Man City

The Man City guilty verdict is in. Don't know what to think about that?

I'll be honest and say that they are the only one of the self proclaimed "Big Six" that I enjoy watching, despite signing Fernandez. So for me the Premier League needs them.

 
I'm sure there are a few other top teams who have broken the same rules but don't seem to have been investigated (or allowed themselves to be hacked) to the same extent?
Obviously all the usual suspects are celebrating and claiming they would have won those trophies, but I think there is a long way to go before anything gets sorted.
Chelsea were found guilty of 74 similar charges in those years and only got a £10m fine

Of course everyone has their own view, and some I've heard are a bit pathetic
So here's my stupid take  😁

If they did expunge all Man City's records I can see one positive
Last season Tottenham took 4 points off Man City, West Ham only got one
Meaning we would have 38 points to Tottenham's 37, so we should be re-instated to the Premier League and Tottenham relegated 😁
Also as Mikel Arteta was assistant manager at Man City at the time, maybe a points deduction for Arsenal as well? 😃

 

Hopefully some decision will be made before the season is over  🙄

If they had to give back trophies for the period covered by the ruling 2009-10 to 2017-18
Premier League (3) - Man Utd (2), Liverpool
FA Cup (1) - Stoke
League Cup (3) - Sunderland, Liverpool, Arsenal
Charity Shield (1) - Chelsea

But then it would get really crazy with every team claiming a one place higher finish with the prize money, missed European football, teams getting relegated etc. etc.

 

 

Summer Transfers 2026

Summer Transfers 2026

Musical chairs season over for a few months, transfer window now closed.
In the world of dodgy finance more than ever it seems the Billionaires are just playing a game of collecting football stickers, only with massive sums of money and real people changing hands.
You have to be suspicious of the reasons for some pretty average players moving around for hugely inflated fees, and clubs paying big fees for players who are immediately loaned to other teams in the owners collection.

Anyway here is where the Premier league cash was splashed this summer.

Spending up again this season to a record £3.95b, with £2.5b received.

Last season there were 2 £100m + and another 17 over £50m.
Looking at the list there were very few of them who made a big impact, maybe Joao Pedro at Chelsea.

This season 5 £100m + players and another 23 over £50m.
Big spenders as usual are Man City and Chelsea with Tottenham also spending £332m to try to stay up.
The three promoted teams have bought the most players in.
Six teams actually in profit, Aston Villa the most but they did sell over half of their first XI.

The Chart:
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes Premier League Squad and Under 21's).

 

 
Total Spend - £3,949,930,000
Most Players In - Hull 23, Coventry 18, Ipswich 18
Most Players Out - Chelsea 49, Aston Villa 44, Man City 44
Most Money Paid - Man City £461.6m, Chelsea £420.4m, Tottenham £332m
Most Money Received - Chelsea £443.25m, Man City £342.58m, Aston Villa £329.72m
Largest Profit - Aston Villa £58.22m, Brighton £29.3m, Chelsea £22.85m
Largest Defecit - Liverpool £232m, Ipswich £196.85m, Tottenham £186.7m

Largest Fees Paid (Over £50m)

Enzo Fernandez [Chelsea - Man City] £125m
Bradley Barcola [Paris St Germain - Liverpool] £123m
Morgan Rogers [Aston Villa - Chelsea] £117m
Elliot Anderson [Nottm Forest - Man City] £116m
Sandro Tonali [Newcastle - Tottenham] £100m
Mateus Fernandes [West Ham - Tottenham] £85m
Ayyoub Bouaddi [Lille - Manchester City] £81.4m
Anthony Gordon [Newcastle - Barcelona] £80m **
Savio Savinho [Man City - Tottenham] £75m
Bruno Guimaraes [Newcastle - Arsenal] £75m
Carlos Baleba [Brighton - Man Utd] £70m
Iliman Ndiaye [Everton - Man City] £65m
Rodri [Man City - Barcelona] £65m **
Jérémy Jacquet [Stade Rennais - Liverpool] £63.6m
Tijjani Reijnders [Man City - Al Qadsiah] £61m **
Gabriel Martinelli [Arsenal - Al Hilal] £60m **
Jan Paul van Hecke [Brighton - Tottenham] £60m
Nicolas Jackson [Chelsea - Aston Villa] £55m
Ezri Konsa [Aston Villa - Arsenal] £55m
Piero Hincapié [Bayer Leverkusen - Arsenal] £52m
Maxence Lacroix [Crystal Palace - Chelsea] £52m
Nico Gonzalez [Man City - Newcastle] £52m
Marc Cucurella [Chelsea - Real Madrid] £51.8m **
Matias Fernandez Pardo [Lille - Newcastle] £51.4m
Ollie Watkins [Aston Villa - Al Hilal] £51m **
Geovany Quenda [Sporting Lisbon - Chelsea] £50.7m
Johan Manzambi [Freiburg - Aston Villa] £50m
Liam Delap [Chelsea - Nottm Forest] £50m

