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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3525 on: October 08, 2025, 10:38:14 PM »
Finished 3-3

Beat Eswatini (bottom without a win) on Monday though and Cape Verde are there.

Just heard a really good interview on 5 Live with Roberto Lopez, full back who plays for Shamrock Rovers and also Cape Verde. He explained what it means to play for a country of half a million people and how they came across him ( he received a call up in Portuguese and dismissed it as spam). If they qualify they’ll be the smallest team ever to do so.

Second smallest I believe, after Iceland in 2018.

But it's absolutely the reason why the tedious bit of international football ("oh no, England only won 2-0 against Armenia and it wasn't the most exciting game I've ever watched, scrap the lot of it") is still worth it.

Cape Verde having their moment and going to the World Cup (Eswatini notwithstanding) is more important in the grand scheme of things than...pretty much all of it.

Sorry Dave, I should have specified they’d be the smallest by land mass. Rory Smith said about 4000 square km

Iceland's landmass must vary depending on time of year.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3526 on: October 09, 2025, 06:53:21 PM »
Rogers, Watkins and Konsa all starting

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3527 on: October 09, 2025, 06:55:12 PM »
Rogers, Watkins and Konsa all starting

And SJM is starting for Scotland.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3528 on: October 09, 2025, 07:02:09 PM »
Malen and Cash only on the bench. Koeman / Urban out!

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3529 on: October 09, 2025, 07:15:34 PM »
Makes a change from reading about Kidman / Urban out!

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3530 on: October 09, 2025, 07:19:01 PM »
She will not stop bloody ringing me. ☹️

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3531 on: October 09, 2025, 07:26:40 PM »
Scotland under-21s score 12 (twelve). Have forgotten the opponents, probably someone like Brazil or Germany, I imagine.

Spoiler for Hiden:
Gibraltar.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3532 on: October 09, 2025, 07:33:09 PM »
She will not stop bloody ringing me. ☹️

So annoying. You can tell she's an Aussie, doesn't even know that SJM and Scotland are playing tonight.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3533 on: October 09, 2025, 07:44:35 PM »
Hon na hAlbanacha agus na Sasanaigh (need Ollie to score a couple).

Online Exeter 77

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3534 on: October 09, 2025, 07:50:56 PM »
Morgan scores after 2 minutes.

Offline devilla

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3535 on: October 09, 2025, 07:51:15 PM »
Morgan!!

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3536 on: October 09, 2025, 07:51:54 PM »
Well done Morgan son.

Online ez

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3537 on: October 09, 2025, 07:58:31 PM »
Ollie scores.

Offline letsshakehands

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3538 on: October 09, 2025, 07:58:54 PM »
Villa 2 - 0 Wales

Offline dr.chekov

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #3539 on: October 09, 2025, 07:58:59 PM »
2-0 Villa

 


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