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Went down like something else there.

Slight handball .

That extra man on Sterling should give Danny Rose an opportunity. I'll say it again, Rooney has done exactly what he's supposed to do so far. The shape actually looks pretty decent, although I'm not convinced that both Alli and Lallana should be out there. We'll see.

Fuck. Thought he should have put that in the corner tbh.

Fair play to Rooney, he's picked up the ball in some really good areas and used it well. I still think there's too much pressure on Dier though.

Foot either side and that would have been a goal from Lallana. Great start from Walker. Kane should never be taking these corners though.

Sterling is going to have to be a bit more awake than that tracking back.

Fuck me, if we don't get out of this group we want shooting.

Decent shape there.

Nice ball by Rooney.

It's so much less nerve-wracking watching this in Ohio .

How old is Akinfeev? Still looks like a teenager with bumfluff.

Five Spurs players FFS. Makes me more nervous than proud. Marginally.

Thought we did all right tbf . For all the stick we get, we always have shit-loads of people there.

Such a fucking great anthem.

Lot of pressure on Dier there. Are Russia any good?

Pretty much turning it into a football stadium from what it was. 78k to 81k capacity, plus corporate boxes as you see. Closing it in too if that makes sense. If you look at where the back row of the top tier meets the roof on both pics you'll see what I mean. I think they've done a great job in keeping the stadium shell as it was but completely modernising it at the same time. West Ham should have done something similar but I suppose they're not/werent allowed It's essentially what we said we'd do if they gave us the stadium. We promised to make it a footy stadium, then upgrade Crystal Palace to be the premier athletics stadium. Now it looks like CP might end up being demolished.

Remind me what Aston Villa Football Club was sold for?

Trying to position themselves as a club for all of London, now they have the Olympic Stadium.

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As long as the old boys club and media will peddle the 'expectations' line then others will swallow it. Ashley is still our saviour in the eyes of many and Pardew a hard done by young British coach. One of the presenters on talksport just two days back, we're getting what we deserve as we got rid of Pardew. We started it all apparently. No idea which plank said it, stated it as matter of fact. Only got ourselves to blame obviously. t***. Why does anyone listen to Talkshite, still less get annoyed by anything they say? They consciously set out to wind-up.

Oh those crazy madcap "Papers".

They've been doing that for a while. That'll happen when you get a (basically) free stadium with all the trimmings.

This is what we were saying 27 years ago: http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1152-september-2012/8991-post-hillsborough-disaster-editorial Twenty-seven years ago.