[World Cup 2018] Round of 16

[Lewis]

Was John Stones flinching there?

[Serj]

Is Trippier actually crouching down when the shot comes towards him? :D

[Yevrah]

Was I overreacting now Boydy?

[SincereTheRebel]

Longest celebrity ever. Start booking these nerds

[Mazuuurk]

I cant believe one of these two teams will knock us out :nono:

[Adramelch]

Colombia are a big unbalanced here for extra time if they don’t chuck it

They will have the extra sub.

[SincereTheRebel]

Is Tripper actually crouching down when the shot comes towards him? :D

It looked like he tried to head the ball over the bar. Poor poor decesion.

[Baz]

The board has never been this active. :drool:

Keeps erroring too.

[Yevrah]

It's also good that we're heading into extra time with a team set up to see out a 1-0 lead.

[Disco]

How fucking inevitable was that.

[Pepe]

The World Cup. :drool:

[Waffdon]

England’s defence is shambolic. Colombia will drop off again here though. I need to see a replay of that shot before the goal.

[Dan]

It just shows that you have to put teams away when you have the chance. We've let them hang around when they've played 10mins of good football & now they'll do us.

[Boydy]

Was I overreacting now Boydy?

:D

Maybe not.

That was coming though. They just kept getting deeper and deeper and letting Colombia come at them.

Also, you're going home now.

[Pepe]

Colombia will get into play for the draw / time wasting mode.

[Shindig]

We've created next to nowt from open play, to be fair. Columbia didn't start playing til the last 15.

[Spikey M]

There’s no way we win from here. It’s not in our DNA.

[Pepe]

There’s no way we win from here. It’s not in our DNA.

It's not in Colombia's either. Might come down to who manages to score a PK by accident.

[Magic]

Dare to dream lads. :lol:

[Andy]

That seemed inevitable as soon as Columbia got there heads back. We had literally no control over the ball in midfield.

Would have been far better off with RLC in there.

[Pepe]

Good that England rested players against Belgium innit.

[Adramelch]

Meanwhile it's the 3rd goal from Mina and they've all been identical. At some point you'd think teams would wise up on it, but no.

[Trancemeister]

Mina looks fucked.

[Shindig]

At some point you'd think they'd wise up to Harry Kane but ... y'know.

[Adramelch]

That was somehow a foul for England.

[Pepe]

Good that players from civilized nations are all proper gents.

[Pepe]

Mina donning John is the best thing of the night.

[Mike]

Brill this if only for the “Ingurland” fans on Facebook crying about it.

[Lewis]

Brill yeah.

[Yevrah]

We've created next to nowt from open play, to be fair. Columbia didn't start playing til the last 15.

Let's call a spade a spade, we've been dogshit.

Lee Dixon can bang on about shape as much as he likes, but we've created next to nothing and are more than likely going out to a genuinely horrible team. But it's alright, at least Harry Kane didn't get injured against Belgium.

[Yevrah]

Southgate needs to do something, and I don't mean prepare an eloquent exit press conference speech.

[Lewis]

Delicately unfold that old paper bag.

[Adramelch]

That's such a clear yellow card there for Bacca. That ref has been special.

[Trancemeister]

The fuck was that.

[Baz]

Oh god if they somehow scrape through we’ve gotta suffer another match against a team that England fans will think they should beat with ease, only for another inevitable dogshit game of football. :sick:

[bruhnaldo]

Colombia.

[Adramelch]

For some reason I don't see Colombia winning on penalties, even against England, so I reckon they have to go for it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Southgate fucked this by bringing Dier on. A really wrong-headed change which shifted the momentum.

[Yevrah]

For some reason I don't see Colombia winning on penalties, even against England, so I reckon they have to go for it.

I'm not sure they'll need to, they look far more likely to score than us.

[Pepe]

Mina, Mina.

[Adramelch]

I'm not sure they'll need to, they look far more likely to score than us.

Ye they do. I meant it more in the sense of "not settle for penalties".

[Baz]

If there’s a goal in extra time I win £26. COME ON ENGLAND


or colombia.

[Yevrah]

This is actually bordering on the pathetic now. And to think, we rested people to secure an easier route to the final.

[Pepe]

England looks so, so bad right now.

[Dan]

This is such an England performance.

