Michael Kenrick 19/06/2026 85comments  |  Jump to last

USA, Scotland and Brazil are all in action on Day 9 after Mexico became the first nation to qualify for the Round of 32.

Friday 19 June 2026

20:00 USA v Australia (Group D) —— BBC 1
23:00 Scotland v Morocco (Group C) — ITV 1 
01:30 Brazil v Haiti (Group C) — ITV 1 
04:00 Turkey v Paraguay (Group D) — ITV 1 

 

 

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Darren Hind
1 Posted 19/06/2026 at 19:35:21
Looking forward to seeing the USA team. They were exhilarating last time out.

Aussies will not go quietly though. They're going with five at the back and will be very difficult to break down.

I'm getting into this tournament.
Oliver Molloy
2 Posted 19/06/2026 at 19:51:24
I hope to fuck they get hammered, Darren. For me, their fans are hard to stick and their fucking commentators, with the 'pk' and 'overtime' do my head in.

Come on, Australia, I'm really just pissed off Ireland never made it!
Sean Kelly
3 Posted 19/06/2026 at 19:58:06
Oliver, if we were there, Cape Verde would hammer us.

We are shite, mate.
Oliver Molloy
4 Posted 19/06/2026 at 19:59:22
Maybe Sean...

But the fecking craic over there would go up a notch or two!
Jim Bennings
5 Posted 19/06/2026 at 20:51:48
Australia getting the skeleton ripped out of their arse here.

I'm actually quite impressed by the Yanks here, they look quick and incisive with some technically good players.

Australia look very poor.
Mike Powell
6 Posted 19/06/2026 at 20:53:30
USA look a decent outfit.

The Aussies have been poor.
David West
7 Posted 19/06/2026 at 20:55:39
USA looking really decent.

Say what you like about Fifa, but I'm liking the way the games are not stop-start because of players faking injuries. I hope the Premier League bring this rule in about physios coming on.

Only once in first half physio came on for clash of heads. In Premier League games, some physios run more per game than players.
Darren Hind
8 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:02:53
I'm made up with them, Oliver. It's an absolute pleasure to see aggressive front-foot football. They don't just press they swarm...and they have some clever footballers

I know what you mean about the commentators (wankers) but that's not the players fault. After listening to Andy Hinchcliffe, Danny Murphy and Jim Beglin, I think I can put up with anything.

No way back for the Aussies unless the referee starts giving them a decision or two. He hasn't given them a fucking thing. LOL.
John Collins
9 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:05:28
Any decent full backs?
Jim Bennings
10 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:07:13
I think it's been a fairly good World Cup so far. In terms of entertainment value, there have been some really good games, free flowing matches.

I wasn't sure what to expect beforehand but it's exceeded my expectations and is still warming up.
Eric Myles
11 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:09:25
Freeman and Bos according to this John.

Five World Cup Standouts That Could Have Caught Everton's Eye
David West
12 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:13:26
Dest -- left-back for USA -- looks a player!
David West
13 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:14:37
Right-back he is!

We need one of them don't we?????
Paul Griffiths
14 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:19:11
Bruce Bo,s the Ozzie left-back, is handy and very poachable as he plays for Feyenoord.

He has 4 goals in 28 games for Feyernoord and 4 goals in 28 games for Australia.
David West
15 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:21:53
I'd take Spence off Spurs, they are buying defenders and the lad's not going to be first choice.

Quick, plays left-back or right-back, even right-wing or left-wing.
Paul Griffiths
16 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:23:39
Unfortunately I know a few Spurs fans, Dave.

They are desperate to get rid of Spence.
Andy Meighan
17 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:27:50
USA have done well so far against in my opinion 2 poor sides in Paraguay and a young inexperienced Aussie side, who given time will develop.

Once the Yanks come up against any decent or South American opposition they'll well n truly get find out.

That said they have looked well drilled and even today without their best player Pulisic they've played well.

As the old saying goes, you can only beat what's put in front of you.

Id like to see Pochettino at the Hill Dickinson though.
Paul Griffiths
18 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:28:22
Do the Yanks just have the one song?
David West
19 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:35:40
Paul,

Well, I'm happy not to be in agreement with them lot!!
Jim Bennings
20 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:38:58
What disappoints me most is we actually had Robinson one time but let him go, an accomplished left-back in keeping with the modern game.
Paul Griffiths
21 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:41:09
Anyone ever seen Jim Bennings and Mike Gaynes on the same thread at the same time?
Michael Kenrick
22 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:41:43
Nathan Patterson starts for Scotland.
Paul Griffiths
23 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:46:23
Jock Moyes will be going nuts then.
Jeff Armstrong
24 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:47:22
Who gives a fuck about Scotland?

Apart from the Scots.
Jeff Armstrong
25 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:52:02
Fucking joke team, joke league, joke fans.

