Morning,

It’s that time again where the search begins for a wallchart of decent quality - to include tables etc. Does anyone know when any of the papers are giving one away? I’m guessing next weekend?

All for my little lad of course.......ahem.

Cheshire

i think the heavyweight Sunday papers do the best ones - Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, the Observer.

- the tournament kicks off on 14/6 so next weekend [2/3] might be a bit early.

I would say probably 9/10 June most likely.

** The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph also good bets, harder to predict when they will dish them out, though sometimes advertised on TV.

You have to keep filling it in even when Peru knock us out in the Round of 16..

Not always a good idea for a child to have a wall-chart in bedroom. Reason being is that if you send them to bed early they will get bored and develop obsessive compulsive tendencies like counting every 'e' and every 'l' on it, or seeing how many triangles they can count. It happened to me.

Bought a top one from a newsagents for Italia 90. Massive size, stadium info, stickers with country emblems to put on as the teams progressed. Happiest time of my life.
If anyone sees something similar please let me know.

Pstotto wrote:Not always a good idea for a child to have a wall-chart in bedroom. Reason being is that if you send them to bed early they will get bored and develop obsessive compulsive tendencies like counting every 'e' and every 'l' on it, or seeing how many triangles they can count. It happened to me.

Made me think of league ladders, remember those from Shoot magazine? Just trying now to explain to teenage son...

SGEclaret wrote:Made me think of league ladders, remember those from Shoot magazine? Just trying now to explain to teenage son...

They were great - until a team jumped from 18th place to 9th and you had to remove & move them down

The footy magazine When Saturday Comes (WSC) has one in it's latest edition. It's jovial but has a list of games/venues etc and shows the routing through the competition knockout stages. There's also a supplement in the mag going through all the teams with (again somewhat jokingly) a few paragraphs about expectations, interesting players etc compiled by a contributor in each country.
If you can track a copy down in a newsagents you can have a little peruse to see if it's what you want before (if needs be) buying.
WSC is an excellent magazine in any case.

SGEclaret wrote:Made me think of league ladders, remember those from Shoot magazine? Just trying now to explain to teenage son...

Oh my god!

I've got mine up - although I'll do what I do most times... look at my phone instead.

Thanks everyone, I will check out When The Ball Moves and also keep an eye on the nationals over coming weeks..............

League Ladders - now there's a memory. I cannot believe no-one has resurrected them!

Cheshireclaret wrote:Thanks everyone, I will check out When The Ball Moves and also keep an eye on the nationals over coming weeks..............

League Ladders - now there's a memory. I cannot believe no-one has resurrected them!

Im sure match mag still do them. I tried last year but missed out by a week and couldnt get a copy.

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Sadly, no group tables to complete though...............

In the Sunday Mirror this Sunday.

Is anybody who's retired, self-employed, unemployed, or self-unemployed plan on watching all 64 games?

FactualFrank wrote:Is anybody who's retired, self-employed, unemployed, or self-unemployed plan on watching all 64 games?

I wouldn't have thought it possible to watch all 64 games given the final round of fixtures in each group will be played at the same time. I reckon the maximum you can watch live will be 56 games.

wilks_bfc wrote:They were great - until a team jumped from 18th place to 9th and you had to remove & move them down

That was an orgasm for me...

Sausage wrote:I wouldn't have thought it possible to watch all 64 games given the final round of fixtures in each group will be played at the same time. I reckon the maximum you can watch live will be 56 games.

Well, the ones at the same time you can channel-hop between the two, unless it involves England.

Is anybody who's retired, self-employed, unemployed, or self-unemployed plan on watching all 64 games?

Certainly not this fully retired person. I take SkySports and BT Sports and watch plenty of sport but doubt I'll watch even 16/64 WC games.
There are a fair few sporting alternatives: at least 4 (non-overlapping SH v NH) international rugby games to watch on Saturdays 16th & 23rd; England v Oz cricket ODIs & T20s in 2nd half of June then Eng v India in July + (in the actual outdoors) a few race days & county cricket games.
I'll start off watching any England WC games but reserve the right to switch off if my blood-pressure is affected by continual duff passing.
Group D I'll try and catch- Argentina/Iceland/Croatia/Nigeria looks an interesting mix.

