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He wouldn’t even be the top free kick taker in the side, let alone the league. When was the last time he scored one?

Fucking hell, some of the pearl clutching on here is worse than those chumps in the BBC studio. Nothing about the French over reacting and pretending they were hurt, the worst being Mbappe. Bloke hardly touched him and “chappers” (or whatever his name is) was crying like a big girl “Beckham got sent off for that”, nothing about Mbappe trying to get the bloke sent off for it. What were Paraguay supposed to do, try and out play the French? There wasn’t a bad tackle in the game, just a bit of afters to try and goad the French into responding, a tactic that’s as old as the hills. The BBC chumps are supposed to be neutral, they highlighted the Paraguay over reactions, but nothing when the French did it. That one bloke with the dodgy hair & Hart, saying how great it was Mbappe was laughing at them, I was hoping someone would take one for the team, and chin him. As for messing up the penalty spot, that’s common practice in Europe, but as soon as a South American does it, they come over all moral. The best team won, and deserved to win. But save get off your moral high horses FFS.

The ref was from Ouzbékistan,what can he possibly know about serious football. FIFA have introduced far too many aspects into this cup that have absolutely no real value. Joke teams, joke officials and joke playing conditions. They need to reduced everything by 25 percent.

We’ll have to disagree on that. I get that there’s a business need for a reasonable proportion of players with resale value but I’ll worry about the Champions League when we get there. If we don’t get promoted this season then it’s a real issue financially. That being the case I’d rather sign a 30 year old Rasiak than a 19 year old with a 50:50 chance of turning into Mo Salah or Nicholas Bignall.

It gets even worse than Christopher Harborne, Farage really is a poundshop Trump https://thedailybritain.co.uk/farage-george-cottrell-convicted-criminal-funding-sunday-times-2026/

Just like Nigel Farage did https://thedailybritain.co.uk/farage-george-cottrell-convicted-criminal-funding-sunday-times-2026/ The UK had a discount on access to the world’s single market - that’s not something you can replace let alone without having a vision for what you replace it with as the half-cocked and lopsided trade deals have shown ever since. Anyone contesting that hasn’t got a clue about running a business which exports/imports.

I hope the FA guys watched that game to determine the real meaning of cheating, witnessed by millions and yet goes unpunished. Not a guy on a iPhone miles away watching a training session, these Paraguay idiots were trying to injure and take out players but everyone turned a blind eye.

Scared to send mbappe off, probably due to his status and importance to the cup. It's that big team bias all over again, I thought var was supposed to reduce that.

Linked with Justin Deveney Crystal Palace but Alan Nixon so maybe just rumour

Intrigued to know who or where these people are. It could be true, I’ve seen little to know rumours about him since the supposed “home sickness” reports months ago.

Leicester's rebuild is going to be massive. Proper exodus going on.

Boro looking at buying Skipp from Leicester...

The sending off of USA player Balogun for not very much in the last USA game puts paid to that theory.

I know the refs have been, rightly, encouraged to keep the game flowing and stop the constant provision of free kicks as players dive so much. But fecking hell, the ref last night belongs at the World Cup as much as Djed Spence

I don’t normally like accusing refs of corruption, as usually they’re just incompetent. But you do have to ask the question after last night. The refs performance was just so strange. There were clear elbows and punches thrown and the ref/VAR did nothing except book French players… insanity

Conspiracy theory time. Infantino is absolutely desperate for the USA to do well at the world cup to appease his mate, Trump. Obviously dodgy refereeing decisions in USA games will be under a lot of scrutiny. So the next best thing to do is try and ensure the other best teams in their half of the draw get knocked out. Happened with Germany already. Did their best to ensure France went out last night. Suspect Spain will be up against the ref tonight too. USA probably have enough to beat Belgium, so reckon they'll scrape through that.

Forgive

Lots of people continuing to assume that Jander is staying.

Hello everyone, As a supporter of Valenciennes and the French national team, let me tell you this: That Paraguay team and that refereeing are a disgrace to world football, and I’m choosing my words carefully this morning. Fortunately, real football came out on top last night!

These two paragraphs are absolute perfection, great work.

There's a difference between "signing better players" and "making better signings". JWP's good enough to start at the top of the Championship, but not good enough to start in the Champions League. I think someone who might develop into the latter would be a better signing than JWP, even if not a better player next season. It's Oli McBurnie all over again; do we want someone good enough for this level but not for the ones above, or do we look for a YHGTI diamond in the rough and risk ending up with a Downs? I'd rather take the risk in this case when we already have Jander/Downes/Bragg in midfield, have a couple of other academy players who could benefit from 900 minutes or so of Championship football, and have a scouting team that found Fernandes and Jander in back-to-back years so have proven they can find good young midfield prospects.

This is the problem. Statistics and data can be manipulated to show whatever to you like. You can find arguments for and against it. Therefore any “data” is rendered meaningless. Better to zoom out and ask yourself “is Britain declining or succeeding”. The answer, Brexit or no Brexit, is declining. Due to (in large part) the the reasons the ‘leave’ side were highlighting. Does Brexit harm business? Sure, it’s a fair question, but ultimately it’s a tiny blip compared to the rise in energy costs, inflation, stupid rules that favour scroungers instead of good workers, bureaucracy, taxes, etc. To blame Brexit for the UK’s problems, to me, shows that someone has very little experience in what is actually happening in the real world. You can not tax your way into a great society. You have to earn it, nurture it, grow it, by incentivising & rewarding hard work.

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Misunderstanding