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ppointed with the result i missed half of the first half because i was at the symposium opening reception but ducked out early to a pub called the george and dragon which is about as sure a place to watch an england game as you can get in toulouse about half the people in there maybe less were in england shirts the rest were either not really watching or were french but cheering for argentina mostly because messi or maybe because they wanted to play england in the 3rd place game if they cared about that game mostly they wee not that bothered england were winning for quite a while and then they weren t and then it was extra time and shortly before the end they weren t winning even more and i went back to my hotel to get some pre symposium sleep football is rubbish anyway it s only the shirts that i like the premier league will be starting again soon how excited am i ooh i can t contain myself byt i drew these on the reverse side of the accordion sketchbook that i drew the usa belgium game on in the previous post i got that sketchbook in poznan in the sympsoium goody bag and i don t really like the bumpy watercolour paper much anyway i was in france and london recently and i have so many sketches to post and then after that catch up with 2025 and the first half of 2026 i can t stop sketching with the crowd on g st watching the footy july 11 2026 3 comments and so in the end it was not to be for the us men s national team commonly called the usmnt they really need a nickname three weeks of hope and glory days in the sunshine and definitely maybe admittedly a lot of the good feeling had been unnecessarily dampened by the whole red card suspension phone call suspension not so mysteriously suspended thing belgium were well up for it in their magritte inspired kits ceci n est pas un carton rouge in the end the us players were just not as good as the belgians champions league players against mls maybe the whole unnecessary charade got in their heads but they were not up for this game even with the seattle crowd behind them who only two weeks ago had seen them swat australia aside mls players against a league all three hosts went out in the same round but not in the same way canada punched above their weight but were ultimately undone by the best team in africa morocco mexico had a barn storming game against england at the azteca in one of the wildest matches in the tournament loved by both sides and unlucky not to get a result the us lost 4 1 with a whimper even with their new star balogun on the field none of the nonsense was his fault really a lot of people were not unhappy that the us went out but it is a shame for all those fans of soccer here but hey now you all know what it s like it s the hope that kills ya they say ain t that the truth if england are like the spurs of international football the us men s team is like the crystal palace or until palace started winning things last year or maybe the newcastle but with fewer shirtless fans i don t know i really liked the 2002 team with big man friedel in goal brian mcbride as the american teddy sheringham and the youthful energy ball landon donovan i m not gonna make any comments about his barnet plus alexei lalas already had retired along with his beard but hadn t yet discovered the podcast which hadn t been invented yet that was the team i watched with my then girlfriend later wife from california and they beat the mighty portugal 3 2 in a super wild game the usmnt now have some more well known players household names over here like pulisic and the other ones that wavy red and white kit was popular not as popular as that mexico kit but a lot of people were wearing it maybe they still will now they have been knocked out or maybe fans will go back to one of the less see you coming a mile off kits we watched the game downtown on the big screen at g street they have been setting it up for the us games along with a special davis soccer fest full of activities and music making use of that public space we have down there now it s a good community davis and there are people out there that really make stuff happen like this and people that are out to support it i wanted to make sure i was there this time so we went down and saw that the crowd was about three times bigger than the one for the australia game a couple of weeks or so before was that only two and a half weeks before it felt like a year this world cup has gone on for so long i can t remember a time when it wasn t world cup it has always been world cup even when it ends it will never end and you might go four years without a bloated money grabbing morally bankrupt world cup and you might think that the days of the bloated money grabbing morally bankrupt world cup have finally gone and we can all move on to some other sport when suddenly the bloated money grabbing morally bankrupt world cup is back but this time even more bloated and morally bankrupt but still we eat it up we love it because we remember maradona and pele and nobby stiles dancing i am sick of world cup but i love world cup if you want a vision of the future imagine a football boot stamping on a man s ankle forever frozen in a var check that can never be decided hydration breaks me arse they are advert breaks nothing more if they are going to have them at least have them at moments like they used to do on who wants to be a millionaire you know when chris tarrant or whoever hosted it here would have them answer a question final answer and then say we ll find out after the break well the ref should do that when issuing a card put his hand in his pocket slow as you like and then look at the camera and say see you after the break there was a moment in the france morocco game when i genuinely thought the ref was going to do that just as mbappe was trying to take his penalty he kept stopping it and making him wait maybe he should have phoned a friend but i love the davis community coming together to watch the game like this in my first summer here in 2006 it felt like nobody cared about the world cup except for my mate in the football shirt shop and some of the faculty in our department the only channels i could watch it on were all in spanish and as i didn t speak spanish it made it much more interesting and i picked up some interesting vocabulary i already knew gooooooooooooooooooooooooool of course but i loved that every time david beckham would get the ball they would call him beckham el spice boy and laugh it was one of my favourite world cups 2006 ending in that amazing zidane headbutt to end his international career one of our faculty did not get live tv but had a vcr so i used to tape the games every day and bring them into him to take home and watch them later and he d bring me a tape back each day to do the same i still have that video tape in a drawer in my office and now none of us have vcrs it is a little historical artefact and one day centuries later someone will find that tape invent a new vcr to watch it and wonder why the mexican commentators kept calling that english player el spice boy maybe they will assume he was some sort of galactic spice trader before taking up sports i don t know this is the sort of thing the world cup brings up it truly is the beautiful game i drew all this while watching the game but i added in the colours when i got home because it was quite crowded and i was stood next to a tree and next to my wife i draw fast and wrote down what i could we did