I saw Emile Puttemans win a 3k race at Wembley in 1973. Leeds/Sunderland cup final build-up.

And she was a genuine war hero - a really impressive person

and Hercule Poirot aka Surrey Bob lookalike, is a fictional character made up by a woman from Wallingford

She was born is belgium with British father and dutch mother, was a GB citizen but spent most of her life is La Suisse

I never realised that Audrey Hepburn was Belgian.

Yes but could he name ten famous Belgiums

I did a couple of years working for a customer, who, whenever anymore mentioned Belgium, would angrily shout, Chocolate eating paedophiles. Not sure if one of them stole his bar of cadburys or abducted his children. Unfortunately I can’t unhear it in my head, every time the commentator says Belgium.

Even more impressive when you realise he didn’t even touch the ball.

That’s what JJ is hoping for when he does his 66th minute sub in every game OI

Now that is an inspired substitution!

Ledd - there’s our answer…

Can someone please take that whistle off the c*** that is blowing it non stop in the Belgium Egypt game….

Polymarket has Donald Trump Jr. as an advisor.

It is against fellow punters RK, so if you offer a silly bet it will sit there with nobody matching it, so there can look like a lot of activity but very little underlying betting

Aren't you waging against fellow punters (the Betfair model) or against the "house" (the traditional model). No idea who offers what but I'm not into gambling at all

Sandy - ah ha. Yes, I am easily confused with OI.

Were they matched bets in either case? I could go and offer a huge number of shares on Austria beating Jordan at 0.1, ie Austria only had a 1 in 10 chance of winning. Nobody in their right mind would match with me but the offer would be visible on the market.

To be clear, I have no idea whether these are true bets, nor how (if they are true) the hell anyone has that amount of spare money to be betting so much on such outcomes…

Someone else on the same site apparently placed $400k on “Spain NOT to win vs Cabo Verde at 9% odds... This trade just cashed out $4,702,769.23 on Polymarket”.

Great goal by the Egyptian

That's a lot of hub caps moved on the black market Spartan

My son just told me of a Liverpool fan who put £20k at odds of 1.03 on Spain winning for an £800 profit and spent all day telling his family that it was a guaranteed safe bet. 🤣

My suspicion about that is surprise there was a million dollars of money available on Cape Verde not losing, but maybe Polymarket has far more liquidity than I expected.

Argentina lost their first match in 2022 and it didn't seem to do them much harm so I doubt Spain are too upset.

Ouch!