VillaChris Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Just now, duke313 said: The match times would be a nightmare though, for us in Europe anyway. Too young for 2002? I loved waking up at half 9 on a Sunday and having a game starting in half hour in those times. Also watched England-Brazil in the school assembly hall having breakfast and then half the school then ran out to the school field on the final whistle to have a massive game which delayed lessons by half an hour! Now that was a unique World cup for plenty of reasons even if the actual games weren't great. It's a similar format to this one, you just lose the tea time and evening games but then other parts of the world like Argentina will be watching their opener at 6am I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Isn't it only about 7-8 hours time difference to Perth and even Melbourne? It would just be similar to Japan/Korea. Half 12 would be the prime time game. Infact given games in this are kicking off at 10pm local time you could probably sneak in a 2pm game to stretch a bit more into a european afternoon. Not ideal though given it would be their winter. Hopefully next summer will go brilliantly and Fifa will wake up a bit. Uruguay/Argentina/Chile in 2030 and then Australia a cycle or two later would restore some credibility in terms of locations. Its 11 hours to Sydney/Melbourne and then probably 15 hours to US and South America with the US being a market FIFA are looking to get into Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted November 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2022 5 hours ago, The_Steve said: genuinely curious to know what would happen if someone had a dark side of the moon t shirt on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 32 minutes ago, duke313 said: Infantino is just trolling at this point. He is Scott from Austin Powers and I claim my five pounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I'd love to see the actual exchange..bet whichever foreign journalist said it as a sort of joke and Infantino in his no s**ts mood took it as seriously as possible. It was always said Blatter's big goal was to win the Nobel peace Prize, hopefully Infantino reign ends as shamefully as his did one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, Genie said: There’s a thousand reasons why Qatar shouldn’t have it, Australia’s time zone is nothing in comparison. Yes, but there’s only one that matters to fifa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, duke313 said: The match times would be a nightmare though, for us in Europe anyway. Welcome to our lives! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 1 hour ago, AJ said: So, here I am. I am not watching the games. The only stuff about the World Cup I am getting is from my news feeds and the lovely people on Villa Talk. 1 hour ago, Tegis said: Same! Day 2 Amen sisters 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 21 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Too young for 2002? I loved waking up at half 9 on a Sunday and having a game starting in half hour in those times. Also watched England-Brazil in the school assembly hall having breakfast and then half the school then ran out to the school field on the final whistle to have a massive game which delayed lessons by half an hour! Now that was a unique World cup for plenty of reasons even if the actual games weren't great. It's a similar format to this one, you just lose the tea time and evening games but then other parts of the world like Argentina will be watching their opener at 6am I think. I watched a game in a pub (England v Nigeria - think it was 0-0) at 7:30am on a work day! I never drank but colleagues were knocking back pints with breakfast and then heading to the office! Only 20 years ago, but you'd get the sack now for that! Some Place Else was the pub, top of Broad St (where the Park Regis hotel now is) is anyone was interested. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tomav84 Posted November 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2022 7 minutes ago, Xela said: I watched a game in a pub (England v Nigeria - think it was 0-0) at 7:30am on a work day! I never drank but colleagues were knocking back pints with breakfast and then heading to the office! Only 20 years ago, but you'd get the sack now for that! Some Place Else was the pub, top of Broad St (where the Park Regis hotel now is) is anyone was interested. I only had a 2 or 3 for that game. Couldn't go too mad as had a media studies a level exam at 10 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2022 30 minutes ago, Xela said: I watched a game in a pub (England v Nigeria - think it was 0-0) at 7:30am on a work day! I never drank but colleagues were knocking back pints with breakfast and then heading to the office! Only 20 years ago, but you'd get the sack now for that! Yep, that's what me and some of my workmates did. Pub near work opened early, showed the matches, and did full English breakfasts. Washed down by three or four pints, and then we went into the office. It was great. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 8 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Yep, that's what me and some of my workmates did. Pub near work opened early, showed the matches, and did full English breakfasts. Washed down by three or four pints, and then we went into the office. It was great. I was working at B&Q at the time in the building section, I was 17 and they opened the smoking room so you could watch it but our boss told us we could go to the pub up the road if we wanted...me being 17 that was a very bad idea, 90 minutes of bladdering down pints and whiskey, went back to work and me and my two pals were steaming, my boss gave us a bollocking and basically made us hide from the customers for the next 3 hours. great times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 43 minutes ago, chappy said: enter Emi 24 mins stoppage time in first half of Argentina v Saudi Arabia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheAuthority Posted November 22, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/21/england-show-their-true-colours-with-meek-surrender-in-armband-fiasco Quote Every man has a limit. A place they will not be taken, a line that will not be crossed, a point at which they bend and break. And as England’s footballers peeled off their smart blue training jackets a few minutes before 4pm local time at the Khalifa International Stadium, perhaps we discovered theirs. They really, really wanted to wear the armband. Perhaps was the main thing. Indeed that was the thrust of the Football Association’s statement issued about an hour before kick-off in their opening World Cup game against Iran, in which it declared it was “very frustrated” with Fifa’s ban on the little strip of elastane that had been unveiled with such proud fanfare in advance of the tournament. On reflection, maybe the real armband was the press releases it issued along the way. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 What I don’t get when someone like England plays Iran, is why they didn’t just sub in someone not likely to play for the start of the game, stick the armband on him, take the yellow, sub him out and then continue. It’d bypass FIFAs butthurt and make them look really silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 19 minutes ago, magnkarl said: What I don’t get when someone like England plays Iran, is why they didn’t just sub in someone not likely to play for the start of the game, stick the armband on him, take the yellow, sub him out and then continue. It’d bypass FIFAs butthurt and make them look really silly. Because the FA, FIFA, the Sheiks, the sponsors and the rest of the prawn sandwich brigade all stroke each other during half time so don't want to piss off one another. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Mic09 said: Because the FA, FIFA, the Sheiks, the sponsors and the rest of the prawn sandwich brigade all stroke each other during half time so don't want to piss off one another. Clearly the man with the purse strings in Qatar has FIFA around his little finger. And we know preci$ely why. Move the first game at short notice? No problem Move beer sales stands at 2 days notice? No problem Delete the beer sales stands at 1 days notice? No problem Scrap the one love arm band? No problem Ban anything with 3 or more colours? No problem It isn’t FIFA doing this as it goes against a lot of the messages they are trying to send. It’s Qatar using the puppet they paid a lot of money for. Infantino and FIFA know they cannot risk the truth coming out. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 4 hours ago, TheAuthority said: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/21/england-show-their-true-colours-with-meek-surrender-in-armband-fiasco Great bit of journalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 9 hours ago, tomav84 said: genuinely curious to know what would happen if someone had a dark side of the moon t shirt on Or this one 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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