TheBrownBottle

Tyler Adams’ name includes the names of three US Presidents. Can anyone beat that?

But at least the poster knows HOW TO WRITE DATES PROPERLY. 4th of July not July 4th

You should try SBS in Australia. Martin Tyler on his own, sounding like he’s on sedatives in a panic room, before the gripping insights of Portsmouth and Palace ‘legend’ Craig Foster

Wot no quarter of an hour of injury time?

Yep. Long tournament, don’t burn out etc. But if that’s the worry then play the second string - there should be enough in reserve to beat these

Love to know what that MOR tosspot Southgate said before this. It’s energy sapping watching it

Haha tbf ‘YOO ESS EH’ is still less irritating than cockneys chanting ‘cahm on Inglund’, in a tone which sounds like they’re sighing And that England band - the Sheff We’d orchestra - can get to fuck. Quarter of a century of their organised fun shite. I understand the Qataris paid them to go out. I hope they kept the receipt. In fact, I hope they keep them full fucking stop

That fucking ‘YOO ESS EH’ chant is the pits, mind. Every sport, too. Utter shite

Trippier seems to be a much better player in a B&W shirt. I’m not complaining mind

International football is pretty dull, it has to be said

*splutters like a Geordie Victor Meldrew*

When did bicycle kick become overhead kick? I wasn’t invited to that meeting. Bicycle kick is more apt

I’m just grateful that his PhD was in Arabic, otherwise we’d never have known what was said

Maguire dribbles like I used to playing on a five-a-side court in Newburn. And trust me, that’s not a good thing

Absolutely. And watching Botman and Schar for three months then watching Maguire and Stones feels like stepping down a division

Maguire is utterly fucking shite mind. I do wonder how far into this we can get before he inevitably costs us. Southgate is fucking crackers selecting the lunk-heeded knacker

I wish the internet existed in the same way in the ‘90s. I feel like I missed out on years of laughing at the inner thoughts of these soppy twats. It must be difficult, caring about human rights one minute and then voting Brexit to kick the mooslims oot the next before caring about human rights again.

‘Haha ha, imagine, imagine being Welsh, and not being English ha ha’

Me too. I was at Elland Road in 2001 for his ‘come back’ game. The little c*** scored and celebrated about three feet away from us, screaming some unpleasant stuff. Hated the fucker even more than I had prior to that. Never been more happy to win a game than that day. Horrible little shite.

Switched off bored. It feels like a sign of ageing, not being able to sit through the entirety of a dull WC group match. As a kid I’d still be glued to it. Now doing the dishes feels like a more satisfying task.

No, I agree - there is no way to frame Ireland as being anything but a victim of British colonialism. But that is still different from the ‘rest’ of the empire - Ireland still sent MPs to Parliament, for example. I understand the point you’re making - the issue to me is that bigotry isn’t a national characteristic, though I don’t doubt that it is in part a social construct. It veers into the same territory as racism - and I’m pretty sure that the ascribing of character traits based upon race or nationality is racism by definition. There are people all around the world with reactionary views - usually driven by unnecessary fear of the ‘other’. You’re not wrong re the calls against the ‘waves’ of immigrants - though antisemitism and race-based hatred is hardly unique to England. Like many people from Newcastle, my family almost entirely hail from Scotland and Ireland in the recent past - but I don’t think that my dislike of racism stems from not being a ‘full blooded’ Englishman

Not the experience of my other half growing up in Glasgow - she and her family 'enjoyed' the hospitality meted out to immigrants from the Indian subcontinent on a daily basis. I've seen her old schoolbooks, which have been daubed with delightful abuse by welcoming locals. Thankfully being English, I recognise that P**i is a racial slur which is applicable on both sides of the border. The stories she's told me about growing up as a Sikh in Glasgow would make you wince - I mean, I don't think it would be any less likely than she'd have had her hair set on fire by racists in an English school, so perhaps the kids who did it temporarily forgot about their deeper social conscience and empathy. The polling BTW makes it clear that Scotland is utterly indistinct in its attitudes to immigration from the rest of GB: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46457341 Historically, it is worth remembering that the oppressing done by the British in the empire was conducted by people from throughout the British Isles - one third of the British army in the C19th was from the island of Ireland, and the Scots were no different from the English in terms of carrying that flag around the globe. Also worth remembering that the act of union mainly came about because Scotland bankrupted itself with its own imperial ambitions in Central America. None of this is to suggest that 'little Englanders' are not an issue; but the idea that it is uniquely English to be so virulently anti-immigration is simply not borne out in reality.

Wonder if he was sat in a Qatari hotel when he tweeted that

Get in and that referee was a disgrace - 14 mins added on time? Get to fuck