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And when the England women's football/cricket/rugby teams are successful it shouldn't be used as a tool to sneer at the men's teams. The sneer goes both ways.

Women's football is obviously improving, but in recent times some of the best teams have lost heavily to local boys teams. It's probably never going to be a fair comparison.

They're the best local rivals anyone could hope for, we are blessed.

I hope he plays.

Rafa is the only thing maintaining any serious interest in the sport at this point. Outside of Newcastle I'll only watch games if i'm really bored.

Poor Josh, now that Jacob is their favourite. The new Phil Neville.

He's a young defender that had a bad time at a laughably incompetent football club, I won't hold it against him too much given his record in Spain's youth system. Some people that know what they're doing obviously think he has talent.

I don't even rate Walker that highly, he's just a decent player to me. The sport has become a parody of itself.

He wants first team football too, which Man City won't offer. He would walk into Man City's team.

I think either he has always had dreams of being a french league champion or PSG offered more money. More money is a legit reason to pick a club, players should just say it, I fucking would.

Really poor signing for a team in their position. He'll be expecting a regular starting position as well.

I haven't a fucking clue these days either. Players I've never heard of are going for tens of millions, and players I have heard of and think are just ok are going for massive amounts. I don't know wtf to think about transfers, I feel like a lost old man.

Don't worry you can go back to despising French people in 1 minute. I love the French, it's the Belgians I can't stand.

Massive Oasis fan.

Bit fucking awkward and weird this.

I can't handle the money in the game these days. Clubs seems so susceptible to hype, spend a season saying a player is amazing and worth £30m and someone will come along and pay it. We should try it with Colback as an experiment, bring back the ginger Pirlo hype.

I don't like it simply because I get the impression most people wanting to takeover football clubs are no good, productive takeovers seem rare.

We may as well just bring Krul back, it sounds like they've had similarly shit seasons on loan.

I'd rather play in skins and have the sponsor sown directly on me than wear that shit.

Joe Hart should never play for England again.

What an ape.

If Rafa wants him to stay then on this occasion he is simply wrong.

He's a great talent whose progress has stalled for some reason. I'm pretty sure one of the bigger clubs will fancy their chances of getting more out of him. It's stalled because he's not an intelligent player IMO, I can see one of the big clubs taking a punt on him but I don't think he will succeed with them.

Barkley isn't good enough for the starting XI of anyone above Everton IMO. That doesn't mean one of them won't spaff some money on him though.

Fucking horrible news this. I'm generally indifferent to our players these days but I always liked him, he seemed a character and always put in the effort.