[Adramelch]

Trippier time-wasting there. England. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

They've needed to bring Loftus-Cheek on since we scored and never more so than now.

[phonics]

Eric Dier coming on has to be in top 5 worst subs. He is awful.

[Yevrah]

This is such an England performance.

I don't want to come across as saying I told you (TTH) so (ok, maybe I do), but I did.

[Mike]

I think England will win on penalties; then all the INGURLAND fans will be all ‘it’s coming home, we even win penalty shootouts now’ ignoring the fact we couldn’t beat a poor side without their best player or the Belgian second team.

[Yevrah]

They've needed to bring Loftus-Cheek on since we scored and never more so than now.

The problem is that to bring him on it would make most sense if he replaced Vardy or Dier, but Southgate's never going to do that having brought them on in the first place.

[Yevrah]

Is this thread broken and stuck on page 21?

EDIT: As you were.

[Mike]

My Dads take:
https://i.imgur.com/uuzE918_d.jpg

Dunno why it’s so small, can’t be added fixing it.
“How good is Colombian football. It’s like football and wrestling mixed”

[Waffdon]

I’d fancy England on penalties but both keepers are a bit shit.

[Adramelch]

Colombia look completely spent in this second half.

[Magic]

Kane playing as a centre mid? Lol.

[Dan]

Can we just save 10mins of boredom & get to penalties now?

[Pepe]

Cuadrado has to miss one.

[Waffdon]

Cuadrado has to miss one.

He’s taken penalties so I’d be confident of him.

[Yevrah]

How the fuck are we lined up now? Are we trying to emulate the Dutch side of 2001?

[SincereTheRebel]

They need to give rashford the ball asap. Half the Colombo defence are playing with one leg each

[Dan]

This honestly might kill the last shred of hope I have of ever seeing England win anything.

[Boydy]

50p head Dier

[Dan]

Guess we know one penalty taker from each side now.

[Yevrah]

This honestly might kill the last shred of hope I have of ever seeing England win anything.

Like I said in the other thread, 2010 did that for me. It was quite liberating in a way as the eliminations have hurt far less since.

It's also important to remember that if we do somehow buck the trend of the last 20-30 years here, we're still not winning it.

[Adramelch]

That refereeing team, holy shit. That was a clear corner from miles away.

[Trancemeister]

Nice tackle :D

[Lewis]

I'll have a quid on Eric Dier taking the second/third penalty like a big man and putting it over.

[Dan]

Like I said in the other thread, 2010 did that for me. It was quite liberating in a way as the eliminations have hurt far less since.

It's also important to remember that if we do somehow buck the trend of the last 20-30 years here, we're still not winning it.

Yeah, but we this is about as good as we could ever hope to have things fall, so if we can't even make the semi here there's no chance of us going all the way.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'll have a quid on Eric Dier taking the second/third penalty like a big man and putting it over.

He's more of a weak side footer at saveable height.

[bruhnaldo]

Good luck fellas.

[Pepe]

I love a penalty shootout. :drool:

[Trancemeister]

Neither team scares me atm in the next round.

[Pepe]

I think Colombia - Sweden has a higher potential for lols.

[Waffdon]

Kane, Vardy, Stones, Maguire and Dier will take England’d I’d presume. Maybe Rashford for Maguire. One of the Colombian centre halves will miss.

[Shindig]

Have both teams play in yellow as well.

[Baz]

That last minute equaliser is still making me laugh.

[SincereTheRebel]

Maguire is soft. He misses 100%

[Boydy]

Henderson 5th according the studio? He'll miss.

[Dan]

Kane is 100% going to miss.

EDIT: Our positivity :D

[Yevrah]

Yeah, but we this is about as good as we could ever hope to have things fall, so if we can't even make the semi here there's no chance of us going all the way.

It's irrelevant how it fell, we're not good enough and we should never have indulged in anything (the Belgium debacle) that suggested we were.

[Pepe]

You can still win the whole thing.

[Yevrah]

You can still win the whole thing.

:harold:

[Dan]

Falcao to dink it.

Or not.

[Pepe]

:eyemouth:

[Yevrah]

Pickford channelling Jo Hart from 2012 I see.

[Pepe]

Can't go wrong through the middle.

[Yevrah]

Well that's a brilliant penalty from Kane.

[Pepe]

Alright then.

