Everyone should withdraw from the World Cup. Let them play their dirty little with Russia, Belarus and China in Qatar while everyone else just plays their domestic leagues.
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I can assure you that another 32 cunts will be there even if the saner world withdraws. Egypt, Brazil, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Rwanda, Venezuela, Philippines, Myanmar; the list is exhausting.
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That makes me think: have the Saudis and the UAE already emitted a statement on Russiaās invasion? They surely hold a lot of Russian assets as well, and freezing them while interdicting access to the oligarchs would help.
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I donāt think they would do anything like that due to their close relationship with Russia and their own domestic issues.
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Well, thatās what I was suspectingā¦ 
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I doubt they are holding significant Russian assets. Their banking system exists to move money out of KSA, or invest it. Islamic banking law would be spectacularly unappealing to Russian capital, and I would be shocked if there were significant Russian investments in KSA - they have their own huge oil and gas sector to invest in.
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Thanks for your insight. I was thinking about private properties, apartments, houses, castles built on sand or whatever. But ok, maybe itās not that much.
In any case, Iām relieved that Switzerland is following the EU regarding sanctions now, itās the least they can do (allegedly around 40 billions on bank accounts, plus 80% of all Russian oil and gaz transactions). Cutting this off will hopefully make the clique around Putin have a think.
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Yeah, I am guessing the average Russian oligarch is not that interested in KSA vacation spotsā¦no alcohol and stringent decency lawsā¦
Yes, I think the Swiss matching the EU is an enormous step, absolutely critical.
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Means Robbo gets a break at the international break which is good, though they will probably arrange a friendly for him to play in.
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This stuff is just sillyā¦
It is, but it is a measure put in place to counteract the bad faith attempts by clubs to deny call ups. Rather than instituting a rule whereby the FA can still require the player to show up to be assessed by their medical staff to rule out this sort of shenanigans, it seems FIFA/UEFA should be looking solving the root cause of the problem whereby clubs feel they need to use bad faith to protect players who are not being otherwise looked after.
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Yeah, probably should be some fifa independent assessor who can check if the countries feel the clubs are acting in bad faith.
Considering he hasnāt played since Feb I think itās a bit silly anyhow, I get it if he had been playing and then all of a sudden but not having played since Feb even if fit he probably isnāt going offer much.
Though with Covid a fair few clubs could play on that I reckon.
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Iāll be watching the Wales game this eve with a friend from Texas.
Heās been studying Churchill. Heās found his alleged daily intake of alcohol. Johnnie Walker and soda for breakfast (and several more throughout the day), a bottle of champagne with lunch and a bottle of cognac with dinner.
Weāre substituting prosecco for champagne, but apparently Churchill liked a Johnnie Walker Red and weāre on Johnnie Walker Black, so I think weāre level for fancy.
Four hours in, Iām convinced I could match Churchill drink for drink on a calm, sunny afternoon in Copenhagen; itās the waking-up-and-running-a-country-during-wartime and living to ninety fucking years old where I might struggle to keep pace.
In my defense, I havenāt felt any blind disdain towards Indian people or even ordered the British army to Tonypandy - at least not yet.
Either way, Iām confident weāll clear this wee Austrian hurdle this eve, as Churchill cleared his wee Austrian hurdle.
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Hunter S Thompson. Look at his alleged daily routine:
3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jigĀgers of Chivas.)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
8:00 Halcyon
8:20 sleep
My brotherās kids have been completely disinterested in football their entire life to the point of almost ganging up on him with his wife to mock him over how stupid it is when he tries to watch a game. Yet out of no where a few months ago his youngest expressed not just an interest in a game, but specifically in a Wales game (heās lived his whole life in Bristol). My brother immediately signed them both up for the Red Wall ticket campaign and through that got tickets for the two of them tonight.
Win, lose or draw, my brother is chuffed to bits to be able to do something he thought heād never get to do.
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Chartreuse is wonderful stuff.
Not so impressed by the cocaine habit, however.
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gotta have fuel to fly, old boyā¦
Iām kidding. never touched the stuff in my life. that said, everything else on that list would still put me in a coma and I can handle my liquor.
What an odd XI by Portugal tonight.
Costa (that guy from Porto) in goal, Patricio on the bench.
Danilo starting at CB, probably trying to ācopyā what he did for PSG lately, tactically dropping in phases of the game from midfield to a third CB.
Moutinho, Otavio, Fernandes, Bernardo, Jota and Ronaldo all start in the forward two lines.
Pretty open midfield, considering itās still a Fernando Santos side.
At Euroās last summer they didnāt look good at all when Fernandes was part of the midfield.
Diogo pretty much missed a sitter for Portugal.
Octavio just put Portugal ahead.
Necoās lovely lovely lovely.
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