Who is in your World Cup Team of the tournement?Pick a side and a formation. It must be somewhat balanced. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44811274 You can use the BBC one if you wish. Scroll to the bottom.
Name a band that you love but are embarrassed to admit to.Edit: Or is not 'cool' but you can admit to.
Link a song with a great intro.Be honest. We all have 21st-century attention spans so this is just a more efficient way of enjoying music.
I hope Gangstress comes back soon.I didn't know her too well but she was a pillar of the SW community and ultra genuine. She was frustrated by the nasty callout culture which developed on a post and I get that.
Are modern politics too personalised?and if so, why? Do we focus too much on individuals at the expense of ideas?
Why do we live in times of polarised populism?I contrast these times with the 1990s and 2000s, when I came of age as an adult. We were taught that it was the end of history and that the days of political polarisation had ended. Now we have populist parties and politicians rising throughout the...See More »
Will a hard-Brexit bring about austerity and huge cuts in services?I think that it will and also that it is planned. For all that the Leave campaign talked about immigration cuts, taking back control and national sovereignty, that is not their real agenda. The hard-Brexiteers who are attacking May for her...See More »
Trump is in London and there is a yuuuge demonstration planned for tomorrow.Do any of my fellow Brits like Donald Trump? How do Americans feel about the demo?
Do all the yanks on here miss their English friends talking about non football stuff?Well. Now we are back. 🤣
Well played CroatiaThey shaded it over the whole game. England had a good tournament but its sadly not to be.
To non-football (soccer) fans who have been enjoying the world cup...... do you have any questions you want to ask? Anything you want to know about the rules, history or football culture or whatever.
How do I post a meme on here?I know its a dumb question but I'm not tech trained and I'm kinda slow. Also, I'm not part of the alt-right so I have I wasn't born to meme speak.
Well that was a weird game.Only one goal, no crazy drama, and no upset. Today it was like a normal World Cup.
If its Belgium Vrs Croatia in the final......it will be a clash between two smaller nations for the first time ever.
Will the real England please stand up?Southgate's football team or Brexit Britain? That England's World Cup adventure is happening at exactly the same time as the Brexit clusterfudge is surely the mother of all ironies. I do not know Gareth Southgate's politics but he just looks like...See More »
Does right-wing populism have some traditional left-wing ideas?Like (qualified) opposition to the free-market, anti-establishment tendency and anti-war. This always seemed strange to me how neo-con people could seemingly change their ideology over a few years. I'm interested in the responses from both left and...See More »
538 give England a 26% chance of winning the WC.I'm stats man so this matters to me. Do you agree/disagree with them? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-world-cup-predictions/
England are in the World Cup semi final and its oppressive hot weatherWTF is wrong with my country. This is not the England I know.
Is this the best World Cup you can remember?I remember as far back as Italia 90 and this is the best I can remember.