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Quite pleased that, after years of thinking that Infantino looks like a charismatic but malignant Tintin character, he is now up against some morally indignant Belgians

Wikipedia-page-earning threshold criteria, thus: nytimes.com/athletic/7288731…

Bar not met, and rightly so, imo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico…

Sorry, what the fuck happened with the kick-off there?

Cometh the hour

Is it.....OK to evoke the Alamo?

Absolute "and breathe" first half

Olé that!

The "Dear England" version of Gordon Banks' save from Pele in 1970

England just need to move the ball a bit quicker

5Live showing their class in the delay here

Happy Hunting Grounds Live?

Absolute montage here

It does still look like a Terry Butcher own goal from some angles, doesn't it

Attention turns

Shorts are too bright a blue, Neymar obviously a joke, was getting a bit bored of "Don Carlo"... I'm at peace with this, I think

Bloody hell, I assumed Ryerson was a 24-year-old Brazilian that Dortmund picked up from Shakhtar while West Ham monitored his situation amid doubts over his work permit status despite him winning his first international cap in a 3-0 friendly win over Jamaica at Craven Cottage

No, laser, and because you asked- also my bollocks 👍🏼

Look forward to this when things get a bit asthmatic at 1-0 down in the second half

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @CDEccleshare & @j_akefarrell on Monday morning. Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic hallucinations, footballers' names in things & anything else – from the Azteca or beyond – for the World Cup Adjudication Panel Cheers!