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4 hours ago, Lobo said:

This is a scene from next season of Ted Lasso, right?  

I have been asked by the government of Madagascar to intervene.

My avatar, the Prime Minister of Madagascar, accepts your request. 

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57 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

My avatar, the Prime Minister of Madagascar, accepts your request. 

Is that really the Prime Minister of Madagascar?Is that really the Prime Minister of Madagascar?

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5 hours ago, ztejas said:

This is obviously the wrong thread - but all of the futbol threads bleed into each other anyway - how much power does the FA or PL have over each team? Like what steps could they take against Roman? 

I am not sure that the FA/PL can do anything. But I'm pretty sure the UK government can push him out of ownership due to not letting him conduct business there. He's can't go to London as it is now.

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The answer is British libel laws. 

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If they had stones or spines, FIFA wouldn’t even question it and toss Russia out. There is little reason for them to care about Russian participation in the World Cup. 

It’s discussed in the first 5 minutes of this segment. 

 

On 2/26/2022 at 12:50 PM, Captain Ron said:

If they had stones or spines, FIFA wouldn’t even question it and toss Russia out. There is little reason for them to care about Russian participation in the World Cup. 

Plus Russia sucks. They rarely ever qualify. For invading Ukraine FIFA should ban them from the World Cup if they manage to qualify. 

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Dang. You got that up before I had a chance to make fun of them for banning their flag and anthem yesterday. It is good to see FIFA doing the right thing here.

 

There is some chatter that this might be a way to get Italy and Portugal away from each other and they might reshuffle the groups or something.

consider me shocked that FIFA/UEFA have bigger spines than the IOC.

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So most confederations start qualification on Thursday. But Oceana started last week.

And it's a freaking mess.

Group A is a cluster as there are now 2 teams, Vanuatu and The Cook Islands, that had COVID outbreaks. The Cook Islands had already played The Solomon Islands. They have cancelled the rest of their games, leaving only The Solomon Islands and Tahiti to play a game for seeding in the next round? And that assumes that The Solomon Islands don't have a COVID outbreak.

Group B has gone how you would expect with New Zealand already advancing to the 4 team playoff. Fiji and Papa New Guinea play for the next spot, winner advances, tie goes to PNG.

As a whole, I don't see how this doesn't just go to New Zealand, but you never know.

29 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

So most confederations start qualification on Thursday. But Oceana started last week.

And it's a freaking mess.

Group A is a cluster as there are now 2 teams, Vanuatu and The Cook Islands, that had COVID outbreaks. The Cook Islands had already played The Solomon Islands. They have cancelled the rest of their games, leaving only The Solomon Islands and Tahiti to play a game for seeding in the next round? And that assumes that The Solomon Islands don't have a COVID outbreak.

Group B has gone how you would expect with New Zealand already advancing to the 4 team playoff. Fiji and Papa New Guinea play for the next spot, winner advances, tie goes to PNG.

As a whole, I don't see how this doesn't just go to New Zealand, but you never know.

If they keep having outbreaks, maybe they just put together an all-star team from the federation to see if they can win the playoff against the CONCACAF #4.

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Oh shit! Japan just scored in the 89” to go up 1-0 over Australia. If this holds, both Japan and Saudi Arabia are in the World Cup. 

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2-0 Japan. Ballgame. 94” goal to put it away. 
 

Australia can only get in via the intercontinental playoff now. 

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Yes.

Edit - Panama or Costa Rica dropping points helps the US.

Costa Rica losing would mean the US would only need 1 point to basically guarantee 4th (GD heavily in the US favor) 

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1 hour ago, CleverNickname said:

If Canada beats Costa Rica tonight, does that help us?

Win and they're in. And yes, I believe it helps us since we're sitting in second place.

 

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  Country           GP     Pts    GD      Max
1 Canada            11     25    +14      34
2 United States     11     21     +9      30
3 Mexico            11     21     +6      30
4 Panama            11     17     +1      26
5 Costa Rica        11     16     +1      25

Times Eastern
Panama v Honduras 9 PM
Mexico v US 10 PM
Costa Rica v Canada 10 PM

El Salvador v Costa Rica 5 PM
US v Panama 7 PM

Panama v Canada 9 PM
US v Costa Rica 9 PM

Just a little more on the help.

