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

Must’ve been a weird one for Grealish and Rice lining up against the old team tonight.
3-0 though, I’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?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHhwyKqKoMt/

Legendary.

ā€˜So Crouchy what would you of been if you weren’t a footballer?’

ā€˜A virgin.’

Crouch seems like a proper laugh to be around.

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he’s so much taller than you think too. Me and the missus was in Euston station and she said ā€œlook at that bloke, it’s like we’re in the Men in Black HQā€ I pointed out that it was Peter Crouch and he’s a footballer.
It did make you wonder how he didn’t snap during games.

He comes across as a real laugh in his bbc podcast would recommend if you haven’t listened to it already.

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

Oh shit, didn’t realise that.
No wonder he caught it, no distancing or masks or anything.
https://twitter.com/EgyptTodayMag/status/1326560697594109953?s=20

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Yeah, listened/watch a few and Abbey doesn’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 ain’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 scored…

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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It’s so sad what happened to him, he was such an athlete in his younger years as well, there’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 should’ve been one of the greats of the game.

Personally I truly see him as one of the best of all time. Just sadly it’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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