Patrick Rees

From Glasgow to Tampa.. and back again

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

🇳🇴 Haaland scores 10+ goals
🇵🇹 Ronaldo benched, falls out with team, and retires from international football
🇨🇿 Czechia get to the QF
⚽ Record for worst goal difference is broken by 2 teams
⛈️ Thunderstorms delay some of the final group games and cause kickoff chaos

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

World Cup 2026 starts on 11 June.

So let's do another Bad Predictions Amnesty.

Tell me your BOLDEST prediction for the World Cup. xVibes, rather than researched analysis.

We stick them in the vault, then have a look over the results towards the end of the tournament.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Love this perspective on the World Cup and thinking how I've experienced the last three

2022 - the novelty of a winter World Cup ❄️
2018 - watched the entire tournament at an empty University of Tampa campus 🌞
2014 - in Taiwan with games played between midnight and 6am 🌚

[Kachii @badasskachii]

The craziest thing about World Cup month is realizing where you were in life during the last one. Shit I still remember watching my first World Cup game ever. A 4-year gap means your job, your relationship status, your friends, and your entire life situation are completely different, but you're sitting watching a random group stage game at 1 AM on a Tuesday. Football is a time capsule.

[John Crotty @itsjohncrotty]

Tell me you don't know anything about Irish history without telling me you don't know anything about Irish history

People like Jamie were brought up on a diet of lies & hatred regarding the island they were born in

No, Ireland's role in WW2 wasn't shameful - far from it in fact, as Ireland aided Britain & the Allies completely while navigating difficult politics at home - politics made challenging by British policy.
Declassification has shown it was the right decision, aiding the Allies covertly rather than openly, a fact agreed with completely by British intelligence MI5

Here are the facts (1)

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@joe_brewer95 @scottbentley_16 here's doing a Leicester

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@growing_daniel @scottbentley_16 @DeenMP

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

- PL Winners have lowest points tally in 10 years 📉

- One of the promoted teams has a great escape from relegation 🪜

- Onana wins the Golden Glove behind a rejuvenated Man Utd defence 🧤

- PSR causes last day drama (team is relegated because of it or misses out on Europe) 😬

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Hello friends, the Premier League is returning on August 16, so it's time for a Bad Take Amnesty.

You know the drill. You give me your most baseless, guttural prediction for 24-25. You get one re-do at the end of the Jan window. We look back at these at the season's conclusion.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

England stumble out of their group but luck into the easiest path to the semi's

Cristiano Ronaldo gets sent off in his final game for Portugal and retires

Group F will have 3+ goals in every game

De Zerbi takes over the Italian team after they lose in Round of 16

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Hello friends, EURO 2024 begins this week, so let's do another Bad Predictions Amnesty.

Tell me your baseless, nagging football musings. Something you think will happen over the tournament.

You get a re-do at the end of the group stages. We'll look over these before the Final.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Mental that this guy is going to win this year's Ballon d'Or 🏆

[Football Park Scotland @FP_Scotland]

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch John McGinn join in Bavarian dance.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

So I didn't do too bad 🤷‍♂️

Missed the mark with Tonali

De Zerbi is leaving but Brighton never had any relegation fears

Points difference between 1st and 20th was big, but not the biggest

And Klopp is leaving, but not how I thought

Bad Euros Predictions Amnesty to follow

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Sandro Tonali sold back to Italy in January because of "homesickness"

Brighton plummet towards relegation in 2024 after De Zerbi leaves for a bigger club

We'll see the biggest ever points difference between 1st and 20th this season

Klopp sacked and replaced by Gerrard

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Obviously I've got some bias, but Henrik Larsson is such an articulate and thoughtful individual. Always has something insightful to say and provides perspective that you don't get from most ex-footballers

[Guardian sport @guardian_sport]

Henrik Larsson: ‘I have 106 caps for Sweden but I see myself as foreign’ https://t.co/OSjnJPMrZs

[Andy Bush @bushontheradio]

The amount of people inaccurately saying 'doing a 360' instead of '180' when referring to a total change of mind / direction, is now at epidemic proportions. A public awareness campaign is needed.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@_James__William @scottbentley_16 your dream situation

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Sandro Tonali sold back to Italy in January because of "homesickness"

Brighton plummet towards relegation in 2024 after De Zerbi leaves for a bigger club

We'll see the biggest ever points difference between 1st and 20th this season

Klopp sacked and replaced by Gerrard

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Hello friends, the Premier League returns this week.
So it's time for the Bad Predictions Amnesty.
Please tell me your most instinctive, baseless footballing prediction for 23-24.
You get a re-do at the end of the Jan window.
We look back at these at the end of the season.

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@therimaahmed @scottbentley_16

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

I've never been as invested in a team I didn't support as I was with Wales at Euro 2016. Jumped out my seat whenever Robson-Kanu scored and was ecstatic they won. Could watch the goal over and over again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[h🪐p @HWestwoodP]

what’s the moment in football you celebrated most that DIDN’T directly involve a team you support?

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

The Spanish having the same bitter reaction as they did to losing to Morocco in the World Cup means two things.

1) Tiki-taka football is no longer effective and the Spaniards need a Plan B or C in games.

2) Scotland are making a deep run in the Euros.

See you in Germany 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Premier Sports @PremSportsTV]

🇪🇸 Spain's Rodri gives his verdict on his side's loss to Scotland

"It's the way they play...for me it's a bit rubbish. Because it's always wasting time. They provoke you. They always fall. For me, this is not football." 🗣️👀

#EURO2024 | #SCOESP

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@ApparelSpire @scottbentley_16 absolute belter of a top

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@nocontextfm1 @scottbentley_16 feel like you'd enjoy some of these challenges

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@FourFourTwo @scottbentley_16 surely you've got a few thoughts on this?

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

@mafie_9 @FourFourTwo Couldn't tell you about Bayern in particular but lots of the fake strips have dodgy plastic badges slapped on and look a little out of place

[Patrick Rees @patrickrees18]

Bayern Munich home strip (1998 I think?) with Giovane Elber on the back ⚽️🥅 Dad brought it home from a work trip to Germany and I wore the thing until it fell apart

[FourFourTwo @FourFourTwo]

Tops from Spanish market stalls or presents your dad brought you back from working abroad – what was the first foreign football shirt you ever owned? 👕