FactualFrank wrote:Is anybody who's retired, self-employed, unemployed, or self-unemployed plan on watching all 64 games?

I work from home so will watch as many as I can. There is one day which has 4 live games on the bounce so that will be a definite "all day sesh".

Just started to make notes on moving my office downstairs:

1) Move laptop downstairs
2) .......

Nope, that appears to be it

Listed in chronological order.

Thursday 14 June
Russia vs Saudi Arabia (Group A) - Moscow (Luzhniki) - 4pm - ITV

Friday 15 June
Egypt vs Uruguay (Group A) - Ekaterinburg - 1pm - BBC
Morocco vs Iran (Group B) - St Petersburg - 4pm - ITV
Portugal vs Spain (Group B) - Sochi - 7pm - BBC

Saturday 16 June
France vs Australia (Group C) - Kazan - 11am - BBC
Argentina vs Iceland (Group D) - Moscow (Spartak) - 2pm - ITV
Peru vs Denmark (Group C) - Saransk - 5pm - BBC
Croatia vs Nigeria (Group D) - Kaliningrad - 8pm - ITV

Sunday 17 June
Costa Rica vs Serbia (Group E) - Samara - 1pm - ITV
Germany vs Mexico (Group F) - Moscow (Luzhniki) - 4pm - BBC
Brazil vs Switzerland (Group E) - Rostov-on-Don - 7pm - ITV

Monday 18 June
Sweden vs South Korea (Group F) - Nizhny Novgorod - 1pm - ITV
Belgium vs Panama (Group G) - Sochi - 4pm - BBC
Tunisia vs England (Group G) - Volgograd - 7pm - BBC

Tuesday 19 June
Colombia vs Japan (Group H) - Saransk - 1pm - BBC
Poland vs Senegal (Group H) - Moscow (Spartak) - 4pm - ITV
Russia vs Egypt (Group A) - St Petersburg - 7pm - BBC

Wednesday 20 June
Portugal vs Morocco (Group B) - Moscow (Luzhniki) - 1pm - BBC
Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia (Group A) - Rostov-on-Don - 4pm - BBC
Iran vs Spain (Group B) - Kazan - 7pm - ITV

Thursday 21 June
Denmark vs Australia (Group C) - Samara - 1pm - ITV
France vs Peru (Group C) - Ekaterinburg - 4pm - ITV
Argentina vs Croatia (Group D) - Nizhny Novgorod - 7pm - BBC

Friday 22 June
Brazil vs Costa Rica (Group E) - St Petersburg - 1pm - ITV
Nigeria vs Iceland (Group D) - Volgograd - 4pm - BBC
Serbia vs Switzerland (Group E) - Kaliningrad - 7pm - BBC

Saturday 23 June
Belgium vs Tunisia (Group G) - Moscow (Spartak) - 1pm - BBC
South Korea vs Mexico (Group F) - Rostov-on-Don - 4pm - ITV
Germany v Sweden (Group F) - Sochi - 7pm - ITV

Sunday 24 June
England vs Panama (Group G) - Nizhny Novgorod - 1pm - BBC
Japan vs Senegal (Group H) - Ekaterinburg - 4pm - BBC
Poland vs Colombia (Group H) - Kazan - 7pm - ITV

Monday 25 June
Uruguay vs Russia (Group A) - Samara - 3pm - ITV
Saudi Arabia vs Egypt (Group A) - Volgograd - 3pm - ITV
Spain vs Morocco (Group B) - Kaliningrad - 7pm- BBC
Iran vs Portugal (Group B) - Saransk - 7pm - BBC

