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JonH comes home wrote:
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I couldnt watch or read! Gardened all afternoon ! Ha. Jeez.


 As in hid behind the sofa stuff!


 Yes, it's easy for us comparative neutrals to keep up to date and add light comments.

But I think back to my non watching of in particular big ( eg. actually maybe get out of a finals group! ) Scotland games in the past and maybe again in a couple of weeks if we have a World Cup play-off final against Wales.


 Is the match with Ukraine likely to happen, Indy? 


Yes. Scotland vs Ukraine is scheduled for Hampden on Wednesday 1st June.  

Wales vs Scotland or Ukraine is scheduled for Cardiff on Sunday 5th June.

So we've got to get past a Ukraine that most folk no doubt want to win ( some folk reckon that they should he able to get in a reducer or two early on without any great sanction ). Win that and we'd face a well rested Wales, particularly such as Bale and Ramsey who struggle to play two games in a week.



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indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

I couldnt watch or read! Gardened all afternoon ! Ha. Jeez.


 As in hid behind the sofa stuff!


 Yes, it's easy for us comparative neutrals to keep up to date and add light comments.

But I think back to my non watching of in particular big ( eg. actually maybe get out of a finals group! ) Scotland games in the past and maybe again in a couple of weeks if we have a World Cup play-off final against Wales.


 Is the match with Ukraine likely to happen, Indy? 


Yes. Scotland vs Ukraine is scheduled for Hampden on Wednesday 1st June.  

Wales vs Scotland or Ukraine is scheduled for Cardiff on Sunday 5th June.

So we've got to get past a Ukraine that most folk no doubt want to win ( some folk reckon that they should he able to get in a reducer or two early on without any great sanction ). Win that and we'd face a well rested Wales, particularly such as Bale and Ramsey who struggle to play two games in a week.


 Whats a reducer ?! 

do you think Ukraine could field a team? Or are they already overseas? 



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A 'reducer' is a fairly violent intimidatory foul. Some folk are theorising that the ref wouldn't be dishing out an early red card to Ukraine. 

I don't know any real details about the Ukrainian team, just that they agreed to the rearranged date a fair time ago now so no doubt will turn up with a team. I'd guess a fair number of them play in foreign leagues anyway such as Yarmolenko and Zinchenko in England 



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A lot of the squad were based within Ukraine, but there are a fair number playing overseas.
A lot of the home based players haven't played much and they have tried to get several friendlies set up before the matches

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Presumably Wales will play a warm up as well. England should play them to get them nicely in tune!

Have to say regardless of Ukraines situation, Id love to see Scotland play Wales, memories of Anfield back in 1977. Id actually be neutral on the winner but would be good to see another British team join England in the finals.

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JonH comes home wrote:

Presumably Wales will play a warm up as well. England should play them to get them nicely in tune!

Have to say regardless of Ukraines situation, Id love to see Scotland play Wales, memories of Anfield back in 1977. Id actually be neutral on the winner but would be good to see another British team join England in the finals.


Ah, I now see that Wales are away to Poland in a Nations League game on Wednesday 1st June when Scotland are playing Ukraine. I doubt though Bale will be much to be seen for that game.



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The final World Cup qualifiers are coming up and some good games I reckon

Scotland v Ukraine (European play off semis) - 1st June Glasgow
Wales v Scotland or Ukraine (European play off final) - 5th June Cardiff
Australia v UAE (Asian Play off final) - 8th June Qatar
Peru v Australia or UAE (Final Play off) - 13th June Qatar
Costa Rica v New Zealand (Final Play off) 14th June Qatar

The Qatar stadium being used is where Scotland or Wales, if they qualify, will play all their group games it seems, and that would include England v Scotland/Wales, if it happens. The stadium is in the Al Rayyan district of Doha. I did a lot of work in Doha and Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, a number of years ago, Doha was a cultural void back then (this is around 10 years ago) so I hope it has become more interesting since then! Playing football in June is going to be HOT though!

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OMG. This is hysterical. It could have gone in the general tennis section, here in the football thread, or even the 'funny tweets' section.

https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1529057980498558976

Watch this BBC News clip of Cam Norrie at the French Open, but rather than watching the tennis, watch the ticker headlines below.

Someone clearly has a sense of humour.



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Not sure about the weather info but the football info is spot on.

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indiana wrote:

Not sure about the weather info but the football info is spot on.


Also confirmed that it is not a hoax.  BBC have issued an explanation and an apology.

https://twitter.com/RobOHanrahan/status/1529061200277000192



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Bob in Spain wrote:
indiana wrote:

Not sure about the weather info but the football info is spot on.


Also confirmed that it is not a hoax.  BBC have issued an explanation and an apology.

https://twitter.com/RobOHanrahan/status/1529061200277000192


 hohoho - fair and accurate as the tweet said!

Mind you, why was he training on a live feed?!!



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JonH comes home wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
indiana wrote:

Not sure about the weather info but the football info is spot on.


Also confirmed that it is not a hoax.  BBC have issued an explanation and an apology.

https://twitter.com/RobOHanrahan/status/1529061200277000192


 hohoho - fair and accurate as the tweet said!

Mind you, why was he training on a live feed?!!


Err, no doubt they weren't meant to be on a live feed. That's the foul up.



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Injury stats. Days lost through injury during the 21/22 season.  Guess who took the title.

 

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With sincere apologies to my Scottish friends on here, I would love to see Ukraine go on and qualify for the WC. I would normally support any of the home nations in matches like this but the circumstances here are different. I just think a Ukraine win would be such a morale booster for a nation that is suffering so much.

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Fair dos, Bob.

Now beat them, Scotland !

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