June: The Euro 2020-ish Group Stages

[phonics]

That Spain Portugal match made up for at least half a decades worth though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One day the Italians will get over themselves. Clearly not today.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at these Italian fans bigging up Jorginho.

[Shindig]

In these VAR times, he's worth at least 7 penalties.

This opening ceremony's gone a bit Beijing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I did like Italy putting Insigne next to Bonucci (I think) for the anthem. The smallest player next to one of their tallest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3n4wyeXMAQ7V6x?format=jpg

:cool:

[Ian]

Here we fucking go, lads. :rave:

[Spikey M]

The car :cool:

[Shindig]

Is it too late for me to change the car to my breakout star?

[7om]

Product placement has gone too far

[Shindig]

Finally, a Volkswagen that does zero emissions.

[CJay]

Good game so far. A player like Insigne should be doing far more with that chance.

This guy Locatelli looks like he’s never played football before. Is he only starting because he’s a unit?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Calhanoglu is a great tournament archetype. Silky, midget playmaker for a mid-tier or lesser nation. Real Aboutreika vibes to him.

[CJay]

Is this Italy’s first choice attacking trio? Can’t see them troubling the big sides too much if so.

[Lewis]

I hope we get a Mert comeback at some point.

'My parents are originally from Turkey...'

[Lewis]

Googled him. Fuck. He's like the white Luca.

[CJay]

I hope we get a Mert comeback at some point.

'My parents are originally from Turkey...'

They have a defender in their squad called Mert Muldur. :uhoh:

There’s two of ‘em actually.

[Manc]

Turkey could do with some pace to threaten in behind. Under to come on and do bits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Italy are blowing all their mamma mia seethe stocks on some stupid non-handballs in game 1, absolute amateurs. You're meant to sleep your way through this and save the histrionics for a couple of weeks' time.

[Lewis]

Get a load of Cisps in his readers. He looks a 'prolific' paedophile.

[Spikey M]

There's no way he hasn't stirred his brothers custard in Magaluff.

[Magic]

Proper skinny jeans stuff.

[7om]

Why do people employ Robbie Savage?

[Shindig]

It's because he's Robbie Savage.

[Spikey M]

"and if Boris Johnson is watching..." of course he fucking isn't.

[Lewis]

That Peter Crouch thing has James Corden's World Cup Live written all over it.

[Spoonsky]

No better sight in football than Chiellini rampaging into the attacking third like Bambi on ice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh dear.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That Turkish left back is going in a kebab tonight.

[randomlegend]

To my shame I laughed at "Heard Insigne drives the ball car home" :D

[Lewis]

Turkey look knackered. This is going to be the worst tournament ever.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This has been such an easy game for Italy. For all James's point about getting 3 draws is valid, it's the teams who turn up with a negative approach like Turkey have here who will end up going out bottom.

[Manc]

Turkey look knackered. This is going to be the worst tournament ever.

Alarmingly so.

[Spoonsky]

Italy will go far. :nodd:

[Spikey M]

Italy would murder Southgates 11 Rightbacks.

I don't think we'd have much joy breaking Turkey down either.

Shit game, mind.

[niko_cee]

Maybe Turkey are just wank?

Or maybe the best way to attack Italy's decrepit centre-halves isn't with an equally decrepit forward?

Italy do look quite well set to grind though, which seems to be the best modus operandi in modern international football.

[Lewis]

'Ooooh Mert Arkan come-back...'

[Spikey M]

Turkey are basically Tony Pulis' West Brom. Practically impossible to score against... until you get one. Then the floodgates open.

[Waffdon]

Turkey are utter shite.

[Manc]

Italy would murder Southgates 11 Rightbacks.

Now, now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Italy have been good, albeit still need to see them against a team who want the ball, I get the feeling Jorginho could get bumrushed against a high press.

I am a long term disliker of Italian football (I can't be doing with all the screeching) but every shot of Luca Vialli on the bench rolls that back 10%. What a man.

[Waffdon]

Italy have been good, albeit still need to see them against a team who want the ball, I get the feeling Jorginho could get bumrushed against a high press.

I am a long term disliker of Italian football (I can't be doing with all the screeching) but every shot of Luca Vialli on the bench rolls that back 10%. What a man.

I get the feeling this tournament will suit him unless players have been half arsing the season for this and are full of pressing.

[Lewis]

Roberto Mancini always seemed like a nice man when he was at City, and there don't appear to be any pictures of him with Noel Gallagher.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm stunned that Turkey are getting angry and picking up yellows.

