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    Why’s he let it play out and then stick his flag up if there’s no VAR?

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    Dier

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    Dunno, but he did it in the three for England didn't he? Back three of Walker, Maguire and Dier is all time levels of bad in international football though.

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    Dier and Maguire must share a brain cell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Dunno, but he did it in the three for England didn't he? Back three of Walker, Maguire and Dier is all time levels of bad in international football though.
    There's atleast one clanger in the cards, that's for sure.

    Edit: I appear to be too late.

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    Looking at this fucking clueless lot against a genius tactical mind like Bobby Martinez who has drilled his only marginally superior players into a fucking sexy pass and move side

    Romelu embarrassing a chav with a double-digit body fat % in the clearest depiction of ebony donnage possible

    Mason Mount and his shuttle runs as he bags another international cap as a glorified training cone

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    17:50
    England 1-1 Belgium


    Rob Green

    Former West Ham and England goalkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Live

    The combinations of play and the patterns that Belgium do, they go forward in pockets of twos and threes and they can link up.

    England at times are looking for Marcus Rashford in behind and he's on his own, or Mason Mount picks up the ball but has two players around him. If they can find those combinations and link-ups I think they'll get a better foothold in the game.


    Yeah, if they can get a pig to sniff outthose combinations in the second half England could really start to control this match.

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    Southgate gas been living off our fluke World Cup run for years now. He's useless.

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    I've just seen the lineup

    What a cunt Southgate is.

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    Reece James looks like a fat Chinese baby.

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    Southgate dons the doubters again.

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    Mason Mount could beat everyone in Belgium on his own. All 11 million of them.

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    I'll reiterate: This is the most exciting time to be an England fan.

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    I don't know who stands to lose most out of this match, Grealish, England fans, Chelsea fans or xG dons.

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    Roberto Martinez.

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    You’d swear you lost reading most of this. Straighten up cunts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    You’d swear you lost reading most of this. Straighten up cunts.
    Prem big club fans want England to lose as there's greater outrage/rivalry bollocks to gain from that. It's largely the fans of clubs who never win anything who genuinely want the best for the team.

    Even middle sized club fans largely see it as a vehicle to air their petty grievances about the recognition/non-recognition on a national level of their favourite regional heroes.

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    You have to feel for KDB. His career could and should have been so much more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    You have to feel for KDB. His career could and should have been so much more.
    Born in the wrong country to ever have international success and has medals from winning the top top league in the world. He hasn’t been too short of expectations. Move on and win a CL in the next few years and he’s sorted. Plus he’s made a fortune.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Wouldn’t be soccer here without a shitshow.


    Has it been leaked who are the players who will be out due to this?

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    Was great to be at the game today. The renovations made looked good and it was the first time I’ve seen us win at our “Wembley”. Previously discussed Robert Taylor with his first for Finland too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    Has it been leaked who are the players who will be out due to this?
    A few went out injured so it’s not clear who exactly yet but I think the squad for your game will be the same as the one today plus Darren O’Shea and Jason Knight up from the U21’s.

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    So no actual starters missing?

    Edit: actually that’s not at all the same team you had against us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    So no actual starters missing?

    Edit: actually that’s not at all the same team you had against us.
    Connolly, McGoldrick, Egan, and McCarthy would have probably started against you out of who’s missing. Out of the replacements, Long might be able to play after going off today but if not then O’Shea will probably partner Duffy at the back.

    The 4 of them would be big losses. Normally not Connolly but McClean is out now too after the red today.

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    Thanks for that 👍

    Both players are back at their clubs - Brighton for Connolly and Norwich for Idah - and the Football Association of Ireland's interim chief executive Gary Owens says Kenny could yet recall them for Wednesday's Nations League game against Finland, in Oslo.

    But come on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    Thanks for that 

    Both players are back at their clubs - Brighton for Connolly and Norwich for Idah - and the Football Association of Ireland's interim chief executive Gary Owens says Kenny could yet recall them for Wednesday's Nations League game against Finland, in Oslo.

    But come on.
    It’s Joe.ie. Just be glad they spelled Finland correctly.

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    Problem with that England performance is that we need those opposition brain explosions and fortunate deflections when it actually matters, not in a jumped up friendly. There's definitely the making of an exciting side in the England set-up somewhere.

