FIFA have agreed to move coaching staff down the touchline so their view of the players is not blocked by photographers during the national anthems.
World Cup 2026
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Why do they coaching staff have to move and not the photographers?
Good question! And I have to wonder why didn't the coaching staff didn't just declare UDI and walk off to where they could see?
Missed the City flag when the game was on.
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Danny Murphy, Lee Dixon et al.... **** off... you should have an option on red button crowd noise no commentary, or comments from has been never was's...
just been checking history to get an idea of what makes a decent 3rd placed points tally.
i'll go into a bit more detail on this some time in the near future, but here's some quick info.
oddly, in the groups as late as 1990 it was still two points for a win, so i've ignored 1990 and earlier ones.
there have been some rather rum goals for and against numbers,
from 1994 to 2022 there were 62 groups (8 groups 7 times and 6 groups once (1994)) and a similar number of third placed teams.
goal figures ranged from 1-1 to 6-6 to 7-6 to 8-4 to 3-9.
possible points tallies are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. two teams came 3rd with 6 points in 1994 but none since.
so far:
pts
6: 2
4: 25
3: 27
2: 7
1: 1
since 8 of the 12 third place teams go into the knockout stage, it suggests that historically two-thirds of the highest 62 would have sufficient stats. i'll call it 41 of the 62. that'd include all 27 teams with 4 or more points and about half of the teams with 3 points.
of the 27 teams to get 3 points only two have had a positive goal difference.
another 8 have had zero goal difference.
6 more have had a minus one goal difference. so four would have been lucky and two unlucky.
while it appears that 3 points and a -1 goal difference is where the line perhaps should be drawn, i should mention that in 2022 seven of the eight third placed teams ended on four points, but in 2006, only one of the eight teams did.
for reference, these are the number of third placed teams on 6,4,3,2,1 points for each tournament:
2022,0,7,1,0,0
2018,0,2,6,0,0
2014,0,2,5,1,0
2010,0,5,3,0,0
2006,0,1,4,2,1
2002,0,4,3,1,0
1998,0,2,4,2,0
1994,2,2,1,1,0
anyone that can be bothered can turn that into a .csv file for whatever vile purposes might amuse you.
1994-2020,2,25,27,6,1
anyway, hope that all adds up. i might get round to summarising goal stats for each points tally in the next few days.
i'll go into a bit more detail on this some time in the near future, but here's some quick info.
oddly, in the groups as late as 1990 it was still two points for a win, so i've ignored 1990 and earlier ones.
there have been some rather rum goals for and against numbers,
from 1994 to 2022 there were 62 groups (8 groups 7 times and 6 groups once (1994)) and a similar number of third placed teams.
goal figures ranged from 1-1 to 6-6 to 7-6 to 8-4 to 3-9.
possible points tallies are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. two teams came 3rd with 6 points in 1994 but none since.
so far:
pts
6: 2
4: 25
3: 27
2: 7
1: 1
since 8 of the 12 third place teams go into the knockout stage, it suggests that historically two-thirds of the highest 62 would have sufficient stats. i'll call it 41 of the 62. that'd include all 27 teams with 4 or more points and about half of the teams with 3 points.
of the 27 teams to get 3 points only two have had a positive goal difference.
another 8 have had zero goal difference.
6 more have had a minus one goal difference. so four would have been lucky and two unlucky.
while it appears that 3 points and a -1 goal difference is where the line perhaps should be drawn, i should mention that in 2022 seven of the eight third placed teams ended on four points, but in 2006, only one of the eight teams did.
for reference, these are the number of third placed teams on 6,4,3,2,1 points for each tournament:
2022,0,7,1,0,0
2018,0,2,6,0,0
2014,0,2,5,1,0
2010,0,5,3,0,0
2006,0,1,4,2,1
2002,0,4,3,1,0
1998,0,2,4,2,0
1994,2,2,1,1,0
anyone that can be bothered can turn that into a .csv file for whatever vile purposes might amuse you.
1994-2020,2,25,27,6,1
anyway, hope that all adds up. i might get round to summarising goal stats for each points tally in the next few days.
First teams confirmed to be eliminated in the group stage at the 2026 World Cup:
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The jocks really should of taken mcbun, their strikers can’t buy a goal…
There wasn't a cat in hells chance of McBurnie being selected under Clarke.I'm no expert,but McBurnie stating that he hoped he wasn't called up and calling the Scotland set up '****e' in a video some years ago probably went against him slightly?
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Agree 100%. Should go back to the day when the commentator just got on with it...Kenny Wolstenholme, Barry Davies, Tony Gubba, and Gerald Sinstadt didn't need some wisecracking Herbert or sidekick....Oddly enough Sinstadt was responsible for the introduction of a World cup music theme when he suggested to the BBC that they use Nessun Dorma for the 1990 tournament. Smart move.
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