[Kikó]

Roberto Mancini always seemed like a nice man when he was at City, and there don't appear to be any pictures of him with Noel Gallagher.

I think he'd be a good United manager...

[Don]

Italy will get bummed against a side with quick transitions/BLMs so just enjoy them whilst you can, football played with such class is a disappearing phenomenon.

[Spikey M]

I'd prefer Liam.

[Shindig]

Their energy was impressive but someone will get at them.

[Offshore Toon]

Turkey have really upset me with that display. Where was the aggression and lunacy disguised as passion? Very un-Turkish performance.

[Magic]

Turkey have really upset me with that display. Where was the aggression and lunacy disguised as passion? Very un-Turkish performance.

Indeed, it could have been a buffet of shithousing but we saw nothing.

[Lewis]

I think he'd be a good United manager...

Did he start the trend for taking out newspaper adverts when he left City? No thanks. Don't need another soppy twat.

[Bernanke]

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:|

[Lewis]

That Peter Crouch thing has James Corden's World Cup Live written all over it.

It's worse.

[Offshore Toon]

Why would you watch it?

[Lewis]

To see whether it was worse. Tony Adams enjoyed himself at least.

[phonics]

Mancini's entire career has been saying 'Don't you know who I am' and then managing not to fail embarrassingly in impossible to fail circumstances.

[Spikey M]

It's worse.

Genuinely awful. Not even Maya Jama could save it.

[Spikey M]

I just found out Donnarumma is still only 22. He's been knocking about for about 10 years now. How is that even possible?

[niko_cee]

6 years.

[Offshore Toon]

To see whether it was worse. Tony Adams enjoyed himself at least.
Peter Crouch is the absolute worst figure in modern culture. Supporting it is up there with the worst of historic crimes..

[Baz]

His podcast is pretty funny

[Spikey M]

You're his target audience though.

[Baz]

Spreadsheet badboys? Or banter champions?

[Shindig]

Mental Health First Aiders.

[randomlegend]

:D

[Reg]

On a similar theme (but probably better - I haven't seen Crouch's thing), the BBC's podcast 'Daily Euros' is pretty good. Mark Chapman presents with a load of different guests. Chris Waddle arguing with Chris Sutton was quite amusing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I really don't like the Welsh, I hope the Swiss fuck them up.

[Spoonsky]

The Swiss are such a dull footballing nation. Their strongest identity is the Albanian players going all two-headed eagle on Serbia in 2018.

[Waffdon]

It feels like Switzerland have had the exact same team for 10 years

[Offshore Toon]

His podcast is pretty funny
Can you post an example or two of something funny he's done? Genuinely curious.

[Shindig]

I'm shocked Mbabu's only got 12 caps.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It felt like 90% of that first half was a Switzerland corner.

[Spoonsky]

Pretty dull. It's a bad stadium (and country) to be four-fifths empty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Get fucked Wales.

[Waffdon]

Ben Davies wearing #4 has really annoyed me

[Lewis]

I would like to see Wales go through to make Scotland look worse.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Switzerland being content to win 1-0 has hurt them.

[Spikey M]

Wales isn't even a country so any success they have is really ours anyway.

[Don]

This is the Denmark side people have been wanking over?
They don't even start Andersen, the mugs.

[Waffdon]

They have a solid spine and have someone like Eriksen who always excels at international level. Plenty pace and height on the break. Think it just comes down to whether or not Jonas Wind is as good as he’s made out to be.

Their centre half options are great though, Kjaer is their captain so he was always going to start over Vestegaard/Andersen

[mugbull]

The Denmark squad is trash. That front three is among the worst in the tournament.

Closest you'll come to a dark horse is Ukraine I guess but none of the teams at this despicable competition really fit the bill

EDIT: Actually Macedonia

[Raoul Duke]

Will be keeping an eye out for suspicious needle marks on the Russian lads later

[Waffdon]

The Denmark squad is trash. That front three is among the worst in the tournament.

Closest you'll come to a dark horse is Ukraine I guess but none of the teams at this despicable competition really fit the bill

EDIT: Actually Macedonia

Only Belgium have beaten them in the last 4 years in 90 mins from what I can see. Can’t be that bad.

[Waffdon]

Why have so many teams got ‘home’ games?

