AlfieMoon

North stand is the place to be. 😎

The JD payment that was sitting pending on my bank acct does now seem to have completed. would be nice of them to let us know at some point 🙄

Yep, I get the point and don’t imagine it can happen that way in the interests of equality. My own preference would be that England just hosted the whole damn thing as others have said.

Would happily give england a place as they are essentially the hosts. If there’s any competition to decide another place, it shouldn’t be made to be any more drawn out than the Nations League play-off approach. 4 teams drawn into 2 semi finals, with winners advancing to a final. Would be happy for the matches to be played in neutral venues in England to ensure 50/50 split of tickets.

Still got the payment sitting as ‘pending’ since going thru process the other day. 🙄

I was recently struggling to remember the name of the pub round the corner - the Turf Tavern. Old age and poor memory must be coming to me. 🤪

I had to google this as I assumed from the description it was referring to the Institute 😂 … never knew it had been called the Garage before.

Nothing yet.

I think it’s all about creating hype - and to that extent, they are playing a blinder.

Cheers

Anyone notice the T&C’s from the draw? Are the emails expected today?

Was just checking the other bids on Wiki. There only is one, South American, and it sounds pretty decent as well … Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030_FIFA_World_Cup

Ah, can’t remember if I’d heard that. That would be a decent WC to be fair and bit different with Morocco in the mix.

I wonder why Spain never seem to bid for anything. Haven’t hosted anything since WC 82? Maybe a lot of the stadiums a bit too dated? With Bernabeu and Nou Camp getting done up, and new stadiums like Atletico you’d think it would be a great football country for a tournament again.

What will be, will be. As the song goes. Regardless of what is happening elsewhere - I’m just looking forward to England coming to town against a strong and confident Scotland team who will really fancy their chances, and a packed Hampden who have never had more belief in the team.

Well done SFA 👏

Have you seen Cristiano Ronaldo?

It won’t go in their manifesto, but just watch them go gently to erode those policies gradually if/when the time comes. There will always be significant enough financial pressures to try and justify any changes they make to align with UK policy. They can use the smokescreen that they have long been committed to increasing budget of councils, knowing that that will squeeze central budgets, and hand over power to labour, Tories, Libs councils up and down the country. It will aim to make Holyrood less signficant and absolutely suit the unionist agenda.

Cheers. I must’ve missed that one, or got confused. 😂

I don’t think Wonky Sheep ever had a day trip for Spain? Sport Options emailed the other day to say that the aircraft they had reserved was no longer available to return straight after the game. They looked for alternatives for a a return the following day but couldn’t get anything. So had to cancel the full thing.

Don’t think anyone knows for sure. Some folk said they thought there would be more on lead up to England game but nothing concrete. I personally would be amazed if SFA didn’t release a decent number of these after having created the hype. There’s simply nothing to gain for them in having such a limited release.

Cotter would have been better.

Edit. Double post.

Annabelle Croft. She, and many of the others doing the on court stuff this year have been terrible.

Delighted with that. It was a big ask of Alcaraz after how his body let him down in their last meeting. You got the feeling that if he lost again then it would get harder for him to believe he could beat Djokovic. An incredible win.