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It couldn't be less intrusive as well. Kneeling down for as long as it takes for the ball to be retrieved to take a throw in. "Booooooo! They're shoving this down my throat!"

Candi Hills must be fucking fuming.

This is just utter bollocks though. Disingenuous crap. Kick It Out have worked with the Premier League since 1993. Here's Shola Ameobi wearing a "political" shirt in the warm up and he's been retired five years. Anti-racism is only "political" if you disagree with it.

The players and Gareth Southgate couldn't have been clearer on what their message stands for, and yet you still deliberately mischaracterise it and complain about millionaire celebrities trying to explain it. "Keep politics out of football!" is such a vapid statement. It means nothing. Sport is expressly political, even moreso at international level. They sing the fucking national anthem before kick off! England fans have been travelling across the world singing "2 World Wars and 1 World Cup" and "No Surrender to the IRA" for the last 40 years, and now these people think football should remain apolitical. Marcus Rashford receives thousands of racist messages every time he puts a shot wide but he's the one forcing his politics on another people. Give me a fucking break. It just translates directly as "Keep the politics I dislike out of football". They/you disagree with their generic anti-racism stance, that's fine, quite grim but whatever. But don't weasely try to dress it up as anything else.

One thing to keep an eye on is that there's an Argentinean ref been invited (I think a Spanish ref is going to do the Copa America, a swap thing) and he averages an incredible 6.81 cards per game. Makes even the Spanish and Italian refs look lenient. Interesting to see how the bookies will price his games up.

What the fuck did I just see?

Couple of hugely concerning warm up performances like. We've been absolutely shit here.

Taking the risk of being made to look a mug by a friendly again but Sorescu looks really big for a card at 11/2. 10 cards in 27 games in 2021 and he's playing RB up against Sancho, Rashford and/or Grealish. The ref is an absolute card fiend as well, averages nearly 6 a game in Portugal.

Can't remember a thing about Buendia in the PL two years ago. Only scored 1 goal and played every game. Has he improved dramatically?

It's just a semantic misunderstanding going on here. Triggs means "the game" as in the particular football match that is being played, Towelie means "the game" in a wider sense as in the game of football generally.

Always enjoy this Guardian tournament player guide https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2021/jun/04/euro-2020-complete-guide-to-all-622-players-ratings

Aye what Ben said. Great for betting and it's on in the morning when I'm working from home.

I watch a lot of A League and he'd be perfect. Basically every team has a 36 year old European has-been striker who can't run and they just bang crosses at. Matt Derbyshire is a goal machine.

What a dud.

It's objectively more exciting because it's win or lose, as opposed to win, lose or play another boring period of extra time where a load of knackered players go through the motions trying not to concede. There's more at stake. You might not like it because it's "not fair" (even though it is completely fair because everyone knows the rules before they start and it's the same for both teams, that's the definition of fairness) but it simply is a more exciting way to decide a tie.

Robbie Savage has some brilliant banter, he's got my vote.

Well obviously. It would hardly have been one of the great comeback stories. "Remember that time we needed 2 goals at home against Lincoln City with more than a third of the game left, was a million to one shot I tells ya"

Eh? How is a game over when a team needs to score twice at home after the 56th minute?

365 offering card markets on 2 games tonight, Spain-Portugal and Italy-Czechs, 2 cards each double pays 71/1. Friendly or not (so was England-Austria), that's just silly pricing and well worth a quid given the teams involved, especially in the Spain game (7/1 for 2 each, 11/10 for 1 each). Pawson doing that game as well.

Completely beyond me how anyone could watch e.g. Spurs/Ajax, Roma/Barca or Barca/PSG and come to the conclusion that they'd rather have seen yet another penalty shoot out instead.

Derek Adams leaves Morecambe after getting them promoted on Monday. Looks like Bradford.

It will be, quite a common tempter for tournament signups, I remember Coral did Brazil playing in yellow for the first game of the World Cup there.

It's Crystal Palace we're talking about here!

God forbid a manager should have a fallow period of a few months having lost his two main goalscorers, after promotion, two top half finishes and a European quarter final. Good enough to manage a club like Crystal Palace? Pah! Throw him on the scrapheap with the rest.

Imagine posting criticism on a football forum of fans and players at being disappointed at losing the European Cup final.