
  9. Only scoring a hat trick do you get to keep the match ball. the reason for grabbing the ball is to usually run it back to the centre to get the restart done quicker. You see it more often by players when they are behind on a close game
  10. I’m well aware it’s the World Cup and not the European Championship, and well aware of Canadas placing in concacaf. I was referring to if USA, Mexico and Canada were in European qualifying groups. They would struggle
  11. Yes you did although there is no way Canada qualifies if it was in Uefa, even USA and Mexico would struggle
  12. First time the onion sack had bulged in 6 games against Morocco
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