West Ham not in the list this year sadly
But 13 players in, 28 players out. £40.5m spent £199.5m received for a £159m profit  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Another Friday night start this week
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday
Last games before a 2 week International break 🙄

Unbeaten Arsenal go to in-form Brighton, Man City take on Sunderland.
5 teams without a win so far, 2 of them meet at Tottenham.

Brentford v Chelsea
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Brighton v Arsenal
Everton v Ipswich
Newcastle v Hull
Nottm Forest v Coventry
Bournemouth v Liverpool
Leeds v Crystal Palace
Man City v Sunderland
Fulham v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

 

*

West Ham v Millwall on Saturday  😈 

Worrying thing is West Ham have only 3 wins in our last 20 London derbies

Ludo

 

R.I.P Ludek Miklosko 😢

Just 64 years old.

Played 373 games for West Ham from 1990-98

+ 42 Caps for the Czechs.

Replaced the legend Phil Parkes which wasn't easy but did a really good job of it.

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Saturday start this week for a nice change.
7 games Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday ahead of Europa League and League Cup games next week.
Man City and Arsenal the only 100% teams after 3 games, while Coventry and Fulham are still pointless.
Manchester derby on Sunday, while the 3rd and 4th place teams meet at Chelsea.
Good week for the English teams in the Lasagne League.

Aston Villa v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Brentford
Chelsea v Hull
Crystal Palace v Ipswich
Liverpool v Fulham
Tottenham v Everton
Sunderland v Arsenal
*
Coventry v Brighton
Man Utd v Man City
Leeds v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀

(Hopefully Blogger will allow posts this week?) 🙄

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Just 3 days this week, one game Friday, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.
Champions League and League Cup games next week.

A big week of transfer spending (or money laundering??), with nearly £4 Billion being spent.
So many new faces it will be hard to recognise the teams.

Big spending Ipswich take on bigger spending Liverpool on Friday night.
Top of the table Arsenal take on new improved Chelsea.
Bottom of the table Tottenham go to Forest.
Hull try to make it 3 wins on the trot against what is left of the Villa team.
Newly unpopular Man City .. boo, take on Lampard's Coventry one of 5 teams with two losses so far.


Ipswich v Liverpool
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Newcastle v Bournemouth
Brentford v Sunderland
Brighton v Leeds
Fulham v Crystal Palace
Man City v Coventry
Nottm Forest v Tottenham
Hull v Aston Villa
*
Everton v Man Utd
Arsenal v Chelsea

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Another 4 day weekend, 1 Friday, 4 Saturday, 4 Sunday, 1 Monday

A few shocks in the first week.
Not sure what's happening at Aston Villa? selling half their first team, and now Watkins wanting out before they play Arsenal.
Will Glasner survive another loss?


Crystal Palace v Man City
*
Liverpool v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Everton
Coventry v Hull
Tottenham v Newcastle
*
Chelsea v Brighton
Leeds v Brentford
Sunderland v Fulham
Man Utd v Ipswich
*
Aston Villa v Arsenal


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

It's that time again, Another season of Premier League predictions. 😀
Hopefully someone will join in and make it a competition? Ended with just 3 of us last season 😢
As sadly there is no West Ham this year I should be able to make unbiased choices and hopefully do better

Will publish the BBC predictions (Sutton, Guest and AI) to see what I'm up against.

Lots of 4 day weekends this season which is a pain for anyone playing Fantasy Football.

