The Quarter Finals: Croatia, Argentina, Morocco, and France through

[Dancing Brave]

3 minutes ago, Alan Pardew said:

Fucking old cunt. 
 

Nee need to call me that Alan, I'm just old.

[54]

If Southgate does go, you just know the FA will go for Gerrard.

 

[ikri]

Forget about Southgate staying or leaving, forget about the crap substitutions, forget about the horrendous referee.

 

Can we instead just ban ITV from showing England games?  Commentary worse than a state funeral and we lose more often than we win when they're showing the games.

[nemtizz]

1 minute ago, 54 said:

If Southgate does go, you just know the FA will go for Gerrard.

 

 

[St1pe]

4 minutes ago, huss9 said:

and thats exactly the problem with southgate's thinking.

its never about form and what we need at the time. its all abut his favourites.

sterling has offered little for the past 12 months.

 

 

 

 

In my opinion I think that’s been part of the success he’s has since taking over. He builds teams rather than changing players in and out depending on poor runs with their club side unless they’ve been really out of the loop. 
 

I came into the tournament on his back with some of the selections and he’s been proven right again for the most part. Pickford and Maguire being two who’ve represented us at international level well again despite being utterly shite in the league. 
 

I’m not sure there’s anyone out there that’ll be jumping at the chance for the England job that could do better with this group of players. 

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, cubaricho said:

Holy shit Kyle Walker sounds nothing like I expected  

You should’ve seen Mrs BB’s reaction first time she heard Shola interviewed.  Weirdly, she knew he was a Nigeria international but not where he’s from (Mrs BB isn’t a Geordie)

[Comegetasample]

2 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

Holy shit Kyle Walker sounds nothing like I expected  

 

[Ben]

1 minute ago, ikri said:

Forget about Southgate staying or leaving, forget about the crap substitutions, forget about the horrendous referee.

 

Can we instead just ban ITV from showing England games?  Commentary worse than a state funeral and we lose more often than we win when they're showing the games.

Crazy to think that Mcoist also co coms on ITV and hes amazing.

[54]

Just now, nemtizz said:

 

I'm not sure if you're laughing as you think I'm really wide or the mark, or because you know the FA are utterly inept and it's likely

[UncleBingo]

12 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I’m going to get pelters, but I thought the ref was alright tbh.  There was a consistency to his approach, he tried to let the game run, and England were constantly looking for fouls and flung themselves to the deck at every opportunity. 

That's fucking bollocks mind.

 

A clear foul in the build up to their first goal and on Kane in the 1st half alone.

If that was a Newcastle game, you would be fuming.

[Disco]

9 minutes ago, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

Eni Aluko is an idiot like. "Should someone else have taken it?" No  

Ivan Toney is trending on Twitter. The best thing about England being out is the sharp reduction in absolutely dogshit takes and no nowts going back to not paying attention. 

[LV]

32 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Here comes the FA trying to lure Eddie to take over the manager job. 

Luckily, he’s not that stupid 

[Klaus]

3 minutes ago, 54 said:

If Southgate does go, you just know the FA will go for Gerrard.

 

 

would rather we went for Bruce 

[Manxst]

1 minute ago, LV said:

Luckily, he’s not that stupid 

Could see Lampard jumping ship from Everton mind. 

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, UncleBingo said:

That's fucking bollocks mind.

 

A clear foul in the build up to their first goal and on Kane in the 1st half alone.

If that was a Newcastle game, you would be fuming.

You’re right that I would be far less amenable to those calls re NUFC.  The foul on Kane was outside the area so couldn’t be brought back - so I wouldn’t be as upset about that.  I’d be just as annoyed with Henderson and Walker for that first goal as anyone else

[Ste]

The next England manager is already part of the set up unless Howe/Potter express an interest which I doubt. That’s the way the FA decided to do things after the Iceland defeat and they won’t steer away from it. 

[cubaricho]

I hadn’t seen that Morocco goal yet. Boy can that dude jump. 

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, Ste said:

The next England manager is already part of the set up unless Howe/Potter express an interest which I doubt. That’s the way the FA decided to do things after the Iceland defeat and they won’t steer away from it. 

Lee Carsley it is then

[Disco]

15 minutes ago, Ste said:

The next England manager is already part of the set up unless Howe/Potter express an interest which I doubt. That’s the way the FA decided to do things after the Iceland defeat and they won’t steer away from it. 

Struggling to comprehend how funny it’d be if they gave the job to Lee Carsley.

 

And yes i obviously had to look up who was the current u21s coach.

[Cronky]

I've always been dubious about Rice and his ultra-conservative approach but tonight he looked a lot more positive and got the ball going forward far more often. 

 

But our MOM was Saka, who unfortunately only got half the number of free kicks that he deserved.

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, cubaricho said:

I hadn’t seen that Morocco goal yet. Boy can that dude jump. 

Aye, it’s a corking header

[rgk_lfc]

I know folks will point to the two penalties as indication that the ref was balanced, but that was the worst refereeing performance in the quarter finals. The number of niggly fouls that France got away with was insane. Upamecano or whatever his name is was wrestling down players and didn't even get a yellow card. The sheer look of disbelief on Saka's face when he finally got the foul in his favor midway into the second half told the whole story. 

 

English players responded to Southgate after conceding the first goal. No doubt players like him. At the same time, taking of Saka for Sterling was a mental decision. Saka was running at them, creating trouble. Grealish should have come in sooner for Henderson.

 

I feel for Harry Kane. That was a brilliant performance. After conceding the goal, he rallied the England attack forward, wandered to midfield and played some brilliant passes. If you look at his overall game, it was better than Mbappe. But his performance will be remembered for that miss which is cruel. 

 

Maguire's header attempt on goal was better than Giroud's. Maguire's kissed the post and went wide. Giroud's hit Maguire and went inside the goal. That was the difference between the two sides. 

[Lenny]

9 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

I see you've gone full Ronaldo in your time away. 

Yep, what an utter shit take. Ridiculous, family wellbeing means bugger all, apparently. 

[LV]

2 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

I hadn’t seen that Morocco goal yet. Boy can that dude jump. 

Hang on, we haven’t finished whinging about England yet..

[Jaqen]

People were demanding Saka off at HT earlier. We had some good chances and two pens, can't really complain too much.