Along with the US or Mexico faltering, both Costa Rica or Panama need near perfect windows. If they drop points in their opening game of the window, it makes the margin for error pretty much 0 the rest of the way for them. It would also make a point against Mexico huge.

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Fans in Lebanon caused the Lebanon-Syria game be stopped for a long while. Syria jumped out to a 0-3 lead and the fans started throwing stuff on the field around the 70' mark.

They game just resumed with the stands emptied.

The result would just about put UAE in to the Asian playoff slot against Australia.

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So there was a near 40 minute stoppage. The scoreboard on the Paramaount feed shows 78' minute, but online you see it as 90' + 28'.

 

UAE entered the day 3 points up on Lebanon in the standings. The GD was UAE 0, Lebanon -3 (now -6). It would take a near miracle for Lebanon to make that up.

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On 3/22/2022 at 3:30 PM, Captain Ron said:

So most confederations start qualification on Thursday. But Oceana started last week.

And it's a freaking mess.

Group A is a cluster as there are now 2 teams, Vanuatu and The Cook Islands, that had COVID outbreaks. The Cook Islands had already played The Solomon Islands. They have cancelled the rest of their games, leaving only The Solomon Islands and Tahiti to play a game for seeding in the next round? And that assumes that The Solomon Islands don't have a COVID outbreak.

Group B has gone how you would expect with New Zealand already advancing to the 4 team playoff. Fiji and Papa New Guinea play for the next spot, winner advances, tie goes to PNG.

As a whole, I don't see how this doesn't just go to New Zealand, but you never know.

 

So yeah, they just had Vanuatu and The Cook Islands withdraw, giving group A to The Solomon Islands and Tahiti. They are currently playing (tied 1-1 in the 39') for seeding in the playoff, loser gets New Zealand, winner gets the winner of Fiji-Papa New Guinea.

38 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Fans in Lebanon caused the Lebanon-Syria game be stopped for a long while. Syria jumped out to a 0-3 lead and the fans started throwing stuff on the field around the 70' mark.

Their Concacaf invite is in the mail.

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Asia qualifying is almost done.

All of the automatic qualifiers are set: S. Korea and Iran from Group A. Japan and Saudi Arabia from Group B.

Australia has locked up 3rd place in Group B for the first AFC playoff spot.

The Group A playoff spot will come down to the final day because Iraq beat UAE to keep the race alive.

Standings:

            Pts    GD
3 UAE        9     -1
4 Iraq       8     -6
5 Lebanon    6     -6

Their matches on the final day:

Iran v Lebanon
UAE v S. Korea
Syria v Lebanon

Italy tied 0-0 with North Macedonia at the half.  what's wrong with Italy?

Wales up 1-0 at HT:

 

so pissed

 

32 shots, 5 on target - 0 scores.  66% possession and that moron Immobile is still getting playing time.  Awful.  

😂 

jorghino is such a shit dm. That he finished 3rd in the Ballon d’Or puts the whole award into disrepute. 

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Along with Northern Macedonia's big upset over Italy, other winners ...

Portugal 3-1 Turkey, they face Northern Macedonia

Wales 2-1 Austria. They will get the Scotland-Ukraine winner in June.

 

Sweden and the Czech Republic are tied 0-0 in extra time. Winner gets Poland.

fuck Sweden for taking the ball into the corner with 7 minutes left.  jeez.  hope the Czechs score.

Donnarumma  has also been hot garbage in his last two big games. That was horrible goalie play on that shot tonight. 

1 hour ago, JerrysJheriCurl said:

Bella Ciao! Italy no World Cup for you sirs. 

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1 hour ago, JerrysJheriCurl said:

Bella Ciao! Italy no World Cup for you sirs. 

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9 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

So yeah, they just had Vanuatu and The Cook Islands withdraw, giving group A to The Solomon Islands and Tahiti. They are currently playing (tied 1-1 in the 39') for seeding in the playoff, loser gets New Zealand, winner gets the winner of Fiji-Papa New Guinea.

The Solomon Islands won 3-1 seeding them #1 in Group A.
 

Papua New Guinea beat Fiji 2-1 knocking them out. New Zealand continued rolling winning 7-1 over New Caledonia. 

So coming next is the KO round:

March 27:
Solomon Islands v Papua New Guinea
New Zealand v Tahiti.

March 30 are the finals.

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