England v Slovakia 5pm 30/6

[Mation]

All a cunning plan to leave the Swiss at a loss how to prepare.

That would be a big plus.

e2a: I'm wasted on you people

 

[twistedAM]

Feels more like a metaphor for Labour.

Very little actual change, but victory will likely be used to justify more of the uninspired same.

I'm dreading that chump Starmer (even more) if England bring it home.

 

[ska invita]

I'm exhausted

 

[Lord Camomile]

Played 4 and, in normal time, won 1, drawn 3. All teams at least one league below us in domestic league equivalences.

In a domestic league, we'd barely be mid-table.

 

[Lotte]

Gareth Southgate Stop Bringing Subs On So Fucking Late Challenge

 

[marty21]

Blimey, that was a tough watch

 

[Wilf]

Right England, never mind the warm down, just sit down and watch Spain.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Right England, never mind the warm down, just sit down and watch Spain.

Ha, was just thinking, "can we get someone wheel a TV into the England changing room so they can watch how Spain do it"

 

[strung out]

 

[ska invita]

What about Raven on the Wing ?

Don't know that one, looks fun

 

[The39thStep]

And, no doubt, a lot of women and girls from getting a beating, given the correlation between football and domestic abuse rates.

True and to be totally condemned however that isn’t just an English disease unfortunately.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

 

[ska invita]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

Take that back

 

[Lotte]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

OK, let's not get carried away here.

 

[Wilf]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

Allardyce was Botis Johnson then.

 

[strung out]

Allardyce was Botis Johnson then.

Allardyce was in charge about the same amount of time as Liz Truss.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Ha, was just thinking, "can we get someone wheel a TV into the England changing room so they can watch how Spain do it"

 

[Lord Camomile]

I've often defended Southgate's record, and I genuinely do believe it can't be ignored and is to his credit.

But that was dire, off the back of three further very weak performances.

We looked listless and idea-less. It was like watching England back in the 00s.

We were 3 minutes away from going out to a team ranked 45th in the world, and spent the final 15-20 minutes clinging on. We scraped through.

Just as Southgate's record deserves recognition, so does that.

 

[The39thStep]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

Can anyone imagine how utterly terrible and soul destroying a football team would be managed by that mediocre excuse .

 

[Ax^]

Gareth Southgate Stop Bringing Subs On So Fucking Late Challenge

wait till you get to a penalty shootout and he subs himself in

 

[Humberto]

It looked like they were trying to keep it at the back and draw Slovakia out, but it didn't really work out.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Don't know that one, looks fun

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Bloke on the right should be concentrating on the game ...
Not on what to name a web service provider...

 

[tommers]

Southgate really is the kier starmer of football management

Neither believe in the left wing.

 

[Lord Camomile]

It looked like they were trying to keep it at the back and draw Slovakia out, but it didn't really work out.

Were Slovakia too... disciplined?

 

[Wilf]

Right England, never mind the warm down, just sit down and watch Spain.

... erm, Georgia yes Georgia.

 

[Lord Camomile]

... erm, Georgia yes Georgia.

Fuck it, if we'd lost playing like Spain, I would barely be unhappy.

 

[Humberto]

Were Slovakia too... disciplined?

Slovakia played well. When they were 1 nil up they could pick their moments. The onus was on England then but they didn't go for it until it was almost too late. In the end Bellingham found a way through.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Best teams ahead of england and the final - Switzland, Holland and Austria. And we have the best crop of players ever. Takes a special kind of medicority to make England outsiders to get there. Equivalant to only polling 37% agasint the current government.

 

[Humberto]

I think it's doubtful to say this squad is England's best ever. We'll see. But I'm not convinced of that. Different opinions and shit...

 

[BigMoaner]

Millwall would have ruined England today. They look like they lack adrenaline, and belief. They look half a yard off the pace. The team is clearly there and it just needs some fires in bellies me thinks. Just not really sharp enough. A wins a win, tho

(Reading that back is like football cliche bingo)