PK, as I am sure you realise, I was being ‘playful’. Name a subject - Trump will claim to know more about it than anyone else in the world.
If the tournament is deemed to have been a success, Mister Trump will certainly try and take the credit. I’m surprised that the tournament hasn’t been renamed as ‘the Trump World Cup.’ I’m sure he would have suggested as much.
Hyperbole, what a lovely word. 
Are we still looking at a possible July 4th meeting?
Good money? 
What a demented little generic, mob-following snob you are. More hateable than the mass-murdering, psychopathic child-killer Dubya Bush? Or the specialist child-killer Obama?
derleydoo;
Are we still looking at a possible July 4th meeting?
Peter Kropotkin:
I would pay good money to see that game in person…
however, with that said, so would about 200 million other
people would want to see that game… we can only hope…
D: Good money?
K: as far as the date goes, no, it won’t happen for a very good
reason, as of right now, we are both, England and US,
are at the top of our respective tables… The US can only
play someone from the 3rd place, as of right now, so goes
England… and that looks like for us anyway, we might play
Bosnia-Herzegovina, perhaps July 1st…in round of 32…
not sure about you all, it depends on the games play out…
your game with Panama on Saturday, for example…
we will see… and as far as my ‘‘good money’’ statement,
I grew up outside of Chicago, and that was something we said
when we were really interested in going to an event…
you can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can’t take
the Midwest out of the boy…
Kropotkin
MistressOphelia:
What a demented little generic, mob-following snob you are. More hateable than the mass-murdering, psychopathic child-killer Dubya Bush? Or the specialist child-killer Obama?
K: love you too…
Kropotkin
England won… and I believe that they are at the
top of the bracket… assuming that, they will play some
third place team… Looking good…
Kropotkin
Not sure about ‘looking good’.
Since the 3rd and 4th quarter performance against Croatia, England have looked less than impressive.
In the last 32 they will face the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
For fans of ‘Ifs and Buts’ . . .
Win that game and one scenario has them then facing Mexico. . .
Win that and they would face Brazil. . .
Win that and they would face Argentina. . .
Win that and they will face France in the final. . .
in checking the schedule, I see that we both play Wednesday,
July 1st… you all play Congo DR and we play Bosnia-Herzegovina…
The US- Bosnia game is being played in Levi Stadium, about
25 minutes from here… at 5:00 pm local time…England plays
in Atlanta around noon, again my time… I will be watching both games
with interest…
Kropotkin
Onward, ever onward.
England, stacked with gifted footballers - combined monthly salary, 12 million? 2
Democratic Republic of Congo - combined monthly salary, three shillings and sixpence 1?
Again, England less than inspired. Unlike the DR Congo goalkeeper.
Kane was more than able. Two goals. The second of which was pretty special.
USA are through to play Belgium. Belgium scraped through against Senegal. They were 2-0 down with 4 minutes to go - plus hydration break. Got back to 2-2 and scored a last minute extra-time goal. 3-2 victors.
I do believe the USA team are more than capable of beating Belgium. We shall see.
England now face Mexico in the Azteca stadium. I firmly believe the USA have a good chance of beating Belgium.
derleydoo:
Again, England less than inspired. Unlike the DR Congo goalkeeper.
Kane was more than able. Two goals. The second of which was pretty special.
K: agreed…
D: USA are through to play Belgium. Belgium scraped through against Senegal. They were 2-0 down with 4 minutes to go - plus hydration break. Got back to 2-2 and scored a last minute extra-time goal. 3-2 victors.
K: the Belgium game was something else… two scores in 3 minutes?
Wow…until that first goal, I was pretty sure Senegal was going to win…
I would have bet money on it with 10 minutes left in the game…
and I would have lost…
D: I do believe the USA team are more than capable of beating Belgium. We shall see.
K: and again, agreed, more than a half with only 10 men is a huge ego boaster
for the US…
K: England now face Mexico in the Azteca stadium. I firmly believe the USA have a good chance of beating Belgium.