[Waffdon]

Cracking penalties so far.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can't see Pickford saving one. It's not coming home.

[Yevrah]

I can't see Pickford saving one. It's not coming home.

We'll do just enough to lose. 4-3 probably.

[Yevrah]

There's the first.

[Dan]

Bye lads :wave:

[Lewis]

What is he bouncing around on the line for like a wank?

[Mazuuurk]

Oh my Hendo

[Pepe]

Somehow about Lollerpool.

[Waffdon]

Jesus

[Pepe]

Uribe. :(

[Waffdon]

England do it now

[Yevrah]

Do not believe lads, do not believe.

[Dan]

Here we go then Eric :uhoh:

It's 1000% coming home lads. 50-0 in the final against Brazil. Nothing can possibly go wrong now.

[Amigo]

What a fucking save.

[Pepe]

Dier the hero. :D

[Yevrah]

Fuck me. Fuhuhuhuck me.

[Spikey M]

It’s coming home, innit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That was an absolutely shocking peno and Ospina let it through him.

YES come on you beauties.

[Waffdon]

That’s awful from Ospina

[randomlegend]

It's coming home!

That was a really weak hand from Ospina.

[Trancemeister]

Ospina went the right way on all penalties.

[Shindig]

Each round we advance, Yev's rage intensifies.

[Adramelch]

That was an actual good shootout.

Ospina went for the right corner for all of them, but he's a bit too short for how good the penalties were.

[Pepe]

Decent 'keeper would have saved that.

[Lewis]

What race is Kieran Trippier meant to be?

[Mazuuurk]

Well then. Rather be knocked out by England - even if its full of cunts like Lingard - than Colombia. Knowing England or Sweden will be in the Semis is pretty :drool:

[Disco]

Yes lads, we scraped through! World Cup Runners Up nailed on now :cool:

[Yevrah]

That was an absolutely shocking peno and Ospina let it through him.

YES come on you beauties.

The reality should have been that that pile of Arsenal wank knocked us out, I'm a bit confused.

[Magic]

When Lolspina saved that I thought they were done.

[Pepe]

Yes lads, we scraped through! World Cup Runners Up nailed on now :cool:

There is nothing but shit all the way there. It could happen.

[randomlegend]

Lingard's not a cunt :(

[Yevrah]

Each round we advance, Yev's rage intensifies.

On the contrary, I'm currently licking the tv in a futile attempt to taste the Colombian tears.

[Boydy]

Lingard's not a cunt :(

Yeah, I like Lingard.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fair play to Pickford, that was an epic strong hand.

[P_3]

Thank fuck.

[Disco]

Is someone beating up Ian Wright in the studio?

[Pepe]

So who's the favorite from that side now? Croatia? Lol.

[Yevrah]

This might come as a surprise, but I think we'll play well against Sweden.

[randomlegend]

These shithouse south American cheating teams are hard to play against. Against Sweden we'll see if England are a half decent team or not.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sweden is more like against like. Both honest, Protestant nations. We have by far the superior individuals so we have to be favourites.

[Dan]

It's going to be so great & not at all suspicious when Russia win the whole thing.

[Yevrah]

We need to resolve the Sterling problem, but other than that I can see us doing ok.

It's imperative we start creating chances for Harry Kane though, as was said upthread, there won't be a shitter World Cup haul of 6 goals than his, even Oleg Salenko's. He could have had about 10 by now had we done.

Binning off Sterling should help, and Alli too if it's not fit, which he manifestly isn't.

[Lewis]

Is this lad retarded or something?

[randomlegend]

Is this lad retarded or something?

My mum's been saying the whole game he looks special needs. Second he opens his mouth:

"I fucking told you he's special needs. Good for him though. Bet he can't do a single other thing in the world apart from goalkeeping".

[Lewis]

Right. I'm off to shop lads. Anyone want anything?

[Dan]

Cornetto

[Kikó]

It's on its way home ffs!

[Luke Emia]

Was hoping we would get knocked out for the Yev breakdown and so that everything I see or listen to on the World Cup doesn’t start with “first let’s talk about England.” Even when they aren’t due to play for 4 days.

[-james-]

That felt so good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Kane's going to do his cruciates in the semi and Welbeck's going to net the winner in the final.

[Spoonsky]

I’m happy for you guys. :)

[Spoonsky]

I’d also like to say, fuck off Yevrah.

