A series of short essays which, combined together, demonstrate how the FIFA World Cup 2026 was manipulated and fixed by malicious and / or inappropriate forces.
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On the day of the World Cup Quarter Final between Norway and England, the mainstream media reported Kane's comments in the England press conference where he eulogised about playing golf with Donald Trump 18 months ago.
The England skipper seemed blissfully unaware that spending leisure time with a child rapist, illegal warmonger and genocide apologist who appears more frequently in the Epstein Files than any other individual was not exactly something to boast about.
For the England captain to admit to such a faux pas in the middle of a tournament was extreme self-harming. His form plummeted following reactions from several squad members and many English fans while Captain Kane was also responsible for the error that led to Norway taking the lead. Norway should have qualified as England's opening goal should have been disallowed after the ball hit the drone wire in the build up and if the Norway goal chalked off for pushing was a valid decision then James should have been penalised with a penalty for an equivalent push to stop Norway scoring after the ball struck the bar.
Against Argentina, Kane was anonymous apart from moaning about this and about that.
Apart from penalties, here is a list of the nations that Kane has scored against in international football since the end of 2017: DR Congo, Panama, New Zealand, Albania, Latvia, Serbia, Senegal, Andorra, Finland, Slovakia, Denmark, Bosnia Herzegovina, Malta, Italy (in a friendly), Scotland, North Macedonia, Ukraine, San Marino, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Croatia, Nigeria and Tunisia.
Captain Fantastic eh?
The man is a flat track bully vastly overrated who cost England a place in the World Cup Final in 2018 after his greed misfired when Raheem Sterling would have had a tap in in the Semi Final against Croatia.
Thomas Tuchel is not a top coach. His only success of note was when Chelsea defeated Manchester City in the Champions League Final when John Stones was suitably accommodating in one of his episodes of non-trying.
Tuchel has stuck with Stones throughout his England tenure despite the player being a non-used fringe player at Manchester City.
Stones was stuck in the middle of the Wasserman agency campaign against Guardiola which continued through to his last match at the Etihad when he was responsible for both of Aston Villa's goals in his and Guardiola's last game at the club.
Entertainingly, Wasserman worked very hard to get their client Enzo Maresca selected as the City manager to follow Pep only for Maresca to leave Wasserman (following Casey Wasserman being exposed in the Epstein Files) and sign with arch-rivals Gestifute instead. Then Maresca put both Stones and Ake (the two Wasserman clients still at the club) on the transfer list.
But nobody has shown any interest in signing Stones as his reputation goes before him.
Stones is the only England player in history to be without a club during a major tournament.
Tuchel along with his sidekick Anthony Barry (represented by Wasserman) were inept throughout starting with the squad selection leaving out Palmer, Foden, Maguire, Shaw, Alexander Arnold and taking Jordan Henderson, Burn, plus a selection of semi-fit or injured players. England were by a distance the weakest of the semi finalists. Tuchel also exhibits a (perhaps subliminal) racism in the manner in which he screams and shouts at onfield Black players which is not great man management when 60% of your squad is Black.
Although it was an illicit advantage, England had the option of using performance enhancing substances (PESs) at the World Cup as they did at half time in their opening game at the tournament against Croatia. But the problem with PESs is that it wipes players out for the next game (in this case versus Ghana). The gamble was to save any further use of PESs for the Final when there would be no following event instead of the strategy of selective usage with team changes to cover in the Semi Final / Final window.
Aside from the other Semi-Finalists, England were less fit than Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Morocco, Senegal, Uruguay and USA - this is atrocious preparation for a major tournament where fitness is so key.
The Poms also benefiting from institutional support - Croatia, Ghana, Panama, DR Congo, Mexico and Norway is not exactly a tricky route to the semi's as well as highly irregular enhancement from geopolitical global bodies and entities who should have no influence over an international football tournament (see later essay).
The biggest obstruction to England ever winning anything is the bookmakers - the very very worst thing that could ever happen to the bookmaking fraternity would be a Three Lions triumph, particularly at World Cup 2026 where the four semi-finalists had a combined W-D-L prior to their matches of 22-2-0 and where all of the major strikers (Mbappe, Messi, Kane and Haaland) were scoring heavily.
Bookies have always had sleepers in England teams to ensure that a victorious scenario simply cannot happen and the World Cup in USA was no different - it is surprising that this construct is never talked about particularly when certain BBC presenters have a first hand knowledge of the shenanigans.
A slick manager doesn't select sleepers in their squad nor pick them in their team.
Laurel and Hardy, Tuchel and Barry are unpleasant, vastly overrated and stopped a talented squad of players from reaching their full potential.
It is time for both to be shown the door.
NB: Following Casey Wasserman being named in the Epstein Files, the Wasserman agency changed its name to THE-TEAM but, as Casey is still at the agency, we continue to refer to Wasserman for the duration of this collection of essays. Anybody who remains on Wasserman's books is not taking seriously the abuses of Epstein and that includes John Stones and Anthony Barry.
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