Week 1
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday

Arsenal v Coventry
*
Hull v Man Utd
Everton v Crystal Palace
Ipswich v Sunderland
Nottm Forest v Leeds
Brentford v Spurs
*
Brighton v Aston Villa
Man City v Bournemouth
Newcastle v Liverpool
*
Fulham v  Chelsea

Good Luck All  😀

T&C's - Usual rules apply
3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.
Predictions League will be decided on weekly wins first, if 2 or more people share a weekly win that will be classed as a draw, if at the end things are still level the total points for the season come into play.
Predictions in the comments please  😀     
Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs, please try and post the whole set at once (but I won't enforce it as these Friday night games catch everyone out including me).
All 380 Premier League games will be covered, plus sometimes FA Cup games and the League Cup Final will be included to make up weeks where there are many postponements due to those games.

Fantasy Football 2026/27

Fantasy Football 2026/27

FPL Fantasy Premier League 

Have re-started the "Nothing Better Than Football" League 😀

Code for joining if anyone wants to is : lp2mz2  or the Auto Join link below

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/lp2mz2

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/lp2mz2

Have done the Telegraph one as well - Code to join that is : KUJDMD

Premier League 2026/27 Preview

Premier League 2026/27 Preview

Must admit it's hard to get motivated this season with no West Ham 😔
But the show goes on.

Here are my thoughts on this season's teams.

Already (as of 17th August) with 2 weeks before the transfer window closes the 20 teams have spent just under £2.5 Billion.
Only Sunderland have yet to spend, while Chelsea have spent £365m.
Newly promoted Ipswich have spent £162m and Coventry £115m

Based on the Charity Shield performance Arsenal must be favourites again, as Man City look to have a bit of work to do to catch up.
Tottenham have spent big and will hope to improve on their usual 17th place.
Other contenders should probably be Man Utd, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Liverpool and an outside pick Leeds?


Arsenal
Have strenghened the squad with Bruno Guimaraes and Tzolis while only losing Trossard.
If players like Rice, Saka and others can get over the long season and World Cup they should be too strong for the others.

Aston Villa
Losing top players like Tielemans, Rogers, Digne will affect them with Champions League football on top of the League season.
Emery will need to show what a good manager he is to keep them in European contention.

Bournemouth
Iraola gone, new manager Rose unproven?
If they keep up the performances of last season despite having Europa League they should be safe mid table

Brentford
Impressive last season, will Thiago carry on from last season even though his Brazil adventure was a disappointment. I would expect mid table again.

Brighton
Hürzeler not the most likeable manager but does seem to get a tune out of Brighton.
European football could be a distraction.
Lots of player turnover again with a few bigger names gone, can't see them finishing top half but should be safe from relegation.

Chelsea
Another big spending pre-season with Rogers, Lacroix, Palestra, Barco all joining for big fees. Losing Cucurella is a gamble as he was their stand out player last year other than Pedro.
Alonso getting a huge squad with no European football to give playing time could be a big problem, will need to move on a bunch of players.
Even so should make European positions.

Coventry City
Were impressive last season, but a big step up.
Might start the season well but lack of squad depth will probably see them in the relegation places.

Crystal Palace
Glasner had them playing some great football over the last two season, but no idea if new boss Pierre Sage will motivate them.
Qualified for the Europa league after the conference win, so more games for a thin squad. Lacroix gone and they never replaced Guehi last season so will need to get some defenders.

Everton
Moyes made a bright start last season but it tailed off, a few decent signings so far but still need a good striker as Beto and Barry are not the best.

Fulham
Not sure what we'll get from Fulham this season? losing Marco Silva as well as Wilson, and Raul Jiminez is a big blow.
Arbeloa will need to show why Real Madrid thought he was good enough to manage them.
I think Fulham will struggle this season.

Hull City
Will probably be wrong but anything better than 20th will be a success for them.
Spent £80m so far on a selection of virtually unknown players.

Ipswich Town
Losing Kieran McKenna is a big blow for them, Gary O'Neil is a reasonable manager but not the same level.
Have spent big so far with over £160m used to increase the squad size.
Could give a few teams problems but will do well to stay up.

Leeds
Looked pretty good last season, and getting Harry Wilson on a free is a bargain.
New goalie Trafford also looking a great buy.
Fancy them to do well this season.

Liverpool
After last seasons big spending failure I expect them to do better this season.
Isak looked good for Sweden if the WC, and maybe some of last seasons under performers will be better. Still need to sort out the defence.
Iraola has impressed with Bournemouth but can he do it with Liverpool.