[Yevrah]

I’d also like to say, fuck off Yevrah.

You're welcome.

[Dark Soldier]

I’d also like to say, fuck off Yevrah.

Aye, this.

[Shindig]

We need to resolve the Sterling problem, but other than that I can see us doing ok.

It's imperative we start creating chances for Harry Kane though, as was said upthread, there won't be a shitter World Cup haul of 6 goals than his, even Oleg Salenko's. He could have had about 10 by now had we done.

Binning off Sterling should help, and Alli too if it's not fit, which he manifestly isn't.

Sterling was decent enough today. At least and bringing the ball forward and relieving pressure. He needs to know when to drop it off to someone else. Harry's goal tally has been marvelous because nobody seems to know how to mark him. He doesn't need to get on the end of things. He just needs to be manhandled and then take the spot kick. Still, he links up with the midfield enough it would be nice to see someone return the favour.

I think our corner routine was a bit iffy. If we don't connect with it, we've got two of our back three in the box. They've got the pace to get back but it's rife to be countered. And Alli's knackered, aye.

[Danny]

Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah Nah
We're England
We're gonna score one more than you

Who am I kidding, we are shit but its fun while its lasting.

[Lewis]

Cornetto

I got caught up in a chant on the way back and they got trampled. Sorry.

[Boom-Boom-18]

What a result finishing second in the group has turned out to be, it's hard not to get excited right now.

Sweden stand in the way of England and a place in a world cup semi final. Unbelievable.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We're now 2 for 6 in penalty shootouts in major tournaments. That's only one away from .500 ball. Reversion to the mean.

[Dark Soldier]

that Pickford save though

https://i.imgur.com/DEEEXvf.jpg

[Danny]

What a result finishing second in the group has turned out to be, it's hard not to get excited right now.

Sweden stand in the way of England and a place in a world cup semi final. Unbelievable.

*Yevrage intensifies*

[Boom-Boom-18]

*Yevrage intensifies*

"This selection now ranks up there with the all time England fuck ups."

[Bob Sacamano]

Piss off Tim.

Tim Vickery (@Tim_Vickery) Tweeted:
Before all this starts, can I just say that I hate watching teams celebrate when they've won a shoot out. Never feels like a proper win to me
https://twitter.com/Tim_Vickery/status/1014247619001012226?s=17

[randomlegend]

1014264872425721857?s=21

LAD

[Jimmy Floyd]

Penalty shootouts are the perfect way of deciding a game, they cut out the previous two hours of faffing and reduce football to its most basic task, kicking the ball into the goal.

[Boydy]

1014264872425721857?s=21

LAD

:D

Ha.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Now we're through, why the fuck wasn't Vardy in the 5?

[Lewis]

Penalty shootouts are the perfect way of deciding a game, they cut out the previous two hours of faffing and reduce football to its most basic task, kicking the ball into the goal.

They're a complete lottery. You simply cannot prepare for them.

[Danny]

I was wondering that at the time.

[-james-]

Big after time, but I've never been as sure of anything as I was that Henderson was missing. Apart from that, it was all gravy.

[Ian]

This might come as a surprise, but I think we'll play well against Sweden.

Don't you fucking dare.

[Boydy]

Big after time, but I've never been as sure of anything as I was that Henderson was missing. Apart from that, it was all gravy.


Henderson 5th according the studio? He'll miss.

:nodd:

It was nailed on.

[igor_balis]

Yev you miserable cunt. It's funny when we're shit and you do the postmortem but preempting it when we're doing alright makes you an ambulance chasing hate-to-say-i-told-you-so bet-hedging PRICK. If it is coming home you're not allowed to take any joy in it. Arsehole. At least the scouse Baz family victim-complex refusal to fully embrace English identity comes from somewhere, you have no excuse.

[Boydy]

They're not even proper Scousers.

[Max Power]

ITS COMING HOME LADS :rave:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck England and fuck y'all.

I can't wait for the mighty Swedes to dump you out.

Also, it would have been nice had the Colombians not spent the whole game trying to kick bodies rather than win the actual match.

[Yevrah]

Yev you miserable cunt. It's funny when we're shit and you do the postmortem but preempting it when we're doing alright makes you an ambulance chasing hate-to-say-i-told-you-so bet-hedging PRICK. If it is coming home you're not allowed to take any joy in it. Arsehole. At least the scouse Baz family victim-complex refusal to fully embrace English identity comes from somewhere, you have no excuse.

