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Unbeaten by any side other than Cameroon, obviously. What did you think I meant?

Correct. I don’t like to enter battles I’m likely to lose.

Channel 4 are brutal at times. Last night they followed 24 hours with a program called ‘My Dead Body’, in which a young mother who died of cancer had donated her body to science and to be dissected on television. Now I’ve seen cadaver programs before, and they can be quite interesting. But...

Yep, 71, this was my first thought, and I have to admit it made me feel old myself. I remember watching Look Who’s Talking on a dodgy VHS in the early 90s as a nipper, certainly too young to get most of the adult jokes. As a bloke now in his late 30s, and a dad of 2 kids, I’m about the same age...

The latter.

Correct, I am. We’ve been travelling particularly well for the past decade or so, oddly coinciding with pretty much the worst period in the club’s history, enduring two separate relegations during that period. Things are better now, under new ownership that helped see us bounce back into the...

Along with Netherlands, Brazil and England, Morocco are one of just four sides who remain unbeaten at this World Cup. They beat Belgium fairly comfortably, too. If there is to be an upset in this round of 16, this will be it.

He’s done a remarkable job. Worth noting that the two he lost, in a semi-final and a final, were lost in extra-time and penalties respectively. Simon Jordan, whom I normally like, is on Talksport now effectively saying that very little credit is deserved thus far as we have only beaten sides...

Well, 4 games into this World Cup and we’re up 12-2 on aggregate, having not lost a game, nor played anyone below 20th in the world rankings. Make what you want of France, it’s a 50-50 game for me. They’ve been beaten already by Cameroon, albeit with a weakened side. They’re ranked one place...

We’ve just done them with their own game plan. I find that quite amusing.

Next goal in this game will be massive.

He won’t be at this rate.

So far, this game is following the same pattern of other games at this World Cup where a fancied side has been beaten be a so-caked lesser light. Senegal are disrupting England’s fluidity and we are beginning to look increasingly uncomfortable as Senegal grow into the game. They’ll be happy...

Yep, would agree with all that. Technically the correct decision, and yet somehow the most controversial one at the same time. Had the goal remained disallowed, albeit wrongly, no one would have argued and no one would been talking about it now. This is the age of microscopic officiating.

Yeah I realise that. I meant that it was the bit touching the grass that gave the illusion of the ball being out.

This is absolutely fúcking brilliant as things stand. Mental. :ROFLMAO:

The initial close-up made it look comfortably out. Perhaps an illusion - the part of the ball touching the grass being a cm or two past the line, with the upper part of the ball overhanging.

Unbelievable that. Surely the wrong decision, but if it screws Germany over then it’s fine by my. My old grandad will be smiling down. :giggle:

Thanks for that, Bozza. Makes more sense now, though I remain empathetic of the bloke in question who, assuming it’s true, says he has been taking his boys week in, week out since they were 5. I guess these problems are a side effect of success. We kind of have the opposite problem at Grimsby...