The Golden boy

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1. Lobotka already taken. 2. Kawee has until 7:15 to make his pick.

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Baptista_8; 1. Sergej Milinković-Savić (Serbia) BigV; 1. Jude Bellingham (England) Bliss Seeker; 1. Rodri (Spain), 2. Antoine Griezmann (France) Crispypaul; 1. Bernardo Silva (Portugal) Darius1998; 1. Hakan Calhanoglu (Turkey) Freakiie; 1. Gregor Kobel (Switzerland) grff; 1. Milan Škriniar (Slovakia), 2. Wojciech Szczesny (Poland) GunmaN1905; 1. Kylian Mbappe (France), 2. Joško Gvardiol (Croatia) Harryseaess; 1. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) hilly_boro; 1. Jan Oblak (Slovenia), 2. Frenkie de Jong (Netherlands) JD nawrat; 1. David Alaba (Austria), 2. Ruben Dias (Portugal) Joel B; 1. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgia) Kawee; 1. Berat Djimsiti (Albania) mrw072; 1. Luka Modric (Croatia) Muttley84; 1. Tomas Soucek (Czech Republic) PaulHartman71; 1.Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ukraine) Pompeyboyz; 1. Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy) Rebs; 1. Radu Dragusin (Romania), 2. Jamal Musiala (Germany) Ronaldo Beckham; 1. Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary), 2. Lamine Yamal(Spain) Scott1892; 1. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) SouthCoastRed; 1. Rasmus Højlund (Denmark), 2. Nicoló Barella (Italy) The Golden boy; 1. Andy Robertson (Scotland), 2. Dušan Vlahović (Serbia) WillHoward42; 1. Manuel Neuer (Germany), 2. Yuko; 1. Virgil Van Dijk (Netherlands), 2. Harry Kane (England) 1 2 Albania Berat Djimsiti Austria David Alaba Belgium Kevin De Bruyne Croatia Luka Modric Joško Gvardiol Czech Republic Tomas Soucek Denmark Rasmus Højlund England Jude Bellingham Harry Kane France Kylian Mbappe Antoine Griezmann Georgia Kvaratskhelia Germany Manuel Neuer Jamal Musiala Hungary Dominik Szoboszlai Italy Gianluigi Donnarumma Nicoló Barella Netherlands Virgil Van Dijk Frenkie de Jong Poland Robert Lewandowski Wojciech Szczesny Portugal Bernardo Silva Ruben Dias Romania Radu Dragusin Scotland Andy Robertson Serbia Sergej Milinković-Savić Dušan Vlahović Slovakia Milan Škriniar Slovenia Jan Oblak Spain Rodri Lamine Yamal Switzerland Gregor Kobel Turkey Hakan Calhanoglu Ukraine Oleksandr Zinchenko @WillHoward42

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Ich bin in

The awarding of the World Cup was the bigger accelerant to Qatar rather than the 4 weeks of hosting. The last 12 years have been more important than the next 12 years will be.

Thought this was going to be Aguero.

How has Modric won Bronze Ball. It's like they picked him just because they know he won't be playing another WC. So many more deserving of that, even on his own team.

Third/fourth place play off Saturday 17th December Croatia 0-0 Morocco (Croatia Pens) The Final Sunday 18th December Argentina 2-1 France * Bonuses - Note - the bonuses ONLY apply to the final - there are no bonuses for the, err, what's it called game The total number of goals scored - 3 The number of goals scored in the first half - 1 The number of goals scored in the second half - 2 The number of goals scored after 90 minutes - 0 The number of hattricks - 0 Will the game go to extra time - No Will the game go to penalties - No The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 1 The team which scores the fastest goal - Argentina The team which scores the last goal - Argentina The time of the first goal - 37 minutes The time of the last goal - 72 minutes The scorer of the first goal - Lionel Messi The scorer of the last goal - Julian Alvarez The total number of yellow cards - 4 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 9 ****Super, Hyper, Mega bonus*** Predict the exact score, whether the game will go to 90 or 120 minutes, the exact times of goal(s) and the goalscorer(s) - Argentina 2-1, in normal time, Messi (37), Alvarez (72) - Giroud (48)

Atlanta are very good at developing young South American players, so it's a testament to their club ethos to have one of them representing Argentina in a World Cup Final.

Saïss now plays for Beşiktaş

And quite frankly outside of the ludicrous Egypt, Greece, Saudi and the political suck up of the Spain/Portugal bid of adding Ukraine, the only credible alternative is the lone Morocco bid.

Maybe I have been swayed by the fact that it'll be the 100th anniversary of the first WC which was held in and won by Uruguay.

Imo, 2030 should be the Southern South America bid (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) and 2034 should be Spain, Portugal and Morocco in a first cross-continental hosting.

Semi-finals Tuesday 13th December Argentina 1-0 Croatia 19.00 Wednesday 14th December France 2-1 Morocco 19.00 * Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 4 The total number of goals scored in the first half - 1 The total number of goals scored in the second half - 3 The total number of goals scored after 90 minutes - 0 The total number of hattricks - 0 The number of games going to extra time - 0 The number of games going to penalties - 0 The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 0 The team which scores the fastest goal - France The team which scores the last goal - Morocco The time of the first goal - 42 minutes The time of the last goal - 83 minutes The scorer of the first goal - Kylian Mbappe The scorer of the last goal - Youssef En Nesyri The total number of yellow cards - 8 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 19

This is going to be featured on Lycett's 'Got your back Xmas Special' which is airing on Thursday at 9pm on Channel 4.

Won't be so much of an issue making this change for 2026 if they need extra host cities as there are plenty of cities they turned down to host games which have the stadia and infrastructure to host.

They're just reverting back to average. Look at Spain's record in World Cup before 2010. 1 Semi Final appearance before they won it, and that was in 1950.

I'd like my neck to still be attached at the end of every England game.

Hopefully he'll be bullying the defenders of Hull tomorrow.

Can we update the thread title to Netherlands vs Argentina vs Lahoz. Also expecting a Wikipedia article after that debacle.

I was going to say Lahoz has basically made the yellow cards guess pointless.

Quarter-Finals Friday 9th December Croatia 0-1 Brazil 15:00 * Netherlands 1-2 Argentina 19:00 Saturday 10th December Morocco 2-1 Portugal AET 15:00 England 0-2 France 19:00 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 9 The total number of goals scored in the first half - 2 The total number of goals scored in the second half - 6 The number of games going to extra time - 1 Correctly predicting all the specific games going to extra time - Morocco v Portugal The number of games going to penalties - 0 The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 0 The team which scores the fastest goal - Portugal The team which scores the last goal - Morocco The time of the first goal - 3 minutes The time of the last goal - 108 minutes The total number of yellow cards - 13 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 35

It sounds as if he'd moved in recently to the house and had workmen in to do work, so it's possible one of those people tipped people off as to the access codes.