Sifu

Bruce & Ashley forever

Absolutely crucial that Jones remains part of the England coaching setup for next year's World Cup - Southgate needs that additional opinion/influence to balance out his conservative tactics. My overall feeling is Southgate is still the one for the job as his way of thinking is more suited to a tournament format rather than a club setting. This England team has done us proud this summer and you can't dismiss the good Southgate has done (managing the media well, getting that team spirit up and galvanising his players and the country); no-one is perfect though so some criticism does need to land at Southgate's door (namely the lack of any attacking nous in the second half and basically offering Italy to attack us). There are positives and negatives to take from this but ultimately, the main negative came at the wrong time. You'd hope we analyse what's gone right (and build on it) and what's gone wrong (and rectify it) and we'll be properly prepare for next year's World Cup.

A taller keeper/someone with a longer reach would have saved that.

It'll probably be the case that we'll win tomorrow but then lose to Sweden in the quarter finals with Krafth scoring the winner

As long as he doesn't talk about us, Richards is sound

Great goal, utter brilliance.

Them.

Based on tonight's game so far and their performance against Hungary, as long as we don't give them the time and space, we have every chance of getting past France.

We should give Graeme Jones' diamond formation a try tomorrow

Neither of these games have been great thus far like.

Shades of Pardew/Ben Arfa that.

Another missed penalty.

What was that routine in Poland's wall

But yeah, not a penalty.

I realised so deleted my post. Clearly didn't delete it quick enough

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. My mate is 100% confident that we'll hammer Scotland, wish I shared that optimism!

Sublime pass.

Hopefully Ramsdale's down as third choice with Johnstone being bumped up to second choice (on a related note...two keepers from relegated teams in the England squad man!). Amazed that Darlow didn't get a look in.

Nothing will ever eclipse Shola playing in the 2014 World Cup.

Fantastic game that, really enjoyable.

Sterling's final decision making has been off today.

Sorry to hear that your wife has had to go through that I'm in one of those kind of Facebook groups too and it's really scary stuff to read. My advice is to be aware of one's surroundings (I have this habit of looking everywhere whenever I'm out and about) and to make sure to keep to busy, known streets. Admittedly, the worry will always be there but I think the best thing to do is to try to keep to normal life as much as possible.

From a personal point of view (being ethnically Chinese), all the work to tackle racism in wider society over the last 30 odd years or so is in danger of being undone and that, for me, is primarily down to Brexit - once that vote came to pass, it gave the real racists the platform and the scope to show their true colours. The 90s were dogshit, my parents got all sorts of grief whilst working at their takeaway (my brother and I got shielded from it all) but thankfully, through education, it appeared that racism was being eradicated and the new millennium was proof of that. Since the EU referendum though, racism is rearing its ugly head once again; on one night out shortly after the results of the vote, I got told to "fuck off back to my country" and last year, I got called a coronavirus - these events shook me to the core as I've always felt safe in the UK. East Asian hate/attacks is at its highest it's ever been in the UK now and it doesn't appear it's going to stop any time soon. Progress has been made to tackle racism and I still believe the UK is definitely welcoming and a brilliant place to live in. The main thing for me is that I still feel safe (up in the North anyway, the issues surrounding East Asian hate appears to be predominant in the South) but racist attitudes are making a comeback (it's still in the minority of the population but if we don't take the right measures, it'll be prevalent in society again).

The BBC's punditry lineup is horrific. Savage now as well