I think it's a good idea have the league cup game before the EFL kicks off. Should attract a larger crowd than before.

Yeah that’s sensible ticket pricing. I’d go if it were at Newport but will sit this one out and wait to see who knocks us out of the cup next season.

Neport ticket purchased, west stand ÂŁ12 cant complain

Bugger - I let someone else's tyres down then :-(

Hundred is a joke tournament with a joke format. Cricket as a sport has been ruined by these franchise leagues not just here but all over the world. But there is a 'market' / money to be made so this is the way it has gone and will go and there is nothing we can do about it.

I was planning to catch a Hundred match this year but won't bother now.

On cricket, not sweetcorn fritters.

I agree with Spit again.

No and I cant afford waitrose 2 days in row and still have my sweetcorn fritters in the fridge

Spit - Serious question. Is your cab purple?

yeah, should have been the Surrey Dons

The hundred, never watched cant be bothered, ruined the cricket season,so county cricket got pushed to having too many September matches..

Nervo that's franchising right?

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What the fuck, in The Hundred this year Oval Invincibles have been renamed to Mubai Indians London

Who fixed what on the England match? We beat India fair and square.

The YT Video from yesterday about the allegations of fix on England match has this listed: How this was made Made with AI Sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated.

I didn’t realise this had happened [Link]

6m-Keegan was quite vocal about the poor pay at Liverpool and moved for the money. Tony Woodcock(Cologne)and Trevor Francis(Sampdoria)from the same England team of the time also cashed in

Keegan came across as one of life’s genuine good guys. A big ego, yes, but a positive one. [Link] They don’t make them like him anymore.

England v Argentina had a few very dodgy things going on. But the most dodgy is FIFA made no effort to take action over their own political message ban before the final. Plenty of time to have banned players. Will they even do it now?

Probably AI slop I suspect but we do need a blitz of yellow cards for players other than the captain haranguing the referee.

Argentina have always been suspected of or associated with trying to influence the outcome of their games. Cruyff didn't go with Holland to Argentina in 1978 because of death threats to him and his family. That whole tournament felt rigged, especially the Peru game. They are equally ungracious in victory and defeat, going back to 1966. I often wonder is it threats or bribery with them. My guess is the former.

pete - some of the decisions in that game just felt plain wrong, especially that Messi stamp and the forearm to the back of Anderson’s head going totally unpunished, completely inexplicable other than that the ref had been told…

I heard a commentator say, after Argentina's manager substituted a forward for a defender and then they needed to score a goal, that he had "Tucheled" himself. I knew exactly what he meant. I think a new term has just entered the football vocabulary.