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No chance, it would be safer skydiving with a rucksack on my back. [emoji16]

That's just an excuse for bad driving. [emoji16]

Ach, it's only -7 here just now.

Mibbe ah'm no' a genius after aw.

Is Oaky the supplier?

[emoji33][emoji33][emoji33] FFS!!!!

I said to a few folk that I thought there was a good chance of there being a new winner so, to make folk think I'm a genius, I hope for a Croatia - Morocco final. To be honest, I don't really care who wins.

I doubt it but, seeing as neither of us live in South America, we'll probably never know for sure. I'd assume that it's more likely to be like the Germans in that they go on about it in their own countries but not in their neighbours - simply because Chilean TV would probably have Chilean pundits/presenters not Argentinian, Venezuelan TV would probably have Venezuelan pundits/presenters not Brazilian, etc. If I wanted to hear about stuff that happened before I was born I would watch a programme about history, not one about something happening live. If England were to reach at least the semi-final and THEN they started mentioning it, then I wouldn't have an issue with it.

How many of those other countries have media pundits on their footballing neighbours TVs constantly mentioning their wins? THAT is what the issue is, not the fact that they won it. Personally, I've never been "big headed" or "boasted" (or whatever) about 1959 (or 1926) as it was way before my time. I stopped "feeling good" about 1987 early in 1988. The fact that you never mentioned 1926 maybe shows that you, like me, think it is mostly irrelevant today. Talking about your club's (or country's) historical achievements is perfectly fine among "your own" but using any slight tangential connection to bring it up when amongst "others" is, to me, a bit small, petty and desperate. At least 60 years of hurt, hope it lasts longer.

I don't believe they would mention it as often as 1966 gets mentioned. Obviously that's just my opinion as there is no way to prove it one way or the other. At the time is fair enough, but 56 years later is a bit out of order - especially as they've achieved nothing since, it's not as if it's just one year in a list of 3/4/5 when they've won something. Anyway, at least another year and a half before we need to endure it again.

You're right, it would have been the same from the Scottish media, but that would have only been in Scotland. It's the fact that it's the BRITISH media doing it across the 4 home nations and not the English media doing it in England that's the issue. There was a famous German footballer (that famous that I can't remember who at the moment [emoji16] ) who admitted that the Germans go on about their wins just as much as the English but then added that they only do it on German TV to Germans, they don't beam it onto Austrian, French and Danish TVs (can't remember if those were the 3 countries he used, but something like that). Anyway, doesn't matter, they ain't winning it. [emoji16]

It's bad enough hearing about something they won before I was born, I don't want another one added to it.

As long as the best team is France, I wholeheartedly agree.

FFS, it's not 12 years old, it's not even 11.

Most, if not all, of that 1980 team wouldn't be fit enough to get into the current team. As I already said, footballers can only really be judged against those "of their time". Pele, in his prime, would probably be hard pushed to get into the current Brazil side. I'm not saying that players of yesteryear were "worse" (which is totally subjective), just that they had a "different skillset" to modern players and I doubt that football would be any different to sports that can be "measured" (e.g. athletics, weightlifting) in that modern day adherents would probably best the historical ones if it were possible to actually pit them against each other. Again, whether or not that makes it "better" or more entertaining, is totally subjective.

Hmmm

Someone's trying too hard to be controversial.

It answers nothing. Typical shull post, a lot of words with absolutely no substance.

Quite right, they should be switched off all the time.

They were just vicious rumours started by Aphrodite 'cause I told her that you had bigger tits than her.

What kind of grown-up is so obsessed with likes that he has to create multiple aliases so he can get any? Just askin', like.

You going to the Easter Bunny Convention this year, Callum? Don't forget to bring the 10% of your income that the Bunny demands. And, for Bunny's sake, don't boil a baby goat in its mother's milk like you did last year.

Best comment: Shocking behaviour. Even I can see that's a penalty to Rangers. [emoji1787][emoji1787]

Apparently we're due about £70k to date according to a newspaper* article I read online today. *Think it was the Herald, but not 100% sure.