A soft bias? What like Messi not being red-carded in the group stages for a clear, studs-up challenge?
12 Jun 2026
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The John Stones video from earlier is amusing.
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I understand that tournament football pulls in a bunch of people who don't usually watch much, if any, football. But, while he's a fucking good footballer, I don't recognise the general impression of Haaland as a totallly unstoppable barbarian. He, after all, played 180 minutes against us last season without scoring.
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And ever was it thus though. Common belief driven by a lazy narrative, innit. Not just in tournaments...
See also:
Peeeeppp is the greatest manager of all time at managing anything.
Leicester were the plucky underdog miracle fairytales.
Brazil are always the greatest team in the world at any and every given time and all Brazilians must be good.
England women 'brought football home' as it's the exactly the same thing as the men's tournament in the context of the song
Etc.
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I like that Egypt appear to have brought back the little gay skip and jump off of the 70s and 80s after scoring.
It'll be short shorts and top lip slug balancing next.
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Wow. What a finish.
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Oh Egypt. 2-0 and you fucked it up.
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Soft bias?
That’s quite a take for a president ringing up the head of FIFA demanding a player is reinstated. And then it happens. .
It’s corruption.
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If my radio is anything to go on, that was a screechy wankfest that I am glad I didn't see.
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Ah tell you what. Brell-yunt.
Apparently.
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I've just read a description of tonight's Colombia v Switzerland game as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.
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I mean... he is a pretty special talent who is in outrageously good form. I'm more willing to listen to people raving about Haaland than the endless ball washing of Christian Pulisic.
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Dan Ndoye looks quite decent sometimes.
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You can mark Haaland, but if a ball that he can get at comes in, he's beating you to it. Or he can run it in from the half way line. He's bigger, stronger, and quicker than you.
When he's least effective is when the Spanish dancers don't toss it in his direction. Something Norway are unlikely to miss.
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He can't play a defence splitting 40 yard pass, a deft through ball on the turn to release your marauding winger, regularly score incredible goals from range or win you a game or draw on his own though. He's heavily reliant, as you say, on his physical advantages rather than any hyper elite technical ability. When he starts to slow down he'll still be decent because he'll still be big, and he can finish, but once he hits 28 he is likely to get worse rather than better. In fact he might turn into a slightly lower IQ version of Chris Wood.
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On the scale of ludicrous football knowledge posts, this is elite.
