World Cup Qatar

[Boycie]

10 hours ago, Boycie said:

Weren’t they having some kind of Air Conditioning for the stadiums?

Or was that April the first?

Never doubt me.

[RadioactiveWaste]

Of course, there are questions to raise about how Qatar got the world cup in the first place, the labour practices used in construction, the civil rights of its citizens (etc etc)... worth remembering MotoGP has been going there for years and F1 signed a 10 year deal to hold a grand Prix there.

In terms of the tournament itself, I always like to think in terms of who is going to be the surprise package, which African team are going to be exciting and who is going to fall out and implode (quite often the Netherlands)

[OUTSIDER]

Who will go to Qatar? Not going to be cheap

I will WHEN we qualify 

[RadioactiveWaste]

2 hours ago, OUTSIDER said:

Who will go to Qatar? Not going to be cheap

I will *if* we qualify 

So it's Alba Gu Brath, Slava Ukraini or Ni ddylem fod yma, ydych chin chwarae rygbi?

[Mucker1884]

10 hours ago, Boycie said:

Never doubt me.

Imagine how lovely that would be with a few of these scattered around the perimeter...

[TigerTedd]

I learned an interesting fact yesterday.

We we’re invited to take part in the first few World Cups, but decided that the home nations cup was a far bigger event, with more quality.

So we could’ve had more than one title to our names, if we hadn’t have been so stubborn in those early days, as we really were head and shoulders above most teams back then, and would’ve been favourites to win it, if we’d have bothered to enter. 

And as an additional fact to that, they eventually compromised by saying the home nations cup could be a qualifying competition for the World Cup, and the two finalists would go through to the World Cup. But Scotland said ‘we don’t want your pity place, we’ll only come if we win.’ And they lost in final to England, so they didn’t qualify. 

Edited April 13, 2022 by TigerTedd

[RadioactiveWaste]

9 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

I learned an interesting fact yesterday.

We we’re invited to take part in the first few World Cups, but decided that the home nations cup was a far bigger event, with more quality.

So we could’ve had more than one title to our names, if we hadn’t have been so stubborn in those early days, as we really were head and shoulders above most teams back then, and would’ve been favourites to win it, if we’d have bothered to enter. 

And as an additional fact to that, they eventually compromised by saying the home nations cup could be a qualifying competition for the World Cup, and the two finalists would go through to the World Cup. But Scotland said ‘we don’t want your pity place, we’ll only come if we win.’ And they lost in final to England, so they didn’t qualify. 

How very Scotland.

[Anon]

4 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

I learned an interesting fact yesterday.

We we’re invited to take part in the first few World Cups, but decided that the home nations cup was a far bigger event, with more quality.

So we could’ve had more than one title to our names, if we hadn’t have been so stubborn in those early days, as we really were head and shoulders above most teams back then, and would’ve been favourites to win it, if we’d have bothered to enter. 

And as an additional fact to that, they eventually compromised by saying the home nations cup could be a qualifying competition for the World Cup, and the two finalists would go through to the World Cup. But Scotland said ‘we don’t want your pity place, we’ll only come if we win.’ And they lost in final to England, so they didn’t qualify. 

I think head and shoulders above the rest might be a bit of a stretch. Yes, England were undoubtedly one of the best international teams, but look at the international records from the time 1930-36 England played 17 times against continental European opposition, winning 9, drawing 3, and losing 5. The form away from home was markedly worse than at Wembley. In my opinion, it was by no means nailed on that an England side from that era would've won the world cup if they'd deigned to compete.

[TigerTedd]

18 minutes ago, Anon said:

I think head and shoulders above the rest might be a bit of a stretch. Yes, England were undoubtedly one of the best international teams, but look at the international records from the time 1930-36 England played 17 times against continental European opposition, winning 9, drawing 3, and losing 5. The form away from home was markedly worse than at Wembley. In my opinion, it was by no means nailed on that an England side from that era would've won the world cup if they'd deigned to compete.

I’ll give you that, not nailed on, but we would’ve been along the favourites. There’s a decent chance, with a fair wind, we would've had another trophy in our cabinet. But we’ll never know. 

either way, we should definitely count any of our home nations cups as better than world cups. 

[Van der MoodHoover]

5 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

I’ll give you that, not nailed on, but we would’ve been along the favourites. There’s a decent chance, with a fair wind, we would've had another trophy in our cabinet. But we’ll never know. 

either way, we should definitely count any of our home nations cups as better than world cups. 

Since there were only 8 teams for the first couple of world cups that's probably a given..... ?

[OUTSIDER]

Qatar tickets on sale Wednesday for us late arrivals ??????? and with only 2750 official tickets available it's a scramble for second phase maybe.

Any one here going to Qatar? 

 

[Boycie]

1 hour ago, OUTSIDER said:

Qatar tickets on sale Wednesday for us late arrivals ??????? and with only 2750 official tickets available it's a scramble for second phase maybe.

Any one here going to Qatar? 

 

I’m alright mate, I’ve never been to a World Cup but this one doesn’t get me going.

[OUTSIDER]

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

I’m alright mate, I’ve never been to a World Cup but this one doesn’t get me going.

Wales dont go to many world cups and so im going to ,make most of this. 

[Boycie]

1 hour ago, OUTSIDER said:

Wales dont go to many world cups and so im going to ,make most of this. 

Of course! Totally missed your flag in the post.  Been a while since the last WC for Wales.

[OUTSIDER]

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Of course! Totally missed your flag in the post.  Been a while since the last WC for Wales.

NOT IN MY LIFE TIME 

[Reggie Greenwood]

Not interested in this in the slightest. Too many people killed in the building of the stadia , many workers treated as slaves . Won’t even watch it on tv. 

[i-Ram]

1 hour ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Not interested in this in the slightest. Too many people killed in the building of the stadia , many workers treated as slaves . Won’t even watch it on tv. 

I don’t think slaves have TV’s.

[Reggie Greenwood]

54 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

I don’t think slaves have TV’s.

??? I’m talking about me not watching it on TV obviously 

[Dean (hick) Saunders]

So… 

We canter to the final… Kane getting plenty 

Its Brazil in the final…

Can it be… Is it coming home???

And Reggie has gone to the museum of making…. ?

[Van der MoodHoover]

For those of us who believe Gareth Southgate is the living embodiment of football genius, it'll be a romp to the final. 

For those of us who are more cynical we're likely to be facing our first tough draw in the quarter final - France. We'll be knocked out having papped ourselves and stuck the whole squad behind the ball to celebrate a 0-0.

?