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comment by Feyenoord Champions - #shavethedonkeys (U1250)
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comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
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comment by Feyenoord Champions - #shavethedonkeys (U1250)
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Mexico is South American is what DJ would say
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Mexico is central America you dafty.
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It is located south of america though, DJ.
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Antarctica is the only thing south of America, my dear Watson.

comment by #4zA - #savethedonkeys (U19575)
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comment by Alexis The King Sanchez (U10026)
posted 13 minutes ago

Haha as if Russia will get to the semis.

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In normal circumstances I would agree, they are worse than utter chit, but as I said, its in Russia and there`ll be some strange decisions during their matches
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So because the competition is in Russia, the FIFA referees are gonna make so many decisions in their favour that one of the weakest Russian teams in decades get to the semis?

You'd get good odds for that I'm sure.
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South Korea reached the semi final as host in 2002 thanks to referees
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No South Korea reached the semis as they defeated Italy in the quarters. The Italians couldn't accept that so they blamed the referee.

comment by Gillespie Road (U18361)
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comment by Feyenoord Champions - #shavethedonkeys (U1250)
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comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
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comment by Feyenoord Champions - #shavethedonkeys (U1250)
posted 4 minutes ago
Mexico is South American is what DJ would say
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Mexico is central America you dafty.
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It is located south of america though, DJ.
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Antarctica is the only thing south of America, my dear Watson.

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Fack me, Mexico is in North America.

comment by Idontlikemondays (U6377)
posted 51 minutes ago
comment by Alexis The King Sanchez (U10026)
posted 13 minutes ago

Haha as if Russia will get to the semis.

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In normal circumstances I would agree, they are worse than utter chit, but as I said, its in Russia and there`ll be some strange decisions during their matches
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It won’t happen. Even if they fet dodgy decisions it won’t stop them losing games because they are crap. They’ll probably go out in the group stages.

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Yeah I'd take off the tinfoil hat.

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comment by Idontlikemondays (U6377)
posted 17 minutes ago
And btw, my initial post was a facetious comment, I don't expect anything untoward but at the same time I think they will get home bias on debatable decisions

Also the hosts generally do well at their own tourn
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Oh right.

comment by #4zA - #savethedonkeys (U19575)
posted 11 minutes ago
world cup hosts on average go two phases of the competition further than their normal performance.
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Yeah, I would say that's normal. Like playing home matches, teams find it easier.

Can't see it helping Russia much as they are poor at the moment.

They’ll be like South Africa were.

Russia are poor. Even if they squeak out of their group they’ll likely play a resurgent Spanish side

comment by vidicthelegend VIVA LA REVOLUTION (U8735)
posted 6 hours, 59 minutes ago
People saying England will go to the quarters

We'll beat Panama, draw with Tunisia and lose to Belgium and be out in the group stages as usual.
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England do tend to get through the group, to be fair. Brazil 14 the obvious recent exception.

As usual.

Bloody Russians at it again.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/national-embarrassment-anger-drunken-england-12240281.amp

TooR desperate to prove something that no-one is arguing against

I'm not desperate at all. Just two articles tonight have been written proving what I said at the beginning of the article. England fans are as bad or at least close to as Russian fans. Well a minority of each set anyway.

As Southgate said, one's own house needs to be put in order before talking about Russians.

Arrogance and a holier than thou attitude isn't going to cut it.

No-one has argued there aren't England hooligans.
Putting your own house in order is all well and good - but the World Cup is in Russias 'house'....

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 minutes ago
No-one has argued there aren't England hooligans.
Putting your own house in order is all well and good - but the World Cup is in Russias 'house'....
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Yes. It was in England's in 96 and I thought it went quite well. Nothing much out of the ordinary. I'm sure that will be the same in the summer. Once again the sensationalism about a country which isn't England hosting a tournament will seem rather silly. Its funny as France was the one that I don't remember too much negative being said about before the event and yet it was the worst in recent memory for trouble. Of course no thanks to some English and Russian fans for that.

England did a lot of work in the 90s to try and eliminate hooliganism and racism in football.
And for a while England certainly improved.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 9 minutes ago
England did a lot of work in the 90s to try and eliminate hooliganism and racism in football.
And for a while England certainly improved.


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Without a doubt and Russia are claiming they are putting a lot of work in to make sure the World Cup is a normal one. We will hopefully see the benefits of that. Unfortunately I won't be there. If VAR was in play in the qualifiers I might have went. Although I did go to France in 98 and saw Brazil beat Scotland. It just not the same when your own country aren't there. I sometimes feel some fans need their country to miss out on a few tournaments and then they might actually enjoy going there for the football and not the trouble, when they do get in.

Russia are claiming they are putting a lot of work in to make sure the World Cup is a normal one. We will hopefully see the benefits of that.
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Hope so. Be nice if hooliganism and VAR are topics that don't dominate the summer.