leffe186

Ooh bloody hell

It’s true, Spain are not super-convincing in defence.

What a waste.

Yeah this is what they need to do.

Spain dropping so deep and there’s loads of time left.

If I’m French and Spain score again I’d be tempted to just kick Morata in the balls. Cry about that.

Ok that makes sense

Also I’ve been bouncing round all over the place and clearly missed something - why do the French keep booing Cucurella? Or is it the Germans?

It’s faintly embarrassing

It’s mental. The keeper does everything right too.

Yeah was going to add something about the general nature of modern football. Mentioned this a month or so back but I happened upon a Chelsea-Man U retro game on Sky and it was incredibly exciting. Don’t remember the year, think it was Rooney and Welbeck on one side, Mata and Ivanovic on the other if that helps. I was shocked at how much faster and more enjoyable it was, and couldn’t necessarily put my finger on why.

You really think it’s been bad? I’ve really enjoyed it. Lots of great games, arguably the biggest issue is that the top handful of teams haven’t played that well.

I guess that depends upon what he means by personal attacks. Which ones is he saying he’s hurt by? Genuine question. I wish he was more hurt by the attacks on his ability as a coach and actually responded to them by looking inwards and making changes. He did to an extent, although he’s never going to be a good tactician and least of all on the fly - and that’s not going to change. The frustration is that we can/could all see things weren’t working and can/could see one very simple way to improve that. The double-edged sword is that one way of coping with criticism is to build that togetherness and siege mentality. The other edge being that it confers stubbornness and a closed mind. That seems to be the issue. We’d all love Foden and Bellingham and Kane to work, but it’s repeatedly been shown not to. Is he persisting out of bloody-mindedness, or stupidity, or fear? I kinda don’t care unless one of those is more likely to go away.

I wouldn’t say it’s doing a Greece - Greece had a hard working but very limited squad and found an organized, dour and defensive way to shut games down. It was the only way they could progress. We’re only similar in that we’re not creating a lot and we’re getting through.

What a fucking brilliant red card . Love this ref.

Fuck, what a great save.

How’s the Copa America coming along?

When did Gary get a Hitler tache?

Not a shame at all, it’s great

Reffed pretty well so far

Good bit of kidology tbh.

It’s an intriguing game at least. Some ropey final balls. Hard to escape the feeling that all the teams so far would have done us good and proper.

Good start from les Bleus Blancs.

Not the sort of crowd shots I’m looking for, particularly for France-Portugal.

Once again I’m just hoping for a meltdown. Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!