We'd need Panama to beat Croatia and us not to win it, so yes effectively.

Am I right in thinking that if we beat Ghana on Tuesday night then we effectively but not mathematically win the group?

P99, Thursday at noon.

When does our fixture list come out?

Great Trig. Thank you.

That’ll be “Night Sky” Mrs P. Very useful but I would advise you go into the settings and turn off a lot of the layers of info that appears on the screen as otherwise it gets very busy.

Thank you all for info about the Merlin app. yesterday. We went to a dark skies weekend up on Exmoor last year and everyone had an astronomy app. where they waved their phones at the stars and planets to identify them. Any suggestions?

Seem to have raised £262,500 in the new PLB offering so far - not sure if thats tracking what we want or not [Link]

I did, OI. Very odd! I think it might perhaps be an example of poor comms?

Did anyone else get an email about Plough Lane Bonds that effectively said nothing?

First red card for the heinous crime of mouth-covering last night for Paraguay in their win against Turkey.

Alan IoW - did you enjoy Wet Leg (for those who have never heard or heard of them, that’s not a euphemism)? Warm weekend for the festival! Unlucky Scotland - I love how the BBC says “a point against Brazil on Wednesday should see Steve Clarke's side through”…

Yes, I enjoyed that one as well. In fact there's only been a small number of games that bored me. Overall, so far, very good WC.

The game I've enjoyed most this WC so far was the Iran/NZ match, though I don't think too many people would've seen that one in the early hours because on paper, it probably wouldn't have appealed to that many people. It was like a real old fashioned end to end football league game where caution was thrown to the wind.

Same here. Maybe won't get to HT. I'm from earlier still. Lucky enough to be around during Pele's era.

Probably not. I might watch the first half, but I don't particularly like watching the Brazil of recent years. They had a great team back in the 80s, apart from their centre forward, Serginho, who was absolutely shite.

Sparta - You staying up for Brazil?

He would've rolled all the way back to Brazil. :-)

Bet there's a fair few bruises needing attention after that game. Crossed my mind that if Neymar was in a match like that, he'd still be rolling around on the deck a week after FT.

Bert, but your 64th birthday isn't on fixtures release day like mine is. When I'm 64.

Barracuda is fantastic. First discovered it 15 or so years later.

Off to bed but could I state that VAR doesn’t appear to have ruined a game yet so far in the World Cup?

Trigger- they stole the riff from a Nazareth cover of a Joni Mitchell song.

Joining the Heart love-in. Booked my ticket earlier so Clare Grogan can sing me a Happy Birthday later in the year :)

Barracuda has come up twice this week for me despite never having heard of the song before. Something about a cover version I can’t remember was the original instance. Seems it was written by the Heart people because of a record industry person suggesting the two sisters were having sex with each other.