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Not that he needs any advice from me but as I posted at the time, that penalty had to go down the middle. Pass it in, chest height. Lloris was always going to go for the big dive one way or the other given how the first one went.

Order one of the world's most consistent penalty takers not to take a penalty in a World Cup quarter final because he's already scored one? One of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my life. This is when you know folk are really at the bottom of the barrel and will use absolutely anything to criticise Gareth Southgate against all reason and logic.

And we completely dominated possession tonight, which is what the main criticism was vs Italy and Croatia. 57 vs 43 is huge against a team like France. Basically nowt is good enough for some until he wins a tournament, which is fair enough but imo ludicrous to judge an England manager by that standard.

Well last time he was mainly criticised for being too negative and not putting games to bed - I think we might still be the top scorers in this World Cup. Seems quite a big change to me.

Brought a baffling sub on that immediately made a run in behind and won a penalty booooooooooooooo

Henderson's been really good all tournament though?

This team has blown those out of the water man, they were both one tournament and done, with two complete disasters in between. Semi final, final, quarter final in consecutive tournaments is completely unprecedented. Only in England would someone so wildly successful relative to what has gone before get so much ludicrous stick.

Can't wait to find out who this candidate is that's definitely and easily better than the most successful England manager since the 1960s, who's also desperate to take an international job.

Uninspiring By an absolute mile the most inspiring England set-up in my lifetime, almost in my dad's lifetime. God yeah, can't wait to see the back of going deep into every tournament.

Desperate for Messi to win it now, partly because it's him and partly because I think Mbappe's a total cunt.

Grr Southgate and his shit subs!!! Mount had won a penalty before he'd got his fucking boots muddy.

Risk free We battered them, got sucker punched and missed a penalty. More shots, more possession, more corners, we completely dominated the game from 20 mins onwards. Southgate out! Clowns.

Absolute clown

Gerraway man, they were fucking toss

Best team absolutely lost that game.

Get Tripps on

Smash this down the middle Harry

That's a fucking stick on

Completely undeserved

Was just waiting for the net there, what a fucking chance

Dunno about anyone else but I feel more confident about getting through this than I did at the start. The story of England in knockout football since 1996 is always the same - we score early (usually in the first 10 mins), cede possession, chase shadows, tire ourselves out, concede an equaliser then we're fucked. I don't mind this scoreline, I think I'd feel much less confident if this game had been the other way round. France aren't particularly solid and I think we'll score at some point. The problem obviously is if it goes 2-0 then it's probably game over but we're still well in this right now.

Yeah sorry that's right. VAR will intervene on a non penalty foul if it precedes a goal but not if it's for the attacking team. All over the shop.

Not if it's outside.

Just makes me feel worse about tonight's inevitable defeat.

He seemed to have calmed himself down for a while a year or so ago but you just cannot beat a bit of Lahoz when he's on his game.