Possibly Sheffield Weds will be in the promotion shake up now that they don’t have a 15 point deduction

Replace Bromley with Burton and I think that is about right.

Agreed Spit - Martin’s franchise scored after a 51 passing move and only Man City and Barcelona had higher average possession stats that same season. Franchise finished 13th in L1.

No, tennis and football are not the same.

I’d say Leicester, Oxford and Huddersfield will go up and Bromley, Wimbledon, Cambridge Utd and Mansfield will go down

Sideway and backwards football in league 1, that's Leicester out of promotion

Do away with stars altogether. Anyone who can actually remember Uruguay winning the World Cup is now in their 80s and it was a totally different, maybe better, competition, then.

Is tennis the same? Andy Murray won 3 grand slams and has 2 Olympic gold medals. Zverev has just won his first grand slam at 29 but also has 2 Olympic golds.

Russell Martin takes charge of Leicester, bringing him back to L1 management where he has such pedigree as finishing 19th and 13th with the franchise scum.

CW - I’m not sure I’d want England shirts to have those Olympic stars at the World Cup - I’m in agreement with Trigg, it’s a bit embarrassing to pretend you’ve been World Champions 4 times when you haven’t…

Shouldn’t have a star for an Olympic win. Have some dignity, Uruguay.

A4e-given that GB( ok not England) won the Olympic football in 1900, 1908 and 1912 we could claim to have 4 stars too

No advantage to Scotland in playing for a draw, as if Preston's scenario is right, Scotland are already through. Better for them to go for the win and be guaranteed second place at least.

Interesting that Uruguay have 4 stars on their shirts - 2 for the World Cup wins, and 2 for their Olympic wins. That’s 4 times as many as England have - so annoying…

Preston - thanks, I see now - I wonder if Scotland and Morocco will just tap the ball back and forth to one another…

Yes, congrats to Pete on the new arrival!!

A4E- with 8 out of 12 3rd placed teams progressing, likelihood is that 2 points with a -1 goal difference may be enough. If so, expect loads more draws. A draw for Scotland against Morocco is good for both sides.

Welcome to Pete's greatniece. Happy days.

By my reckoning, there have been 15 WC games so far, and 8 have been draws - not sure how that compares with the usual pattern, but it just seems quite a high number of draws already?

Ft 2-2. A fair result and a very entertaining game.

2-2. Equaliser, in off the post. Still a good game. The commentator just called it the game of the WC so far.

2-1 NZ. Just with his second, 2 Wood assists.

Iran goal disallowed for offside in first half added time.

1-1.

A very exciting NZ/Iran game, just like an old fashioned end to end English league game. 1-0 NZ after some good pkay from Chris Wood, and Iran also hit the post. All thus before the first "hydration" break.