Waiting for the next match

[Ginny]

Not long left now lads. Stay strong. Just this England shite to get through 

[an tha]

Haha genius this:

 

From The Guardian

 

Gareth Southgate went into England’s League Q Group 73 Matchday B3 encounter with Spain in September pointing out that the Ethics World Cup had gone quite well and Euro 2020 was just around the corner, so “we don’t want to waste time looking at new things”. And then Spain shellacked them in what was a pretty effective end to all that throwing beer all over Croydon Boxpark stuff from the summer.

As a result, the policy of “not looking at new things”, has led to a system change, a host of new England call-ups (yet still Morris Dancing Fiver is marooned on the bench), and the extraordinary reinvention of football as an over-the-counter Temazepam alternative against Croatia on Matchday AX2+BX+π = 0. Still, at least a small section of England’s fans are not changing, having smashed up various bits of Seville on Sunday night in a historical re-enactment of the Moorish invasion of 712.

England face good-again Spain again on Monday evening at Estadio Benito Villamarín without the suspended John Stones and Jordan Henderson, and with an attack as out of shape as a drunken yogi. Southgate has blamed England’s woes on the Premier League season starting too early. “I didn’t really know why it started then,” he parped. “Maybe they were expecting us to be back by the end of June.”

 

As for Spain, they’ve taken the somewhat disturbing tack of shrugging off a nightmarish World Cup, playing well againand being oddly nice to England. “I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings,” cooed the Big Cup-winning former head coach of Barcelona, Luis Enrique, about, erm, Middlesbrough Gaz – before Sergio Ramos twirled his ‘tache, and suggested Harry Kane might be a good fit in La Liga.

 

There are all sorts or permutations as to what the result in Spain would mean for League Q Group 73, which The Fiver has absolutely no interest or intention of looking into, save for one: it means we’re one matchday closer to the end of this interminable international hell.

[A_S]

[VladimirIlyich]

I didn't even realise that these games don't even count as European Championship qualifiers! What is the fuckin' point of this shite.

[aws]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I didn't even realise that these games don't even count as European Championship qualifiers! What is the fuckin' point of this shite.

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

[Ne Moe Imya]

32 minutes ago, aws said:

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

That explains it, then. I now completely understand that these games are really vital and enthralling and completely worth the risk of injury to players being paid huge wages by their clubs.

[El Rojo]

1 hour ago, aws said:

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

Good that they kept the whole concept nice and easy to understand.

[magicrat]

1 hour ago, aws said:

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

That simple eh. 

[Jairzinho]

4 hours ago, aws said:

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

Do we even need to bother with club football any more?

[VladimirIlyich]

On 10/16/2018 at 10:50 AM, aws said:

If you finish top of your group with a co-efficient rating higher than 1.3 you get promoted to a higher group with an equivalent co-efficient rating. If you win that group you enter a series of play-offs and the winner goes into the hat for the last available place for the next Championship but one. Something like that anyway.  

Just use this in all competitions then. We might be in with a chance of the PL about 2025.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Are we finally done with internationals yet, then?

 

How long before the football world just rises up against FIFA and bins off international football entirely? Or at least moves it to some minor sideshow that gets played once every couple of years in the summer and is otherwise completely forgotten about?

[VladimirIlyich]

31 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Are we finally done with internationals yet, then?

 

How long before the football world just rises up against FIFA and bins off international football entirely? Or at least moves it to some minor sideshow that gets played once every couple of years in the summer and is otherwise completely forgotten about?

Until March.

[Captain Turdseye]

2 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Are we finally done with internationals yet, then?

 

How long before the football world just rises up against FIFA and bins off international football entirely? Or at least moves it to some minor sideshow that gets played once every couple of years in the summer and is otherwise completely forgotten about?

 

Not quite. We’ve still got Gini and Big Virg potentially picking up injuries tonight and Robbo is playing in an important game for Scotland tomorrow. 

[VladimirIlyich]

So they are done now? And we,no doubt,have another six injuries to deal with.