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.
Arsenal, one of England’s big football clubs, just donated a pile of their players’ old socks to a horse and donkey sanctuary, and the rescued animals are now wearing them.
It works because modern football socks are footless. Players wear separate grip socks on their feet, so the long sleeves get thrown out. That shape turns out to be perfect for sliding onto an animal’s leg, where they keep flies off sore skin, hold bandages in place, and cover the leg while hooves are trimmed.
The sanctuary, the biggest of its kind in Britain, says the bright red socks have already cut down on vet visits. The donkeys have also decided they make good toys, and have taken to pulling bananas out of them.
World Cup fever has reached the point where I am counting down the hours to watch England's B team play a meaningless game on a travesty of a pitch at the home of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Three Lions will be blasting out come 8.45pm.
@Ankaman616 the way i see it is bellingham is more dangerous when he doesn’t have the ball and rogers is more dangerous when he does have the ball, and i think the latter is needed more at this point
that being said if rogers starts then we should probably be playing gordon over rashford
@Ankaman616 he seems to be a good box-crasher and quite “clutch” so imo better utilised when we’re chasing a goal? very layman take though and happy to be told im wrong by someone smarter than me
The most important World Cup preview content: a comprehensive run-through of the 2022 World Cup but, crucially, following a timeline in which much of the world had been obliterated in a nuclear war 40 years earlier
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the real question is does she ever take the foot off the gas after she realises i can’t play tennis - if she does, and eases off her serves, she won’t double fault and i STILL have no chance of returning them so it’s ggs game set and match
i would (probably) win a point against serena - across her career she had a dbl fault rate of 4.5% (roughly 1 in 22 serves). in match where she blitzed me (as i would expect) she would have to serve 24 times. i would have a 66.9% chance of winning a point just by standing there
Serena Williams is returning to tennis so Yougov have repeated their study of how many men think they would win a point against her at tennis. In 2026.