[Bernanke]

Mon Finland. :cool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Mon Finland. :cool:

Have then in my sweepstake. Where is this game being played. The stands are ram-out like it is 2018

[SincereTheRebel]

Finland's blue polo is great.

[Spoonsky]

So many players I didn't realize were Danish. Hjojberg, Christensen, Braithwaite.

Finland look like a nothing team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Have then in my sweepstake. Where is this game being played. The stands are ram-out like it is 2018

Copenhagen, Denmark.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Holy shit Eriksen is out cold.

[Spoonsky]

Oh fuck :|

[Waffdon]

What even happened there?

[Boydy]

It looks like they're doing CPR on him now. Fucking hell.

[Trancemeister]

I fear the worst.

[Shindig]

Fuck. Not live. Not again. :(

[Spoonsky]

Nobody touched him, he just went down. Fuck

[Waffdon]

They’re definitely doing CPR. What the fuck

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What even happened there?

He was just jogging towards the touchline for a throw in and then went down.

[Bernanke]

I can't watch this, jesus.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Baz]

Is he dead?

[niko_cee]

Yeah, this is pretty rough.

[Waffdon]

Is he dead?

He looks dead as soon as the camera zoomed in. fucking hell

[Shindig]

I erm ... don't think this match is restarting.

[Boydy]

I thought he looked like he was having a fit at first. Seemed to be shaking.

[Waffdon]

I can’t believe they’re showing Live Photo’s of this

[Spikey M]

:|

[Vercetti]

Fucking hell.

[Bernanke]

I can’t believe they’re showing Live Photo’s of this

Yeah, at least keep the camera of the CPR attempts, fucking hell.

[mo]

Fuck.

[Lewis]

Who was keeping the footage going all that time, Daniel Levy? Weirdos.

[Spikey M]

The beeb are going to get a fuck tonne of complaints for showing all that. I know they don't control the footage but they could have cut to the studio at any time.

[Spoonsky]

Well that's the day ruined.

[Gray Fox]

They should have cut the studio way sooner.

I hoped it might have been epilepsy or something, but when they started CPR... Fuck.

[Disco]

The awkward studio banter was almost as bad as probably watching a man die.

[Waffdon]

The beeb are going to get a fuck tonne of complaints for showing all that. I know they don't control the footage but they could have cut to the studio at any time.

Showing CPR getting done and then his wife was truly a low point

[Lewis]

The beeb are going to get a fuck tonne of complaints for showing all that. I know they don't control the footage but they could have cut to the studio at any time.

Crisps and Alex Scott will have been coaching Micah Richards through the delay.

'The laughing. Normally, great. Right now though...'

[Bernanke]

Muamba had cardiac arrest for 78 minutes, so if they keep shocking him there's still a chance, but I doubt he ever plays again even if he makes it.

[Spoonsky]

My searches for "christian eriksen" "denmark finland" all get blocked on Twitter ("Something went wrong, try reloading.") Anyone else?

[Shindig]

I guess they were hoping he'd be stretchered off into an ambulance. Muamba was in the tunnel within minutes.

[Spoonsky]

Crisps and Alex Scott will have been coaching Micah Richards through the delay.

'The laughing. Normally, great. Right now though...'

:D

[Waffdon]

Yeah, the medical team looked a bit slow. 4 boys holding a stretcher doing nothing for the first minute or 2

[Lewis]

My searches for "christian eriksen" "denmark finland" all get blocked on Twitter ("Something went wrong, try reloading.") Anyone else?

Just wait until hydroxychloroquine gets him fit for the next game. They'll take the whole site offline.

[Shindig]

"I was texting my mum telling her I love her."

You're not dying, Pet.

[Bernanke]

Their best/biggest hospital is literally 500 metres from the stadium, almost feels inefficient to get an ambulance around.

[Boydy]

Crisps and Alex Scott will have been coaching Micah Richards through the delay.

'The laughing. Normally, great. Right now though...'

:D

Ffs

[Boydy]

My searches for "christian eriksen" "denmark finland" all get blocked on Twitter ("Something went wrong, try reloading.") Anyone else?

Yeah, same.

[Danny]

Left the pitch stable and alive

https://i.redd.it/8hgo5vsyav471.jpg

[mugbull]

Is that a legit pic?

[P_3]

Fucking hell. That was scary. Glad he's pulled through if the photo is right.

[Spoonsky]

I'm sure it's legit. Still doesn't necessarily mean he's okay.

