Today's Football 2025-26

[velimski]

Only just catching up with last night's game. Incredible goals and drama.

[Gash]

Just Kenny McLean celebrating his own goal.



Right, I'll stop spamming the site now!

[Gash]

[toffee_scot]

Didn't actually think you played that well TBF, defended well but didn't keep hold of the ball brilliantly. Thought you were done for at 2-2 but fair play, did it when it mattered. Doubt there will be three better goals scored in a match

No, even when they were down to 10 men they were still the dominant team for large parts.

The World Cup will be a huge test, the next step is to get out of the group stage which we are notoriously bad at. It will likely be dependent on who we draw and if we can avoid injuries.

But that’s months away so for now just thrilled Scotland have qualified as the last time out I was about 8 years of age.

[velimski]

8 of the 12 3rd placed teams will qualify for the (new) knock out stage. Considering how many poor teams there're gonna be, you'd imagine there's a very good chance of progressing.

[Shogun]

Jordan, Cape Verde, Scotland, Curacao, Haiti... There's going to be some rough matches at this world cup.

[Goaljira]

Hoping they'll be the ones in the middle of the night, but they're not going to be are they?

[bigmanbob]

Oh fuck it's not going to be one of those world cups is it, I hadn't really thought that through!

[bigmanbob]

Jordan, Cape Verde, Scotland, Curacao, Haiti... There's going to be some rough matches at this world cup.

The Scots on this board will be loving them being included in that list of shite

[bigmanbob]

Oh fuck it's not going to be one of those world cups is it, I hadn't really thought that through!

Just looked up where the games are due to be played and the time zones:

USA
Dallas 6 hours behind
New York 5 hours behind
Atlanta is 5 hours behind
Kansas 6 hours behind
Houston 6 hours behind
San Francisco 8 hours behind
Los Angeles 8 hours behind
Philadelphia 5 hours behind
Seattle 8 hours behind
Boston 5 hours behind
Miami 5 hours behind

Canada
Toronto 5 hours behind
Vancouver 8 hours behind

Mexico
Mexico City 6 hours behind
Guadalupe 6 hours behind
Zapopan 6 hours behind

[Evertonfc15]

that scotland match was the craziest mad last 10 mins of a match ever
was actually shouting for the scots to score again - those goals never seen better! wow
made up for you guys that u have qualified
football shown that its the best sport in the world -
be great if we draw you scots on the world cup draw
brilliant

[Goaljira]

Oh fuck it's not going to be one of those world cups is it, I hadn't really thought that through!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... yqr5rvz3qo

Fifa are likely to schedule World Cup matches involving major European nations after midnight UK time next year in an effort to combat heat issues that affected the recent Club World Cup.

It had been anticipated World Cup kick-off times would mirror those at the Club World Cup, when the earliest games started at 17:00 BST, followed by 20:00, 23:00 and 02:00.

However, while 17:00 and 20:00 would suit European broadcasters, the former would be a midday kick-off on the United States east coast and the latter a midday kick-off on the west coast.

Paris St-Germain manager Luis Enrique complained about his team having to play in near 40 degree heat in their Club World Cup opener against Atletico Madrid in Los Angeles, which started at 12:00 local time.

Numerous coaches and players were affected by the heat and humidity, with Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez complaining of dizziness while playing.

Asked during his speech at the Leaders Conference in Twickenham for the major lessons learned from the Club World Cup, Victor Montagliani, who as president of the North and Central American Confederation Concacaf is in charge of the event, replied: "Kick-off times."

With 48 teams at the World Cup, there are 11 consecutive days in the group phase that have four games, each played at different times, when 12:00 kick-offs were expected to be commonplace.

While five of the 16 stadiums being used in the United States, Canada and Mexico either have roofs as standard or a sliding roof that can offer shade, it is impractical for all the early kick-offs to be scheduled in them.

When pressed to expand on his comments, Montagliani, who is also a vice-president of world governing body Fifa, said: "Kick-off times are always an issue in our region because summers are hot in Canada and US.

"We're having conversations daily with European media and other world media, in terms of what's best and which are the stadiums that you can play at 3pm. That's all in the mix now.

"Once the actual schedule comes out after the draw, we will do our best to ensure it's taken into consideration. Will it be that every game will be absolutely perfect from a kick-off time, from a TV perspective? I don't know."

Montagliani wouldn't be drawn on the recent threat by US president Donald Trump to move some of the games away from cities he deemed to be "unsafe".

However, he made it clear the move is not Trump's to make as only Fifa have the power to shift matches.

"If I have to react every time a politician makes a statement, whether it's a president, or senator, or congressman, or even in my country, or even in Mexico, then I wouldn't be doing my job," he said.

"The reality is we're focused on the 16 venues.

"It's Fifa's tournament. They make the decisions. It's their jurisdiction. With all due respect to current world leaders, football is bigger than them."

[weimaranerblues]

Not Sure Wales NI or Rep are going through them ties

[Gash]

Not Sure Wales NI or Rep are going through them ties

Allow me to post them for you.

Wales or Bosnia and Herzegovina v Italy or Northern Ireland
Ukraine or Sweden v Poland or Albania
Slovakia or Kosovo v Turkey or Romania
Republic of Ireland or Czechia v Denmark or North Macedonia

[Audrey Horne]

Ireland got Czechia.....are they still a decent team?