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No shot on target of note in 85 minutes, incredible the lack of pressure we've put these under despite trailing for most of the game. Southgate probably orders two glasses of milk with his chicken korma the negative bloody coward.

Shit plane as well, more or less went backwards. Southgate will probably call him up for the next squad after the Euros.

Walker has been absolutely disgracefully poor today.

Palmer is as shit as his haircut.

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Southgate seems to feed off this tedious, slow, safety-first football. A team entirely set up to reflect the personality of the manager. It's quite impressive how he's made watching what should be one of the most exciting teams in international football an absolute fucking chore.

Hopefully we can lay this moment to rest tonight

Hope all three turn them down and it rumbles on into pre-season. Get those cones out Doddsy lad.

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Jap Sports / Sharma Wines shop in North Shields getting airtime love to see it. Obviously the Shola bike/apple combo is mint too. Really nice piece of media overall, despite the Traitors style slow track.

Really surprised Grealish misses out tbh. Would have taken him over Bowen personally.

Hates the mackems as well does "Nobbza" due to the way they treated him in his final year in the academy, black and white daft and heard some funny as fuck tales about him over the years too. Good lad as you say!

World Cup of Darts is on end of June, he can watch that and practice his shit goal celebration from the comfort of his sofa.

Just me who thinks it looks far worse than it did before?

Lovely finish

I'm not against Mbuemo but surely with the constant noises around restricted spends, we can find some better value abroad? Seems steep to me at the prices quoted.

Southgate is the football management equivalent of the neutral planet president from Futurama. Proper grey, dull, risk-free football. Beige alert. Eze's probably getting a bollocking in there right now for daring to try and make something happen. Can't wait for three group games like this, probably win one or two with a standard Good Guy Gareth 0-0 in there somewhere.

When I used to work in Tesco, every time I couldn't get something to scan or dropped someone's change, every customer in the supermarket would turn to me and scream "YOU'RE SHIT! ABSOLUTELY SHIT! FUCK OFF BACK TO SAINSBURYS!" and eventually the manager would substitute one of the nine spare cashiers sat along the side of the store for me after about an hour, hour and ten minutes of my shift if I kept making these sort of mistakes. Then, to make matters worse, after a long hard day of scanning people's shopping, mopping up spillages, stacking shelves and tidying up, I'd get home about half 10, flick the telly on, and three ex-Tesco employees would be sitting round a desk critically analysing my shift, including slow motion video clips. "You just can't afford to stack the cereal boxes the wrong way around at this level, that's what cost him today", which was always really demoralising. Things like that were what made me just jack in the retail game and become a Premier League footballer, I couldn't be arsed chasing the dream any longer.

And not a very good book, either. Certainly not Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read.

He'll get more cash and doesn't have to relocate, fair enough. But what a shit move for his career. He'll be out on loan or sold by this time next year.

25 year old bet he's really glad he came.

Never forget.

Just remembered that game against Southampton at home when Hendrick got sent off and Schar injured after we used all subs and were clinging onto a 3-2 lead with 9 men for about 40 mins second half - Dummett was an absolute warrior that day. Just headed and tackled and cleared every single thing in the pissing rain against constant all-out attack. That was usually his best form actually, whenever we were massively under the gun clinging onto a lead and he had to do nothing progressive or involving passing the ball, just being a human wall and getting in the way of it. When we were trying to control a game or have some impetus he was the last bloke you'd want on.

This is so so boring.

I saw someone on Twitter saying he'd be remembered in a similar bracket to Nolan in years to come but I think he's given a lot more to the cause than that, not just in terms of tenure either. Can sort of see why - got us back up, helped us consolidate, difference is he hung around / wasn't moved on. But I think Ritchie was much more of a leader and a grafter and better behind the scenes. Best of luck to the radge bastard. Would love to see him back coaching or as an ambassador one day.