World Cup 2026

[weareros]

Interesting that Mauricio Pochettino is from a small town called Murphy in Argentina, named after a Wexford man.

[Puckoon]

Sloppy red card for the American lad. Some Americans thinking its a bad call, but not grasping its a 50-50 call in tournaments like this, referee depending. He will be a miss in the next round.

[weareros]

Spanish looking slick. 3rd goal was class. Austrians pale shadow of team that looked so good in Euros.

[Wildweasel74]

Draw looks lopsided with S America teams mostly on 1 side and European teams on the other.

[lurganblue]

Spanish looking slick. 3rd goal was class. Austrians pale shadow of team that looked so good in Euros.

Baumgartner is a miss for them

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Interesting that Mauricio Pochettino is from a small town called Murphy in Argentina, named after a Wexford man.

Argentina has one of the highest Irish Diasporas in the world with between 500k - 1 million people with irish ancestry.

[Wildweasel74]

Plenty Germans flowing around it too.

[SouthOfThe Bann]

Plenty Germans flowing around it too.

Haha true... theres actually a Welsh speaking area in it too.

[AustinPowers]

I reckon Croatia will  dump Portugal out

[Wildweasel74]

Whos running the Portguese team anyway, Ronaldo having no effect on the game, huffy bollix.

[Captain Obvious]

Whos running the Portguese team anyway, Ronaldo having no effect on the game, huffy bollix.

Manager brave enough to sub the centre  of attention off I didn't think Martinez had it in him.  Portugal 2-1 ahead now.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

How did Croatia do that. Injury time and they were still fannying around with the ball instead of lumping it into the box. Although goal now getting checked

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Wow some finish

[weareros]

Rough on Croatia. They were the better team. The soft penalty World Cup.

[Capt Pat]

One of the games of the tournament especially in the second half. Drama could not be beat. Croatia score but it is ruled offside and Croatia go out.