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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.

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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?

Rude bastard

Pougatch gives me major Jeremy Kyle vibes.

was a Masvidal-esque flying knee to the face.

That was a cracking through ball for the first Iran chance there.

Bloody hell! Iran hit the post twice

Wales 1 v 0 Iran Qatar 0 v 2 Senegal Netherlands 1 v 1 Ecuador England 2 v 0 USA Tunisia 0 v 0 Australia Poland 1 v 0 Saudi Arabia France 3 v 1 Denmark Argentina 2 v 1 Mexico Japan 2 v 0 Costa Rica Belgium 1 v 1 Morocco Croatia 1 v 1 Canada Spain 2 v 2 Germany Cameroon 1 v 2 Serbia South Korea 2 v 1 Ghana Brazil 2 v 0 Switzerland (double) Portugal 1 v 1 Uruguay

Aye Brazil need to save the day later like, cos today has been wank. Hopefully it is just opening game cautiousness from a lot of teams and there will be less cagey games from tomorrow.

They said on the BBC coverage that Canada had more shots and touches in the opposition box than Spain had in their 7-0.

Latest big shock of the tournament - 2 mins injury time.

Missed 16 minutes of football just now for a work call. Beyond inconvenient. Any good so far?

Guess who wins again

Japan always a shoe-in for one of the most likeable teams. They were brilliant for the last half hour there.

I was travelling yesterday so this is my first experience of a 4 match day, can't believe my luck that we're only halfway through the day's football like I'm working at same time mind, so don't mind periods of the games that aren't upto much.