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I've always been underwhelmed by Gareth Southgate. As a player I used to wonder how he'd managed to get in the England team and as a manager I didn't rate him and wondered how he'd got the England job. I started to warm to him when he fucked Rooney off and I've bought into what he's doing since. He is still a young pup at managerial level and cannot lie was a bit pissed off with how he set us up second half on Wednesday and with the subs he made and when. I also would never have selected Ashley Young. But even with all of that, I still think he will improve for the experience and we will have a team to get behind properly all the more. I remember after the 90 semi going through who would be in for 94 and confidently predicting a good future for England, but I had failed to reckon in Graham fucking Taylor ?

Leeds are gonna do a Leeds here.

Sterling is the key for me. His pace along with Lingard's engine will undo them and hopefully he can notch a goal or two.

I reckon Raheem will tie Lovren and Vida in knots.

Was 90 not shite in terms of actual quality football? The Germans were outstanding especially early on. England's performance against Holland gave notice of what we had in terms of quality and Italy played some decent stuff too. Argentina kept spawning their way through and it was to all intents and purposes hard to say come the semis who would win . 1994 had some good games but it seemed Brazil were obvious winners from early on. But I couldn't get into it. May be that was down to life events at the time, in fact i know it was ?

People were saying that about this one too like Surely they were saying 12 years? Given that they announced the venues for now and 22 at the same time.

This is the best World Cup since 90 imo.

There is only one Walker, Des. Probably not for Blades people given Des was a Wednesdayite .

How fucking inconsiderate of me indeed.

Davies' finest piece of commentary for me has to be the Olympic men's hockey final of 1988. When GB scored Davies famously commented, " where were the German defence but frankly, who cares ?" Terrific commentator and wordsmith. Far superior to Motson and unfairly treated because of him too.

It's my half century day. Fucking dreading the Monday already ?

Hate the way you use the language. Think about it makes us feel, the way Americans ruin our language. I’m with the Yanks on this one. We learned British English in school over here, but my god, American English is just so much simpler and better. English 2.0 Simpler. You have to cater for your audience mate.

You were absolute fucking cunts and an American ref should never work an English match. Should be an inquest. Come on Wally Wack, we're even wearing all red to try and accommodate you. YNWA.

This time, more than any other time, this time, putting it all together . We'll get it right. This time.

I was more of the view that we decided to sit on the lead and found it hard to snap out of that going into extra time. When we went for it again in the last 15 of ET we created chances. The first half of normal time was always likely to be tight, as most of the other games have been. I don't think we should go that defensive when leading again, it almost worked but you have to give yourself a chance of catching them on the break. I'm very positive about the quarter final like, you'd imagine our players will be bouncing now and the pen thing is a massive monkey off our back too. Nothing to fear now. Didn't create a chance in open play in 120 minutes. I can't think of any. Dier was from a corner iirc. Lingard took a dive when a decent opportunity presented itself. Danny Rose?

Incidentally. Colombia. Fuck off. You were a disgrace. And take that fucking useless Yank ref with you.

Jammiest cunts going here. Eric Dier has been awful since he came on incidentally.

Harry Kane and John Stones have both been superb tonight

Yank ref apparently. Not sure if that is a good thing or not.

If people can't be bothered to type the accent they do! Spelt like a Makem says player I guess.

Portugal have 2 shite full backs. Wouldn't play either for Newcastle.

Hating on y'all is the only appeal to this bogus World Cup. Been a few bogus ones. You've managed to make it to less than half of them. ????

I can't tell you the way I feel because the way I feel is oh so new to me .

Selling Ritchie and then buying Kenedy leaves us worse off than the end of the January transfer window like.

We're on ITV. We're losing .