The US usually qualify, 86 was the last time they didn’t.

Qualifying is split basically in to continents so in European qualifying you have about 8 groups of 5 or 6. A team will play everyone in their group twice and the top team qualifys. The 2nd placed teams are then drawn against each other in playoffs and the winner of each of those games qualifys as well.

The US have to qualify against the other teams in North and Central America and the Carribean region. The format is a bit different for their federation but it’s the same sort of idea. Ultimately you end up with a group where the top 3 qualify to the WC and 4th have a playoff against another continents playoff side (in this case it was Honduras v Australia).

Better explained here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FI … (CONCACAF)

US must have been pretty poor this time round to not qualify as it’s not a strong region football-wise. Usually it’s US, Mexico and someone else who generally qualify.

England off to a winning start, although we made hard work of it as usual. Reasons to be cheerful though, we look a quick team which could cause teams problems.

That’s 9 minutes I’ll never get back.

Prostitute sounds like a Robbie Williams B-side.

Meh Slither didn’t sound great however I’m willing to cut them some slack and it is really cool they added it to the set.

No YCBM or Coma and a shorter show overall by around 40 minutes suggests something was up. Lets see what things look like 4 or 5 shows in.