The Kraken

Just a ridiculous man.

Not sure. This Brazil team are absolutely nothing like the quality of what’s gone before them. Norway are well organised and have some proper quality too.

According to google AI, stutter pens are slightly more successful. We probably just remember the misses a bit more. Stutter penalty run-ups are statistically more successful, with studies showing an 80% conversion rate for stuttering or stop-start techniques compared to 76% for traditional, consistent run-ups. [1, 2]

It was suspended. He served a 1 match ban and they suspended the other 2 matches of the ban.

Battered fish is crap. There, I said it. Sea bass or bream over a wood fire (best found in a Spanish chiringuito), that’s the ticket.

The Azteca stadium. Famously one and a half times higher than the peak of Mount Everest.

I genuinely hope you’re not being serious, although I fail to see the gag.

2100 metres is about the level of the highest ski resorts in Europe (at resort level). It’s definitely noticeable in resort at that altitude (I typically have trouble sleeping more than anything) but one would hope that highly tuned athletes should be able to manage. The hydration breaks will also help, as will a big squad. Bolivia play at pretty much twice that altitude. I’d definitely have worries if we were playing anywhere near that high. I have faith our lads shouldn’t have extensive problems with 2100. Plus the temperature will be very low, according to the forecast only 16 degrees come kick off.

This is such pitiful bollocks. Again. Shameless prat.

Yes.

Nearly 15 minutes in, this is utterly crap so far.

It’s basically a cleaned up version of something they had previously but with the date added in there. Very bland.

There’s tips that work and some that don’t, but when it gets super hot there’s not really much you can do without AC. I do the standard things you should do: doors and windows closed during the day, curtains closed all day on the sunny sides of the house. Then you’re only supposed to open the windows once the outside temperature is cooler than inside. On a typical hot day this is, I find, usually around 9pm. The problem last night was that I went to bed at 11pm and it was 30 degrees in the bedroom. From what I can gather it only came down to below 30 degrees outside from about 10pm onwards. And if there’s no breeze kicking about at that hour, opening the windows doesn’t make much difference. Ah well. One more night of it, Friday looks a bit more reasonable then back to mid 20s and below which is much more manageable.

Stoke’s old bade was dreadful, Stoke’s new badge is dreadful.

It’s a real mystery alright.