    If we're going back to 5 at the back then Trippier should probably play as the wingback on the right, but we also need to find replacements for Dier and Walker, at the very least, in the back 3. Shame back 5 doesn't actually work for any of our good players, but maybe that's the perennial problem with England and we should go down the system route.

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    Phillips and Rice as a double pivot would work wonders.

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    Yeah, I liked Phillips when he came on. I've no idea about Rice. People wet their pants about him but he looks absolute toilet so much of the time. I think if Henderson and Alexander-Arnold are going to play you just have to use them on that right flank in the same way Liverpool do, otherwise other options are better.

    5-3-2, 2 DMs, it ain't gonna to be pretty but who knows.

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    How was Hendo? Hopefully fully fit for Everton.
    I'm a twit

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    Ali Dia with white privelege.

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    My favorite part about Haaland is how he loves to just rifle shots in. I feel like shooting to the low corner has become way more common recently, probably because its a statistically more likely shot to score, but fuck if I don’t love a striker blasting it top corner at every opportunity

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    Erlingol.

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    Erling Braut Haaland? More like Erling Braut Goalland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    Thanks for that 

    Both players are back at their clubs - Brighton for Connolly and Norwich for Idah - and the Football Association of Ireland's interim chief executive Gary Owens says Kenny could yet recall them for Wednesday's Nations League game against Finland, in Oslo.

    But come on.
    Few more now, but nobody that will see any action bar another covid scare.



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    I don't really understand how these Internationals have gone ahead. Mental.

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    Because it's the only proper one.

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    So what's the evil empire angle to these proposed reforms of English football?

    Fewer games is hardly money-making. Giving away a quarter of the tv money seems substantially more than the current parachute payment regime. Minor tinkerage with the relegation mechanism (given how shit teams that win the play-offs often are this mightn't be the worst idea) doesn't really seem relevant to the big boys. Are they proposing an uneven split of the top division tv pool? Yeah, it probably shits on the likes of Burnley, but it probably ensures the likes of Bury would still exist had it been the model sooner, and the current set-up is bad from the perspective of THE PYRAMID.

    Not a massive fan of consigning the Rumbelows to the dustbin of history, but, at the same time, it's not the end of the world is it?

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    It's probably on balance a bad thing but if it means I have to watch United less then let's get it done.

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    Presumably it's to pave the way for more European games, mid season friendlies in America and, well, you get the picture.

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    £415m+ a season to the football league (as opposed to the £120m they get at the moment) is probably worth that, no?

    A few extra European games and a winter break where teams can fuck off for some warm weather bullshit matches? It's not really the end of days.

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    Fewer games in this context means a loss of 4 games vs Burnley and Watford, which they are gagging to replace with 4 games against Barcelona and/or each other, especially once you have also abolished the League Cup.

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    The voting thing sounds a bit dodge, granted.

    If European Football is going to move to a different model (and it's not like any of these league structures have been unaltered for millennia, be they domestic or continental) then whatever. We've had more European games in the past with the 2 group stages, haven't we? As mentioned upthread, isn't this more analogous to the German model? Those relentless capitalist pigdogs.

    The distortion between the Premier League and the rest of the football pyramid that has been cultivated for the past 30 years is the actual scandal, and if there has to be some sort of quid pro quo to try and redress some of that I'm not sure I see it as being a necessarily bad thing.

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    The voting thing is the problem for me because it entrenches de jure the idea that some clubs are above others. This can be de facto but never de jure. What if one of the nine, or even the six, was relegated?

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    I'm sure our benevolent American overlords will be satisfied by this change and won't then push the envelope to further distort the EPL into a secondary league behind the European Super League and/or franchising teams.

    You can send more money down into the leagues below without such a blatant power grab.

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    Wasn't there a situation in South America recently-ish with some big club (River Plate?) being saved from relegation by all sorts of admin gymnastics?

    You'd end up with that.

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    Argentina relegates teams based on a three year rolling average in order to prevent the big sides from going down, but River did still manage to go down at one point.

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    They did implement the 3 year average after that relegation mind.

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    Not according to Tiger Tim Vickery: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/timvicke...lercoaste.html

    I can't even begin to imagine how corrupt it all is down there.

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