Azeem

It has been held for the most part every two years and since 90s pretty irregularly

Even start so far

Just hope it's not 0-0

Stupid but still insulting hence why he's not given off the hook fined and suspended just not during the Euros.

First thing South America needs to do to make Copa America more important is sticking with one format and make it happen after consistent interval whether 2 or 4 years. Holding it irregularly diminishes it importance

https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/02/photo-proves-jude-bellingham-wasnt-insulting-slovakia-x-rated-gesture-21143104/amp/ the investigation is over insulting opposition like Arnautović not just grabbing cock.

*grabbing your cock towards the opposition bench after scoring. Arnautovic of Austria was also suspended for one game under insulting opposition players last Euros.

That's odd. Uefa's decision on Bellingham also seems favouritism. He grabbed his crotch towards the Slovakian bench after scoring. A 'suspended' ban so he can play against Switzerland, just ban him for one game immediately if he did breached the conduct. If I'm not wrong last Euros some Austrian player also made obscene remarks against opposition and he was banned for the next game.

A more fair bracket for this 24-team format for me. The bracket should be decided based on points in the group stages Team1 vs Team16, Team2 vs Team15 and so on. Spain were the top team with 9 pts so they should play Slovenia the lowest of the third-place teams and . Unless both teams were already in the group together.

Surely England can't play worse than the Portugal France game ?

Indeed Ronaldo has a poor record at major tournaments but I don't agree with the notion that Portugal are that big of a team and they would go wow without Ronaldo. They are a bit of lucky to not have missed a single tournament in recent times when England, Italy, Netherlands have all missed some tournaments over the years. As El Professor mentioned those playoffs vs Sweden, which is one of the many times they flirted with not qualifying and Ronaldo deserves credit for bailing them out in those qualifier matches quite a few times. If not for the expansions I'm pretty sure they would've missed some international tournaments post-Ronaldo

He was good at freekicks early on but became worse.

Portugal on the charge

It would be atrocious if Spain lose to any of these sides

Boring

Turkey is upset with this decision. While the two cases are not exactly the same but yeah if Bellingham did an inappropriate celebration and deserves a suspension it should be in the Euros like that Turkish player.

Bro I'm only mentioning what the commentators said.

Why France ?

The commentators from where I was watching were saying he had moved his arm quite inward when ball made the contact so no penalty.

First time host country lost a QF in Euros

Bellingham also penalized for obscene celebration vs Slovakia. Will play the Euros but suspended for one match.

big occasions = SF Finals QFs

Likely to be the most boring QF

caused a bit of diplomatic row this incident and not unexpected if Turkish players do that celebration again. Reminds of that eagle celebration Xhaka Shaqiri did back in the WC against Serbia that caused similar drama.