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Grant Surridge retweeted
Four teams have won all five of their World Cup games on xG:
🇪🇸 Spain
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇴 Colombia
Grant Surridge retweeted
Best defences at World Cup 2026 (xG conceded per 90):
🥇 Spain: 0.32
🥈 Argentina: 0.58
🥉 Canada: 0.70
Grant Surridge retweeted
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.
Grant Surridge retweeted
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?
Grant Surridge retweeted
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."
Grant Surridge retweeted
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. 👇
Grant Surridge retweeted
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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Grant Surridge retweeted
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.
Grant Surridge retweeted
My regular Super Bowl reminder that no, it’s not "like a chess match out there"!
Grant Surridge retweeted
From my understanding:
Because FIFA moved the Canada Soccer case immediately from the Disciplinary Committee directly to the FIFA Appeal Committee, Canada can appeal this at the CAS much faster.
It would allow for an appeal to have an impact on the Olympic tournament.
Grant Surridge retweeted
I'm going to keep saying it, the advantage you get from spying on every practice in a tournament is less than that from one dive in the penalty area. It is certainly much, much less than two wins. But a drone is novel cheating, while diving is cheating the TV tells us to accept.
Grant Surridge retweeted
Proud of the lads. What a shift. They captivated the nation, again!
Bright spots today included Johnston, Cornelius, Kone (other than that incident), Larin.
I know they’re sick of moral victories but people who’ve never spoken to me about soccer before have been talking about #canmnt 🍁
Grant Surridge retweeted
Having Davies and Frimpong up against each other is Jesse Marsch tactical mistake number one #CanMNT
Grant Surridge retweeted
Stunning. Absolutely stunning. In NHL HISTORY. The best defensive team in the regular-season. Absolutely shredded. Like no team has ever been shredded before. – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
Grant Surridge retweeted
I regret to inform you, the fraud guy may have been right. #NHLJets
Grant Surridge retweeted
We’ve all been robbed.. not just Cov. This isn’t what the viewers and fans want Var for. It’s for correcting absolute howlers, let the referee referee. VAR is for if he makes a monumental “Maradona handball” or “Lampard over line” shape cock up, not this! – at Bromley, London
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MATCH DAY!! Let's gooooooooooo!!! ♥️🇨🇦⚽ #CanMNT