That was weird, thought he was gonna out a headscarf on him next.
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?
The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
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What has been a disaster about it?
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Well I don’t think you need me to list the many and various human rights abuses involved in the construction and preparations. Or explain how they managed to get to host a World Cup in the first place.
(In case anyone needs reminding, this piece by Miguel Delaney is excellent: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/qatar-world-cup-2022-deaths-b2244081.html?amp)
As for the event itself, first I guess you have women and gay people being told how they need to behave when they arrive.
Then you have the fan accommodation: tent cities that looked like facking refugee camps. Combination locks on plastic military tentsFor ‘air conditioning’ read ‘office fans’. Bathroom queues like a facking music festival.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/world-cup-qatar-accommodation-fyre-festival-b2226219.html?amp
This despite the fact that although they expected 1.2 million fans for the tournament, there have been tens of thousands of *rooms* free for every single night of the tournament.
Then there’s security taking flags and items of clothing off people without explaining why or applying rules consistently, and refusing journalists access to public areas or to film in certain public areas.
It has also been the most expensive World Cup ever for fans, who (along with Qatari residents) have complained about price gouging, with supermarkets doubling the price of bottled water during the tournament.
Then there’s the complete lockout at venues and in fan zones of non-branded food and drink, which has driven prices up, and the fact that without warning fans, at stadia and in fan zones, FIFA have only been allowing people to pay with Visa (literally - no Mastercard, no Amex, no cash), which has completely facked many people who don’t have a Visa card.
It goes on and on. The football has been great; the organisation, from the point at which the brown envelopes started circulating, has been a crooked nightmare.
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I can’t get in my high horse over this due to the fact my own country has been involved in more atrocities worldwide through out history than Qatar has.
We know they shouldn’t have been awarded it in the first place.
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 19 seconds ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
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Imagine being a Leeds fan and wanting to get back to domestic football
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 19 seconds ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Imagine being a Leeds fan and wanting to get back to domestic football
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Imagine being a Leeds fan
well......
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
Not sure about that robe on Messi to be honest.
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That was pretty weird to be fair ... I guess they crowned him as the GOAT maybe?
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
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The BBC are a bunch of idiots
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
Not sure about that robe on Messi to be honest.
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That was pretty weird to be fair ... I guess they crowned him as the GOAT maybe?
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I think it was more him being crowned a king.
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 4 minutes ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
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Fack that the PL is going to be dull as fack after that.
Best World Cup ever? You must be very young.
Would have been better if they dressed him as an actual goat. He should have shouted ‘siuuuu’ when he lifted the trophy.
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 42 seconds ago
Best World Cup ever? You must be very young.
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decent argument it was the best since 86, so the best that anyone under the age of 45-50 can remember
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?
The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
What has been a disaster about it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well I don’t think you need me to list the many and various human rights abuses involved in the construction and preparations. Or explain how they managed to get to host a World Cup in the first place.
(In case anyone needs reminding, this piece by Miguel Delaney is excellent: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/qatar-world-cup-2022-deaths-b2244081.html?amp)
As for the event itself, first I guess you have women and gay people being told how they need to behave when they arrive.
Then you have the fan accommodation: tent cities that looked like facking refugee camps. Combination locks on plastic military tentsFor ‘air conditioning’ read ‘office fans’. Bathroom queues like a facking music festival.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/world-cup-qatar-accommodation-fyre-festival-b2226219.html?amp
This despite the fact that although they expected 1.2 million fans for the tournament, there have been tens of thousands of *rooms* free for every single night of the tournament.
Then there’s security taking flags and items of clothing off people without explaining why or applying rules consistently, and refusing journalists access to public areas or to film in certain public areas.
It has also been the most expensive World Cup ever for fans, who (along with Qatari residents) have complained about price gouging, with supermarkets doubling the price of bottled water during the tournament.
Then there’s the complete lockout at venues and in fan zones of non-branded food and drink, which has driven prices up, and the fact that without warning fans, at stadia and in fan zones, FIFA have only been allowing people to pay with Visa (literally - no Mastercard, no Amex, no cash), which has completely facked many people who don’t have a Visa card.
