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6-5 Spain now; Our boy Cordero missed a penalty too.

More than deserved, and the right call.

Henri Saivet is still the weirdest player I've seen in my lifetime imo, came for a decent fee (For Mike Ashley anyway), didn't get a look in, went on loan a load of times, came in out of the blue one time, immediately conceded possession leading to a West Ham goal, and scored a belting free kick 5 minutes later

That was useless from Stanfield.

Alan Smith.

I know this is probably in jest, but I love comments like this like we know exactly what other companies where offering, and if they'd even offer anything as close to the £30m a year that Adidas does

Not one knee slide on the metal flooring, poor dedication that

*sees it in person for the first time* "That's actually pretty lush that"

Other than the collar being a bit low, that kit is quality like.

Petition for Brentford to change their name to "No Limit Bumblebees" please.

I've heard that %oppos_player% is some player.

I'm already exhausted just looking at that

Also if any team needed a good set of fixtures to start the season it was Amorim and Man United, and they've been screwed Arsenal (H) Fulham (A) Burnley (H) Manchester City (A) Chelsea (H) Already looking forward to that delicious narrative meltdown

Our opening fixtures could be worse, they could be Arsenals: Man United (a) Leeds (H) Liverpool (a) Notts Forest (H) Man City (a)

It actually seems a fairly well balanced set of fixtures, other than the initial start, there aren't any easy runs, or any tough runs.

Last season we where home first and last in fairness

"Its a mess", does the man not know how notice periods work? The whole point is to hand over responsibilities to others

Reebok back making kits in the UK:

Apparently the Premier League now do kit reveals for the referees FWIW it looks as cheap and tacky as Puma has done for a long time

Tom Cleverly the new Plymouth manager.

What does any of that matter? The point is each of them players gained a lot of experience in that last tournament which helped them in the following seasons. Thats the point, and that's something that will likely benefit Tino especially from a leadership perspective, and is way more beneficial than a game against freaking Andorra. Also Gordon had played a lot of minutes for Everton the two seasons prior to the tournament, and played over 4000 minutes of first team action, and you failed to mention Tonali, who had played basically every minute of a Champions League campaign where they reached the semi-finals, before going to the under 21s.

There where two options for him this summer: 1) To play in a meaningful tournament, get further big game experience in a tournament environment, play in big stakes games, and be a leader among the squad and learn how to hone them skills further. 2) To play a friendly match, and a game against Andorra, where he will likely only have gotten some token minutes. Clearly for his long term prospects number 1 is the better option, and England absolutely made the right decision, along with Anderson, Gray, Quansah etc. The same how all of Gordon, Tonali, Palmer, Gibbs-White & Pedro Neto's development was helped during the last Under 21's Euros 2 years ago. Joe Hart was saying on comms last night that he owed a lot of his development to the experience he got in his two Under 21 tournaments that he was a part of, and how that helped him feel more at ease when he played in tournaments further down the line, as well as big games in his club career. So I don't understand this view that "He's past U21's Football", if you're eligible, and their isn't bigger fish to fry, then you absolutely should be going to the tournament, its all valuable experience that will make him a better footballer in the long run. And besides, he probably wants to be their playing

So quality signings that help take us to the next level? Give me more of that.