We weren't doing ok, we were doing badly. Look, we won a shootout and given our history it's a huge thing to have happened. But, we weren't very good for the rest of match and nearly muffed this "excellent chance from being in the easier half of the draw". That we're now going into the Sweden game saying exactly the same fucking thing "only Sweden stand between us and the semi-final" is fucking bonkers.

I could just ignore all that and reduce the posts to "ra-ra teh World Cup is coming home", but that would be delusional when there are so many things we got wrong tonight.

And if we do somehow win it I'll take as much joy as I please, you massive sausage.

[Yevrah]

And does "fully embrace English identity" actually mean "being a moron"?

I mean, what the fuck are you talking about?

[Max Power]

Yev you miserable cunt. It's funny when we're shit and you do the postmortem but preempting it when we're doing alright makes you an ambulance chasing hate-to-say-i-told-you-so bet-hedging PRICK. If it is coming home you're not allowed to take any joy in it. Arsehole. At least the scouse Baz family victim-complex refusal to fully embrace English identity comes from somewhere, you have no excuse.

igor the man I allways knew

[Dark Soldier]

Genuinely give a fuck about how we played. If we win every game 1-0 from now with a Kane penalty and us fluffing multiple passes, John Stones gifting chances to the opposition and VAR saving our asses, the hype is in full flow.

Its absolutely, 100% coming home and fuck the 'realist' cunts.

LETS FUCKING HAVE IT.

[Dark Soldier]

I mean fucking hell we're in the quarters with a side half made up of Spurs bottlers and Maguire looking like Beckenbauer. Its next level.

[Yevrah]

And also "it's coming home" is media propagated wank, from the same stable as "Team GB".

It's moronic, so stop it.

[Max Power]

Maguire was MOTM someone who isnt Leicester tell me?

Beckebauer/Moore/Slabhead

[Boydy]

It is coming home tho.

[randomlegend]

Coming.

[randomlegend]

Home.

[Dark Soldier]

And also "it's coming home" is media propagated wank, from the same stable as "Team GB".

It's moronic, so stop it.

No fuck you lad.

[Yevrah]

Maguire was very good.

[Max Power]

Imagine being so dull

[Yevrah]

Imagine being so dull

Do you not have the mental capacity to appreciate that someone can both enjoy aspects of something and criticise other aspects of it?

"Ra-ra-ra IT'S teh COMING HOME"

[Dark Soldier]

The last sentence is almost there, you're getting it.

[Boydy]

I was gonna mock up Yev telling the broom that "it's coming home" is media-proagated wank but my paint skills are too shit and I cba so just imagine it/someone else do it.

[-james-]

The problem is that a lot of people (Yev included) expect England to be Brazil 1970. You don't need to look good, or be good, to win a tournament. Germany looked wank in large parts four years ago and Portugal were wank entirely two years ago.

Just enjoy the ride ffs.

[Yevrah]

The last sentence is almost there, you're getting it.

If we get to the semi's I'll be as positive as the next man, as from then on in it's possible, even if we're playing badly and a semi in itself would be a hell of an achievement. To get through 4 knock out rounds playing that badly would take a minor miracle though and I'm not sure it's ever happened.

tldr: It's coming home.

[Dark Soldier]

Germany, 2002. They were absolutely fucking despicably bad. Its football, anything can happen, not arsed if Sterling has been poor, Alli has been anonymous, Young has been wank or we're not creating enough. We're in the quarters and I've just had the biggest rush ever as an England fan. What a time to be alive.

Its is 100% abso-fucking-lutely coming home.

[Max Power]

Just enjoy it mate. Football is fun.

[Yevrah]

The problem is that a lot of people (Yev included) expect England to be Brazil 1970.

I really don't, I'm just not prepared to whitewash a bad performance (and a horrible substitution from Southgate) just because we won a shootout.

I've seen all of the World Cups since 1990 and nobody has won one playing as mediocre as we have so far.

And on the Portugal point, you seem to be confusing being dull with being bad. Portugal were dull two years ago, there's no doubt about that, but they were still a good team that played well, albeit in a very limited sense.

If I saw that in us I'd be drowning in bunting.

