OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

Ahoy hoy there @Foghorn

Good to see you fully invested in the soccer-sphere.

The narrative around FIFA scamming fellow humans to an eye-watering degree at every opportunity  for World Cup 26 is a golden act of hubris, possibly unheralded in all of time.  

And, no - because Spurs have an innate talent for self-sabotage whilst Utd, in popular opinion, are getting what they deserve for being a fundamentally 'difficult to like' team.   Even during their pomp they polarised.  Some teams relish being disliked, some are perennially in the friend zone.  Utd hold a special place and have a hard earned nickname that I can not share on this medium.   Arguably it's not the team, certainly the current team - it's the egregious sycophancy in all facets of the sporting media that sustains to this day for Sir Alex and anyone who wore the red shirt during his tenure.

Oh, turns out I did have an opinion.  

CPFC1905 said:

And apologies for my glaring omission; today of course is the day that in future we will call 'the birth of soccer-ball' as the World Cup 26 draw is made, starring long-time money enthusiast and no-time football enthusiast,  DJT himself.

Full details here; https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/02/world-cup-2026-draw-which-teams-have-qualified-and-how-does-it-work

And my preferred except of that, here;

When does the World Cup draw take place?

The draw will start at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center at 12pm local time on Friday 5 December (5pm GMT/4am Saturday AEST).   Although don’t worry if you tune in late: based on previous draws there will be a few speeches about Fifa being on the verge of bringing about world peace via the medium of football,   some interpretive dance about Fifa being on the verge of bringing about world peace via the medium of football,   some videos with kids kicking a ball about to show that Fifa is on the verge of bringing about world peace via the medium of football, and then, hopefully, Fifa actually bringing about world peace via the medium of football.      And if you miss any of that, don’t worry; Fifa will also be awarding a peace prize to the person most likely to bring about world peace in the next few months. 

At some point in all of that, they’ll place teams into groups and at long last give this expanded tournament an actual schedule.

  

#sorry #notsorry

Canugghead said:

Where can I buy that?

I don’t know, but I do understand the desire to kick that guy in the face.

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I cannot imagine the self esteem issues one must have to desire their name and likeness be places on everything!  I bet Melanie has his face tattooed on her ass.

Not without a licensing agreement. 

GrateEggspectations said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I cannot imagine the self esteem issues one must have to desire their name and likeness be places on everything!  I bet Melanie has his face tattooed on her ass.

Is Melanie one of his call girls, or did you mean Melania?

I believe it’s spelled Melanoma.