Kid Icarus

Reputations stick and I think we've been exposed to Pickford's clangers more than any other opposition fanbase. Agree with you though, the whole "Why does Pickford start?" question is irritating and it's irritating when it's asked about Maguire as well tbh.

Bizarre game. One where it's hard to work out how Germany scored 3 and how England only scored 3.

Pen all day long

Should be a pen

The least we deserve tbh, should probably be about 4-1 up all things considered.

Say what you want about Mason Mount when he's at Chelsea, he always delivers for England.

No idea why this keeps getting asked when the answer is always the same. Because despite being shit for Man United, he's generally been very good for England. Same as Pickford and his shakiness for Everton, he's never let England down. Maguire's England's all-time goal scoring defender as well.

Missed most of the second half but we should have been 2 or 3 up by half time. Atrocious finishing and final ball from Sterling and Foden.

The England's kit's lush

It's annoying in terms of our enjoyment of the season, but in terms of progression it only really adds another underline undernearh something that I'm already confident that Howe, Ashworth and the club know. I fully expect us to get to January and go out and work on improving the squad and its depth.

I think the circumstances will matter. 12th would be shit, but that's the lower limit of where I'd expect us to finish accounting for an injury crisis.

Rafa coming back to Newcastle at any point would be a disaster now imo. It was easy to put up with the dull football when it was pragmatism and the us vs them feeling when we were completely hamstrung and he was a huge coup in our circumstances. I couldn't put up with it now having got a taste of the much more exciting possession based football Howe is aiming for.

Had the 'God save our gracious Queen' part of that on standby most of the last fortnight

He's England's all-time goal scoring defender and despite being shit at Man United, is still playing well for England. Southgate would be mad to drop him.

He's a system player, and he knows the England one from doing it at Chelsea, but he's nowhere near the same player. At Chelsea he scores or assists in 2 out of every 3 matches, but at a base level he's much more involved and has a bit of flair about him as well. For England all of his work seems functional and mainly off the ball. Agree about Foden as well like. Sterling seems much deeper now as well.

Mason Mount even more so, he's the inverse Harry Maguire.

On what planet do you not give another tournament to a manager who just got us to a semi and then a final though? That's literally the deep end

Absolutely no one should have this opinion about those players imo. No one had anything even approaching this opinion about the same players 2-4 years ago.

I've watched England, managed by better managers and with better players put in shit performance after shit performance at international tournaments, losing and drawing against the likes of Iceland, Algeria, Romania, Sweden, and USA. But I'm supposed to believe that Southgate, the only manager to ever get England to a World Cup semi and Euro final did it because of luck.

The England kit looks much better as a full kit, quite like it.

It's beyond irritating how good Donnarumma is like, he's ridiculous.

You're allowed to do whatever you want, just expect people to disagree with you.

I cannot believe we're 1-0 down away to the European Champions considering the players we have available.

Hahaha coz hes woke!!

It's an obvious sympathy award. No way has he been the best England player in 21-22, likewise Phillips wasn't previously. Should be Kane and 20-21 should have been Sterling.