however go home for the second half having seen enough we watched the rest sat on the sofa and i wrote down some more of the commentary it was good to be around the fans though all rooting for the usmnt they need a better nickname than that i like sketching big people events like this especially if they are all dressed in bright colours and especially if they all stay where they are for a while oh well usmnt we ll watch the women s team next at the women s world cup in brazil in 2027 a nice normal size world cup of 32 teams as it should be this world cup though will keep on going on and on and on until in the end all that is left are the ants and the dust and then england will finally win it it s coming home you give me fifa in the morning fifa all through the night july 9 2026 august 6 2026 leave a comment this world cup has gone on for ages and we are still not close to being done as i write the quarter final stage is about to begin and this long mind boggling controversial bloated tournament is finally in the endgame france morocco spain belgium switzerland argentina norway and of course england a lot of big names have fallen your brazils germanys colombias portugals the three hosts all went out in the same round mexico canada and the us and some countries just won over everybody we are all cape verde fans now poor old scotland didn t get far they lost to morocco and brazil and then had to wait to be told what they already knew they were coming home too soon again oh well i sketched and wrote down words that were coming from the tv for a number of games too many if i m honest but i like to write stuff down and draw in my little brown sketchbook it s a fun record i suppose a lot of them are just in front of the tv at home i have watched almost all of the games somehow and there have been some exciting classics and some utter slogs in previous tournaments i ve also sketched players during games all over the page anyway without further ado here are some of the in game sketches i ve done uruguay were a bit useless weren t they cape verde cabo verde however gained so many fans with their incredible displays especially their goalkeeper vozinha they drew all their group games and took argentina into extra time in one of the games of the tournament they also played in a positive and proactive way not trying to foul the whole pitch up like some teams and definitely deserved their place here having topped a difficult group in africa qualifying also the first u6 soccer team my son played on all those years ago were called the blue sharks and that is also cape verde s nickname you can see in the foreground the little messi lego set i got an odd build messi well the ancient one himself not as ancient as ronaldo or vozinha or modric or the truly venerable scottish keeper craig gordon has kept going kept scoring kept walking into important areas and broke records starting with the all time world cup goalscorer record which he gained in the 2 0 win vs austria i mostly watched that on the ipad at the office though we have been showing the games on our big screen in our student lounge england had a good start but the game v ghana was a difficult one i ve been overall impressed with england and they are still in it so you know it s coming home yeah i sketched this with my england and my ghana shirt up on the wall this was held in boston and this was not the first time the english were frustrated by a t partey in boston haha i was proud of that one and can t believe the commentators didn t pick up on it that isn t why the england fans were booing t partey though nope still england topped the group as expected canada did well this tournament but not enough to top their group and stay playing games in canada they are good hosts they lost to the swiss though i like switzerland s manager murat yakin i liked him as a player and he still comes across as cool as a coach not a man crush but he s pretty handsome out of the world cup coaches i d say he is near the top of the handsome league with tuchel probably about mid table montella is a handsome bloke too uruguay s coach with his long hair and distinctively set eyes reminded me of the beast from the 80s tv show beauty and the beast i m not doing a league table of football coaches looks here but it has been noted by a lot of people that poch my beloved former spurs manager really looks like russell crowe these days anyway i sketched this game in our student lounge watching it on the big screen though unlike world cup 2022 which was held in november december there aren t really many people around in summer to watch the games the round of 32 started the first time we ve had a knockout with 32 teams world cups usually start with 32 teams which makes for easier to complete sticker albums england beat dr congo but it was another great game by the congolese and i m a big fan of them as well portugal narrowly beat croatia in the ronaldo modric face off of old real madrid team mates and germany managed to get knocked out by paraguay after some of the worst penalties i have ever seen why can t players take penalties properly any more brazil beat japan which was a bit of a disappointment because japan had been a lot of peoples dark horses plus they had the best away kit which i bought it s so nice the japan fans have that reputation for tidying up the stadium afterwards and the players clean the dressing rooms and i was wondering if after they lost this time they might have though sod it let s just leave it messy someone else can do it mexico beat ecuador at the azteca which wasn t allowed to be called the azteca during the world cup but tell that to anyone talking about that historic hallowed ground mexico backed up by their loud and loyal fans easily swept ecuador aside to set up the round of 15 game with england mexico have been an exciting host in this tournament and you see a lot of those lovely green shirts around here in the last sketch egypt v australia with wolves fan jacqui oatley commentating and warren barton on co comms going on about moments and banging on the door asking questions again we had some bizarre choices in the penalty shootout this time by australia but egypt got through a knockout game at the world cup for the first time ever they ended up going out in the round of 16 to messi and argentina after leading 2 0 until near the end of the game having been robbed of another goal i felt very bad for them and finally that incredible and exciting round of 16 game mexico vs england the final game at the azteca a huge event so noisy watching on the telly knowing loads of people back home would be up all night and they were not disappointed mexico fought so hard and would have been justified getting something from the game but after all the talk of altitude and fireworks outside the hotel and the massive electrical storm changing the kick off times england did really well in the face of a really up for it and skillful mexico especially the keeper pickford and ended up winning 3 2 overall a proper world cup classic bellingham had a great game the last time england played a world cup game at the azteca was forty years ago the hand of god match i remember it well as you do when you watch the world cup as a 10 year old so england will go on to face norway and erling haaland in the quarter finals and well we will see what happens but to me it looks a little bit like it s coming home addendum this was the last world cup game i 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