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There was some spectacular commentary yesterday on ITV during the Brazil-Mexico game. Something like:

Jon Champion: "Yes, we're here in Samara where the Red Army chased the Bolsheviks out during...

On paper, France have the best players and it isn't really that close. Arguably the best keeper in the tournament, two top quality centre-backs, two of the best defensive mids in the tournament, a...

It's a shame one side of the draw has all the best teams and the other has a bunch of mediocrities at best. France and Belgium are the best two sides in Europe at the moment and Brazil/Uruguay the...

If you think about the draw as four quarters each with four teams trying to make the semi-final then the England quarter is clearly the weakest.

If you look at the odds for winning the tournament...

If people just reel off other names it gets a bit silly though. For instance, I travel around watching football a fair bit. I was in Estonia earlier this year and there's a centre-back, 22 years old,...

This French side just looks like a team of superstars faffing around in a training match.

You can fix most of the problems with VAR if you just turn it into a challenge system - teams have say two challenges a game and they can call for a review (if they get two wrong that's it). At...

Exactly. VAR is supposed to make it easier for referees to catch things they missed, but it can't stop them making stupid decisions like this one if they don't know what they're doing.

You've singled Fletcher, Bannan and McArthur out here, despite the fact we ended the last campaign strongly (arguably about as good a run of form the Scotland team has had for years) and those three...

It's not fashionable, it's just common sense. De Gea, for instance, had a terrible first season at Man United, now he's regarded as one of the best keepers in the world. If you rate a keeper and you...

I had a manager when I was about 18 who told our defenders to lock someone's arms when you're falling over so they can't break their fall. You can't say Ramos definitely meant it, but I wouldn't be...

I've never really bought this as a reason not to have a winter break. A winter break is supposed to be about trading games in winter for games at other times in the year so it should actually reduce...

Not sure why we're singling him out for not marking anyone. In that system Nwakali isn't supposed to be man marking, he's supposed to be holding a line and breaking up the play, which he did probably...

I still don't really see what a better system to the split would be. If you want 35-40 games a season with even numbers of home/away then it just doesn't work numbers-wise unless you reduce the...

Mulumbu was excellent in my opinion. Shinnie clearly couldn't handle him. At one point he more or less gave up and was just trying to foul him and Mulumbu still managed to keep the ball off him....

Have to say I thought Shinnie had a poor game again today. Mulumbu was all over him (still don't understand why someone like him is playing for Killie incidentally given he's only just turned 31,...

That second half was more about quality (McGinn's cross, McKenna's shot, McGinn's brilliant third goal) shining through than anything to do with systems or effort or anything else. McGinn in...

Bill Strauss was another South African around the same time.

So we had four clean sheets in a row starting with the League Cup game at Motherwell that we actually lost 3-0, and that was all because we dropped Considine even though he actually played and scored...

Although I think we should try Shinnie at left back again, I think McInnes won't do it for a couple of reasons. The first is that he's already tried it this season and it didn't work. Shinnie started...

For the ten minutes before he came on, in particular, we were all over the place with Rangers picking up second balls without any of our players being anywhere near them. The shape of the team...

I quite like the idea of this as it gets rid of friendlies and the games are all balanced, but surely there's still a major loophole in it.

Imagine Israel won all of their games and we drew with...

I would have turned it down too given he was being offered less money to take a job with a fraction of the job security and where the supporters have a proven track record of instinctively reaching...

Except that it does come off on a regular basis. The first goal against Hibs the other week came from McLean playing a crossfield pass to GMS who knocked it back first time for Shinnie. The fourth...

He isn't that old. His birthday is in July and he's 30 so you're getting three and a half seasons from a quality player who is 30-33. Great signing.