The_jagster

Blatant yellow, any cynical stopping of a counter by pulling back a player who's past you should not just be a free kick

Lads, it's Gunman. Much less energy from Argentina now

Messi losing the ball, Mbappe takes the lead in the golden boot.

OH MY GODDDDDDD

If France do this...

The ease with which the French players are being turned is like a league 1 team against a premier league team in the FA cup

France did some running in that last attack! Might have a shot by full time.

Keeps knocking it past players but isnt able to outpace them so far

Di Matteo won the Champions League, flawed managers can win tournaments

Football Clichés had a clip from 5 live in 1998 where Drury was just the reporter at the ground and he was still doing overblown alliterative stuff.

Oh no, he has been doing the same stuff for a solid 25 years now, but for some reason the Roma one went viral.

I think we'll be hearing a lot about a bout of flu in the days to come. Don't know what France are playing at. They aren't merely passive, just standing around giving a nothing pass eventually and then Argentina actually put an effort in to scrap for the ball. Theo has been one of the worst for this aside from Dembele. France have quite a few players who can carry the ball and have done none of that this half.

It was a dive but why is Dembele touching him at all?

Argentina not as passive as I was expecting, and France can't play out atm

I don't mind it, it's the biased nonsense he comes out with that annoys me

It is predictably boring so far

Put ITV on as it started earlier, I'm still not quite sure why Woods and Carney have their own separate conversations at the match.

I didn't really care either way but lots of people want Messi to win it and I like sport's capacity to ignore sentiment so I would probably prefer a French victory. Most of all I'd just like to see a decent match.

In modern England history that is one of our most embarassing results tbf, probably matched only by Iceland as that was in a more important game.

I feel like Bono could (maybe should) have still saved it, he doesn't really jump much when diving or it.

I will have on in the background but I suspect I will be more focused on FM

Edited, thanks!

Third/fourth place play off Saturday 17th December Croatia v Morocco 15.00 0-0 Croatia pens The Final Sunday 18th December Argentina v France 15.00 2-1 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) - 0 The team which scores the fastest goal - Argentina The team which scores the last goal - France The time of the first goal - 34' The time of the last goal - 77' The scorer of the first goal - Messi The scorer of the last goal - Mbappe The total number of yellow cards - 3 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 8 Predict the exact score, whether the game will go to 90 or 120 minutes, the exact times of goal(s) and the goalscorer(s) - 34' Messi, 60' Otamendi, 77' Mbappe ; 2-1 Argentina after 90 minutes

I know I'm always badgering you @Sons FC but is that why I appear to have had points deducted? 27. The_Jagster 250 1,800 1,210 +1

Interesting as an Irish journalist was saying there is a fairly bad flu going round the press box (and not all of them felt comfortable about it) and that England had asked journalists to wear masks at a press conference. Suggests it is a fairly significant bug.