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  • Definitely! All hail Sir Waistcoat.

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  • England have a good chance of winning.

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  • Not predicting it will, but wouldn't be too surprising.

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  • They'll go out in the quarters / semis once they play somebody good.

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  • Not. A. Chance. Dunno when they'll go out, but they'll go out.

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  • It's been too long. A group stage calamity beckons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    Had the best squads whilst other nations were going through transitions.
    Exactly this. Italy were Leicester. Which makes us Spurs.

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    Yeah it's all just luck and circumstance.

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    Kiko's just called me the N word on WhatsApp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Maguire is injured, isn't he?
    Ah, did not know that.

    Back to your vindaloo please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Kiko's just called me the N word on WhatsApp.
    You are a numpty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Putting his name to those boilerplate press releases about diversity or whatever they were was the best cover he could have ever given himself. If you call him a tosser you are immediately Nigel Farage.
    Someone on another place online said I didn't like Southgate because I think he's too woke.

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    It's perplexing. Southgate has done very well but I wouldn't trust him with whatever his next job is. He lacks those key decision-making moments. Honestly, it was weird to see the squad feature some big gambles.

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    Who is Folorunsho?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    It's perplexing. Southgate has done very well but I wouldn't trust him with whatever his next job is. He lacks those key decision-making moments. Honestly, it was weird to see the squad feature some big gambles.
    He's a fluffer, nothing more. Needs to step aside and let the alpha in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    Someone on another place online said I didn't like Southgate because I think he's too woke.
    Probably some bender with random tattoos up their arms who refers to 'this England team' as 'likeable' to justify only caring now that we're threatening to win something and not wanting to be left out of the conversation with normal decent people.

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    Normal decent people like us and Nigel Farage.

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    I'd love a footie chat with Nigel Farage. We could agree that it was better in the 80s when proper tackles went in, and that referees seem to be getting younger these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    He's a fluffer, nothing more. Needs to step aside and let the alpha in.
    Who's that? I do think this is his last hurrah but who do the FA court after that? Howe? Potter? Moyes is Scotland bound so we can rule that out.

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    No way do the FA appoint someone with a personality so Potter is probably the ceiling.

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    It's probably Howe with Tindall and Jones joining up with him. I think the latter's already been part of the setup before. EDIT: He was Southgate's assistant briefly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Probably some bender with random tattoos up their arms who refers to 'this England team' as 'likeable' to justify only caring now that we're threatening to win something and not wanting to be left out of the conversation with normal decent people.
    One of my mates is literally this. He finally relented and got into football in his early mid-20s. When watching the women's world cup about ten years ago he said "the American women's team would beat the men's team" and I had to have a gentle word. I don't think he was being performatively woke though, he was genuinely shocked when i explained even Lincoln city would beat the USWNT.

    I kind of respect it though, more than people who maintain that not- liking-football-as-personality-trait thing into middle age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Cannot wait for the documentary at 10:30.
    It is ASTONISHING how fat and old Rooney is nowadays.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I'd love a footie chat with Nigel Farage. We could agree that it was better in the 80s when proper tackles went in, and that referees seem to be getting younger these days.
    I bet he refers to 'the football' when he's pretending to support Crystal Palace and doing that weird flappy hand thing he does during that shit song they have.

    'And we - well, you know who we support - we support the Palace (*hands*), the Palace (*hands*), the PALACE (*hands*)...'

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    Obligatory mention of the Hamiltons' world cup song

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    It's perplexing. Southgate has done very well but I wouldn't trust him with whatever his next job is. He lacks those key decision-making moments. Honestly, it was weird to see the squad feature some big gambles.
    The reason nobody trusts him with their club is because he hasn't done very well and deep down people know that, but they struggle to reconcile it with him reaching a semi and a final. It's like the Lizzo being beautiful thing.

    He's at best achieved par and the only thing he's done that we arguably shouldn't have done was knock Germany out of Euro 2020 (weight of history/an actual name in knockout football). Everything else has either been what we should have achieved given the players we have, or worse.

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    And the Saka substitution against France should have seen him executed on the spot for high treason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    One of my mates is literally this. He finally relented and got into football in his early mid-20s. When watching the women's world cup about ten years ago he said "the American women's team would beat the men's team" and I had to have a gentle word. I don't think he was being performatively woke though, he was genuinely shocked when i explained even Lincoln city would beat the USWNT.

    I kind of respect it though, more than people who maintain that not- liking-football-as-personality-trait thing into middle age.
    The same nonce demographic trying to erase 'tragedy chanting' from our rich cultural fabric.

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    Completely forgot we missed a penalty against France in Euro 2004 as well. FFS.

    Actually, fucking look at this shit. A proper bottle job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Completely forgot we missed a penalty against France in Euro 2004 as well. FFS.

    Actually, fucking look at this shit. A proper bottle job.
    Yeah watching that I was thinking "Christ maybe Yev was right after all"

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    Yeah watching that I was thinking "Christ maybe Yev was right after all"
    I've had 34 very vivid years of this shit in one guise or another.

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    That team was so much better than the current one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    That team was so much better than the current one.
    It was, but relative to the quality of other teams around at the time vs. now, not so much.

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    The fucking state of Beckham on penalties. In hindsight I should have been much harder on the dickhead insisting on taking them and the manager indulging it.

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    It's mostly that, having less interest now I've perhaps let myself be swept up in the current mania that this England team is somehow uniquely brilliant, and then you go through the squad/team and realise that it's just about the same, if not a bit worse. And then there's the manager.

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    Looking at the 90s-00s international teams, my instict is that they're MUCH better, but that can't be right, can it? Is it? I can never really work it out.

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    I think this current lot competes better against the big sides. We've still been helped massively by draws opening up in our favour. The mentality might be better around the camp, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    Looking at the 90s-00s international teams, my instict is that they're MUCH better, but that can't be right, can it? Is it? I can never really work it out.
    There was a lot more virtuosity and 'football' then, now it's just hard running and exploiting space, for the most part. The modern teams would win in a match, but the older ones were better footballers.

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    Parlour has had to apologise and delete the video

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    We're going to batter these Orange nonces.

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    Depay looks like a SoundCloud rapper . Dressing like that, should be banned unless your have Dinho pedigree.

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    Here. We. Go.

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    Keown's not been impressed by Virgil.

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    Why him FFS?

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    Are we actually 3/1 to win the tournament? That is utterly fucking mental.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Are we actually 3/1 to win the tournament? That is utterly fucking mental.
    Joint 4/1 with the French

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    Yeah, that's a joke.

    I'd assumed "one of the favourites" meant 6 or 7/1. Not 4/1 or 7/2. And level with France? Rofl, and while we're at it, copter.

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    Listening to Martin Keown tell strikers how they should have hit the ball really is quite annoying.

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    This match is balls and Poland are an absolute eyesore. Again.

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    Wout.

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    Big time player

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Wout.

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    Commentator on the US feed said “that’s what he does” when he scored. As someone who watched a lot of him last season, it fucking isn’t.

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    He also did it against Argentina, and seeing as those are the only two games they've probably watched him play, it's what he does for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adramelch View Post
    He also did it against Argentina, and seeing as those are the only two games they've probably watched him play, it's what he does for them.
    It was Ian Darke and Rob Lee so I would have expected better.

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