[Waffdon]

It’s the Denmark kit from today and there’s a Finnish flag behind him so must be

[mugbull]

I mean like, his eyes were open when he collapsed too. I just dont want to celebrate yet

[Baz]

He’s practically sat up, with his hands on his head.

And Bein sport are reporting he’s okay.

[Waffdon]

Yeah the image is from Getty so it’s legit.

Do they play the match now if he’s confirmed stable?

[Baz]

No way.

[Spoonsky]

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Lewis]

3-0 Finland it is then.

[P_3]

They will probably agree to end the match as a 0-0 and move on. The main thing is, he's alive.

[Waffdon]

Looks like me on a Monday morning hearing my alarm before work full of the fear after a weekend of binge drinking.

Denmark definitely making the finals now. :cool:

[Spoonsky]

Medics donned it.

I'm not sure how you get back to playing football for a few days after that though. He looked 100% dead and they've been stood making a human shield around the body for 10 minutes. You don't just go back to focusing on an offside trap.

[Bernanke]

Wasn't there one of these cases where the guy was revived and then the guy died 2 days later? The Spanish one?

Edit: Puerta. But sounds like he wasn't actually "revived" so much as stumbling to the dressing room before keeling over completely.

[Shindig]

He'll never play again. I also don't know how Kasper Schmeichel isn't a broken man.

EDIT: Antonio Puerta died 3 days after collapsing.

[Bernanke]

Someone page Magic, supposedly he was vaccinated yesterday. :henn0rz:

[Waffdon]

Fairly okay to their captain securing his neck before the medial team got there and starting the CPR and consoling Eriksen’s missus. Some boy

[P_3]

Fairly okay to their captain securing his neck before the medial team got there and starting the CPR and consoling Eriksen’s missus. Some boy
Yeah, he was absolutely spot on. Proper leader of a man. Big kudos to him.

[Waffdon]

That was meant to say ‘fair play’ but apparently predictive text is a cunt

[Shindig]

On a sidenote, the other day was the first time I noticed defibrillators being set up in old phone boxes.

[Bernanke]

Lots of ace actions around it all tbh. Taylor recognizing what was happening as quickly as he did, Delaney getting the team together to block the view, Schmeichel with the missus.

[Magic]

Kasper 100% firing in.

[Magic]

Hate this micro analysing of things to try and point out who did things better.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Danish football are saying it could restart in 30 minutes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Waffdon]

All seems a bit strange. Is it normal to be okay that quickly after something like that happening?

[Shindig]

Was there really only 5 minutes of the half left?

[Waffdon]

Less than that, happened in 43rd minute

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

All seems a bit strange. Is it normal to be okay that quickly after something like that happening?

Knowing that he's fine and, according to his agent, talking will have made them feel a lot better.

[Shindig]

Man, I figured there would be more. There was a clash of heads that took a few minutes, wasn't there?

[7om]

Can only be thankful that it’s happened on the pitch and not in his hotel room or something. I’m shocked the match is being restarted, though. The players can’t be in the right frame of mind surely.

[Jimmy Floyd]

With no prior knowledge, I heard the radio news begin with 'The Danish Football Association...' and thought shit, someone's dead.

Thankfully seems not.

[Spoonsky]

I find that mental to want to keep playing again tonight. Am I just soft? Half of them were in tears.

[mugbull]

I find that mental to want to keep playing again tonight. Am I just soft? Half of them were in tears.

You’re definitely soft, but I’m with you here. Maybe this has given them a vast supply of adrenaline.

[Shindig]

They played on when Foe died, for whatever that's worth.

[neo_hippy]

They are much much less squeamish then us over there. Probably explains the cameras somewhat and also starting the game back up

[Waffdon]

Knowing that he's fine and, according to his agent, talking will have made them feel a lot better.

I meant Eriksen. Him being up and talking already seems a quick turnaround.

What happened to the commentators? I’ve got some random bloke on BBC now

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finland going full heel.

[7om]

Finland gonna do a Greece and play Brexitball to win the competition.

[Shindig]

Deary me. Kasper's had a wobble.

[thommo]

They all looked pretty ashamed when celebrating. Got to be a weird feeling.

[Shindig]

Finland gonna do a Greece and play Brexitball to win the competition.

They might as well have the same flag.

[Baz]

Do you know who’d have celebrated in the same situation, albeit club football, even if the opposition player had actually died? Jordan Henderson. :nod:

[Serj]

That's a terrible penalty.

[igor_balis]

I've never been more convinced someone would miss one, poor bloke.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He never looked like he was going to put it away.