It goes on and on. The football has been great; the organisation, from the point at which the brown envelopes started circulating, has been a crooked nightmare.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I can’t get in my high horse over this due to the fact my own country has been involved in more atrocities worldwide through out history than Qatar has.
We know they shouldn’t have been awarded it in the first place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Beyond all of that the actual organisation of the event has been a complete shiiiiitshow though.
Fans have been comparing it to Fyre Festival ffs
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC are a bunch of idiots
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Just be grateful it wasn’t on sky or bt, the pl level overhype would be nauseating.
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 5 minutes ago
Would have been better if they dressed him as an actual goat. He should have shouted ‘siuuuu’ when he lifted the trophy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Wasn't at all hyped for it, even during the Qatar v Ecuador opener, but as soon as Saudi beat Argentina on Tue morning, I was bang in the mood for it. Those 3rd group games were absolutely scintillating.
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
I remember '66 as a 9-year-old listening live to the iconic radio commentary for Hurst's last goal. Sat in a traffic jam on our way from Kent to Stratford-on-Avon for a holiday.
Playing in winter meant the players were fresher which made a better World Cup. Will be interesting how the remainder of the season goes.
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It features a woman advertising an adult site!
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC are a bunch of idiots
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC is actually brilliant.
And showing all the games live by cancelling the schedules and demoting shows like Strictly and Eastenders from prime time slots annoying people like my old mam to the extent that she has to send a written complaint to points of view as 'annoyed of Didsbury'... well done the BBC. Sport rules.
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
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It features a woman advertising an adult site!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ah it's gone now.
There's always a tweet though!
https://twitter.com/alvarezszn19/status/1604552773248458759?t=mGJG1mtzUpiJureenPWkAQ&s=19
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posted on 18/12/22
That was weird, thought he was gonna out a headscarf on him next.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?
The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
What has been a disaster about it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well I don’t think you need me to list the many and various human rights abuses involved in the construction and preparations. Or explain how they managed to get to host a World Cup in the first place.
(In case anyone needs reminding, this piece by Miguel Delaney is excellent: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/qatar-world-cup-2022-deaths-b2244081.html?amp)
As for the event itself, first I guess you have women and gay people being told how they need to behave when they arrive.
Then you have the fan accommodation: tent cities that looked like facking refugee camps. Combination locks on plastic military tentsFor ‘air conditioning’ read ‘office fans’. Bathroom queues like a facking music festival.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/world-cup-qatar-accommodation-fyre-festival-b2226219.html?amp
This despite the fact that although they expected 1.2 million fans for the tournament, there have been tens of thousands of *rooms* free for every single night of the tournament.
Then there’s security taking flags and items of clothing off people without explaining why or applying rules consistently, and refusing journalists access to public areas or to film in certain public areas.
It has also been the most expensive World Cup ever for fans, who (along with Qatari residents) have complained about price gouging, with supermarkets doubling the price of bottled water during the tournament.
Then there’s the complete lockout at venues and in fan zones of non-branded food and drink, which has driven prices up, and the fact that without warning fans, at stadia and in fan zones, FIFA have only been allowing people to pay with Visa (literally - no Mastercard, no Amex, no cash), which has completely facked many people who don’t have a Visa card.
It goes on and on. The football has been great; the organisation, from the point at which the brown envelopes started circulating, has been a crooked nightmare.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I can’t get in my high horse over this due to the fact my own country has been involved in more atrocities worldwide through out history than Qatar has.
We know they shouldn’t have been awarded it in the first place.
posted on 18/12/22
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
posted on 18/12/22
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 19 seconds ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Imagine being a Leeds fan and wanting to get back to domestic football
posted on 18/12/22
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 19 seconds ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Imagine being a Leeds fan and wanting to get back to domestic football
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Imagine being a Leeds fan
well......
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
Not sure about that robe on Messi to be honest.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That was pretty weird to be fair ... I guess they crowned him as the GOAT maybe?
posted on 18/12/22
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC are a bunch of idiots
posted on 18/12/22
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 22 seconds ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 minute ago
Not sure about that robe on Messi to be honest.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That was pretty weird to be fair ... I guess they crowned him as the GOAT maybe?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think it was more him being crowned a king.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 4 minutes ago
Glad it's over. Back to football that I give a sh!t about.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fack that the PL is going to be dull as fack after that.
posted on 18/12/22
Best World Cup ever? You must be very young.
posted on 18/12/22
Would have been better if they dressed him as an actual goat. He should have shouted ‘siuuuu’ when he lifted the trophy.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 42 seconds ago
Best World Cup ever? You must be very young.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
decent argument it was the best since 86, so the best that anyone under the age of 45-50 can remember
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
You realise that the Qatari organisers had zero influence on the football being played on their pitches, right?
