En Passant

Sorry Grim. But argh. .

Well, that's me straight off to the 'words we hate' thread . An unintended consequence I know...

Following my dismal start I've been emailing my later predictions to FIFA telling them to get the VAR team to buck their ideas up and get it right.

I'm surprised the dog can walk after smoking a joint behind a dumpster. You'll probably have missed the team coming into the airport as you depart from it. Just as well I guess.

Brazil 2 - 1 Mexico Belgium 3 - 1 Japan

Thanks Deathers. I wondered what they were up to.

Spain 3-1 Russia Croatia 2-1 Denmark

Civic duty.

France 2 - 1 Argentina Uruguay 2 - 1 Portugal

And on that basis she's 20x more famous than the combined fame of 20 seemingly randomly selected other people? Sure it should be here, at least it's peripherally what the board is about unlike the minutiae of American regional politics. Look, I don't actually give two hoots, I threw in a two word response for a laugh, because it's a counterpoint to 14 tedious paragraphs about a subject that is meaningless to anyone not american.

Oh I leave most of the thread complaining to SC he's had more practice. Just throwing in a fuck at the americentrism, for balance. That and the ludicrous assertions that some reality bod is more famous than god because you've seen every show.

Lets not.

He's American, condescension is a double lesson after chemistry and history.

I'll do analysis if you like and I know nothing about football, only watch once every 2/4 years. England B isn't up to Belgium B. Politics suggests he had to play them. Now he can tell them to sod off because they were crap, sit on the bench - go on when we tell you. We won't win it all, and for once the expectation has been curbed (at least until now). Put the A team out on Tuesday and we may do ok against Colombia. Further that that? Unlikely aside from the fact that nobody bar Brazil (who started shakily themselves) really looks to be in another league. England A is 11 or 12 players (clearly from today when we go outside that, its not there yet), there are better teams out there, but none I've see so far we couldn't beat on the day. Will we win? No. But effort over expectation will do for me. As to why no analysis? Don't know. But i'll put my head over the parapet, as if my previous post didn't.

Hadrian was an idiot. No wall ever going to be high enough. I support you lot you know, Like a second son. Do you reciprocate? Can't even spell it. We should only allow another Scot on this board when one leaves... 50 million English or something, 5 million Scots, and all of them on here. Now I'm gonna get killed by msc, charon, willz (young AND old) and by this toilet cleaner bloke bleach. So it goes.

Bring it on. England might win a few.

The Var is over for you Heinrich.

Senegal 1 v 2 Colombia Japan 1 v 2 Poland England 2 v 1 Belgium Panama 0 v 2 Tunisia

Nobody predicts Korea 2 - 0 Germany scoreline shocker.

Let it go

Bet you a fiver that doesn't happen in this match.

South Korea 0 - 2 Germany Mexico 1 - 2 Sweden  Serbia 1 v 2 Brazil Switzerland 2 v 0 Costa Rica

um...

Argue with Sir Creep of the US? . You quite often refer to yourself in the third person anyway. Yes yes, I know, The West Wing is one of my all time favourite programmes. Potus, Flotus, etc. don't think they ever called supreme court Scotus though. That ones new to me.

Not stuck on a zip wire for nearly long enough. We need stuck on a zip wire the 'eternally version'.