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Surprise, he’s fine. Get up you cunt. Enjoying the ref so far.

Neither team has any interest in defending corners.

This might be the best 5mins in a tournament I’ve ever seen

My wife asked why a 5-year-old was playing.

Austria are such fun

Oh wow nearly 1-1. What a start.

Jesus what a mess. Beautiful corner though.

Looking forward to this game more than most, which unfortunately suggests it might be a let down.

Christ lads, how are we still saying “can’t see any alternative that will improve things” or 3-5-2? Just put Gordon on the left and Saka/Palmer on the right - we’ve seen it work before the competition start and we’ve seen it work during the competition (for at least a minute, maybe two). Let‘s try it, eh?

But you don’t change that by keeping them in the same formation and just telling them to “pass quicker” or “show for the ball” or whatever. You change that by looking at the team as a whole and seeing how to create opportunities for space - either to pass to or move into. Look at what happened when Gordon came on against Slovenia. His presence and first run forced Slovenia’s midfield and defence to shift to the right when he had the ball to close him down and support the RB. That gave him room to move inside and Mainoo room to move into the space allowed. Then because Kane is clever as fuck he made the right run to draw the defence even further out of position and laid it off. If Palmer had anticipated it and not been on his heels it’s a goal. The frustrating thing is hoping that the chemistry will come without actually making any effort to put the right reagents together in the right order.

All right, going to watch injury time and extra time. The thing is, if Southgate played Gordon on the left and for whatever reason it didn’t work out I’d hold my hands up and say “fair enough, maybe I don’t know as much as I think about football, at least he tried.” This, though, is spectacularly infuriating. Just maddening.

Posted this in the other thread but was working through the game, keeping an eye on the BBC text. Is it worth watching any of the game other than the goals? It just sounded like…everything we’ve been talking about again, again…again

Right, was working through the game, keeping an eye on the BBC text. Is it worth watching any of the game other than the goals? It just sounded like…everything we’ve been talking about again, again…again.

“Why would I not want to play our best players?” Because we’ve seen it not work and for the fleeting seconds when you did what every supporter with half a fucking brain saw you needed to do we looked ace. ”But why would I not want to play our best players?” Repeat ad nauseam.

Disagree. The biggest problem is that we don’t have balance and an outlet on the left that opens things up allowing the central pairing more space and options when we have the ball. That’s when they get the chance to change the rhythm and tempo. They’ve been setting it up to now, just always at slow because the one option for a change of pace gets double-covered on the right.

Yup, every sport tbh.

Oh I wasn’t restricting myself to football. Not by a long chalk.

Said it in the other thread: my gut reaction is just not to watch which makes me a bit depressed, tbh. I feel like I’ve been doomscrolling continuously over the last 24hrs . Is anything not shite? Anything at all?

Genuinely considering just not watching. All I feel is sadness.

Sort of makes some sense. Family probably should have been Millwall but he had ideas above his station.

Yeah kinda. Almost all of it is bollocks so I ignore most of the Spurs stuff too. If there’s a clear and obvious chance to wind somebody up (Man U?) then you should take that as seriously as is necessary. I’ll usually respond to stuff on here if I have to defend Spurs though

Yeah yours was just the last post - should have quoted one of the ones with “fuck” in them. It just makes me laugh when people seem to take this stuff seriously. I mean, we all like a bit of banter, but transfer twitter is just guff for the most part.

It’s sweet that you’re all so triggered by this one tweet I have a vague memory that Emery likes Lo Celso (as he should, he’s good). Presume that’s why it’s been mentioned. Don’t know why anybody who’s been a fan for over - say - 20 years takes any notice of any of this stuff. It’s fun, but until something actually happens it’s chip paper. Much more relaxing to just wait until a transfer is confirmed.

All carping about his nonsense aside, I’m with Napoleon on this.

Yup. Everything from 8:30 is what we’ve been banging our head against the wall about.