Russian FA not quite reading the room 14:52 - Mar 23 with 1713 views | unstableblue | Or perhaps a rather stark reminder of just how indoctrinated the Russia media and large swathes of the population are, if only someone had warned the UK government of Putins true threat, rather than embracing his cohorts: [Post edited 23 Mar 2022 14:52]
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:00 - Mar 23 with 1620 views | Keno | yes but knowing how unpopular we are the Russians will probably get it |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:04 - Mar 23 with 1591 views | BlueBadger |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:00 - Mar 23 by Keno | yes but knowing how unpopular we are the Russians will probably get it |
Not to mention that FIFA are even more unethical than our government when it comes to accepting money from dodgy regimes, |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:08 - Mar 23 with 1562 views | Darth_Koont | To be fair, we got the Olympics while we were bringing freedom* to the Iraqis. But yes, a massively insensitive and self-unaware move. *Mainly the freedom to leave this earthly realm for hundreds of thousands of them. |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:10 - Mar 23 with 1550 views | unstableblue |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:00 - Mar 23 by Keno | yes but knowing how unpopular we are the Russians will probably get it |
You have a point. Be interesting if we manage to overtake them in the Eurovision?! With Boris as our cheerleader- I doubt it. We’re a laughing stock. |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 17:59 - Mar 23 with 1248 views | stonojnr | I suspect they are doing it simply because they can to annoy people, and force UEFA to review their bid and waste their time effort money, i mean why wouldnt they if they arent strictly banned from bidding for it, its that kind of era of cold war politics stuff we've gone back to. just like Russia are hosting their own 'world' figure skating competition at the same time as the figure skating world championships they've been barred from is happening. |  | |  |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:04 - Mar 23 with 1209 views | positivity |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 17:59 - Mar 23 by stonojnr | I suspect they are doing it simply because they can to annoy people, and force UEFA to review their bid and waste their time effort money, i mean why wouldnt they if they arent strictly banned from bidding for it, its that kind of era of cold war politics stuff we've gone back to. just like Russia are hosting their own 'world' figure skating competition at the same time as the figure skating world championships they've been barred from is happening. |
let them have it and then ban the team, sounds daft, but fifa have done more ridiculous things |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:54 - Mar 23 with 1075 views | pointofblue |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 15:10 - Mar 23 by unstableblue | You have a point. Be interesting if we manage to overtake them in the Eurovision?! With Boris as our cheerleader- I doubt it. We’re a laughing stock. |
Russia have been banned from Eurovision so we'll definitely beat them this year. |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:55 - Mar 23 with 1068 views | textbackup | Opening game… Russia vs Ukraine |  |
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Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:58 - Mar 23 with 1056 views | Veggie |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:55 - Mar 23 by textbackup | Opening game… Russia vs Ukraine |
Ukraine will probably be in Russia by then |  | |  |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 12:25 - Mar 25 with 588 views | positivity |
Russian FA not quite reading the room on 18:54 - Mar 23 by pointofblue | Russia have been banned from Eurovision so we'll definitely beat them this year. |
if we get zero again, that'll be a draw unless you get medals for taking part... |  |
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