Manchester City
Big changes this season, I think Maresca was a good choice to replace Guardiola but they looked all over the place against Arsenal.
Losing experienced players like Silva, Ake, Akanji, Stones will weaken them.
Rodri out injured and maybe moving on will not help.
But they've got Haaland so never write them off.

Manchester United
Carrick did well after taking over last season, but they still rely on Fernandes to perform. Mbuemo and Cunha were great signings last season but still think they are a bit short to compete for the big prizes.

Newcastle
Eddie Howe giving up on them says a lot, losing Gordon, Guimaraes and Tonali will weaken them badly. Plus new manager Matthias Jaissle is an unknown quantity.
None of last seasons expensive panic buys Wissa, Woltemade and Elanga really worked and they've spent another £150m on 5 players most won't have heard of this summer.
Mid table at best.

Nottingham Forest
How many managers this season? I thought Pereira did a good job for them at the end of last season keeping them up but he's now gone. Glasner did wonders at Palace but will he get time with this owner.
Anderson will be missed but they have a good squad and should be safe.

Sunderland
Over achieved last season and have European football this season as a reward.
Did bring in a lot of players last season and have shipped out quite a few of them this season. Just a couple of free transfers in this summer.
Shocked me last season but can't see them doing it again.

Tottenham
Three big signings plus a couple of freebies, Romero gone which is not a bad thing. I was surprised they parted with Spence who was a stand out for England.
If Maddison, Kudus and Kulusevski can get fit they have a decent team.
Should improve on the last two seasons but can't see them challenging for honours.

Feeling that the highly over-rated De Zerbi might not see out the season if the expensive gamble doesn't pay off.


So Prediction Time

Arsenal must be favourites, Man City might challenge if they get their act together.
European spots any from Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Leeds

Relegation candidates
Hull, Coventry, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Ipswich, Sunderland, Tottenham

Obviously my predictions are not always the best 😆

Managerial Merry-Go-Round.

The Premier League managerial merry-go-round.

Crazy to think that Mikel Arteta is the longest serving manager in the top four divisions.
Six years in the Arsenal job, but it seems to have paid off with them winning last year.
Next best is Unai Emery and Daniel Farke 3 years and only 9 in the job for more than a year.

Current Premier League Managers (subject to change)

Arsenal            Mikel Arteta
Aston Villa        Unai Emery
Bournemouth        Marco Rose    (Replacing Andoni Iraola)
Brentford        Keith Andrews
Brighton        Fabian Hürzeler
Chelsea            Xabi Alonso    (Replacing Calum McFarlane)
Coventry        Frank Lampard
Crystal Palace        Pierre Sage    (Replacing Oliver Glasner)
Everton            David Moyes
Fulham            Álvaro Arbeloa    (Replacing Marco Silva)
Hull            Sergej Jakirović
Ipswich            Gary O'Neil    (Replacing Kieran McKenna)
Leeds            Daniel Farke
Liverpool        Andoni Iraola    (Replacing Arne Slot)
Man City        Enzo Maresca    (Replacing Pep Guardiola)
Man United        Michael Carrick
Newcastle        Matthias Jaissle  (Replacing Eddie Howe)
Nottingham Forest    Oliver Glasner    (Replacing Vítor Pereira)
Sunderland        Regis Le Bris
Tottenham        Roberto De Zerbi
 
So nine clubs with new managers this season, Iraola and Glasner swapping one for another.
Surprises were Forest getting rid of another manager Pereira who had done a good job keeping them up, and replacing him with Glasner who was doing well at Palace.
Also Ipswich with McKenna leaving after getting them promoted?

World Cup 2026

 

 

Well that's the World Cup over for another 4 years.

Spain totally outplaying the cheating Argies, only surprise was it took till extra time to score a winner.
The most one sided World Cup final I can remember.

England and France playing out one of the best games of the tournament for the 3rd place, don't think anyone expected that.

Overall a lot better than expected, I thought it might be half empty stadiums due to the exorbitant prices for match tickets, travel, food and drink etc. But obviously there are a lot of rich people in the world.

