Other Games - 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup Edition (+ warm-up matches): Villa-watch

[Rory]

In my prediction we play Argentina in the Semis. I look forward to Emi being the most hated man in the country.

Likely quarters for England are Brazil so, yeah no.

It's absolutely not a given that Brazil beat us. They have been knocked out the last 5 world cups when facing their first European team (in the knockout stages).

I hope England get knocked out at the earliest possible opportunity, but agreed.

The current Brazil side are nothing for England to fret about. They can match them and more.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Spotted a few Villa shirts and flags at the Scotland game.

Was either Scotland or Villa shirts. Didn't really see any others.

New York based Villa fan I follow on BlueSky was at the game in his Villa top and McGinn came over and had pictures with him.

[Nev]

I only watched bits, until the competitive matches start it's too dull watching glorified training sessions.

There is a quite extraordinary article on the BBC website where McNulty appears to dish out a bollocking to Tuchel about what he's doing wrong, almost as if he knows better. Odd.

[LeeB]

I only watched bits, until the competitive matches start it's too dull watching glorified training sessions.

There is a quite extraordinary article on the BBC website where McNulty appears to dish out a bollocking to Tuchel about what he's doing wrong, almost as if he knows better. Odd.

Tuchel seems to be getting under lots of people's skin by not following the 'rules', which I think is great and is making me warm to him a lot.

[Pete3206]