You specified the seventy seventh minute, you after eventing nugget.Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
You specified the seventy seventh minute, you after eventing nugget.
I'm more worried about what we'll be like when we play a team that isn't fucking garbage.
The lack of Tunisia bookings has fucked me
I'm still taking it, I need this.
The only, only thing good that's come out of tonight is that Harry Kane looks like he's fit and up for it. Now just how to create some fucking chances for him.
Also, and I know it's not new, but how the fuck did Southgate arrive at this abomination of a formation?
Got away with that but it matters fuck all at this stage, win's a win.
Most satisfaction I'm getting from this is how gutted the Tunisians are.
I'm not normally pleased to see a team lose, but in Tunisia's case I'll make an exception.
Horrible, horrible team.
Sterling and Lingard should be dropped, even if we don't replace them with anyone.
Win's a win.
Tunisia were just as fucking snidey as promised and more. More close ups of the depressed team and fans please.
Such a pointless corner Tunisia gave away too. They were walking to a draw.
We served up the same shit we have for the last 18 years in tournaments.
And it's starting, "overall a pretty exceptional performance that" says Lineker.
"Won't want to come up against them" says Rio.
Er, ok.
England fans need to go out and smash up some cafes now, I want to see plastic garden chairs flying across the news. Then we've got a World Cup.
I'd say even they know better given where they are.
Best we've played in decades. In Gary we trust.
I honestly think England did well there. Plenty of the top teams have struggled to break down these second-tier teams who set out super-defensively for a draw. We stuck at it and got the win. It's all well and good moaning about it being slow and turgid - and yeah I'm sure Barcelona would dance around Tunisia - but it's really hard to play good football against a team that defensive with the constantly fouling and in the heat.
Trippier was excellent - seemingly the only player left in world football who can take a corner or cross from a free-kick. Alli was clearly injured and should have come off earlier. Sterling was absolutely terrible. Rashford looked lively when he came on and should start the next game.
Also we had two absolutely blatant penalties turned down.
I remember the gushing after the Italy game four years ago. We were out six days later.
That idiot who bought the penalty just openly weeping has made my month. If he's inconsolable after losing the first game, I imagine he'd just immediately end his life if that was the third.
He might have been in a hectare of space but that really is a perfectly taken header by Kane.
This isn't then.
And we lost.
Whoever the beeb got to do the highlights of the Sweden game has managed to find me a new favourite voice. He sounds like a toned-down Jonathan Legard.
After everything that happened late in the season, it would be lol as fuck if they could take Kanes first goal off him for being already over the line.
All I'm saying is we weren't very good and we're going to get turned over well before the optimists suggest.
I don't think there's exactly been much 'gushing' either. I just think that breaking down those teams is difficult and it's not just us that have struggled. We've done well to ultimately come away with the win.
I think we'll look much better against a team who plays more openly.
I thought Loftus-Cheek looked good when he came on. Much better than Ali, who seemed injured for almost the entire game.
That kind of opposition will always make you look bad. That defense against anyone half-decent doesn't look too reassuring though.
Daniel Mann. I agree, got a good tone for big moments as well. He does a lot of the Championship live games on Sky too.
You're just churning out the same stuff that gets said after every shit performance we chuck in in tournaments.
Everyone looks better against more open opponents, until they put three past you.
Alli was wank and is a jumped up twat so I wouldn't be too fussed if we didn't start him. Sterling is a real problem and Lingard was bollocks too.
That was mild antics from Tunisia to be honest. Game 3 of a group stage is where they really come alive.
With this VAR stuff how on earth did you lot not get two penalties for Kane getting pulled to the ground?
Lingard was unlucky to not score a brace. Poor second half but not bollocks.
When should it actually be used? All of the time or just selectively? If selectively, when?
Serious and genuine question that, I'd quite like to know.
It really is ridiculous and makes it completely pointless.
Yev you're just determined to be relentlessly negative. You'd have found things to whinge about if we'd won 8-0.
He should be sent home after that shit show, let alone dropped.
Unlucky? Take your Man Utd goggles off and have a look how he struck the ball for the first chance. It wasn't unlucky, just shit.
Apparently they have people constantly watching and they alert the ref if they feel there is something he should review.
He was alerted on the first one on Kane and looked at it but didn't give it.
lol the Arab teams have lost every game.
The one that was deflected?
He's getting in the right place and unlucky not to bag. Cheer up you miserable cunt.
That I don't know but even ignoring VAR surely one of the officials will have seen him getting pulled to the ground?
Well I wouldn't, as those on this board since I joined in the early 00's will attest to.
The problem is I've seen so much England that I can smell an impending bad tournament performance from us a mile off. The only thing I saw today that makes me think anything other than that was Kane looking sharp, which is a serious positive.
The one after two minutes.
I've been here since about 2003 and all you've ever done is moan.
Oh yeah that one was terrible.
The way it seems to have worked so far is that the people in the booth are reviewing everything at all times but they only contact the ref if he gets something important egregiously wrong. So far that's largely been about awarding penalties, but that Kane non decision renders the whole system pointless.
And they will at every tournament until we find a way to stop them qualifying.
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