Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
Best team performance: England 1 Colombia 1. This wasn't necessarily our best performance in terms of football, but in terms of character we actually stood up to be counted in the face of the worst sort of victim-led chicanery. People forget that for 93 minutes we actually managed the game brilliantly, seeing off the challenge of the vile Falcao and his band of shysters without any scares, until we switched off and then got fucked for 15 minutes in shock (this trope would return, to our cost, in the semi-final). But the fact that we then recovered in the second half of extra time (MASSIVE credit to Southgate for this) and then won the penalties after going behind in them makes it the best England knockout performance/result combo of my lifetime.