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Christ, the team selection. More defensive at right back and in midfield. Righteo, Gareth.

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I did often look at Juve's squad the last few years (on FIFA) and wonder how they had such outrageous depth in every position.

It's always shite.

Peter Whalton said that rule about not being a handball when supporting yourself was removed about a year ago.

Pass to Bruno, Antony you bellend.

Deflection, disallow it.

It's the Undertaker!

Best team goal I can recall so far this tournament.

Happy for Mitro

Bloody hell. Mad end to the half.

His main strength these days is drawing fouls. May come in handy in tight games when we need set pieces tbf. Other than that he really seems to have been neutralised at Man City, it's disappointing.

Would have been a really nice goal by Croatia there, had it stood.

Courtois fucked up again! Mental

Courtois is a lucky man.

Maguire was utter shit in the Germany game immediately before this tournament. He's been fine so far but if he drops a major rick we can't say we weren't warned. Sterling has been poor for club and country since the last Euros. Not sure why we're encouraged to ignore that when players in better form are sat on the bench. Pickford has been fine for both Everton and England for a while now, I support not taking unnecessary risks in that position.

Think players are too physically fit and tactically aware these days. Need to start force feeding them booze, coke, fry-ups and hookers pre-game to get the people's game back on track.

Good question, anything pre-86 I don't have a clue. Think France were fairly well fancied in 98 being the hosts and having a good side, but they'd had a history of fucking up and (like England) didn't even qualify for 94.

Watch your mailbox

What does traditional forward mean?

Agree with your general point but just get something like these, they are nicer anyway: https://footballbobbles.com/product-tag/newcastle-united/?orderby=popularity

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he's absolutely burnt through his likeability in his time at Liverpool. Seems a proper bitter and horrible person these days.

Watching the game I was bored and frustrated, but hearing the interviews after I was annoyed. It appears that performance and result was pretty much the plan? Almost every player looked off it last night. Some of it you could see was instructed, for example the absolute lack of pressing from the front. Same old issues of us passing it around the back with not a clue what to do beyond that. You can put some of it down to poor individual performances but how much of that is down to the players and how much of it is them being told to essentially play within themselves? I still don't get why Mount is a guaranteed starter, Sterling generally flatters to deceive for club and country for well over a year now and I think we have to play Rice due to lack of alternatives but I still don't understand his appeal. Surely it was Rice's role to link defence and attack yesterday? Yet him and Bellingham were invisible. Shit game, best forgotten. I get all the stuff about Southgate's relative achievements but his approach is bloody tedious to watch.

Why was Maddison not on the bench? Not selected?