World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Ok, not really sure where to start. Or actually, that's easy. I want to start by submitting my most heartfelt apology for the frankly most idiotic comment I've ever made. I don't have words to describe how ashamed I am, and I I fully understand if the apology isn't accepted. There is no excuse for it, but at least let me add some context into how things happened, and also why some things DIDN'T happen.
At the time of gmae when that comment was made, I was sat at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok at 4am in the morning. I was pretty drunk too, though that's no excuse. Nothing is. Anyway, I wrote a comment I deeply regret, and at the time, for some reason, I did not realise how foul and upsetting it was, I was getting searched in the security check, getting delayed, and had to rush to make my flight to Chongqing in China, and before I manged to post an apology, I was out of WiFi range. I had also tried to delete the comment, but it seems that option is gone now? Or is it a time limit. Not sure, but I wasn't able to. At that time I was in full panic mode, but thought I'd do it once on the ground again.

That proved to be easier said than done. The great firewall of China is really great, and not easy to penetrate. I had prepared various tricks that were supposed to work, but it proved to be really difficult to get any VPN or other measure to work for more than literally seconds!
During one of those short spells, I manage to log in to this site, and by that time I had been banned, so was then completely unable to post an apology.

So there it is. I have been given permission from the mods to write this apology. Wether that is enough for you to forgive me remains to be seen. I accept whatever decision is taken. Again, my sincerest apologies. I'm absolutely not a racist. I can only blame my northern Norwegian heritage, as we do have a rougher language, without it meaning what the words actually say. There's even a supreme Court ruling where a guy was acquitted from charge for calling a police officer "forbainna hæstkuk" (fudging horse dingdong), because that's normal language in Northern Norway. Again, not a valid excuse for me, just some context.

I really hope this apology is accepted, and that I can continue to be part of this wonderful forum with all the lovely people in here. You really mean a lot to me.

Finally, I wish I could have written this in my mother language, because I feel that I'm not really able to describe and get my message across in the matter I would have wanted, as my English isn't quite adequate in such delicate matters.

Again, I'm really sorry, and I hope I get the honour of continuing to be a member of this forum

Regards Kandi

I know I've done and said things in my life I'm ashamed of and wish I could in some way go back in time to erase them from my history. People will have made judgements of me which may have lasted a long time, all I can say is I'm not that person and hope people can forgive me for the distress or disappointment I caused them.

I don't know how other people will see this post but I believe people should be given a chance to apologise and prove what they are. We all make mistakes and can improve our behaviour.

 

[DeanoAustin]

So you agree it was one of the best performances in the last 30 years then?

Think that's overstating it. Is it much better than Italy in '97, Argentina in '98, Germany in 2000, Argentina in 2002, Denmark in 2002, Ukraine in 2021, Germany in 2021 or even Serbia recently? I'm sure there are more, that's just off the top of my head and I'm not an England fan.

I'm not trying to tinkle all over it - it's a good win and performance but I wouldn't class it as some sort of era-defining result. England will need to do better performance-wise and have some bigger results if they want to win the competition which is where they should be aiming.

I know stats can say anything but on xG, XGA, xDEF, VAR overrules etc, the figures suggest we should have been 10th to 13th over the last 2 seasons so the remaining drop in form is down to poor organisation and poor management. Pushing for top 6 with a decent manager and significant spend/squad overhaul, from 12th isn't unrealistic.

Ah yeah, I think we should be looking to finish in the upper end of the table but I wouldn't be even mentioning titles on a public podcast just because we've signed a few players. That's the sort of thing that gets you ridiculed.

 

[DeanoAustin]

Ok, not really sure where to start. Or actually, that's easy. I want to start by submitting my most heartfelt apology for the frankly most idiotic comment I've ever made. I don't have words to describe how ashamed I am, and I I fully understand if the apology isn't accepted. There is no excuse for it, but at least let me add some context into how things happened, and also why some things DIDN'T happen.
At the time of gmae when that comment was made, I was sat at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok at 4am in the morning. I was pretty drunk too, though that's no excuse. Nothing is. Anyway, I wrote a comment I deeply regret, and at the time, for some reason, I did not realise how foul and upsetting it was, I was getting searched in the security check, getting delayed, and had to rush to make my flight to Chongqing in China, and before I manged to post an apology, I was out of WiFi range. I had also tried to delete the comment, but it seems that option is gone now? Or is it a time limit. Not sure, but I wasn't able to. At that time I was in full panic mode, but thought I'd do it once on the ground again.

That proved to be easier said than done. The great firewall of China is really great, and not easy to penetrate. I had prepared various tricks that were supposed to work, but it proved to be really difficult to get any VPN or other measure to work for more than literally seconds!
During one of those short spells, I manage to log in to this site, and by that time I had been banned, so was then completely unable to post an apology.

So there it is. I have been given permission from the mods to write this apology. Wether that is enough for you to forgive me remains to be seen. I accept whatever decision is taken. Again, my sincerest apologies. I'm absolutely not a racist. I can only blame my northern Norwegian heritage, as we do have a rougher language, without it meaning what the words actually say. There's even a supreme Court ruling where a guy was acquitted from charge for calling a police officer "forbainna hæstkuk" (fudging horse dingdong), because that's normal language in Northern Norway. Again, not a valid excuse for me, just some context.

I really hope this apology is accepted, and that I can continue to be part of this wonderful forum with all the lovely people in here. You really mean a lot to me.

Finally, I wish I could have written this in my mother language, because I feel that I'm not really able to describe and get my message across in the matter I would have wanted, as my English isn't quite adequate in such delicate matters.

Again, I'm really sorry, and I hope I get the honour of continuing to be a member of this forum

Regards Kandi

Fair play for the message mate.

I was pretty sickened by the comment and I'm a straight, white male so I can only imagine how offensive it would have been for some people.

I've always enjoyed your posts so I'll take you at your word that you aren't racist and it was a mistake. I don't believe in "cancelling" people for mistakes because I've made enough of them in my time. I guess it's up to the people who run the forum to decide on bans or whatever but I'd hate to lose this forum so I'd have no issue with the apology being accepted and we all move on.