[Yevrah]

Just enjoy it mate. Football is fun.

I am. :sorry: It's a World Cup. It's been great and we're still in it.

[Pleb]

The thought of having to go to Corfu for a week's holiday for the final while we're still in it :|

[Dark Soldier]

Good opening v Tunisia then some nerves and a fuck yeah winner at the death, we battered the shite out of an aggressive Panama (you can only beat who you're up against in knockouts), our shit B team lose to Belgium's shit B team then a penalty shootout win (a fucking penalty shootout win) against Colombia who only got back into the match 4 minutes into injury time with their first legit effort on goal. We've been sound, we aren't world beaters, we never will be, but Colombia offered the square root of fuck all throughout until that goal. Neither did we but we were comfortable. Unless you want to take into account Cuadrado's feckless effort that left the stadium.

What are we supposed to actually do to win ya over? The number one ranked team in the world looked terrible and went out in the group stages, Spain passed themselves to death, Argentina lol. The only one outstanding performance has been France against the Argies, and even then they got through 4-3. Its a mental world cup, anything can happen.

Again Yev, its coming home.

[Max Power]

Maguire was very good.

Love him so much. Winner in the semi final It Was Written...

[Danny]

https://i.redd.it/yi6h5n71ns711.jpg

[Pepe]

Not sure why Yev is getting so much shit here. He's been quite sensible.

[Dark Soldier]

Not sure why Yev is getting so much shit here. He's been quite sensible.

He lacks some belief and we can't be having that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not sure why Yev is getting so much shit here. He's been quite sensible.

And that's the problem.

IT'S COMING HOME.

[Pleb]

We do need to calm down though.

Sweden are more likely to royally fuck us if anything.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not sure why Yev is getting so much shit here. He's been quite sensible.

You should be in England, it's proper giddy hysteria the like of which was never seen even in the Golden Generation days. Think it's because the team are quite likeable.

[Adramelch]

The thought of having to go to Corfu for a week's holiday for the final while we're still in it :|

We do have TVs you know. They might look like that:

https://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/569510-28224-27.jpg

and you might have to watch the game in black and white, but you'll be able to watch it. You also won't understand a single word.

Joking aside, there's English pubs in most of the big Greek islands so you should be set.

[Pepe]

There's as good of a chance as England will ever have tbf. Sweden won't be a piece of cake but come on. Then it is either Russia or Croatia. The final would probably be tough as fuck but it could also end up being Uruguay.

IT'S COMING HOME

[Adramelch]

There's as good of a chance as England will ever have tbf. Sweden won't be a piece of cake but come on. Then it is either Russia or Croatia. The final would probably be tough as fuck but it could also end up being Uruguay.

IT'S COMING HOME

I reckon Uruguay might be a bigger challenge for England than say, France.

[Pepe]

You should be in England, it's proper giddy hysteria the like of which was never seen even in the Golden Generation days. Think it's because the team are quite likeable.

I can't even imagine how it was like in Mexico after the match against Germany. Then we regressed to the mean and lynchings will be called for.

[Yevrah]

What are we supposed to actually do to win ya over?

What do you mean by win me over? Think we can (have a decent chance to) win it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd give anything for an England-Uruguay final. Uruguay, aside from the US Ryder Cup team, are to me sport's purest manifestation of evil.

[SvN]

Big after time, but I've never been as sure of anything as I was that Henderson was missing. Apart from that, it was all gravy.
When he stepped up, the entire pub groaned. Everyone knew he was going to miss.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I thought Trashford was going to miss as well (especially with his retarded run-up/approach) but he nailed it.

Didn't think any Colombian was going to miss, but was rock solid confident on Trippier, who has actually been our best player with an enormous gulf down to Kane in second place.

[Boydy]

I thought Ashley Young had a good game tonight.

[Adramelch]

I thought Bacca was going to miss. But then again I also thought Cuadrado was going to miss.

[Bernanke]

I'm gonna be drunk off my ass from Friday lunch. :drool: If this WC wants to break this yellow and blue wall, it better throw something tougher at it than it has so far. The German game doesn't count.

[Danny]

I thought Trashford was going to miss as well (especially with his retarded run-up/approach) but he nailed it.

Didn't think any Colombian was going to miss, but was rock solid confident on Trippier, who has actually been our best player with an enormous gulf down to Kane in second place.

