France are either amazing or in complete meltdown. This tournament it seems to be the latter with insults being thrown everywhere by the players at each other according to reports.
Thought we were average at times, wasn't happy with the lack of attacking intent but don't give a **** becsuse we won 2 v 0 against Germany. Get the **** in..... I reserve the right to moan about my team, just as I reserve the right to bask in its relative glory. Just as I do with United tbf
Holy shit is 'Muller' Pagnell? I was just about to type out a serious reply to all that. Fella, you must be pushing fifty by now. Get off the internet and spend time with your kids ffs. (ah nah, I see, I had him on ignore. That was why I was getting confused by all this shit.) The mums were cussing each other out apparently
So to clarify, people 'pushing 50' and over shouldn't be on here? Nice one. I guess. You're convincing no one lad. Just admit you didn't put your readers on.
Last time I was on here it was to slag off Southgate and the England side after the Scotland game. I just couldn't see us getting anywhere with that level of performance. Credit to Southgate and the team, we looked a completely different team the other day. Sure, they should've scored a couple times, but we had an equal share of clear cut chances. It certainly wasn't an undeserved win, we matched them for most of the game and then we were the clinical ones. Going into the quarters now I have complete faith in Southgate. Taking a step back, which other England manager would've got this side past Germany? Hodgson? Capello? McClaren? Eriksson? I'm already talking about managers who were appointed before I was born. This is certainly a decent English side we currently have, but is it even as good as the golden generation of the 2000s? Maybe the teams around us have got worse, but I think you could make arguments Portugal, Germany and France have better sides than us, and have all crashed out before us. Anyway, I guess my point is Southgate's the man, football's coming home, @Muller put Three Lions on full blast and lighten up x
None of those managers would have dropped TAA, Henderson, or Sancho, and would currently all be trying to shoehorn them into a 4-4-2.
And ironically, again people are calling for us to play all of our attacking talent in one lineup. We've been using this approach for decades with better squads and achieved nothing.
In 2006 England had Carrick, Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard, Hargreaves, no left winger, a still good but clearly fading Beckham, with no obvious solution, and Rooney with no top level partner to play along side him. So they play 4-4-2 with no defensive capabilty in midfield, shoehorned a player into LW, and played Owen and Beckham, who arguably should have been squad players at that point.
So frustrating between 04-06. If you look at the line up in 2004 Euros, it was fantastic but they should not have all played. Such a waste
The only reason Eriksson isn't slated more is because the idiots who came after him (McLaren, Capello, Hodgson) were all so bloody awful that by comparison his era was relatively good. However he should be absolutely lambasted for his time as England manager. He was a coward with no tactical nous who wasted 3 tournaments with exceptionally talented squads.
Its always the same with some of our fans, if we lose its because we're crap and if we win it's because the opposition is crap. We've got a great chance of reaching our second consecutive major semi, even possibly the final. Just fkn enjoy it, this is what it's all about.
Some sad news from the game. Collapsed whilst celebrating the Kane goal. Puts everything into perspective.
Sad news, indeed! If only Harry Kane hadn't scored the 2nd goal and Thomas Müller had made the sitter for the 1-1 instead and we would've scored another one. Sorry, I shouldn't have written this because it's really sad news that this happened to a 29 year old man who celebrates this win with friends in a pub R.I.P btw: What confuses me a bit about the text above is this sentence: "This poignant moment in British History....." Is a victory against Germany in a football match really "a poignant moment in British History?"
It isn't, but you can't blame them for a bit of being OTT. Given how it's been in the media since, you'd think it was. In any case - RIP Charlie. 29 is absolutely no age at all.