The football has been great. Outside of that, it has been a disaster.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
What has been a disaster about it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well I don’t think you need me to list the many and various human rights abuses involved in the construction and preparations. Or explain how they managed to get to host a World Cup in the first place.
(In case anyone needs reminding, this piece by Miguel Delaney is excellent: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/qatar-world-cup-2022-deaths-b2244081.html?amp)
As for the event itself, first I guess you have women and gay people being told how they need to behave when they arrive.
Then you have the fan accommodation: tent cities that looked like facking refugee camps. Combination locks on plastic military tentsFor ‘air conditioning’ read ‘office fans’. Bathroom queues like a facking music festival.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/world-cup-qatar-accommodation-fyre-festival-b2226219.html?amp
This despite the fact that although they expected 1.2 million fans for the tournament, there have been tens of thousands of *rooms* free for every single night of the tournament.
Then there’s security taking flags and items of clothing off people without explaining why or applying rules consistently, and refusing journalists access to public areas or to film in certain public areas.
It has also been the most expensive World Cup ever for fans, who (along with Qatari residents) have complained about price gouging, with supermarkets doubling the price of bottled water during the tournament.
Then there’s the complete lockout at venues and in fan zones of non-branded food and drink, which has driven prices up, and the fact that without warning fans, at stadia and in fan zones, FIFA have only been allowing people to pay with Visa (literally - no Mastercard, no Amex, no cash), which has completely facked many people who don’t have a Visa card.
It goes on and on. The football has been great; the organisation, from the point at which the brown envelopes started circulating, has been a crooked nightmare.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I can’t get in my high horse over this due to the fact my own country has been involved in more atrocities worldwide through out history than Qatar has.
We know they shouldn’t have been awarded it in the first place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Beyond all of that the actual organisation of the event has been a complete shiiiiitshow though.
Fans have been comparing it to Fyre Festival ffs
posted on 18/12/22
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC are a bunch of idiots
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just be grateful it wasn’t on sky or bt, the pl level overhype would be nauseating.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 5 minutes ago
Would have been better if they dressed him as an actual goat. He should have shouted ‘siuuuu’ when he lifted the trophy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
posted on 18/12/22
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Wasn't at all hyped for it, even during the Qatar v Ecuador opener, but as soon as Saudi beat Argentina on Tue morning, I was bang in the mood for it. Those 3rd group games were absolutely scintillating.
posted on 18/12/22
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
posted on 18/12/22
I remember '66 as a 9-year-old listening live to the iconic radio commentary for Hurst's last goal. Sat in a traffic jam on our way from Kent to Stratford-on-Avon for a holiday.
posted on 18/12/22
Playing in winter meant the players were fresher which made a better World Cup. Will be interesting how the remainder of the season goes.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It features a woman advertising an adult site!
posted on 18/12/22
comment by comic book guy (U17816)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by The Goofy One (U16087)
posted 2 minutes ago
Best world cup ever.
Despite media (bbc in particular) best efforts to spoil it the world cup was brilliant.
And hardly any crowd trouble.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC are a bunch of idiots
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC is actually brilliant.
And showing all the games live by cancelling the schedules and demoting shows like Strictly and Eastenders from prime time slots annoying people like my old mam to the extent that she has to send a written complaint to points of view as 'annoyed of Didsbury'... well done the BBC. Sport rules.
posted on 18/12/22
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 6 minutes ago
If anyone is on Facebook it seems RVP's page has been hacked judging by the latest 'story' on there!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
????
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It features a woman advertising an adult site!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ah it's gone now.
posted on 18/12/22
There's always a tweet though!
https://twitter.com/alvarezszn19/status/1604552773248458759?t=mGJG1mtzUpiJureenPWkAQ&s=19
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