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I bought a month of TSN so now I can watch whole games and all the pre and post stuff. Watched Canada VS Switzerland this afternoon. It was like there wasn't a minute of down time, seemed like more fouls that decent line ups for goals - the voice over guys spoiled it for me predicting Canada's loss early on and constantly like depressing budgerigars.

There is no way I can watch 4 full time games per day so will still be watching re-caps. Hard to know which of the full games to watch in real time with so many choices.

You see so many players sliding for quite a distance on their knees. This made me look up if they are playing on real grass or AstroTurf. The grass is holding up great seeing the use it is getting.

My life would make more sense if I had grandchildren, glad that you are enjoying yours Roger. 

I bought myself a soccer ball. There were a few around the garden that were wrecked beyond repair left years ago by the kids.

Hubby - Did you buy that to play with the nephews and nieces? 

That was a lovely thought, but I only thought of myself actually LOL  I mostly plan to do a little dribbling, maybe between things, if any of my adult kids show up to be goalies I could set up a goal.
   

My daughter, who actually coaches soccer, won't watch because of Trump's peace medal.  Thus I'm here talking to you guys instead.

It's a perenniel bugbear that as an organisation, FIFA is as bent as a three-bob note (I don't know why I use this expression, I was born comfortably after decimalisation) - and you know that they are carving out a substantial chunk of the world cup profits for their own slimy purposes.
I once read a fantastic piece of investigative journalism on the subject - 'Foul!: The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals,' by Andrew Jennings. It's obviously a little out of date now, but I haven't seen anything that would make me believe they have reformed themselves in the intervening years.

My own world cup bugbear is seeing so many 'famous' people at the tournament; politicians, low-level musicians, reality TV participants etc. Because you know none of them have endured a freezing Hampden evening watching us struggle against Leichtenstein. It feels a shame for those who have walked through the valley not to have an opportunity to enjoy the mountaintop, because the right honourable member for Gravy Train, East has swiped their ticket.
I also had a rant the other day seeing Rylan Clark on a panel of faces of pundits and presenters on the BBC website. I spent a good couple of minutes deriding the lazy 'jobs for the BBC favourites' approach, and the inanity of having someone give us their allegedly hilarious, 'I don't know anything about football' slant on one of the world's biggest sporting events.
Turns out it was Olivier Giroud....

PS The football's loss is our gain Diane.

These re-cap games are really holding my interest this year, I watched all 8 games over the weekend.