Wow iran got destroyed

Great showing from England, good a start as any, I got a feeling this is gonna be a cup to remember, even if we don't win, looking forward to see how todays matches go too

Will you be all over Saudi Arabia with it being your new owners?

Calling out Harry Kane here.

Dude they were playing Iran. Let’s see how Kane performs when they come up against an elite WC contender with actual defenders

https://twitter.com/LAFC/status/1594793764828065792?t=JQBEqMukHJRngDac_ONpgA&s=19

As someone who lives in America, Americans take supporting the national team more seriously, which explains the bad reception to the tweet.

I fail to see how this is related to England-Iran?

What’s with the stoppage time this world cup. Every game has been more than 5 min

I prefer it, it's more fair than just the usual max. 4 minutes+ after 20 minutes of the game have been wasted by not playing

Refs have been instructed to count things like goal celebrations, throw in and corner time, subs etc and it all adds up

Wait Maguire gave an assist..... for his team to score a goal rather than the Opponent????? HOW

Their a team that ain’t that good that’s how.

YEEEEEESSSSSS MY WELSH BROTHERS

Wrong thread lmao oops

I tried to make an imperialist oil joke, turns out I ran out of material.

*Iran

Had this on one of my work monitors without sound (WFH), fully expecting it to be a boring 1-0 win to England. Pleasantly surprised. But have to remind myself, it was Iran.

Who were pretty bloody unlucky not to make the r16 last time. They're a decent team. This was a very promising performance.

Who are ranked 20th in the world. Nowhere near as bad as many would have expected I don’t think.

Damn, 6-2? Still better than Brazil I guess.

No Thiago Silva + Neymar that game. Germany also too OP that yr, I was expecting a strong win (granted, not that strong lol)

I still cant believe that happened, most insane WC game Ive watched from the standpoint of being almost unreal.

Brazil watching every world cup after that match be like: 💀

Muahahahaha 💀

Did they take the knee?

Yep, but because they didn’t agree to a second whistle (which happens in the PL) they did it during the ten second countdown to KO.

Yes. Camera men I think were told not to dwell onnit

They did indeed.

Can anyone tell me why there was a combined 25 minutes of stoppage time?

You prefer watching a match when the ball isn’t in play. I wish they got more aggressive with this and tacked on 30 seconds to a minute for every ridiculous stoppage so seeing this kind of additional time should become more of the norm

No reason? Iran keeper injured in 4th min and went off on the 14th min.

They mentioned that in general they are trying to do more "realistic" stoppage time and to expect larger numbers than usual. There was a left 15 min stoppage in the first 1/2. The second half there were a bucket full of goals.

Bad injury for Iran’s keeper in the first and tons of stoppage in play in the 2nd due to all the goals I presume.

Apart from the bollocks VAR decisions on the Pen and the non-pen or Maguire in the first half, that was pretty much what I expected, hopefully gave the boys some strong motivation.

As bad as Iran may be, I don’t think 6 goals with the starting goalie

So I guess us England fans aren't allowed to enjoy a World Cup Match win

England invades every part of their life, no wonder they’re bitter.

Allowed

Felt weird not concentrating in my lessons at all. Spent all my time in the lunch queue holding a laptop in one hand. Actually kinda linked it.

My school played the match on the TV (we have a smallish 6th form). Was very fun

Saka and Rashford redeeming themselves. Meanwhile Italy is at home on the couch. Hold dat Bonucci “it’s coming rome”

Rent free. Where is Englands trophy ?

Why would saka have to redeem himself? I mean I get it he missed a pen for the tournament, but he's long shown he's the guy for the right side.

It did come to rome….where is England’s trophy?

it's genuinely coming home and if you think otherwise you don't know ball

They've played one game relax

Brazil would like a talk

That nose fracture was BAD

It might actually be coming home

one game in oh lord 😭

no it's not lol

A crushing defeat as expected from the three Lions.

I’m just gonna say English fans are full of shit for being racist to Rashford and Saka in the Euro finals for missing penalties and now praising them for saving your asses.

Just say you don’t have a fucking clue what you’re talking about, then move on with your day.

how are they ‘saving our asses’ without them we still win

Rent free 😭😭😭😭😭

Ah ye because a handful of English fans are racist you lump everyone who lives in England and supports the team as racist? Well done on...being...racist? Clap clap

ahh yes, it was totally the exact same fans. My god, it's like people think a group of people have a single collective consciousness. I guess you were a trump voting racist then?

Was pleasantly surprised even The Sun being supportive of the 3, the vast majority weren't hurling abuse at them

I thought Americans being inbred was just a stereotype

99% of people love them and didn't blame them at all, you're just taking the complete extreme

I agree that those fans are assholes but social media has a way of elevating the voices of a few dumb people to make it seem like they represent a larger group. Most English were not racist to them.

Classic case of a few morons on Twitter being taken to represent the opinion of millions of people. Social media has really damaged your brains.

Brain-dead comment.

No racism is acceptable ever and anyone caught should be banned from games, but do you honestly believe England is the only country where fans have been racist? Pretty much every country has them.

Another Yank making strawmen and huge generalisations. Shocker.

