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

[Dave]

Surprised I'd not heard about the Norwegian goalscorer's rather dodgy personal life before I just wikied him.

[Villafirst]

How can Tuchel keep Madueke on? Absolute garbage. Get Rashford or Rogers on.

[dorsetvillian]

England got out of jail in those last couple of minutes. Very poor until that point. I still don't see what the midfield pair of Rice and Anderson do. They don't control a game, don't offer creativity and England are so vulnerable to the counter attack.  Norway will be gutted not to get the second. Small margins.

[wolfman999]

Rice and Madueke have been poor.

Rice has been ill. Madueke has been........Madueke.

[Dogtanian]

Roy Keane is one of these people who can only take a dump at home, with nobody else in the house, and his favourite dog locked in with him.

It explains his whole demeanor when you realise he’s got three weeks of shit backing up.

[TopDeck113]

Madueke is a waste of a shirt.  Mind you, Saka also does my head in.

[Dogtanian]

Is Saka fit?

[Crown Hill]

Tuchel leaving Bellingham out before the Workd Cup is looking like managerial genius

I said this to a former colleague laat night.  The combination of not pickong Bellingham for some games, questioning his esprit de corps and having Rogers as a more than adequate replacement, was a massive kick up the arse.

Similar with Watkins

[PeterWithesShin]

Norway international Andreas Schjelderup has been given a two-week suspended prison sentence after a Danish court found him guilty of sharing sexual material of two boys under the age of 18.

Benfica winger Schjelderup, 21, told the court he received a 27-second video on Snapchat and forwarded it to a group chat of four friends before deleting it once he realised its content.

Schjelderup, who was 19 and playing for Danish Superliga side Nordsjaelland at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty after co-operating with a police investigation.

Schjelderup will only have to serve time in jail if found guilty of another crime during the next 12 months.

The prosecution had asked the court to sentence Schjelderup to at least 20 days in prison.

His lawyer Anders Nemeth told the court that the defence would take time to deliberate before deciding whether to appeal.

Rui Costa, president of Portuguese side Benfica, has previously been reported as saying the club will support Schjelderup.

In a statement posted on Instagram on 8 November, Schjelderup apologised and said he wanted to "be open to all of you about a stupid mistake I did".

He said he was "ready to face the consequences" and urged people not to "watch or spread videos with harmful or offensive content".

"The offence I will be convicted for does not reflect on who I am as a person and what I stand for," he added.

Schjelderup, who has eight caps for Norway, was an unused substitute on Sunday as they beat Italy 4-1 in Milan to qualify for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

[Steve67]

Rice and Madueke have been poor.

Rice has been ill. Madueke has been........Madueke.

He's the same as Saka, both will do one decent thing in the game and that's all that seems to be remembered.  He really is a waste of a shirt.  Better than Rogers, better than Rashford?  Not in a million years.

[TopDeck113]

Is Saka fit?

He could be on crutches, but he'd still try to do all by himself.

[Steve67]

Is Saka fit?

I guess to certain people, he might be.  As a hetero sexual, I think he's fugly.  :-)

[Exeter 77]

Madueke is a waste of a shirt.  Mind you, Saka also does my head in.

Saka can be a irritating little shit but he is also very positive with ball and does track back.

[PeterWithesShin]

Playing someone that's been ill in a massively important game that's being played in high heat and humidity doesn't seem the best idea.

[adrenachrome]

I know that this has become an obsession of mine lately, but why is Konsa trying to block a cross/shot from the right with his left foot?