World Cup

Cracking goal Harry 👏👏

Goal!

Good Luck England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I’ll bet GG13 Ronaldo with his usual truculent three year old face, well done D R Congo.

No, I bet they aren’t!

Casdon I bet they are not happy in Madeira or Portugal now ⚽️

I've watched matches which have been on when I wanted to watch some TV, not at silly o'clock.

Enjoyed:
Mexico v South Africa
Netherlands v Japan
France v Senegal

And definitely watching England v Croatia tonight.
I like Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka and would have liked to see Luke Shaw [apparently, controversially, not in the squad].

CanadianGran

I don't watch the matches, but the TV was on near the end of the Spain/Cape Verde match. Lovely to see a team so happy about a draw.

There was another post here about general knowledge, and I had to look up Cape Verde; I did not know where it was! We are learning all the time.

It means so much to the smaller countries when their teams are playing, the whole island will have been cheering them on, I think it’s lovely.
We went to Madeira in the spring this year, which is an island owned by Portugal, and the birthplace of Christiano Ronaldo. The whole island seems obsessed by him, he’s their hero, there’s a big golden statue of him in the city, and when we went in the sports shop they gave us a free Ronaldo mask and told us to wear it to support Portugal in the World Cup! I bet every TV on the whole island is on for every Portugal match.

Come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The giant flag is up at Old Market Square in Nottingham as usual. I tried a link but my phone isn't co-operating.

These breaks are purely and simply for showing adverts in USA, nothing to do with hydration!

We will watch the match. We haven’t watched any other matches as yet.

@MayBee70 I can't under why the games have to be deliberately stopped for a drinks break. The are enough natural stoppages during games where they can have drinks breaks, as happens during Premier League games (at the stadium I go to anyway).

AI Overview In football, an attacking player is offside if they are closer to the opponent's goal line than both the ball and the second-to-last defender at the exact moment the ball is passed to them. This rule exists to prevent attackers from simply hanging around the goal to wait for an easy tap-in.

One of those rules where once I was told about 20 times, I got it.

I am looking forward to the match as well.

Very much looking forward to it tonight. Partner and I will have a early meal and get cleared away.

Seems unfair to me that teams play in such different conditions Eg England are playing in an air conditioned stadium tonight. And the drinks breaks really disrupt the flow of the game sometimes and could be used unscrupulously. I enjoyed the Norway game. I still wish I understand offside etc more though.

I don't watch the matches, but the TV was on near the end of the Spain/Cape Verde match. Lovely to see a team so happy about a draw.

There was another post here about general knowledge, and I had to look up Cape Verde; I did not know where it was! We are learning all the time.

Grandmabatty

I deliberately didn't watch the Scotland game, although I was awake having a cuppa. My reasoning is, every time I watch something where I have a preference, my preference loses! Wimbledon, Olympics, golf etc you name it. So now I wait until it's over

Ah, you have my gift, or curse, as well.

I do exactly the same!

Cape Verde match was magnificent, their defence was brilliant and their 40 year old goalkeeper deserves every good thing said about him.
Now watching Belgium v Egypt, some players from local Premier League teams so of course of interest.
In the studio shocked to see Theo Walcott who looked about 15 only a few years ago.
He still seems a lovely man.

If a group all have equal number of points then goal differences will determine the places. As far as I know it’s never happened.

MayBee70

Did anyone else find that the Netherlands red kit was so bright it made their eyes blur? Or was it just my telly…

Yep, so bright (thought it was orange). We found the first half of the game pretty boring, particularly the play of the Netherlands team. Turned off at half-time, but apparently we missed the best half with a resulting draw. So pleased that Japan scored and equalised - they were more interesting to watch as a team!

Marydoll

Many of my family stayed up to watch Scotland play. DH taped it, then watched it this morning, everyone was sworn to secrecy, until he had done so.

I am not a football fan, but my family are, it's going to be a long haul. DH would watch flies playing football, if nothing else was available.

Well done Scotland! At least DH will be in a good mood! 😊

So would mine!! I’ve joked before and said if there was one legged penguin football he’d watch it!

I’m trying not to watch, but DH will watch as many matches as he possibly can.

A wonderful goalkeeper, a great draw for Cape Verde.

The Cape Verde match was amazing. I am pleased they held Spain to a draw.

Never enjoyed a nil all draw like that but WOW the Cape Verde goalie was super. What a great game.