Cole Palmer has had a good season so let's bench him.
Definitely! All hail Sir Waistcoat.
England have a good chance of winning.
Not predicting it will, but wouldn't be too surprising.
They'll go out in the quarters / semis once they play somebody good.
Not. A. Chance. Dunno when they'll go out, but they'll go out.
It's been too long. A group stage calamity beckons.
Drunk turtle with a flare sticking out of its bum.
Cole Palmer has had a good season so let's bench him.
Which I admit is all very sensible, but also in it's own special way, totally shit.Originally Posted by Adramelch
I think my favourite game of the tournament is Ukraine V Romania just because it confirmed to me that I didn't have some sort of terrible degenerative vision issues.
Nico Williams
I would lol, but I've just watched a game where England's record goal scorer touched the ball once in the box.Nico Williams
He scored with it though. Hence being the record scorer. Clinical.
Clive calling Carvajal repeatedly even though it’s an Italy player down
Retire mate
Who is the insufferable sidekick on ITV?
They like all white vs all dark because of some dogshit inclusivity.
The one who suggested that Lamine Yamal should wait until he's 18 to drink and drive?
The one with the accent, the "expert".
McCoist?
I suspected it was him.
Andy Townsend is the best commentary sidekick.
I'm a twit
Alright you turnip cunt.
What
"the Spanish inquisition"
I know what he means and time etc but that's pretty inappropriate to us non-Catholics.
Bryan Cristante making Connor Gallagher look tame, 20 seconds to get a yellow card.
Did Tyldesley just call someone Cambiasso
Edit Oh shit Italy have one.
Pedri is wank.
Only way Spain was scoring.
Did Tyldesley just call someone Cambiasso
Edit Oh shit Italy have one.
Di Lorenzo might as well not exist every time Williams is on the ball.
What the fuck is Ayoze Perez doing in the Spain squad?
The Danes in the stadium were great, they actually have multi verse chants which England don't outside GSTK and this new one about Foden. On the pitch, it seems pretty clear that he's told the full backs not to bomb on and it's isolating the forward players. The two DMs were awful today and Alexander Arnold offers nothing. Felt pretty angry at the end with quite a lot of booing from England fans.
That ref has been all over the place. Hasn't let the game flow at all.
SĚ signore
Wouldn’t be too surprised if Croatia shit fest their way past Italy to set up an England quarter final
Croatia-Italy has the potential to be the worst game of football in 20 years.*
*I might or might not be exaggerating
Did you not watch the England game lol.
Now they’ve won the group we can only hope Spain roll over for Albania.
Gary Neville going rogue and saying we'll look back at this in years to come and regret not playing old Trenty boy at rightback.
Well Denmark played decently.
'Tournament football' is still annoying me, hours later. The idea that you can just trot that out every time you play like cunts.
Same for me and "I can't go forward because they'll blame me if I'm out of position".
The more I think about it the more it looks like he's lost the dressing room. So many similarities with the numerous times it's happened in the Premier League on display over the two games.
Again, not my circus, not my monkeys - I couldn't give a flying fuck how good Italy are or otherwise and even if I did, they've still been better than us.
I don’t think you would. But what I do think is he should be the option to come off the bench with 20 minutes to go if you are a goal down not starting in centre midfield.Gary Neville going rogue and saying we'll look back at this in years to come and regret not playing old Trenty boy at rightback.
This.
This.
And this.
Makes me feel like I'm living in some sort of Truman show with a special week set to troll and gaslight the fuck out of me.
lol.
The tone change as he goes into “and then these cunts”
Kalvin Phillips 😂
I assume you’re seen the light now with Sir Gareth Kik’s?
There's not much light to see. He's done a good job but it's not pretty and he's incredibly inflexible. Ultimately this cautious style has been relatively successful for two tournaments but if it doesn't work this time, he will quite rightly get pelters.
Out of curiosity, who's the last England manager you though did a good job? Not trying to defend Southgate here, as England has been so boring to watch under him and he comes up with the silliest excuses, but still.
Has he bollocks done a good job. He fluked a final by having the kindest run of fixtures known to man. Against teams in the top 10 he has 6 wins, 6 draws, and 15 fucking losses. With a squad as good as he's had, that's a shocking return.
For as long as I've watched the good ones have been:
Hoddle
Sven
I don't count Venables as he had a single tournament to work with. It's wild to think how many have struggled. Fabio Capello being driven mad (and bullying Pearce) is the oddest turn. As for the talent argument, Southgate's got a great squad - in theory. Then again, we always had players who could turn it on for club but not country. What we miss is that player autonomy. I caught the last 20 minutes and I just saw players looking completely lost. Like playing with strangers. When things go wrong, that XI haven't a clue where to start and Southgate has no input to guide them.
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I'm not going to argue it because we disagree. He thinks cautious football can win a tournament. Let's see if Eddie Howe plays differently.
On don't think any of them have done a good/very good job. It's all situational, but even those who have had good runs within their tenure went on to spoil it by phoning in shite (Sven towards the end, Capello in an actual tournament).
Sven was the peak for me, but that's a combination of us playing attractive football and - most probably - rose tinted glasses.
It's a shame we never got to see how Allardyce would have done.
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