1-0 Lukaku too.

[niko_cee]

That really is the worst rule.

[Baz]

How is he not gaining advantage from being stood offside, there?

[Bernanke]

How is he not gaining advantage from being stood offside, there?

The defender attempting to clear it creates a new play apparently. But he only does that because Lukaku is there, so who the hell knows.

[niko_cee]

It's irrelevant because as soon as the defender 'deliberately plays the ball' (which he only does because the forward is there, gaining an advantage by being offside) the attacker is no longer offside and is free to carry on. Like I said, it's the worst rule.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's a shit rule. It should have been ruled out as should that City goal against Villa.

Also, Zhirkov still starting for Russia is mental.

[niko_cee]

Presumably if you completely fuck the attempted clearance up, to the extent that you miss the ball, the offside rule saves you, which just shows how stupid it is.

[Baz]

Ruud van Nistelrooy would have broken Shearer’s record if the rule was always that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Danes never looked like they were comfortable after the match restarted.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Russia are going to get humped here.

[Shindig]

They've been desperate at the back.

[Spoonsky]

They all looked pretty ashamed when celebrating. Got to be a weird feeling.

Watching it again, the goalscorer's ecstatic for a couple of seconds and then he suddenly remembers he shouldn't be celebrating so much. :D

I don't know what Denmark expected to happen there.

[Baz]

ITV asking people to text the word “footy” to enter their competition should see them dissolved completely from being on TV ever again.

[randomlegend]

Lukaku doesn't just look like a different player to a year and a half ago, he looks like a different human being. He must be 20kg lighter.

[randomlegend]

ITV asking people to text the word “footy” to enter their competition should see them dissolved completely from being on TV ever again.

Coming from an Englishman who came up with Garden "Soccer".

[Baz]

Soccer (https://gardensoccer.com) > footy

[Lewis]

Lukaku doesn't just look like a different player to a year and a half ago, he looks like a different human being. He must be 20kg lighter.

The stuff about an undiscovered digestive problem strikes me as code for Antonio Conte sitting him down and telling him he made him sick.

[Lewis]

Something will have to give at some point, which is liable to mean some sort of petulant official response.

'I love this game!'

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Protesting 'against discrimination, injustice, and inequality'? What the fuck? Are these people mental?

[Baz]

Tories.

[Ian]

If only people had thought of trying to reason with racists before.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Second half has been shit.

[Mazuuurk]

I've never been more convinced someone would miss one, poor bloke.

yeah I absolutely was thinking that too... was just such a sad state of affairs to watch Denmark for the rest of that game. Who the fuck thought that would be ok. When you get shocked like that, all your adrenaline etc comes rushing. Then imagine sitting waiting in a dressing room worried for about 1hr and all that adrenaline goes away...

[Mazuuurk]

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Protesting 'against discrimination, injustice, and inequality'? What the fuck? Are these people mental?


Sorry I'm (for real) not getting it - what's wrong with that message?

[Lewis]

They're doubling down to the point of appropriating actual anti-slavery imagery ('traced back as far as the 18th century') to protest generalities, which apparently didn't concern them until recently, and seemingly committing themselves to doing so forever. It's idiotic, but professional footballers pushing it is borderline obscene.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

yeah I absolutely was thinking that too... was just such a sad state of affairs to watch Denmark for the rest of that game. Who the fuck thought that would be ok. When you get shocked like that, all your adrenaline etc comes rushing. Then imagine sitting waiting in a dressing room worried for about 1hr and all that adrenaline goes away...

Eriksen told them to play on today.

[Spoonsky]

Yeah, I'm sure it unfolded in a weird awkward way where they don't really want to play, but you're not exactly going to say no to the guy are you?

[Shindig]

It's a double whammy. Without Eriksen they lose some creativity and goals and they genuinely looked shellshocked throughout that second half. Who's going to inspire them to victory? Martin Braithwaite?

[SincereTheRebel]

The coverage of Erikson was awful. The commentator at the time didn't help. The cameras kept on showing him receive CPR and that lady who came pitchside crying. Probably his wife. They showed it all.

[Boydy]

Sorry I'm (for real) not getting it - what's wrong with that message?

Nothing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Eriksen at that point probably not the best judge of whether or not they should play on.

[Mellberg]

"Have one heart palpitation for play on, two for go home."

