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@ralpha060461 Increasing the teams isn't a bad idea, it's where there from that's the problem. In 1970 Europe had 10/16 teams now they have 16/48 so Europe have been allocated only 6 out of the additional 32 places since. This is the main issue

When a team gets hammered 7-1 in a World Cup tournament you have to ask whether increasing the number of teams in the tournament was really a good idea

@chicgibson @ewansmithpr A 4 way tie? As much chance of me winning the Euro millions 🤣

@ewansmithpr If we beat Morocco and Haiti take a point off them, their world ranking padding will be shown up for what it is. We don’t want a four way tie after game three as GD will be our weakness

Hot takes: 🇭🇹 Haiti won’t finish the group pointless 🇧🇷 The result Scotland need to secure the last 32 will come v Brazil.

@Kennyclark2011 @ewansmithpr Had to put 3 or 4 past them to have a chance. 3 points with -4 or 5 won't be enough

@ewansmithpr That was Haiti’s cup final last night, they’ll get smashed in the next two games Hanley should/could have given away two pens and the big lad missed a free header to equalise The 1-0 result will cost us the best 3rd place

@ItsJamesHall They also pay the least income tax of any major European economy

A £100k salary means you’re in the top 4% of earners in the UK. If £100k is still not enough, you’re living beyond your means. Agree or disagree?

@scottishkits2 Minnows? Most of their players play on same level of leagues as ours.

Unpopluar opinion, Rode our luck in the wee small hours against minnows. As long as we ain't just got that to take hame from the USA. Time for Morrrocan '98 revenge troops. In mad way the Morocco game maybe suit us more, crazy.

@wyllie_cameron Your retired, stop whining, every day is a bank holiday

I’m pleased Scotland won though I have no interest in football. But…why is there a bank holiday on Monday? I thought the match was at 2am tomorrow morning!

@scarycath It isn't really international football anymore. Haiti players from all over the place. Not one Moroccan born there v Brazil

I think I've found the ultimate Scottish cringe. The inability to accept Scotland won without saying that the side Scotland beat were better 🥴🤷

@Tr1ckyTrees Only any real atmosphere at 2 games so far

Anyone else just not arsed about the World Cup? I’m football mad but I literally have 0 excitement for this tournament Wake up, 2/3 games already played then wait about 11 hours for the next one Honking World Cup so far 🤮🤮 #fifa #worldcup

@scotlandscoeff1 Highly unlikely

A draw on Friday against Morocco would guarantee Scotland's progress to the knockout stages. A win would guarantee a top two finish - as the group stage is decided on head-to-head. Even two defeats, to Morocco and Brazil, by a combined margin of three goals or fewer, would still give a strong chance of progression as one of the eight best third-place spots (this is decided on goal difference) Our potential last 32 ties, including opponents, venue, date, and when we'd have confirmation of the fixture:

@JHenryCDF Did you ask for one?

Tomorrow Scotland gets a bank holiday after their first appearance at the World Cup since 1990. In 2022, Wales went to the World Cup after their last appearance in 1958. Wales played their first match on a Monday. We had the same monarch. Wales didn’t get a bank holiday.

@SkyFootball No Kane isn't either

Do you agree with Gary Neville? 💭

@POCX100 As a Scot I find that very sad but unfortunately it's true

The flagshaggers have sullied our national flag. When I see a George Cross I think, there lives a racist fuckwit, not a genuine football fan or a proud Englishman, I just see a racist. It’s very sad but we all feel it and now we won’t fly our flags. #WorldCup

@ScotNational Nicola Sturgeon got pelters for not attending

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@Willq72v @Coach_Swales @rawespresso So instead of saying pay more NI /tax to get a better state pension the answer is scrap it? Seems like a great deal for the private pension sector. Who'd have thought that eh?

@FireflyBiilym @Coach_Swales @rawespresso The issue isn’t that the government wants to take it away, the issue is that it’s a genuine Ponzi scheme and is economically unsustainable with a declining birth rate.

The median UK adult aged 55 has roughly £62,000 saved in their pension. Many have nothing. To retire on the PLSA's 'moderate' single-person standard — £31,300 a year — you need a pot of around £500,000-£600,000 on top of the state pension. The median 55-year-old in this country is roughly 90% short. Ten years from state pension age, on £62K, with the cost of food, energy and rent still climbing, the maths quietly stops working. The state pension at £230 a week will close part of the gap and leave the rest wide open. This is the cliff most working UK adults are walking towards while telling themselves there's still time.

@Malcolm_Offord How do we get immigrants to work in our hospitals if they have nowhere to stay? Your layabout electorate won't do the shit jobs, will they?

Immigration may be reserved to Westminster, but social housing is devolved. I asked John Swinney directly if he would stop the loopholes resulting in new arrivals being put ahead of locals. This was his response:

@DazzaDavies @ITVSport WORST world cup TV show ever and I've seen them all since '70. From a useless backdrop of a financial district? Sally McCoist waffling about politics, some American woman talking to us like kids, terrible picture quality and the biased English panel from hell

What are ITV thinking with having a referee on who’s explaining things like none us have ever watched a game of football before. What a stupid addition.

@Coach_Swales @rawespresso Only if you let them take it away. Old people fought for all the conditions they have today when they were young. Today's young just shrug their shoulders and say oh well back to my iphone

@rawespresso I'm not convinced there will be a state pension when I retire, by then the retirement age it seems will be 100

@rawespresso A couple does not need £60k + to live moderately in retirement. £5k+ a month to do what exactly?

@brenoaviIa When we get to Portugal Spain and Morocco it will be 12 years since we had a real world cup

Nenhum morador de KANSAS CITY chutou uma bola de futebol na vida. E o estádio dessa cidade vai receber mais jogos da Copa do Mundo que o Estádio Azteca. Morreu o esporte.

@SophyRidgeSky This is up there with George Foulkes saying Scotland was at risk from alien invasion if it was independent

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley very strong on scenes in Belfast: "I was watching a bit of the news last night, and I can't remember what channel it was, but a journalist was talking about 'these protesters.' "I thought, that isn't a protest. People are setting fire to cars. That's not a protest. That's violent disorder, that's criminality. I really feel for Northern Ireland colleagues who are wrestling with that. It's really, really difficult. "We live in these volatile times and, some of what goes on online whips up, sentiment on the street. "We know that Russian state actors, Iranian state actors, they want to sow discord on the streets of the UK. So this is a really complex issue we're wrestling with. So you've got very polarised debates in the UK, and you've got other people overseas who want to drive wedge issues to create disorder, and you've got the great men and women of Police Service Northern Ireland on the streets in the middle of that, trying to sort of protect people and stop people burning down houses and things. It's awful."