Tuesday 26 June
Denmark vs France (Group C) - Moscow (Luzhniki) - 3pm - ITV
Australia vs Peru (Group C) - Sochi - 3pm - ITV
Nigeria vs Argentina (Group D) - St Petersburg - 7pm - BBC
Iceland vs Croatia (Group D) - Rostov-on-Don - 7pm - BBC

Wednesday 27 June
South Korea vs Germany (Group F) - Kazan - 3pm - BBC
Mexico vs Sweden (Group F) - Ekaterinburg - 3pm - BBC
Serbia vs Brazil (Group E) - Moscow (Spartak) - 7pm - ITV
Switzerland vs Costa Rica (Group E) - Nizhny Novgorod - 7pm - ITV

Thursday 28 June
Japan vs Poland (Group H) - Volgograd - 3pm - BBC
Senegal vs Colombia (Group H) - Samara - 3pm - BBC
England vs Belgium (Group G) - Kaliningrad - 7pm - ITV
Panama vs Tunisia (Group G) - Saransk - 7pm - ITV

Round of 16 (Matches in bold are potential England fixtures)

Saturday 30 June
Group C winner vs Group D runner-up - Kazan, 3pm (Match 50)
Group A winner vs Group B runner-up- Sochi, 7pm (Match 49)

Sunday 1 July
Group B winner vs Group A runner-up- Moscow (Luzhniki), 3pm (Match 51)
Group D winner vs Group C runner-up - Nizhny Novgorod, 7pm (Match 52)

Monday 2 July
Group E winner vs Group F runner-up - Samara, 3pm (Match 53)
Group G winner vs Group H runner-up - Rostov-on-Don, 7pm (Match 54)

Tuesday 3 July
Group F winner vs Group E runner-up - St Petersburg 3pm (Match 55)
Group H winner vs Group G runner-up - Moscow (Spartak), 7pm (Match 56)

Quarter-finals

Friday 6 July
Winner match 49 vs Winner match 50 - Nizhny Novgorod, 3pm (Match 57)
Winner match 53 vs Winner match 54 - Kazan, 7pm (Match 58)

Saturday 7 July
Winner match 55 vs Winner match 56 - Samara, 3pm (Match 60)
Winner match 51 vs Winner match 52 - Sochi, 7pm (Match 59)

Semi-finals
Tuesday 10 July
Winner match 57 vs Winner match 58 - St Petersburg, 7pm (Match 61)

Wednesday 11 July
Winner match 59 vs Winner match 60 - Moscow (Luzhniki), 7pm (Match 62)

Third place play-off
Saturday 14 July
Loser match 61 vs Loser match 62 - St Petersburg, 3pm

Final
Sunday 15 July
Moscow (Luzhniki), 4pm

thedoge wrote:In the Sunday Mirror this Sunday.

Cheers for the heads up

Good looking and functional wallcharts in today's Sunday Times, Observer, and Sunday Telegraph....[16 page pullout in the Sunday Express]

Not sure what the other cr@p newspapers are offering.

There was a belter in the Daily Mail yesterday and I saved having to bring that paper home by buying it and handing it straight to a lady who was about to buy one but didn’t want the wallchart. It’s now hanging proudly on my little lad’s bedroom wall ready to be filled out from Thursday.

One has come onto BBC Sport today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44445097" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Excel version... http://www.excely.com/download/world_cup_2018.xlsx

http://www.excely.com/football/2018-fif ... dule.shtml

Cheshireclaret wrote:There was a belter in the Daily Mail yesterday and I saved having to bring that paper home by buying it and handing it straight to a lady who was about to buy one but didn’t want the wallchart. It’s now hanging proudly on my bedroom wall ready to be filled out from Thursday.

I've just fixed the last bit for you Cheshire

CanuckClaret wrote:Excel version... http://www.excely.com/download/world_cup_2018.xlsx

http://www.excely.com/football/2018-fif ... dule.shtml

This is brilliant Cheers Canuck!

Goodclaret wrote:This is brilliant Cheers Canuck!

You're very welcome.