Football Thread

Seems even more pointless to play him, seeing as he is banned from the next actual qualifier game.

Could score nine and still be a bad apple for England. Sod off Gareth

Mustā€™ve been a weird one for Grealish and Rice lining up against the old team tonight.
3-0 though, Iā€™ll take that thumping for now. Was expecting to be on the receiving end of a 5-0 thrashing.

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Belter of a result for Scotland. First major tournament since 1998.

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Really stoked for them

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How have Scotland qualified only now? Surely all the qualifiers were already done since the tournament was supposed to happen this year?

Legendary.

ā€˜So Crouchy what would you of been if you werenā€™t a footballer?ā€™

ā€˜A virgin.ā€™

Crouch seems like a proper laugh to be around.

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heā€™s so much taller than you think too. Me and the missus was in Euston station and she said ā€œlook at that bloke, itā€™s like weā€™re in the Men in Black HQā€ I pointed out that it was Peter Crouch and heā€™s a footballer.
It did make you wonder how he didnā€™t snap during games.

He comes across as a real laugh in his bbc podcast would recommend if you havenā€™t listened to it already.

Also just seen Salah has tested positive for covid while on international duty.

Oh shit, didnā€™t realise that.
No wonder he caught it, no distancing or masks or anything.

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Yeah, listened/watch a few and Abbey doesnā€™t seem to take herself to seriously too which is rad.

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Listened for a while, the crouch podcast is a proper giggle.

PPV scrapped too! Friday the 13th ainā€™t that bad!

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Yeah good game. Quite like this lineup (without Pickford)

Sick Belgium scored within 6 seconds of tuning in

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Oh dear, sounded like a good free kick though.

Free kick that led to their second was bullshit

Managed to put a fiver on Kane to score the second goal in the game about 20 seconds before Mertens scoredā€¦

Watched the 2015 Gazza doc on Netflix earlier. Absolute genius on a football pitch but such a fragile soul outside of it. Some tragic coincidences throughout his life, mixed in with the pressures of fame and drink/drug abuse make for a sad story really.

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Itā€™s so sad what happened to him, he was such an athlete in his younger years as well, thereā€™s clip on YouTube somewhere of all his contributions when we played Holland in Euro ā€˜96 where he made a number of world class pros look poor/average at a tournament. He shouldā€™ve been one of the greats of the game.

Personally I truly see him as one of the best of all time. Just sadly itā€™s not the first thing people think of when they think of him, and his career through demons and injury did sort of fizzle out. Real shame.

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