leffe186

Ace. Big fan of the purple-shirted Englishperson in the bottom left.

All coming up Italy.

Most predictable free kick outcome ever.

I’m mainly looking forward to the inevitable punch-up now.

Love a Portuguese meltdown .

Got deceived by the swerve - should have done better.

Any chance people will sue or did they cover their arses?

I feel like I’ve heard this a lot on here. I’ve avoided commenting because I’m trying to steer clear of club football as much as possible. I feel like it’s still worth pointing out that Spurs haven’t finished as low as seventh since 2009, and have been in the top four more often than not since then. Nobody “belongs” anywhere. I don’t know how old you are but sure, 20 years ago we were midtable. 40 years ago, when I was a kid, Newcastle were a shit midtable team in Division Two. Doesn’t mean I think you belong there, or that you’re not a big club. It’s just lazy nonsense.

Also, there have been very few moments in the last 12.5 years when I’ve really missed being in England, and this is definitely one.

How often do we actually get an early goal or two on the board? Genuine question, because confirmation bias tells me that we always start great but rarely take advantage.

Feels like I’ve been saying essentially the same thing about England for about 40 years. Only the names change.

That and at least international football has a soul.

I mean, it’s an Everton forum, what on earth did you expect?

Cheers, was waiting for them to replay the fucker.

When I lived in Scotland 15 or so years ago I watched more SPL football than I ever had up to that point, and it seemed incredible what other sides got away with against Celtic or Rangers. Particularly if they were at home, the underdogs seemed to have license to kick anything that moved.

BBC text talking about that time all the refs got together to decide to penalize Crouch for being tall. God that made me so angry.

Lest we forget, taking the knee was started by one fucking guy.

Right, finally got a bit of a break from work and can start planning this shit. Anyone know what’s the broadcasting situation in the US? Anyone got exclusive rights?

Yeah, I loved the Kappa shirts. Nearly put my purple Spurs one down as impressive, but now the main impressive thing about it would be my gut.

Way back in the early/mid-80s when it was tough to get obscure/foreign shirts me and my Uncle took a train to a shop in Letchworth that used to do them. Got Adidas Boca and River Plate shirts. Still have them hanging in the closet - both sponsored by Fate O.

Uh huh. Hard to imagine a universe where Rafa goes to a team where things are not good off the pitch and there’s not going to be loads of money available.

So glad I’ve been weaning myself off football because that’s precisely the sort of shit I’d get pissed off about. Not really giving a toss any more is rather liberating. I recommend it.

We were terribly ponderous going forward in the second half against a desperately mediocre team. You’d want us to be able to maintain pressure on a team like that, probing for opportunities - someone like Grealish might have made a difference and taken the game by the scruff. On the other side of the coin, that centreback pairing just makes me so nervous. I did think that Walker looked pretty classy at RB. It’s all so very mundane, although when you look at other results it’s hard to get too worked up.

I mean, they’ve had one shot on target, which we gave to them. The game should have been over before they scored tbh.

You voted 0 in the Relegationometer?