One thing that this World Cup has weirdly made me appreciate is the so called “retirement leagues”.
There’s plenty of players that absolutely couldn’t hack a full season in the prem but are still very very good players - glad they can go play in an easy league and then still perform at a national level.
Edit: Ronaldo is not included in this
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The wild thing about this whole Balogun situation is that it probably shouldn’t have been a red and if they had a reasonable process for overturning decisions they could have done so - they’ve been fucked by their own ineptitude exposing their corruption
Said to my kid that despite looking like neither team would ever score there'd be a goal before full time... Glad I was right, not because it made me look extremely knowledgeable to my son, but because I can go to bed now rather than in about 40 mins time
Absolutely shite match, happy Spain went through but think they looked pretty average tonight and can't see them beating France if they meet in the semis.