En Passant

2 - 1 day. Australia 1-2 Peru Denmark 1-2 France Iceland 1-2 Croatia Nigeria 2-1 Argentina

Saudi Arabia 1 - 3 Egypt Uruguay 2 - 2 Russia Iran 1 - 3 Portugal Spain 3 - 1 Morocco

Nah, took 15 mins tops, probably full of errors and likely somebody will do the maths to point them out in due course. It was that or some pointless guff and ads before the next crucial world cup game....

That's something that could arguably be quantified in a rough and ready sort of way. Points allocated to each individual as to their 'fame quotient'. One could then ascribe bonuses for more famous in the UK (it's a uk based site) or for more famous with teens, or more famous with older than teens...or any other criteria everyone agreed on. I have a few seconds before the next football game where my predict-a-score in another thread is plunging to new depths so lets see where that might take us: Points I'd ascribe on a personal basis 1 to 10 for your list. (just mine, others can argue that's too biased, and it is. but we could as a site argue the merits on any individual and then come up with a consensus 'fame' score. Linda Nolan - 4 Leah Bracknell - 2 Peter Carrington - 2 JPDC - 0 Stirling Moss - 5 Tessa Jowell - 4 Prunella Scales - 5 Leslie Phillips - 4 Jill Gascoigne - 2 Vera Lynn - 5 Charles Aznavour - 6 Honor Blackman - 7 Stanley Baxter - 5 Valery Giscard Destaing (sp) - 7 Mel Brooks - 8 Neil Simon - 8 June Brown - 3 Dennis Norden - 4 Ian St John - 3 Jimmy Greaves - 4 Clive James - 6 Joni Mitchell - 7 Gazza - 5 Mark Smith - 4. I've not allocated more than 5 to folks that are possibly unknown outside the uk, or more than 4 if they are only known for say a soap or as a politician, since they might be very famous in their own country but unheard of elsewhere. Thus to get over 5 the subject would have to be internationally known. Incidentally, Abby Lee Miller would have to have a personal fame score of 2,200 for your assertion that she is 20 times more famous than the entirety in combination of others on the list .

Middle.

To be fair a car is a pretty useful suit of armour against a bear. Against a truck? Not so much.

England 3 v 1 Panama Japan 1 v 2 Senegal Poland 1 v 2 Colombia

Some of your number keys appear to need fixing they are not registering when you hit them. Belgium 2 - 0 Tunisia South Korea 0 - 2 Mexico Germany 2 - 1 Sweden

Give it time. Not even close.

To borrow from our Scottish friends - Tae fook, you're nae even close. Some of us with reasonable guesses, none of your 12-7 malarkey, still have nul points. Brazil 2-0 Costa Rica Nigeria 1-1 Iceland Serbia 0-1 Switzerland

Denmark 1-0 Australia France 2-1 Peru Argentina 2-1 Croatia

Narrative. This word is really starting to annoy me lately. It signifies that a biased or even bigoted viewpoint is being espoused or is about to be.

Portugal 2-1 Morocco Uruguay 2-0 Saudi Arabia Iran 0-2 Spain

I'm officially the kiss of death. Colombia 2-0 Japan..... 3 whole minutes and Colombia down to 10 men, penalty Japan, scored. Another prediction snatched away before its even got airborne

I feel your pain. Our well considered, thoughtful and thoroughly researched predictions are being soundly thrashed by a US based observer using a random number generator or 0-1 for everything when he can't even be asked to push the button on the rng and Deathers whose guesses include 12-7.... Where's the justice? ps, that lawro is useless I gave up on him after the first set.

Good grief no, tease away. Merely replying in kind (or thought I was). And no, I find all that really really irritating too. However...they have to say something. If I put myself in their shoes you'd be subjected to 90 minutes of silence or at most 'yeah that wasn't bad' or 'good grief ref get a grip' once every 10 minutes. Commentating is an easy job to knock, and I'd imagine an extraordinarily hard one to do.

Apparently they didn't, that's why they're not there. (this response dedicated to @YoungWillz and @Clorox Bleachman for their 'predictions' in another thread). Grudge bearing? Moi? Never.

Can't see the point of that VAR if they're just going to ignore wrestling a player to the ground or lassoing him round the neck with an arm........ after that penalty award. I don't really care if they allow mma cage fighting in the area tbh, but at least be consistent about it.

Colombia 2-0 Japan Poland 2-1 Senegal Russia 2-1 Egypt

Scots football fans, really putting the united in the United Kingdom since 1603 Sweden 2 - 1 S Korea Belgium 2 - 0 Panama Tunisia 0 - 1 England

Maintaining a big fat zero with: Costa Rica 0-0 Serbia Germany 2-0 Mexico Brazil 2-0 Switzerland

I'm going to have a weeks moratorium on my annual cursing of summer wasps and flies. There are worse things that could spoil your barbecue apparently.

France 2-0 Australia Argentina 2-0 Iceland Peru 1-2 Denmark Croatia 1-0 Nigeria And if some mod or admin could remove the previous post i'd be remarkably grateful. That's the last time i try to work on a laptop when I can't see the keys. Upload image. post image...what? I didn't ask it to do that....Can I just select and delete it when I edit it? Can I fuck. Completely clueless me.

Au Contraire.

America has some weather we Europeans just don't see on the same scale. It's impressive though when one is but a tourist. Deathray, if you're not currently banned, your weather eloquence if you please?