Trying to work out the strategy for the next game… Go to the pub Sunday afternoon and have “a few”, then go home and have maybe a night cap so to speak, set the alarm and sleep, up at midnight, a couple of liveners and settle down to watch the game…oh and don’t arrange to be in work Monday at all.
Or…just go on a massive bender all day Sunday, pass out and wake up in time for the game..?
Neither feels like it’s a winner tbh…
Go to bed, try and avoid the result all day, watch the highlights when I get home.
France vs Spain semi could be good!
That didn’t work for the Likely Lads in the 1970s, and there was no internet then.
It’s very tempting until you realise that with extra time and penalties, if required, it could all finish around 4am.
My strategy will probably be go to bed early and wake at 6am to watch the whole match “as live” on catch up TV.
Ah but it did…they had no idea the game had been called off.
Do.people really need to go to the pub at 1am? I’m sure night shift coppers everywhere are really pleased about that plan.
As for VAR, yet again, it prevents the controversies over offsides and penalties that used to disrupt the game so much and have pundits arguing!
I’ve got genuine second hand anxiety about the prospect of trying to avoid the score all day on Monday
The England flags on lampposts will be a giveaway. If fans are taking them down, you’ll know that England are out. If it’s workers employed by woke snowflake Councils doing it, we’re still in.
If everybody is fucking in the streets like it’s VE Day it means you scraped through on penalties
Man who threatens to sue someone for something he wrote on an internet football forum labels other people snowflakes
Beyond parody
Or a large asteroid is on course to hit the earth on 7th July.
It’s got to be bed as early as possible Sunday night.
Alarm set for 00:45.
Deliberate between coffee or a beer.
Horlicks with the penalty shootout and back to bed for a brief nap.
I would like to revise my comment on pubs opening as Mrs W pointed out hospitality is dying and any extra revenue is to be welcomed.
I think we’ll win.
Other opinions are available.
Awkward part is the Brazil v Norway game at 9pm is quite appetising too.
Easy. Go to sleep early. Record the Brazil game. Wake up at 0100. Switch the TV on at 0108 - see we are 1-0 down. Watch the next 7 minutes increasingly despairing at our defence. Watch the first half of the Brazil game. Check our score. Still 0-1 down. Watch the second half of the Brazil game. Turn over to 1-0 down with 5 minutes left to see a replay of Kane being fouled/falling over/diving in the penalty area. Experience Déjà vu. Fall asleep and miss….
Is this some kind of reinvention of the Yuletide Wham! / Last Christmas avoidance craze? Good luck with that one.
ps - Declan Rice’s best position is still as a holding midfielder, after that it’s right back.
You either haven’t watched Declan Rice or you don’t know what a holding midfielder is
Landed back from Atlanta this morning.
I was very skeptical of both the extended WC, and the USA hosting it, coming into the tournament. However, I’m happy to admit I was wrong on both counts.
It’s been fantastic watching the smaller teams not just enjoy the occasion, but also be extremely competitive and well drilled.
And the US cities have been brilliant hosts - both in terms of their organisation and stadia, and the buy in and hospitality from the locals now its underway.
It’s felt like a real cultural exchange and reset between the USA, and the rest of the world. When you get out to these places, especially the south, you realise that the politics of division being sown by big media outlets and weirdos on social media is mostly irrelevant noise.
England fans were also exceptionally well behaved - nothing like the scenes and mood I saw in Marseille against Russia in the Euros.
Even if England go out against Mexico, as long as they go down swinging at the Azetca, it will have been an excellent world cup.
I spent two weeks working in Atlanta in 1996, just before the Olympics. Atlanta is a lovely city.
Last time I was in Atlanta it snowed.