[Lofty]

The best scumbag takes on this are the facebook betting pages posting saccharine reflections on how everyone on the pitch was a hero for reacting, whilst advertising their bet boosts for the England match :D

[Mike]

Am I just doing a bad job of looking or is there no daily roundup show for this, like a daily Match of the Day for the three games played each day?

[Reg]

On the Daily Euros podcast, there was a one minute message about Eriksen instead of a full episode - so I assume they cancelled MOTD for that reason too.

Tonight’s is at 11:15pm on BBC.

Tomorrow, ITV have highlights at 10:45pm.

[SincereTheRebel]

Looking at Copa America which is starting tonight. Two groups of five, with the top four teams from each group going through to the next round.

[Don]

Are the likes of Mostovoi and Cancelo getting COVID after being double-jabbed?

And Eriksen having only received a jab the day before is bullshit, right? They surely would have had better planning than risk that.

[Don]

The leaked England XI is top banter. Trippier at LB and Raheem over Grealish :D

[Lewis]

I don't get Kieran Trippier at all. If United throw a sizeable part of their transfer budget at him I'm following another sport.

[Yevrah]

A squad of 26 players and we’re playing a right back at left back? Will we ever learn.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why would you take Chilwell and Shaw to a tournament if you wre then going to select Kieran Trippier at left back? Sometimes managers really overthink things.

[Spikey M]

It's like we've gone back to the days of having no left footed players... except we do.

[-james-]

Chilwell and Shaw have "knocks" allegedly. It's a real shame Bukayo Saka is a fictional character.

[Waffdon]

Walker, Stones, Mings, Trippier is a world class back four

[Spikey M]

Spreadsheet badboys? Or banter champions?

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[Waffdon]

Sancho can’t even make the bench over two goalkeepers :lol:

[Don]

That Croatia defence look solid enough behind that quality midfield. The front 3 aren't up to much but should still have enough against this shambles.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rebic will don Mings.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57460375

Cancelo is out due to Rona.

[Bernanke]

7.50 for a Croatia win does seem fairly tasty as far as odds go.

[randomlegend]

Mings starting a game for England is a national disgrace

[SincereTheRebel]

He can't help but have at least two right-backs in the starting eleven

[Mellberg]

Mings sure does get a tough time for a decent centre half with a mistake in him :sherlock:

[Lewis]

And we'll keep kneeling until he doesn't.

[Spikey M]

Booing the anthem :drool:

[Lewis]

Little boo for the Croatian anthem there it's on.

[Spikey M]

Nice and in time there lads.

[Waffdon]

GSTQ has to be one of the worst national anthems going

[Lewis]

Decent amount of booing given the crowd. They will keep the restrictions in place forever now.

[randomlegend]

Mings sure does get a tough time for a decent centre half with a mistake in him :sherlock:

Probably because he's a violent thug.

[randomlegend]

England look genuinely great so far.

[Magic]

Kalvin. :wub:

You can tell the brainless, slow, poorly coached players in this England side (Mings).

[randomlegend]

What's Kane doing standing around on the corner of the box behind Mount when he's looking to cross? Get in there mate, he's not landing it on Sterling's head is he?

[Magic]

Are we watching Bielsa's Leeds?

[randomlegend]

Kalvin. :wub:

You can tell the brainless, slow, poorly coached players in this England side (Mings).

Agree Phillips looks class.

This generation of England players don't seem to have that fear in international games that the last couple did.

[Magic]

There's a deserve arrogance about the team. It's not above their station just genuine belief. Nice to see. There's no real weak links.

[Shindig]

Whatever you say about his tactics, I've enjoyed the look of his team selections. During Sven and Capello, it seemed like the team was set in stone. We've got a variety of talent coming through these days.

[Mellberg]

We've started well, but we started well in the semi final and had a goal to show for it.

[Mellberg]

Walker should be playing himself out of the team today though. Been shit. Plenty of alternatives.

[7om]

Walker should be playing himself out of the team today though. Been shit. Plenty of alternatives.

Yeah not sure he’s the best option anymore. I’d prefer Reece James.

[Spikey M]

I'm not totally convinced it's coming home tbh

[Spikey M]

Has Walker got his shoes on the wrong feet or something?

[Magic]

He's one of those who assumes that he's guaranteed to start. Must be dropped immediately.

[Waffdon]

Kyle Walker is absolutely horrendous

[Yevrah]

I missed the first twenty or so minutes, but this has been abysmal since I switched on.

[Manc]

Can we send Kyle Walker home? Wanker.