World Cup Group Stage Fixtures.

[Marc Overmars]

FIFA.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Blatter taking no chances on England winning it.

[LDG]

Need a wallchart now dammit.

Theo Wallchart

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

The mayor of the Amazon city Manaus, where England play their first World Cup game next summer against Italy, has reignited his row with Roy Hodgson by saying the England boss appears "uneducated" but is "not necessarily a bad person".

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

12 June
9pm ITV Brazil v Croatia

13 June
5pm ITV Mexico v Cameroon
8pm BBC Spain v Netherlands
11pm ITV Chile v Australia

14 June
5pm BBC Columbia v Greece
8pm ITV Uruguay v Costa Rica
11pm BBC England v Italy
2am ITV Ivory Coast v Japan

15 June
5pm ITV Switzerland v Ecuador
8pm BBC France v Honduras
11pm BBC Argentina v Bosnia

16 June
5pm ITV Germany v Portugal
8pm BBC Iran v Nigeria
11pm BBC Ghana v USA

17 June
8pm BBC Brazil v Mexico
5pm ITV Belgium v Algeria
11pm BBC Russia v South Korea

18 June
11pm ITV Cameroon v Croatia
5pm ITV Australia v Holland
8pm BBC Spain v Chile

19 June
5pm BBC Columbia v Ivory Coast
8pm ITV England v Uruguay
11pm BBC Japan v Greece

20 June
8pm ITV France v Switzerland
5pm BBC Italy v Costa Rica
11pm ITV Honduras v Ecuador

21 June
8pm BBC Germany v Ghana
5pm ITV Argentina v Iran
11pm BBC Nigeria v Bosnia

22 June
5pm BBC Belgium v Russia
11pm BBC USA v Portugal
8pm ITV South Korea v Algeria

23 June
9pm ITV Cameroon v Brazil
9pm ITV Croatia v Mexico
5pm ITV Australia v Spain
5pm ITV Holland v Chile

24 June
9pm BBC Japan v Columbia
9pm BBC Greece v Ivory Coast
5pm ITV England v Costa Rica

25 June
9pm BBC Ecuador v France
9pm BBC Honduras v Switzerland
5pm ITV Nigeria v Argentina
5pm ITV Bosnia v Iran

26 June
9pm ITV South Korea v Belgium
9pm ITV Algeria v Russia
5pm BBC USA V Germany
5pm BBC Portugal v Ghana

The BBC will have first pick of the round of 16 and semi finals, whilst ITV has first pick of the quarter finals. Both ITV and BBC will show the final.

[Rors]

Rare indeed for ITV to cede England's first match. You'd almost think advertisers weren't in love with an 11 o'clock kick off..

[Rors]

(And yes, I'm staying up for Ivory Coast - Japan )

[Niall_Quinn]

German member of Fifa executive tells EU parliament that decision to hold 2022 World Cup in Qatar cannot be reversed.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...atar-world-cup

The world footballing authority conceded on Thursday that there was little it could do to remedy the ordeal for migrant workers in Qatar reduced to slave labour conditions in creating the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. But a Fifa board member dismissed all talk of reversing the decision to hold the tournament there even if conditions were not improved...

..."This feudal system existed [in Qatar] before the World Cup," he said. "What do you expect of a football organisation? Fifa is not the lawmaker in Qatar."

These sub-human scum are so corrupt and devoid of basic dignity they are impervious to and utterly ignorant of the consequences that arise from their actions. It's not that they choose not to care, they simply aren't capable of it, they can't even see it. Apart from this glaring human rights issue, the sheer ridiculousness of staging a World Cup in essentially a non-footballing desert doesn't enter their reckoning. All they can see is the cash and everything else is beyond the scope of their money, whores and favours blinkers.

Well you never know, the Americans might have invaded and blown the shit out of the place by 2022. They are up to the I's so Q is not too far away. Even then I wonder, would they still hold the tournament in the smoking rubble? Yes, I think so. They could chop up the dead for half time catering.