Not a fan of the Americanisation of it, turning the game into 4 quarters for added advert breaks, the lame 30 minute half time show in the final.
The FIFA, Infantino, Trump, Argentina sideshow was annoying.
But most of the stadiums were brilliant especially Dallas and Atlanta.

The Mexico v England game was incredible, the atmosphere and obviously the result made things memorable.

Cape Verde the shock team, played brilliantly when most expected them to go out with a whimper. Norway showing they are more than just Erling Haaland.
France were looking like winners until they met Spain who just make the game look simple with excellent ball control and passing.
England still a long way short of being World Champions, some great moments but lacked ideas in many of the games.

TV coverage was pretty good, I think BBC win it due to not having adverts or whiny Gary Neville.
So my TV Awards are (in my opinion)
Presenters - (Best) Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman (Worst) Mark Pougash, Kelly Cates
Pundits - (Best) Duncan Ferguson, Jobi McAnuff (Worst) Benni McCarthy, Wayne Rooney
Commentators - Not a lot of difference, Guy Mowbray kept giving the wrong names to players.
Co-Commentators - (Best) Alan Shearer, Andros Townsend (Worst) Lee Dixon, Martin Keown
Reporter - (Best) Kelly Somers (Worst) Adam Richman

The next World Cup in 2030 is being played in 6 countries

Mostly Spain, Portugal and Morocco with single games in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay supposedly to celebrate the centenery of the World Cup.

Being cynical it might be because FIFA rules about hosting  mean that with the 2034 in Saudi (AFC) and the 2030 games covering EUFA, CAF and CONMEBOL it would leave only the OFC and CONCACAF nations to bid for the 2038 edition.

Meaning as Australia is now classed as an Asian country it's more likely to be America again?

R.I.P Kevin Keegan

R.I.P Kevin Keegan
I don't think I really appreciated him until I saw him live playing for Southampton in the early 80's.
He never stopped running and was outjumping players like Alvin Martin and Billy Bonds, even though we won 4-2 I came away thinking it was one of the best individual performances I had seen.

A star player for Liverpool in a double act with John Toshack, went off to Hamburg and twice won European footballer of the year.
Later went to Southampton and Newcastle, and then managed Newcastle, Fulham, Man City and England.
Always a shame that both he and Trevor Brooking were injured in the 1982 World Cup, with both getting just 30 minutes of action in a 0-0 draw with Spain, meaning England went home despite being unbeaten.

A great character who will be missed.

World Cup 2026 (Part 8) Final and 3rd Place

The final two games of World Cup 2026

France and England both blowing out in the Semi Finals meet on Saturday for the meaningless Bronze medal match.

Maybe a chance for Mbappe, Kane and Bellingham to catch Messi for the Golden Boot, but possibly a couple of reserve teams to play it out.

Sunday is the World Cup Final Argentina vs Spain

Spain have quietly got there without looking anywhere near as good as they did in the 2024 Euros, but are really hard to beat.

Argentina have done just enough to get through the last four rounds, but even the most unbiased fan would say it must have been with FIFA's help, so many fouls by their players going unpunished when everyone else was getting red's and yellow's for less.

 

Hopefully Spain put an end to it, but you never know?

 

France v England

Spain v Argentina

England

Got that empty feeling I seem to get every couple of years.
Every tournament I start out hoping England do well, then they get through to the latter stages and hopes start to rise.
After France's non performance on Tuesday, I started to dream of an England win.
An ageing Argentina team who had scraped through the last couple of games, followed by Spain which if we were at our best was a possible?
But once again we blew it.

Tuchel went from hero to zero after 70 minutes, could not understand why he took Gordon off for a defender when he has pace to burn and would have given us and out ball if Argentina started to dominate play.
Then it got worse with Rice and James taken off for more defenders leaving six at the back inviting pressure.
Obviously the game ended up being played in our half with nobody to take the game to Argentina, Kane was knackered, Bellingham couldn't be everywhere and the inevitable happened.

Overall a few great moments, but never looked like World Champions.
The Mexico win was the highlight, the second half against Croatia was good, did just enough in the other games
Bellingham, Spence, Kane, Anderson, Gordon and maybe Stones come out of it with credit.
Saka, Rice and James were all playing with injuries so not at their best.
Watkins got less than ten minutes, Toney got about three, Mainoo didn't get any, and no idea why Challobah was called up to be a bench warmer?

