Azeem

This is discrimination against politicians

I think Spain were good at the last WC. They wasted a lot of chances against Morocco plus a little luck was not on their side.

best chance for Switzerland to reach a semifinal

Turkey's position on this symbol is somewhat understandable but like Swastika it is now tainted regardless if it has been in use way before in other meanings.

Will be a good game but not a goal fest people are anticipating. Spain will win, like they have against Germany on big occasions over the past years.

Turk nationalist mobs are attacking Syrians refugees in Turkey. Some have been killed. The main impetus for this xenophobia is the shit economy under Erdogan and naturally people just find an easy scapegoat for venting their anger. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/7/2/protests-and-arrests-as-anti-syrian-riots-rock-turkey Riot is a very wrong word to frame these racially driven mobs which media does so often imo it gives the impression that there is equal monopoly on violence which is not the case most often. Just call them violent attacks if pogrom is too strong a word

Friday 5th July, 2024 Spain 2-1 Germany, 17.00 Portugal 0-2 France, 20.00 Saturday 6th July, 2024 England 1-0 Switzerland, 17.00 Netherlands 1-1 Turkey, 20.00

That is just international tournaments KOs rarely continue the momentum of the group stages.

2-3 Netherlands

Despite its name and popularity, the French fries are not French. The origins can be found in Belgium, where historians claim potatoes were being fried in the late-1600s. According to Belgian lore, poor villagers living in Meuse Valley would often ate small fried fish they caught in the river. During the winter months when the river froze, fishing would become an impossible task and forced villagers to find other sources of food. This is when the villagers turned to the root plant, potatoes, slicing and frying them just like the way they prepared fish. American soldiers were first introduced to the fries while they were stationed in Belgium during World War I.

Many sources say the crispy spuds were most likely invented in the country's northeast neighbor, Belgium. According to lore, the dish was born in Belgium in the winter of 1680, when the fried fish-loving denizens of a city called Namur had to find something else to cook when the local river froze over

French fries were actually invented in Belgium

Battle of Karansebes was fought as part of the Austro-Turkish wars. The Austrian army, stationed in anticipation of the Turkish attack, was made up of soldiers of different linguistic backgrounds. Night before the battle, some Austrian soldiers sneaked in alcohol and overtime everyone became drunk. Not understanding each other's language, the drunk Austrian soldiers had a fight which turned into a mass brawl and eventually 10,000 Austrian soldiers died in the ensuing violence. This makes it the worst case of friendly fire in history. When Turkish soldiers came the following day, expecting a heavy fight, they found everyone was dead already and took the city without doing anything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karánsebes

@Eco

scrappy win for Portugal

It's coming home

So he like comes with instructions ?