Just a few weeks away from this starting (20 July) with the hosts being Australia and New Zealand. It will be the first WWC to have 32 teams so expect some one sided group stage matches.
Outside of football the biggest stories of interest is the increase in prize pool (from $30M to $110M USD)...
I started the Qatar thread eleven (!) years ago and so lets start the next one.
What do we know?
The tournament will kickoff in June 2026 and will be expanding from 32 to 48 nations.
The allocation for spots will look like this:
Europe gets 16 (up from 13)
Asia gets 8 (up from 4.5)
Africa...
The games start on February 4 in the winter paradise that is Beijing. The snow will be fake but the smog is not.
The bad news that came out last night is the NHL has decided not to release it's players for the men's hockey tournament as expected due to COVID issues...
Romero, Lo Celso, Aurier, and Sanchez are currently scheduled to travel to "red" countries on the UK Covid List and would be required to quarantine for 10 days upon return to the UK.
Full list of PL players is here...
As some of you may know, I referee a lot of football in the US. There we're some pretty significant law changes made for the next season and I wanted to clarify those changes. Unfortunately, the football media has a habit of not doing the greatest job explaining law changes so I made this...
I'm less drunk (but not sober) than last Friday night so I think I'll get this in the right forum.
Match #50 - Round of 16 - 15:00 BST
Kazan
Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)
VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)
Odds
France (7/5)
Draw (2/1)
Argentina (12/5)...
Match #37 - Group C - 15:00 BST
Denmark : France
Moscow (Luzhniki)
Referee: Sandro Ricci (Brazil)
VAR: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)
Odds
France (23/20)
Draw (7/4)
Denmark (18/5)
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Match #38 - Group C - 15:00 BST
Australia : Peru
Sochi
Referee...
Match #33 - Group A - 15:00 BST
Uruguay : Russia
Samara
Referee: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)
VAR: Clement Turpin (France)
Odds
Uruguay (17/10)
Draw (2/1)
Russia (19/10)
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Match #34 - Group A - 15:00 BST
Saudi Arabia : Egypt
Who cares...
Let's try this sober.
Match #30 - Group G - 13:00 BST
England : Panama
Kaliningrad
Referee: Ghead Grisha (Egypt)
VAR: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
Odds
England (2/9)
Draw (5/1)
Panama (16/1)
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Match #32 - Group H - 16:00 BST
Japan : Senegal...
Match #29 - Group G - 13:00 BST
Belgium : Tunisia
Referee: Jair Marrufo (United States)
VAR: Mark Geiger (United States)
Odds
Belgium (1/3)
Draw (19/5)
Tunisia (10/1)
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Match #28 - Group F - 16:00 BST
South Korea : Mexico
Referee: Milorad...
Match #25 - Group E - 13:00 BST
Brazil : Costa Rica
St. Petersburg
Referee: Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands)
VAR: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
Odds
Brazil (2/9)
Draw (19/4)
Costa Rica (16/1)
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Match #24 - Group D - 16:00 BST
Nigeria : Iceland...
Match #21 - Group C - 13:00 BST
Denmark : Australia
Samara
Referee: Antionio Lahoz (Spain)
VAR: Mark Geiger (United States)
Odds
Denmark (1/1)
Draw (9/4)
Australia (3/1)
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Match #22 - Group C - 16:00 BST
France : Peru
Yekatarinburg
Referee...
Match #19 - Group B - 13:00 BST
Portugal : Morocco
Moscow (Luzhiniki)
Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)
Odds
Portugal (8/13)
Draw (13/5)
Morocco (5/1)
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Match #18 - Group A - 16:00 BST
Uruguay : Saudi Arabia
Rostov-on-Don
Referee: Clement...
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