I think things will get awkward for Tuchel from now on, looked like the master tactician when we defended a lead with ten men against Mexico, but trying the same tactics in this game when we still had eleven on the pitch and could have brought on some fire power (Watkins, Rashord, Saka) to take the game to Argentina just seemed like a coach with limited ideas.

I guess I'll go through it all again in 2028 ?

World Cup 2026 (Part 7) Semi Finals

World Cup Semi-finals on Tuesday and Wednesday.

France through in a low key game against Morocco.
Spain having a harder game against Belgium with a late winner by supersub Merino.
England making us all sweat in the heat of Miami against Norway.
Kept Haaland quiet but had to rely on Bellingham's two great strikes to see us through in extra time.
Argentina also scraping through in extra time against the ten men of Switzerland, after Embolo's two dumb yellow cards. Great winner by Alvarez but less than impressive overall and again aided by some more dubious officiating.

I think England on a good day should be able to beat Argentina, although injuries and fatigue and FIFA's love of Argentina could go against us.
Rice and Saka nowhere near their best, Kane looked shattered against Norway but hopefully 3 days rest will see them recovered.
France still looking the favourites, although Spain who haven't really been in top gear will make it tough.

France v Spain
England v Argentina

World Cup 2026 (Part 6) Quarter Finals

The World Cup winds down as we get to the Quarter Finals starting Thursday at 9pm.
France survive Paraguay's dirty tricks to take on Africa's remaining team Morocco.
Spain haven't really been firing yet but haven't conceded any goals go up against the Trump inspired Belgians.
England who were excellent against Mexico meet Norway who have Haaland so not a certainty.
Argentina with a ref assisted win over Egypt, meet Switzerland who scraped through a dull 0-0 over Colombia to win on Penalties.

France v Morocco
Spain v Belgium
Norway v England
Argentina v Switzerland

England vs Mexico

Well that was the most enjoyable and also most stressful England game in many years.
Although I expected (or just hoped) England would win, the various factors involved were arguing against it. High altitude, 90,000 passionate Mexican fans with only a few thousand rich England fans, the fact Mexico had only lost twice in 89 previous games at the Azteca.
Also that England hadn't really clicked in the first four games.

Rice picking up a booking in the first minute didn't bode well, but after that it was a proper performance with Bellingham again the stand out.
Kane, Gordon, Pickford all having top games, and the late subs after the sending off all playing blinders even though having a ten man defence with no one in the Mexican half was nerve wracking for the last 30 minutes.

Quansah had been playing well before the sending off, but I assume King Charles will be on the phone to Infantino to get the red card suspended (as that's the new rule?).

Just got to deal with Haaland on Saturday now  😟

World Cup 2026 (Part 5) Last 16

Round of 16 time, games running from tonight till Tuesday.

Most of the big hitters still in it, only real shock was Germany losing to Paraguay on penalties!!, 

near shock was Argentina scraping through against Cape Verde.
Netherlands going out was a shame, but unluckily drawn against the higher rated Moroccans. 

Will miss their colourful fans.
Belgium somehow coming back from 2-0 down with minutes to go after being totally outplayed to beat Senegal.
Croatia robbed of a last minute equaliser against Portugal because the English VAR ref decided to use the cricket style 'Snicko' to rule the ball had brushed the Croatian players hair to prove offside, although when it hit the Portugal player on the back it didn't move?
England less than impressive again, two late goals by Kane getting them through against Congo. 

Mexico away looks like a tall order but have to hope.
The logic of calling up Challobah to replace one of the injury prone right backs could cost Tuchel, I'm sure Kyle Walker would have happily jumped on a plane?

Paraguay v France
Canada v Morocco
Brazil v Norway
Mexico v England
Portugal v Spain
United States v Belgium
Argentina v Egypt
Switzerland v Colombia

Think I've blown my effort to beat the AI and the Football "expert" on the predictions, got level after the England game but fell apart in the final 8 games. 😒
(88 Games Played) - BBC-AI 74, Sutton 72, Lee 64

Transfer News

Mateus Fernandes

August 2024 Sporting Lisbon to Southampton - £13 million - Got relegated
August 2025 Southampton to West Ham - £38 million - Got relegated
July 2026 West Ham to Tottenham - £85 million - ?

Really hoping he gets his hat-trick  😁