99.9% of English fans were sympathetic to them. Thats like saying all white people support the KKK

Now, I'm going to drop something that may shock and confuse you.

Maybe...

Shame the focus seems to be on the VAR decision, but I'm sure that will pass. I'm buzzing. Great win and not only that it was a joy to watch. Letting these players have fun and play like they do week in week out is clearly working.

100%.

Gonna be so fun watching the usual England hysteria as they breeze through the easiest group giving it usual:

By fifa coefficients it’s actually the most difficult group

“Easiest group” which happens to be the only group where all four are within the top 20 ranks. Just give it a rest pal.

Ah yes another mouth breather that thinks “it’s coming home” is meant to be taken seriously.

How dare we try to enjoy our World Cup campaign…

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Yet this is the only group with all the teams in the top 20, making it the hardest group of them all...

Who got to the final in the euros?

So fun watching

I hate how they made the World Cup Snoovitars the NFT things and only limited them one per person. I wanna rep England ffs

Maguire has more assists than Messi, De bruyne and Muller combined in world cup 2022💀

true GOAT

england looked absolutely fantastic, fair play. and that final penalty was obvious bullshit.

The winner of that game likely goes through

If you beat wales it will be massive

Pretty sure the situation in Iran played a role in the heavy loss. I'm glad they didn't sing the national anthem. Wish other teams who live in democratic countries had the guts to wear their armbands.

I think FIFA threatened yellow cards. The FA would have paid the fines

Most of the players are young, so they probably don't agree with the archaic boomers who are in charge

Even though Iran got beat 6-2 and I had to watch the game on mute Iran's quality of football was probably better then Qatar.

Oh for sure. Qatar is a laughing stock. Disgrace that a team that's literally never qualified gets to host (human rights issues aside of course)

Qatar was horrible. Looked like an amateur team. Iran could actually string some passes together and seemed better in the second half

I'm super nervous when it's Canada's turn to play on wed. Just hope we don't suck as much.

As a neutral I've never seen a more biased pen or corrupt officiating, actually hilarious.

In favor of whom? Didn't see the match

Enjoy it England. This is the last you'll be celebrating once the USA is through with you

Man is still celebrating the 1-1 ‘win‘ from 2010.

https://i.imgur.com/l3BHa5O.jpg

funny guy

🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

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You been smoking too much of the legal

How to spot people who have never watched a World Cup in their lives: They complain about the low level of some of the teams.

Somebody yesterday made a detailed post criticizing Qatar's play and how disappointed they were against Ecuador.

The joy of the world cup is slightly shit teams scrapping it out

They didn't see Saudi Arabia in 2002

Is there a rule in place whereby if "concussion substitute" is used then the player is ruled out for a period of time?

Never mind that. Is there a rule that says you’re fired as a physio when you clear a player to carry on who, within two minutes, finds himself incapable of doing so?

Yes, the goalkeeper will be out for 10 days. So likely for the rest of the tournament.

i heard the commentary saying 10 days

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You really should be a little more informed mate

This isn't the burn you think it is

IT'S

COMING

not sure how he can give a penalty at the end if the one in the first 5 minutes isnt given

I don't think neither were penalty, but we brazilians are used to our refs, if the var calls them, 99% of the time they agree with what the var states, we have very good refs, but they trust too much on var, just because they called in doesn't mean it is. Claus taught the same as I in both cases, but when the var called him in the second, he conceded, if they did it in the first, he would have conceded as well.

A famous psychic said England will score 9 goals in total this World Cup

ayooo

According to SofaScore Iran made 6 subs?

One was a concussion sub which is free.

The keeper was a concussion sub

concussion sub doesn’t count

Saw a guy on Twitter with 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇮🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in his bio. The ultimate final boss of hating England. I know he’s mad rn

typical anglophobe in the mud

soccer

Tripper is honestly my favourite England player.

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Cam on Inglund!

SCORED SOME FACKING GOALS

Jack Grealish made a promise to Manchester City fan Finlay that he would do his celebration the next time he scored a goal.

Ugh, stop making me like City players so much, that was adorable.

Amazing

my heart… 🥲

Can you imagine that fan's reaction when he saw him do that.

Tha was neat, thanks for sharing

🥲

Where can I find highlights?

Hairdresser's

Score board on bcc is all over the place!

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bro we qualified for world cup, please relax while we're gifting you goals

The government is so fucked that 90% of us Iranian people were rooting for England, they are literally killing kids everyday and our players are pretending that nothing is happening.

The Iranian captain mentioned in an interview the football team supports the anti-government protestors, which is a risky statement to make. Full respect to the team for that at least.

or making nukes

Lol

At least Iranians acknowledge that they have problems. Qatar doesn't

Haha

Did anyone see what caused Maguire’s concussion?

BBC implying that he was already struggling before the goal was scored?

He was thinking too hard.

Hit by a Boeing 747.

His head

Euro teams too strong

That was the only European team so far lol. Wait with that assessment till you see Poland at least.

US vs Wales for second spot in the group

First time watching England at a major tournament?

England country, Let’s Ride.

Let’s riiiiiiiide

this would be funnier if they weren't actually good