You are better than that Jim

[Pepe]

Just realized that I will miss the semifinal from the strong side. :(

[Magic]

You are better than that Jim

I thought it was excellent.

[Danny]

Which just proves my alternate edit “that’s magic level Jim” ;)

[Baz]

Yev you miserable cunt. It's funny when we're shit and you do the postmortem but preempting it when we're doing alright makes you an ambulance chasing hate-to-say-i-told-you-so bet-hedging PRICK. If it is coming home you're not allowed to take any joy in it. Arsehole. At least the scouse Baz family victim-complex refusal to fully embrace English identity comes from somewhere, you have no excuse.The scouse Baz family. :harold:

[Ian]

We were comfortably superior last night while barely creating a chance and not playing great, handily illustrating how guff this side of the draw is and what we might do if we actually put a performance in.

Also Southgate is not good at subs.

I don't think I enjoyed a second of last night outside celebrating the Kane goal and then the shootout... about an hour after I'd come down from utter disbelief.

[niko_cee]

In many ways (other than actually playing well) it was the perfect tournament performance. Calm on the ball, dominated possession, didn't try to force it (played at a snail's pace throughout) and gave them (almost) nothing. Also, not subbing off all of our decent penalty takers as the game progressed is a new, and awesome thing. Henderson missing must have been one of the most nailed on things in sporting history, and he's not even left-footed. Never in doubt with Dier, although in my mind I had him either full Julian Dicksing it or rolling it in with unnecessary nonchalance.

[Kikó]

To be fair to Hendershit (lol) - it was a pretty good penalty matched with a good save. I thought we were good for large parts and it took a sensational shot to open the door for the corner. Rashford or Vardy should have come on earlier.

[Mazuuurk]

Sweden is more like against like. Both honest, Protestant nations. We have by far the superior individuals so we have to be favourites.

This is absolutely wrong.

But, your players are better at football.

[Shindig]

We have better individuals but I'm not sure about the better unit. We passed it well last night but completely lost focus when Columbia leveled. And I keep thinking Marcus Olsson could profit from us messing a corner up.

[phonics]

This is quite funny, The Independent have published the match reports they had to chuck out.

1-0 England and England losing on penalties.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/england-vs-colombia-world-cup-2018-penalty-shootout-highlights-watch-video-reports-sports-journalism-a8430366.html

[-james-]

https://i.imgur.com/Uw6YY65.png

[phonics]

Having followed him since he was just some nerd blogger, Daniel Storeys rise to seemingly massive part of English Football Media Landscape is just weird.

[thommo]

It's laughable how the vast majority of Colombians piping up across various outlets on the internet seem to think they were cheated out of last night's game by the referee.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They literally didn't have a single decision go against them. They are just used to compliant local refs who buy into the mentality that 'gamesmanship' or whatever is fine.

Carlos Sanchez, perhaps the tournament's worst player, should have gone for dissent. What were they even complaining about? I hope they go years without qualifying again.

[-james-]

I thought Ashley Young could easily have been sent off for going in studs up in extra time, but he won the foul instead. That's all I can think of.

[CJay]

A proper sport would be handing out retrospective bans for Colombia’s shenanigans after the penalty decision. Their dickhead midfielder following Kane around, scuffing the spot, and half their team surrounding the ref for several minutes protesting. Pathetic team.

[thommo]

I don't know how most of the England team kept their cool throughout all the provocation. Henderson's little head flick aside, I can't think of any retaliation to their antics.

The ref just completely lost control in that second half.

[SvN]

The Ashley Young challenge is the only questionable call I can remember too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know what makes them do it. With Panama they are non league level so you can kind of understand it, but Colombia are all good footballers.

I think there's an all-pervading victim complex in that part of the world, as there is in most Catholic countries.

[Boydy]

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[Shindig]

I thought Ashley Young could easily have been sent off for going in studs up in extra time, but he won the foul instead. That's all I can think of.

I thought Sterling reacted to something that could've seen him off.

[John]

Bugger knows how Barrios stayed on the pitch last night. Played on a booking for about seventy five minutes and spent all of that time kicking anyone he could get close to.

[Adramelch]

There were a few occasions, mostly involving Maguire where the Colombians were "scolded" by the referee while Maguire played saint I thought, but on the whole there's 0 doubt that the Colombians got the better end of the deal.

