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

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Tuchel's position is untenable for me. It was one of the biggest clusterfucks of all time for a match so deep into the tournament. When I see players like Guéhi calling out his tactics, it makes me wonder how the players can trust Tuchel going into the next Euros.

This is the point, the players will not trust him after that. Him then saying it was down to the players mentality just compounds the problem.
The FA would be nuts to try and force him on them after this.

Thing is, who would replace him? 

[Dogtanian]

Does Carlton Palmer still exist?

[trinityoap]

Doggie, please don't say things like that even as a joke. I shan't sleep for three nights worrying now.

[Dogtanian]

 

[olaftab]

CD isn't often wrong but he is mega out of touch on this one. Tuchel fucked up big time, a flight to Frankfurt on Monday would be in order.

[Tayls_7]

Does Carlton Palmer still exist?

Clean through, goal gaping and BFR screaming "Pass!".

[ADVILLAFAN]

CD isn't often wrong but he is mega out of touch on this one. Tuchel fucked up big time, a flight to Frankfurt on Monday would be in order.

Assume youre on about a different CD....

[Dogtanian]

I thought that, but I didn't want to be mean... 

[olaftab]

CD isn't often wrong but he is mega out of touch on this one. Tuchel fucked up big time, a flight to Frankfurt on Monday would be in order.

Assume youre on about a different CD....

Yes totally different chap who drinks in the Roost down Cattell road.

[olaftab]

Tuchel has thrown the players under the bus and has made further DNA comments that's stereotyping the entire nation. If it was a DNA/mentality issue it was his job to fix it in months prior to the WC, that's why he was hired. They bottled it on the pitch we could all see that it was his job to fix it in game, that's why he was hired.

[Brazilian Villain]

Tuchel fucked up big time, a flight to Frankfurt on Monday would be in order.

On Ryanair to Hahn Airport. He doesn't deserve to fly into the proper Frankfurt airport if he's coming home.

[LeeB]

It was all going great until it wasn't. He's cooked.

[Dogtanian]

Is Frankfurt airport the one with hardly any toilets and you have to walk miles and miles to pee?

[Flamingo Lane]

Be interesting to see if, how and how soon the likes of Palmer, Gibbs-White, Wharton and Alexander Arnold are selected back into the fold.

[PeterWithesShin]

Around 7,000 tickets are still listed on Fifa's ticket sites for Saturday's World Cup bronze medal match between England and France.

As of Friday at 10:00 BST, the game in Miami (kick off 22:00 BST) has not yet sold out with 1,246 tickets on general sale listed at $865 (£657) and $1,125 (£855).

There are a further 5,864 tickets available on the official resale platform, with the cheapest being category three available at a face value of $455 (£346) plus Fifa's 15% fee.

However, there are many tickets in the higher-priced categories listed well below what they were purchased for.

A category one ticket with an original price of $1,125 (£855) has a hugely discounted price of $659 (£500).

Sunday's World Cup final is also not yet fully sold out, with 32 of the most expensive tickets still on general sale.

However, these tickets cost between $29,995 (£22,796) and $32,970 (£25,057). These are standard tickets, not VIP.

More than a thousand tickets remain available on the Fifa resale site, several around face value plus the Fifa fee.

The original price of these tickets was $7,380 (£5,609), which means if you decided to buy one of these, Fifa will add an extra $1,107 (£841).

The most expensive resale ticket for the final is listed at $2m (£1.52m), plus a Fifa fee of $300,000 (£228,000).

Prices on resale are set by users and do not directly reflect what people are actually paying.