FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 - DISCUSSION AND WATCHALONG THREAD ⚽️

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Wasn't sure where to put this, so ive put it here for now, as its where I put the Arsenal Premier League win one.

I'm really looking forward to the World Cup, and want an England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 win (although I am of course behind Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!)

I've got the BBC sport notifications turned on, and will likely watch with the BBC, rather than ITV.

I'll be watching my matches from home alongside my dd and cat, who are both uninterested!

Anyone fancy joining me? Will you stay up for the games of the country youre supporting?

Supporters of all countries welcome 🙂, expect football chat and banter, favourite goals/matches, fun facts about countries etc, what we're doing in celebration etc.

Happy viewing 🏆

Just checked Canada are ranked 34th in world and Bosnia 61st

i assumed Canada would have been ranked higher.

2018 World Cup Croatia that was when they beat us. That’s the one I’m thinking of!

They beat Portugal

I’m not at all confident we’ll beat Croatia in group stage. It’s got England scraping a draw written all over it.

Well Canada has Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds being the best part of this game 😂

Yeah they did well didnt they

Would love to see some surprises, as well as the USA having their arses handed to them 🤭🤭🤭

I must've watched but cant even remember!

I remember it didnt come home, did we go out in the group stages?

That was a great summer

Semi finals I think we went out. Was that the one where we barely made it out the group and then pulled it out the bag in the knockout stages?

Semi Finals

Final was France v Croatia

I think Croatia will be a tough match on Wednesday.

Ahh I think i remember France winning

Something like that yes.

Maybe.

I’m thinking of 2022.

2018 we won 2/3 of the group games, won one knockout stage outright and the other on penalties before losing to Croatia in final.

2 great chances

They are playing in four timezones apparently. That's probably got a lot to do with the timings.

The game has suddenly woken up

And the viewing numbers.

It's me Dunc, btw Using my WC name

Hello Dunc.

Is nobbyisdancing (or something similar) still here. Miss all her goal scoring name changes.

She was on the rolling football thread but haven't seen her for the WC

just remembered that you can't namechange mid thread anymore

Oh. Forgotten about that.

Not a bad game to watch actually.

We can stop the talking about the last quarter of the game.

Canada equalise!