The World Cup is much better off without Scotland.
David West
26 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:54:44
Jeff, didn't like the Braveheart movie then?
Jeff Armstrong
27 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:55:01
Nah, Gibson is a cunt too
Paul Griffiths
28 Posted 19/06/2026 at 21:57:14
The jocks who piled in on me and others at Hampden Park once were not a joke, Jeff!
Paul Griffiths
29 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:02:18
But Gibson is most definitely a cunt. Remember what he said to the cop who arrested him for drunk driving: "Fucking Jews... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?"

And he called Winona Ryder an 'oven dodger'.
Jeff Armstrong
30 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:02:46
Yeh but you got out to tell the tale, Paul, they fucking hate us and I refuse to support them in any tournament.

They are like the Red Shite, to me, out asap.
Paul Griffiths
31 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:05:18
Does anyone want the Jocks to win? I don't.

Problem is with this pointless new group set up where three will go through in most groups they might get to the knock-out 32.
Jeff Armstrong
32 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:08:49
Mel Gibson is a prick...

As is Netanyahu, and Trump.
Jeff Armstrong
33 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:13:42
I remember rooting for the jocks in 1974 and 1978, they threw it back in our faces.

Fuck them and their shit league.
Paul Griffiths
34 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:15:51
Yank commentators running through the team to show how many are the sons of veterans.
Jeff Armstrong
35 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:21:52
Did they mention the Australian great grandsons of veterans?
Thought not.

America will always have sons of veterans cos they are constantly at war with someone.
Paul Griffiths
36 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:28:45
Gallipoli was not mentioned Jeff!
Paul Griffiths
37 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:29:49
State of the Jocks in those training tops.
Jeff Armstrong
38 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:30:27
The yanks will not have heard or even considered Gallipoli.
Paul Hewitt
39 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:32:04
If you don't like Scotland, switch off.
Jeff Armstrong
40 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:34:43
Hewy, I will indeed switch off when they start their game.

Are you a supporter?
Paul Griffiths
41 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:35:05
There is a Gallipolis in Ohio, Jeff.

Paul, it is enthralling TV to me to watch in the hope that the Jocks lose mate. Bit like the Red Shite.
Paul Hewitt
42 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:38:17
Support all home nations, Jeff.
Paul Griffiths
43 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:39:23
Not the Welsh, surely, Paul?

Not the Welsh mate.
Jeff Armstrong
44 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:41:44
I remember the Jocks from the play off game v Wales in 1977, I was 14...

They were pissing up every doorstep in Everton L5, fucking degenerates the lot of them.
Paul Hewitt
45 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:43:13
Welsh as well, Paul.
Paul Griffiths
46 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:44:06
Jeff, a bunch of them ended up in Crosby the morning after. They looked very strange and said strange things that we could not understand and they wore skirts too.

Hewey is archipelego man.
Jeff Armstrong
47 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:45:20
Paul,

Don't just blindly support all British teams, mate -- they all hate the English and want us out as soon as possible.

Learn to hate them as much as they hate us. It's quite enjoyable.
Paul Griffiths
48 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:51:01
They plot, Hewey, night and day long. They are jealous of our London.

They gather in groups for sinister purposes on heaths and hilly areas.
Paul Hewitt
49 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:53:04
Rise above the hate, gentlemen!
Jeff Armstrong
50 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:53:43
Paul,

Cos essentially that's what they are:- weirdos who like to wear skirts.
Paul Griffiths
51 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:55:03
Come on, Morocco!
Paul Hewitt
52 Posted 19/06/2026 at 22:55:48
It's the national dress, Jeff.

Now come on, Scotland.
Paul Griffiths
53 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:00:43
Get In!!!!!!!!!

What an absolutely brilliant goal.
Simon Dalzell
54 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:05:46
Damn, I missed the goal.

I was just putting on my 'Anyone but the Sweaties' shirt.
Brendan McLaughlin
55 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:06:11
Ha ha, Jeff #47.

There was a documentary on the troubles in the north of Ireland many years ago made during a World Cup year.

England were playing (can't remember who) and the film crew went to a pub in republican West Belfast for the first half and not unexpectedly the crowd were solidly behind England's opponents.

Half-time and the film crew dashed over to a bar in loyalist/unionist East Belfast to highlight the difference..... the crowd were also solidly behind England's opponents.

Don't take it too seriously, mate.
Alan McGuffog
56 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:09:45
Terry Collier, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, circa 1974:

"There's nothing mellow about a legless Jock!"
Liam Mogan
57 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:11:57
Nathan Patterson showing why so many managers don't trust him.

All over the shop.
Paul Griffiths
58 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:16:02
Scotland defend so deep.

Is it a Jock thing?
Mike Powell
59 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:17:49
Patterson is awful.
Jack Convery
60 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:20:51
The lesser spotted Patto is playing.

Imagine that... a right-back playing right-back. Revolutionary.
Alan McGuffog
61 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:28:26
Morocco finding it difficult to get out of Scotland's half...
Alan McGuffog
62 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:33:48
Liam, it's not just managers. His team mates are reluctant to bring him into the game.

And on the evidence of his few touches, one can't blame them. Rather sad really.
Liam Mogan
63 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:50:13
Morocco are a good side and Scotland are not.

