Solbakken also played at the 98 WC.

Also Phelan, Cunningham, Connolly and Leonhardsen to add to the played for Wimbledon and played in a World Cup list

Al Hamadi through on goal

He played 6 times for England '79/80, according to Wiki.

Laurie Cunningham played for England U21s in '77. Don't s'pose that counts though.

Hakan Mild played in the 94 WC finals for Sweden, whom he played for 74 times.

Meadow - doh, of course, silly me - I forgot they fell into L1 for a season…

Gayle played v Japan in the 98 finals.

I thought Marcus Gayle pkayed in the WC for the jam makers. Also, what about Hakan Mild for Sweden ? Possibly.

Trigger - I had same problem the other night listening to Danny Murphy commentate, bloke is so dour & boring

A4e, no. Blackburn.

Naz, Solbaaken did

When we play Leicester City, presumably that will be the first time we have played a Premier League winning team in a league game?

Senegal look unfit and unmotivated. Have done since the second half kicked off.

Al Hamadi starts, according to Flashscores

Ta

Trigger - put the radio commentary on. It's much more informative. Radio 5 or Talksport.

Is there any way of keeping the crowd noise but muting Alan Shearer?

The first South African red card was from a growing move in football. An attacker slightly ahead of a defender moves across in front and slows a little and the defender has nowhere to go and makes contact. That definitely should often be seen as initiating contact.

I like that what we expect these days for a penalty to be given (any piece of soft contact whatsoever in England) isn’t actually a penalty because football is a contact sport and contact isn’t automatically a foul.

I think tat was a penalty but Mbappe has got so many when he is always looking for a leg to dive over that it serves him right.

Timmy “both sides” Magic why the dislike of Iraq?

*Hope he plays.

Great refereeing

Ali was interviewed at HT on Radio 5. Hope plays. Earle, Smeltz... who else past or present has graced the WC for us?