Football

⚽ So Newcastle beat Everton by 4 goals, away and Manchester United can’t beat a 10 man Everton team at home. Right. I don’t even know why I bother watching United at the moment.

⚽️ The Club World Cup is a total cash grab but I guess the way to do this is give it away for free (on the DAZN app) and then get aligned with podcasts like The Rest is Football. Not convinced about all the teams in there, but eventually it will become something teams really try to get into.

⚽️ A great Ted Lasso episode. This year has been a little miss more than hit, but hopefully going to end strong.

⚽️ It’s great to have the Euros on while living in Europe. All the matches are at the perfect time. No classics yet but overall a good tournament so far. Only ding is how tired most of these stadiums look like.

⚽ Really looking forward to the Argentina vs Nigeria game. Has all the ingredients to be one of the classic games of this tournament.

⚽ Notes on the Iceland vs Nigeria game:

  • Hoping Iceland pull an equaliser against Nigeria, along with Mexico they’re my two favourite underdog teams.
  • How the hell did Nigeria just score twice in 20 minutes? Where Argentina had no way in?
  • VAR comes to their rescue…and he hoofs the penalty. What is going on with the penalties this World Cup?
  • Argentina can actually make it through to the next round now, after their abysmal performance yesterday to Croatia.
  • Both goals by Musa are some of the best individual performance goals I’ve seen in the world cup. Didn’t think they had it in them to be honest.
  • A great second half in this game, makes this group qualifying a fascinating one to watch.

⚽ This match is turning out to be a complete classico. This is what the world cup is all about. I’ve watched more football in the last 2 days than I’ve watched over the last 4 years combined. Totally worth it.

⚽ After some pretty heartbreaking matches for Egypt and Morocco, we’ve got the very first super match of the World Cup between Portugal and Spain. My money’s on Spain.

⚽ As we approach just 4 days before the start of the World Cup, these handy charts will be nice to keep in mind as the stats (and goals) start rolling in.