Well that was certainly an opening game, the host was worse than expected and Ecuador cruised to an easy victory. Anyway today looks great, day 2 has three matches. Lets take a look: Group B: England v Iran It’s coming … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 2, Southgate has this

Here we are, after arduous qualifiers, the first match is upon us… in November. This is causing chaos for most Football Leagues, in particular European ones. We’re also getting a lot of players missing due to injury, as the leagues … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 1, it begins

So here we are just one day before kick off and so our daily World Cup thread begins. The plan is for this thread to go up before the first game each day so it will serve to live blog … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Day 0

The World Cup starts in a month, in winter, because FIFA would organize the world cup in Mars if the bribe was big enough. Anyway, after some grueling qualifying rounds the participants are ready and now it’s time to go … Continue reading World Cup 2022: A Month Away Update and Wild Speculation

I’m sorry to inform y’all that it did not come home. The Yanks won and almost in 4th of July which would have been even more on the nose. The Lionesses in pure British fashion missed a penalty and where … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Grand Final

The quarterfinals brought some heartbreak, surprises and gladly not many VAR shenanigans. Here’s how the bracket looks now: Tuesday 7/2 USA v England: This is some good tea The US faced their biggest test yet and passed it defeating the hosts … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Semifinals

Well that was quite the round of 16. A lot of heartbreak, some drama and more VAR shenanigans that we would like but here we are: Thursday 6/27 Norway v England: It’s coming home from the cold cold north Norway had … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Quarterfinals

For some this is where the tournament starts, but oh boy was the group stage exciting. Argentina came back from 3-0 and were a just shy from advancing, Chile was denied by the woodwork, while Cameroon scored in the last … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Round of 16

Ah matchday 3, were math will be involved and with third places also going in it’s gonna be so much fun. Also because of that, all games from the same group will be played at the same time to avoid … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Group Stage Matchday 3

Things mostly went as expected in matchday 1, still we did get some surprises.. Anyway, let’s see what we have this round: Wednesday 6/12 Group A: South Korea v Nigeria Neither team had a good start, hell they had an … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Group Stage Matchday 2

Here we go, this time around I will do the group stage by matchdays instead of daily, I hope this works for y’all. So what do we have for matchday 1? Friday 6/7 Group A: South Korea v France As … Continue reading WWC France 2019: Group Stage Matchday 1

Here we go, another year another World Cup… wait that’s not how this usually goes. Well, the women’s World Cup is played the year after the men’s one so here we are about a month away from the cup’s start … Continue reading Women’s World Cup France 2019: A Month Away Overview

It did not come home, it was a great effort and in retrospective the English kids overachieved, but then the worst thing happened: they gave their country hope. Goodbye “It’s Coming Home” memes, we’ll see you in the next Euro. … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Final, the Illyrian Provinces Strike Back

A 4 years wait and now it’s almost over. We have only 4 matches left (including the 3rd place one), it went too fast, right? Uruguay missed Cavani and Muslera killed them, Brazil played their best match and it wasn’t … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Semifinals, It’s Almost There

Oh boy, seems like the surprises just don’t end, right. Well, kinda, only Spain failing was unexpected. The rest happened as they should but with some hiccups (right, Belgium?). Again México failed in the R16 (7th cup in a row, … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Quarterfinals, It’s Taking the Long Route Home

So here we are, after a long group stage the Round of 16 starts with really great matches with some that, in my opinion, belong more in a quarterfinal but c’est la vie. We have no games until tomorrow but … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: R16, It’s Coming Home

Korea did their part but México were crushed and couldn’t return the favor. While in the afternoon Brazil did enough and will face México and Switzerland tied against the feisty tickets and will face Sweden. Day 15, group H is … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 15, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee

France and Denmark played the most boring game yet, Perú recovered some of their honor, Iceland fought till the end while Argentina survived (even if Diego didn’t) Day 14, in group E only Costa Rica is out while in group … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 14, Imagine “Cosas Chingonas”

Well that was an exciting first day for our last round of the group stage. Morocco and Iran gave a fight to two of the favorites, but VAR was there to do, um, things. In the other group Russia finally … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 13, Argentina’s Last Stand