K: a straight up game at sea level, I would bet England, but Mexico City is
2200 meters in elevation… and there is no way get used to that elevation
in a couple of days… because of that, and only that, I suspect that Mexico
might win, but again at sea level, even game… it will be a great game in
any case… as for the US and Belgium, it should be a very good game…
it being played in Seattle… so, even there…
Kropotkin
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Do you have to bring your hateful politics into every single thread?
It may seem a little churlish to mention the salary difference. However, when you make your living playing football - doing nothing but playing football, it beggars belief that the pampered superstars cannot be arsed to spend time practising, in order that they might be able to kick a ball equally well with either foot.
I have lost count of the number of times I have heard co-commentator, Danny Murphy, former England international, say - whilst justifying a player’s poor attempt on goal - “It was on his weaker foot.”
Perhaps one or two should spend less time at the hairdresser, and more time on the training ground, learning to be a better footballer. Instead, many strut around, considering themselves to be ‘the finished article’. Far, far from it!
An England team (any team) using 22 tools, would always beat a team using just 11 tools - unless the opposition had eleven Messis.
One day, football will be renamed, feetball.
That’s a little unfair, no? It takes a lot of training and effort, that realistically would take away from perfecting the tool they are already exceptional with.
Messi is a freak, everybody can’t be Messi.
I’m not sure it’s unfair to expect someone who is paid vast sums of money to be able to kick a football with two feet. Professional footballers spend a couple of hours in group training sessions.
What to do in the remaining 22 hours left in the day?
I don’t understand why you feel that adding an extra dimension to their game would take away from their current ability.
Hard work never killed anyone, said one galley slave to another! 
Messi has scored between 80-83% of his goals with his left foot. Can you imagine how good he would be if he’d had me coaching him? 
Have you ever played the game, Socrates?
When my grandson was walking for the first time, I placed a football at his feet. Left - right - left - right - no preference - perfectly natural. Wow! I thought, we have a gifted player on our hands. I mustn’t interfere! Allow things to develop naturally.
A year later, I repeated the exercise. Right, right, right, right …
“Try it with the other foot.”
He very nearly fell over in the attempt! 
I felt that I had let him down!
At the end of the day, practise makes perfect.
Every human has a dominating side, hence “lefty” and “righty.”
I think you underestimate how much time footballers spend on the game. The training sessions with the team are to build cohesion, practice team strategies, and keep a quality control check. They definitely still spend many of the remaining 22 either playing, training, or doing excercice. They would not hold up if they didn’t.
Probably any given human can reach a given percentage of proficiency of their dominating side with their weak side. Want proof? Use nothing but your “wrong” hand to write for ten years, see if it even then reaches your “normal” hand. And it would take away time from refining your caligraphy with the dominating hand, specially if you are gifted with it. That’s my feeling.
You do need a level of competence with your weak side, but I’m willing to bet there’s a measurable curve of diminishing returns.
Have you played the game at any kind of level?
Just at school breaks as a kid and such.
Now, would seem to be a suitable moment to ask you to define intelligence.
Oh I’m sorry I need to be some kind of an amateur to understand dominating sides in the brain?
Stop it.
Misunderstanding? I don’t recall suggesting that you are unaware of dominating sides of the brain.
However, I do recall asking you to define intelligence.
But hey ho, you sit back and enjoy the football.
Here’s a list of the leading contenders for the golden boot:
Messi (Argentina) 7
Mbappe (France) 6
Haaland (Norway) 5
Kane (England) 5
Dembele (France) 4
Oyarzabal (Spain) 4
Vinicius Junior (Brazil) 4
Hats off to Cape Verde (population 4709 approx) they held Spain - the European champions - to a draw in the group stage. Earlier today, they came perilously close to beating Argentina - the current world champions.
“Cape Verde? Where’s that?”
Can you explain to me in no uncertain terms why this is any different or more special than any other country refusing entry to certain people?
Do you have any kind of idea what i.e. Israel does on a day to day basis when it comes to this question?
Where is the idea coming from that you can enter people’s countries or houses as you please?
