The Golden boy

Here he is. 18 years and 3 days old.

I did enjoy Kompany diplomatically saying he kept Giroud in his pocket whenever he came up against him.

Man can't pronounce Argentina right.

I'm surprised nobody in commentary or punditry has mentioned how Lewandowski nearly signed for Blackburn before he became well known. That's a favourite of English media desperately looking for something to say.

Looks like she bought tickets to the last World Cup, unless she's anticipating a QF match up.

Group Stages Sunday 20th November - November! Group A 16.00 Qatar 0-1 Ecuador Monday 21st November Group A 16.00 Senegal 1-3 The Netherlands Group B 13.00 England 2-0 Iran 19.00 USA 2-0 Wales Tuesday 22nd November Group C 10.00 Argentina 2-0 Saudi Arabia 16.00 Mexico 1-1 Poland Group D 13.00 Denmark 3-2 Tunisia 19.00 France 1-1 Australia Wednesday 23rd November Group E 13.00 Germany 3-0 Japan 16.00 Spain 5-0 Costa Rica Group F 10:00 Morocco 1-1 Croatia 19:00 Belgium 3-1 Canada Thursday 24th November Group G 10:00 Switzerland 3-0 Cameroon 19:00 Brazil 2-0 Serbia GROUP H 13:00 Uruguay 2-1 South Korea 16:00 Portugal 1-1 Ghana

Bonuses The pre-tournament bonuses must be completed before the tournament kicks off. Pre-tournament Bonuses: How many goals will be scored in the tournament? 163 Who will be top scorer for the whole tournament? Memphis Depay How many hat-tricks will be scored in the tournament? 2 How many own goals will be scored in the tournament? 8 Who will win the tournament? Brazil Who will be runner up? Spain Group Stages Bonuses Which player will score the first goal in the tournament? Enner Valencia Who will score England's first goal? Harry Kane How many goals will be scored in the Group stages in total? 121 How many goals will England score in the Group stages? 7 Who will be the top scorer for the Group stages? Memphis Depay How many yellow cards will there be in the Group stages? 162 How many red cards will there be in the Group stages? 5

It's always a wet dream of these organisations to get North Korea involved in any bids involving South Korea.

Mexico City is no La Paz. Though I suspect anyone playing there who might not be used to playing at altitude might want to play a pre-WC friendly to acclimatise. Miami will be hot and wet. Start of the hurricane season is in June but first couple of months you only get a few tropical storms (this year, the first of which hit southern Florida at the beginning of June). Otherwise, you kind of know that it'll be hot and humid during the day and you're never too far away from a big thunderstorm.

Texas shouldn't be a problem, both stadiums have roofs. If FIFA is sensible they'll mandate all the games to be played under the roof. Monterrey will be 35c+ so will probably be problematic, would be best if they're all evening games. Guadalajara humidity will be the problem if it isn't chucking it down, and Mexico City will be ok because temperature is mediated by altitude. I'd worry about the East Coast too, because some of the temperature and humidity extremes seen there in recent summers have been bad, though we saw that huge 40c+ spike in the PNW so nowhere is really immune to high temperatures in the US summer.

As everything in this world, money buys you exemption from certain rules.

You need position names, not numbers.

Can only imagine the photographer was saying "Miggy Almiron is better than you".

Is Sadie Mane Sadio's wife?

Can you do some investigative journalism for OTF whilst you're there?

Depends who USA name as captain as they're the only team not to have announced so far. If it's Pulisic like I expect then he'll be the youngest.

https://www.buildlineup.com/shared/6374fd96761db92603a7019d

Looks like an M&S advert ffs.

Has he frozen him out. Saying that, he doesn't really fit with how Herr Flick plays.

Seems like a bit of a slap in the face to the media companies who dedicated so much of their resources into covering the period. Would hope it discourages them from dedicating so much time and effort in future.

Phil was taking pelters last week tbf They'd be in the VIP section and enter the stadium through a VIP entrance. That's not queue jumping but being given a privilege because of who they are. It's the same in this instance whether people believe they should get that privilege is what's up for debate.

"It's lights out, and away she goes"

Queen cared as much about Titchmarsh as the rest of us.

Much preferred Kuenssberg's show when she had serious guests like Joe Lycett on.