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UPDATE: The Alphonso Davies statue in front of my house will be gold-plated and revolve constantly to face the sun.
Grant Surridge retweeted
Four teams have won all five of their World Cup games on xG:
🇪🇸 Spain
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇴 Colombia
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Best defences at World Cup 2026 (xG conceded per 90):
🥇 Spain: 0.32
🥈 Argentina: 0.58
🥉 Canada: 0.70
I don't ever want to hear about Argentinians or Koreans supposedly fixing World Cups again. What a travesty.
BREAKING @TheAthleticFC
Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.
Story with @Dan_Sheldon_
nytimes.com/athletic/7423410…
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Canada v Qatar is the World Cup's group stage match with the biggest disparity in land size.
Canada covers almost 10 million km². Qatar covers just over 11,600 km². You could fit more than 850 Qatars inside Canada.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
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I feel like the decision to change the format of the sport from two halves to four quarters should have been more widely discussed before it was implemented. Does anyone actually want this?
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Marcelo Bielsa: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline.
"It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore.
"If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football.
"For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football.
"This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal.
"As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."
The irony about this whole shirt-swap-giveaway controversy is that lining up for hours in freezing weather just to get free shit is the most Canadian thing possible.
Lol. Shows what I know. I wonder if @CanadaSoccerEN ever actually intended to take the Italy shirts?
Hundreds lined up for 'Forza Canada' @CANMNT_Official jersey swap at Cafe Diplomatico. All the jerseys were gone within minutes. Canada Soccer never took the jerseys, they just handed out 2026 kits and posters. Well done 🇨🇦 (viz via @CanadaSoccerEN) @TSN_Sports @TSNSoccer
I agree. This is a bizarre move from @CanadaSoccerEN
This might be one of the quickest ways to turn a fanbase off who more than than likely would have thrown all their support behind the #CanMNT anyways. Big miss on this one.
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This is ridiculous misreading of George Grant -- whatever criticisms he had of Diefenbaker he was far more critical of pro-USA elites who wouldn't defend Canadian sovereignty.
Good history lessons for Canadians
As George Grant warned in Lament for a Nation, a Canadian elite more concerned with its own ideological preening than with national interest sleepwalked the country into preventable loss of economic well being.
History doesn’t repeat exactly, but the rhyme is getting loud. While the political class is gripped by TDS and performative outrage, what Canada actually needs is a hard‑headed, pragmatic deal with President Trump; did no one learn the lesson from the Diefenbaker episode in the late 1950s, when Ottawa’s posturing left us weaker, not stronger?
Recall, the Diefenbaker–Kennedy debacle of the early 1960s, when personal animus and ideological posing poisoned the relationship and destabilized Canadian politics? Treating a U.S. president as a cartoon adversary might feel good in the moment, but as that episode showed, this lack of respect is a disastrous way to manage an asymmetric relationship on which Canadian security and prosperity ultimately depend.
Yes History rhythms. 👇
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The replies to this are a tiny taster of the info ops that will be taking place if / when this happens.
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Looking at Group J, I have to wonder if there's ever been a World Cup group in which all countries start with the same letter.
#CanMNT qualified for the knockout rounds of last summer's Copa America after benefitting from red cards in each of their last two group-stage matches. Yes, this is disappointing, but the project will be judged on what happens next summer.
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A sitting U.S. Senator was just forcibly thrown out of a DHS presser.
A SITTING U.S. SENATOR was physically stopped from asking questions in an OPEN PRESS CONFERENCE.
This. is. not. normal.
BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed.
Yeah, we lost. But we did carry the balance of play against a Mexico team with home-field advantage and were denied a crystal-clear penalty that would have changed everything. It's not *that* long ago that this situation would have been unthinkable for #CanMNT
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My regular Super Bowl reminder that no, it’s not "like a chess match out there"!
