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World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

glasgowspur said:
Non lucrative visa, moving over there full time.
There's little here for us, will take out residency and make Spain our home.
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Interesting, I am strongly considering a move to Cambodia in 5 years, got a couple of friends who live there, one is my client who has become a mate and there is a great expat community there. Giving it some real thought
 
England vs Argentina: a semi-final for the ages and likely will be bigger than the game vs West Germany in 1990.

I initially though England would smash them to pieces (certainly i'd LOVE that) but then i remember our defence and that they have Alvarez, who started the tournament half-fit (he was coming back from injury),and may now be coming back to his best. And his best is scary.

Maybe this will be the one that goes to extra time and ends 4-3...
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
I can't see how they could do it, only 5/6 grounds in Spain hold over 50k and I imagine Portugal and Morocco have l
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Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina are also hosting games, partly to make a token recognition of the 100th anniversary, but mainly to provide a route for Saudi Arabia in 2030 (eliminate three continents from the rotation).

Instead of the single game each currently planned, they could play a whole group in each of those countries. Then they'd have 13 groups for Morocco, Portugal and Spain. That should be easy to manage. Morocco are building quite a few stadia.

This might be the path planned. Distribute the group games among cohosts and play the knockout games in a primary host (pretty much like this world cup). The Euros did a similar things with cities recently. I assume this would be necessary for a 64 game world cup in Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure the Saudis can manage 48 teams, so the expansion would be a convenient excuse for spreading it around, rather than admitting the chosen host is inadequate.
 
jts1882 said:
Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina are also hosting games, partly to make a token recognition of the 100th anniversary, but mainly to provide a route for Saudi Arabia in 2030 (eliminate three continents from the rotation).

Instead of the single game each currently planned, they could play a whole group in each of those countries. Then they'd have 13 groups for Morocco, Portugal and Spain. That should be easy to manage. Morocco are building quite a few stadia.

This might be the path planned. Distribute the group games among cohosts and play the knockout games in a primary host (pretty much like this world cup). The Euros did a similar things with cities recently. I assume this would be necessary for a 64 game world cup in Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure the Saudis can manage 48 teams, so the expansion would be a convenient excuse for spreading it around, rather than admitting the chosen host is inadequate.
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Would be far easier to keep Gianni's mate happy and play games in Africa/Asia/Middle East.
 
Nice to know that the whole of Latin America will be cheering on England against VARgentina 😆

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All the conspiracy theories I see are that FIFA wanted England, Argentina, France and Spain in the Semis. Now that it has happened, will we start seeing fair officiating?

Or will the officials confirm what most of us really believe. There is no conspiracy, just awful officiating.
 
AJLB92113 said:
All the conspiracy theories I see are that FIFA wanted England, Argentina, France and Spain in the Semis. Now that it has happened, will we start seeing fair officiating?

Or will the officials confirm what most of us really believe. There is no conspiracy, just awful officiating.
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Nope, it will be Eng vs Arg + FIFA, just like it was Eng vs CRO + FIFA in 2018 and Eng vs FRA + FIFA in 2022.

It will feel absolutely amazing beating 12 men on Weds.
 
has the officiating been that bad?

or just usual bad?

I can think of a few missed calls (a France handball, a Messi stamp), and obviously the dodgy decision for the Spence pen, but I don't think its been any worse than what we see in the PL regularly
 
Muttley said:
Nope, it will be Eng vs Arg + FIFA, just like it was Eng vs CRO + FIFA in 2018 and Eng vs FRA + FIFA in 2022.

It will feel absolutely amazing beating 12 men on Weds.
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Alf Inge Haaland basically said the refs were biased towards us against Norway. The top teams have always got the decisions more often than not. I don’t think there’s been any outrageous decisions beyond the norm. There will always be 50/50 decisions that go certain teams way.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Alf Inge Haaland basically said the refs were biased towards us against Norway. The top teams have always got the decisions more often than not. I don’t think there’s been any outrageous decisions beyond the norm. There will always be 50/50 decisions that go certain teams way.
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I was in Moscow in 2018. The complete lack of dealing with the yellow card incidences in the first half changed that game. I saw it with my own eyes. I think the worse one was probably the delayed Euro's in 2021. That Italy game saw some facrical refereeing and cost us the game. We shouldn't have been playing against 11 men. In terms of France, it was the massive incident where the goal was given due to FIFA/IFAB changing the rules away from the spirit of the game. That France goal should never have been allowed.

I think we have to remember that it was the corrupt Brits that run FIFA for too long and there has been an agenda against us for a very long time since. It's about putting us back in our place, not forgetting and moving on. We have to also remember that there is a major war going on between FIFA and UEFA about who is getting the money. Those 2 organisations hate each other. FIFA and Infantino is also very Trump like in the way it behaves. It's command and control, and even came up with their own way of defining carbon neutral in Qatar. That industry lambasted them for that. They didn't care.

You will never get a level playing field with either of these organisations. You should never expect genuine football fans to like me to do anything other than hate what they stand for.
 
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