World cup draw

[jon545660]

Let's be honest, as shit as a December world cup in Qatar sounds, we'll all end up watching it when there's no other footy on.

The draw is today at 16:45 BST on BBC in the UK

Playoffs still to happen in June:
Costa Rica v New Zealand
UAE or Australia v Peru
Scotland or Ukraine v Wales

 

[jon545660]

* not sure what a group of death looks like, but hoping England end up in it

 

[dee]

Qat’ar in pot 1 is a fucking nonsense

 

[Modo]

Imagine this group:
Qatar, Mexico, Iran, Costa Rica/New Zealand

 

[Modo]

Qat’ar in pot 1 is a fucking nonsense

The host country is always in the no 1 pot.

 

[Hyena]

I just want the Saudis, the Americans, and the Iranians to be in the same group. Ideally with Qatar. That would be a nice group of death.

 

[King Binny]

The difference in quality in pots 3 and 4 (from 1 and 2) reminds me of CL pots.

 

[dee]

The host country is always in the no 1 pot.

That I know, doesn’t make it any less sensible

 

[King Binny]

 

[Athens]

I can't wait to see what group Italy are in. They're bound to qualify soon...

 

[jon545660]

Not sure how Jermaine Jenas got this gig. Looked up his international career on wiki:

"named in the 2006 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play at the tournament. In the first game, he had got as far as getting changed to be brought on as a last-minute substitute, before being thwarted by the final whistle."

 

[The Nomad]

Group of death..

England, Germany, Senegal... ?

 

[tombrown]

Group B is the group of imperialism so far

 

[The Nomad]

England Iran and USA..

Interesting...

 

[tombrown]

Wonder who Ireland will get

 

[Hansern]

Cant remember being less interested in a World cup. Shame they’ve ruined it by giving it to Qatar.

 

[The Nomad]

Cant remember being less interested in a World cup. Shame they’ve ruined it by giving it to Qatar.

In November/December

 

[rubans]

Met Reshmin Chowdhury before a LFC game in Liverpool at Premier Inn, she was so lovely.

 

[King Binny]

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

England, USA, Iran and potentially Ukraine in a group in Qatar. Has to be some group of death jokes around that.

 

[Red rose]

Virgil and Sadio up against each other 😀

 

[Athens]

Met Reshmin Chowdhury before a LFC game in Liverpool at Premier Inn, she was so lovely.

Lovely as in nice or lovely as in lovely looking?

 

[rubans]

Lovely as in nice or lovely as in lovely looking?

Both mate.
She was having brekkie at Lime Street Premier Inn, I was with family for a game and was a bit apprehensive about saying hi.
Plus she was on my bad list for playing upto Ramos in Spanish after taking down our Mo in the UEFA champions league draw awards thing 2 months after Kyiv 2018 CL Final.
Anyway, Mrs didn’t recognise her anyway so didn’t want to interrupt her meal like a weirdo…
So I manned up and did the only thing I could, sent the Mrs to say hi…
We all went over and chatted a bit about the game and took a few pics with us, she was covering it for BT Sports I think that day.

 

[Red rose]

 

[Modo]

Trent looks pretty chuffed about it.

 

[darkstarexodus]

As an excited Canadian, I would love if we could please break De Bruyne in half in a couple weeks.

And then the same to Modric if we play them in Europe, please.

 

[The Nomad]

Don't be silly. Gareth doesn't like Trent.