Bit of a mismatch.
Mike Doyle
64 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:51:51
Scotland a clear 2nd best in the first half.

Only John McGinn appears up to the same level as the Morocco players. The rest look pretty poor.
Paul Hewitt
65 Posted 19/06/2026 at 23:57:21
Scotland will come out better... 2-1 win.
Liam Mogan
66 Posted 19/06/2026 at 00:29:43
A set piece is Scotland's only slim hope of a goal
Jack Convery
67 Posted 19/06/2026 at 00:46:39
Never a penalty.

Looking for it.
Neil Tyrrell
68 Posted 20/06/2026 at 01:48:47
Lee Dixon on Brazil's disallowed goal: "It was a great run."

He was offside, how can that be a great run?
Steve Brown
69 Posted 20/06/2026 at 01:56:55
Not a single shot on target from the hapless Jocks in the match.

Easy win for Morocco.

Brazil are pretty average.
Paul Griffiths
70 Posted 20/06/2026 at 02:56:56
Bournemouth sign a teenager from Vasco de Gama. Look at him now.

That's what I call scouting.
Steve Brown
71 Posted 20/06/2026 at 03:16:20
Paul,

Surely our top level recruitment team and world class analytics under boy Angus will find some brilliant young talent this summer?
Paul Griffiths
72 Posted 20/06/2026 at 05:20:39
Steve, something has to change this summer. Perhaps we should have gone for the head recruiters at the three B's and not Man City and was the other fella from Utd?

We need to be recruiting like Bournemouth not Man City.
Steve Brown
73 Posted 20/06/2026 at 06:06:57
Paul, the problem is also that we have a manager who will not play the young talent who we sign for potential.

Brighton have given up more playing minutes to squad members under 24 years old than any other Premier League team.

For the model to work, you need a manager who gets with the plan. Not short-terminist like David Moyes.
Tony Abrahams
74 Posted 20/06/2026 at 06:29:31
It sounds like I made the right decision by not staying up to watch Scotland but at least I've found this thread very entertaining though.

Paul's post about Bournemouth, finding that young kid from Brazil got me thinking once more about the Everton way regarding our recruitment (with it not being within range of the M6, they definitely won't know anything about Dardanelles).

But, for the first time ever, Brendan's post @55 wins the thread for me!
Paul Griffiths
75 Posted 20/06/2026 at 06:51:19
Turkey all but knocked out. That's a big surprise for me and they have some real young talent spread out across the continent.

That's 'real young talent' Messers Smith, Hammond, Kinnear, and Moyes. 'Real young talent' more than good enough to start, Mr Moyes.

Find and sign it for us. Fuck I'm depressed. Wine and it's late. And coming second -- did I even come second? -- to Brendan has made me even more depressed, early bird Tony.
Mark Murphy
76 Posted 20/06/2026 at 07:26:49
Being a Wool, the 'Scouse, not English' thing doesn't apply to me. I'm just not arsed about England -- I'm an Evertonian, full stop.

But heres a good article from the post about this that goes some way in explaining the view -- especially from Claire from County Road (I wonder if she was called County Claire at school?):

Is “Scouse not English” on the wane?
Tony Abrahams
77 Posted 20/06/2026 at 07:27:14
Make sure you go to bed before you read the article that I've just read about David Moyes, and his feelings regarding Everton, then Paul.
Alan J Thompson
78 Posted 20/06/2026 at 07:27:58
The dislike of the Scots, Welsh and Irish doesn't surprise me as they used to call England "some team that plays in London".
Mark Murphy
79 Posted 20/06/2026 at 09:39:34
"Some team that plays in London".
Alan, that's exactly the same phrase you used to hear around Liverpool not so long ago. It wasn't just the other nations saying that.
John Collins
80 Posted 20/06/2026 at 10:01:59
Scouse not English 😁😁
Dave Abrahams
81 Posted 20/06/2026 at 10:05:54
Just woke up to this thread — loved it, I don’t mind sober Jocks although it is hard to find one at a football game, always had a few £ on them when they played England but that was long ago when they had the players who could give most teams a good game.

I always followed Eire, then Scotland didn’t mind Northern Ireland swerved Wales and although I wanted England to win at cricket and cheered on our boxers,even when I knew they had no chance and in most sports England losing never bothered me at all.

Mark (76) Trust you to put a link up were you had to pay to read it! Can you post the gist of it please Mark?
John Collins
82 Posted 20/06/2026 at 10:11:36
Mike,

Good news.
There should be no shortage of buyers for Patterson given the lack of right backs available in world football
Alan J Thompson
83 Posted 20/06/2026 at 15:40:46
Mark(#79); Sorry, Mark, I should have made it clear that I meant those on this thread who have the dislike.
Mark Murphy
84 Posted 21/06/2026 at 08:26:40
Dave @81
I didn’t have to pay to read it?
I know the post requests people pay a conscription but I’ve always been able to just click on to the article and read it anyway?
Dave Abrahams
85 Posted 21/06/2026 at 08:39:41
Mark (84) Thanks I’ll try that —- does it work with the Echo?

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