[niko_cee]

Falcao's comments are awesome.

What a pleb.

Cuadrado picking the wrong fight with Maguire was a sight to behold as well.

[John]

They've got the most obviously set up 'animal prediction' I've ever seen on Sky Sports News now. Some penguins are to eat from a red bucket if it's England, a blue bucket for Sweden. The red bucket was placed about six inches from where the penguins exit the water, the blue bucket at the other side of the room.

[Spikey M]

What do you mean by win me over? Think we can (have a decent chance to) win it?

We’re in a quarter-final against Sweden. Do you think we can’t?

[Yevrah]

We’re in a quarter-final against Sweden. Do you think we can’t?

If we beat Sweden, then yes we can, until then I'd say no. That said, I'm veering on the side of thinking that we might beat them.

[phonics]

What team would everyone like to play in a hypothetical final?

[niko_cee]

Brazil or Uruguay, probably Brazil.

[Disco]

What team would everyone like to play in a hypothetical final?

Whichever we're most likely to beat, so no-one on the other side of the draw for a start.

[Spikey M]

If we beat Sweden, then yes we can, until then I'd say no. That said, I'm veering on the side of thinking that we might beat them.

We’re in a World Cup that Italy and Netherlands failed to qualify for. Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Germany have all crumbled. We have a fucking good chance here. We SHOULD beat Sweden (I don’t expect to, but we should), we’re atleast as good as Croatia so we have every chance. Then, we (probably) meet a Brazil team that aren’t what they once were and are kind of plodding. We absolutely have a shot here.

[Yevrah]

Realistically I doubt we'd have a chance against Brazil, there's just too much history and heritage that we'd be in awe of there. Uruguay would be a dull spectacle, Martinez simply can't be allowed to get that close to winning a world cup, so I'm going for France.

[Baz]

Uruguay so Suarez can break England hearts. :happycry:

[Disco]

Brazil and France tear our defence to bits every time, no way we beat either of them. We're a sucker for shit teams with one good player so Uruguay beat us too. That leaves Belgium and I don't even want to entertain the notion of getting to the final only to lose to fucking Belgium.

[Yevrah]

We’re in a World Cup that Italy and Netherlands failed to qualify for. Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Germany have all crumbled. We have a fucking good chance here. We SHOULD beat Sweden (I don’t expect to, but we should), we’re atleast as good as Croatia so we have every chance. Then, we (probably) meet a Brazil team that aren’t what they once were and are kind of plodding. We absolutely have a shot here.

Yeah, but we're still only (I know) in a quarter-final and (while we've ticked off the penalty victory now) reaching a semi-final is still a huge thing for us psychologically. If we do that and I'd agree that we should (if we play well and create chances, which we haven't really yet), then it's possible, yeah.

Penalty victory aside (which I admit is a MASSIVE thing and can't be discounted), I still haven't seen a huge amount that separates us from other tournaments where we got no further than the quarter-finals, but beating Sweden, if we do, will change that.

[phonics]

Brazil and France tear our defence to bits every time, no way we beat either of them. We're a sucker for shit teams with one good player so Uruguay beat us too. That leaves Belgium and I don't even want to entertain the notion of getting to the final only to lose to fucking Belgium.

Didn't we have a rather close game with France recently?

[Disco]

I don't think so, we haven't played them for years have we?

[Baz]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2017/jun/13/france-v-england-international-friendly-live

3-2 loss, twelve months ago.

[Waffdon]

Didn't we have a rather close game with France recently?

France won 3-2 but had a man sent off the whole of the second half at 2-2.

[-james-]

France aren't that good tbh. I'd fancy us to TACTICS it.

[Ian]

Penalty victory aside (which I admit is a MASSIVE thing and can't be discounted), I still haven't seen a huge amount that separates us from other tournaments where we got no further than the quarter-finals, but beating Sweden, if we do, will change that.

I feel like we have more of an actual plan than we have for most of the last 20 years even if that plan is dour as all hell. Southgate isn't simply best-eleven-ing it but then he doesn't have the players for that anyway so maybe it balances out.

I'll be interested to see how I feel if we end up in another shootout. I didn't fully accept that we'd won last night for about 40 minutes.

[Yevrah]

It took me a while for it to sink in too. :D