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25 minutes ago, Deluded Sag said:

Were there any indications that you were a City fan? I wouldn't take it personally - he really didn't like your club by the time he left. His celebrations after the JPT area final victory made that quite clear. 

At Rovers he came across as a difficult, but not unlikeable, character. I have the utmost admiration for him as a goalkeeper. 

 

Admiration. Aim high kid 

Eniola Aluko.

Watched this on 

22 minutes ago, Super said:

Barely a mention of the star of the night when he got subbed. 

Watched on a Portuguese channel, he got rave reviews. Follows on from his u21 exploits, last finish was beautiful.

Portugal looking good, goals from different areas of the pitch and a positive approach to the game. 

1 minute ago, pillred said:

These commentators are getting on my nerves practically spontaneously combusting every time Spain look like they have a chance to score. 

I don't understand the Spain love in. Tedious to watch at times.

58 minutes ago, Rossi the Robin said:

Wood (10)

Jacki 

David James 

Bailey 

Wiltshire 

1 hour ago, Wanderingred said:

Bit of a random anecdote here. 
 

I’m watching the World Cup from a hotel room in China. I thought there was something weird about the Chinese coverage… something about the camera angle, and the editing, But couldn’t quite put my finger on it… now it’s just clicked…. they are trying to avoid shots of the crowd because they aren’t wearing masks!

Whenever there’s a goal scored, the camera view changes to an overhead view of the pitch from far out, as not to capture the hoards of celebrating maskless reprobates. There also seems to be a 30 second delay from the live feed. This country is so wack.

 

Knock at the door incoming 

2 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

As state sponsors of terrorism, I'd say they do just that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism#:~:text=Qatar has sponsored al-Qaeda's,-Nusra Front%2C since 2013.

Are you aware of what one of our main exports is and who it's sold too? Off topic.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8310/

42 minutes ago, Malago said:

There have been four truly great footballers in my lifetime.  Pele, Beckenbauer, Cryuff and Maradona.  Mbabbe is set to join that list.

Behave yourself.

Messi and Ronaldo. Best. Zidane.....

Mbappe is nowhere near that level. 

1 hour ago, Show Me The Money! said:

If only football were that simple

Stellar reply. 

4 minutes ago, Globe Trotter said:

Still can’t get my head around that decision 

Baffles me also. Unless he is injured.

32 minutes ago, Show Me The Money! said:

So we can’t say that the USA played well and if England didn’t play well that it’s all Southgate’s fault and not the players at all.

Players play a formation and role outlined by the manager. Did he change anything after the first 45 to change the game?

Thats unless you think players just get on the pitch and do what they want.

USA played well. England have better players man for man across the pitch, unfortunately sitting deep doing anything but attacking.

17 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

No I don't agree. Yes the US team played a different game to the Wales game. They realised that pressing against a more technically adept set of players was just going to wear them out again, like it did in the previous game. They adopted the sit back and hit them on the break mode. Southgate realised that they had the pace to play that way against our defence, so we just held them off. 

We tried to encourage the press by passing it around the back, with the hope of exploiting the space behind the pressers, but Americans for the most part were well disciplined. 

The important thing then was to not lose to a late breakaway goal, hence the substitutions. Grealish, who can create, but can also hold the ball and win fouls, Henderson for the tiring Bellingham etc. 

I think he did all that was necessary.

I think almost everyone knew they were going to counter with pace! It was extremely basic hence the stagnation to the game and frustration with the approach.

Can we all agree that Southgate failed to either anticipate or deal with the playstyle of the USA.

Wales struggled with them in their first half and while second was a case of pressing and working the channels to get both possession and chances.

What's frustrating is Southgates complete inability to change a game. 

2 minutes ago, TomF said:

Grealish is so clever at winning free kicks 

Is that the same gamesmanship Portugal get slated for?

Most boring game of the world cup.

It's no better then having one man make a decision.

We have a team of seven now making inconsistent call, decision by committee it seems.

1 minute ago, Super said:

You can't really compare Modric. Halaand and Mbappe are evenly matched imo.

Every award ceremony does the name. All subjective.

Watching Modric play is a joy. As a player he is sublime.

Haaland Vs Mbappe could be the new Messi Vs Ronaldo 

6 minutes ago, Super said:

Do you really think Mane Salah and Lewandowski are better?

Believe Haaland and Modric are, Benzema also. 

21 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Focus on the negatives after a a great win. Good boy

Thanks Dan. 

20 hours ago, downendcity said:

Plenty of successful club managers have achieved nothing close to Southgate's tournament record.

I've read plenty of times that international manager's miss the day to day involvement of club management. Perhaps Southgate is more suited to international management and even more so tournament football.

 

What's he won? No prizes for second, third, fourth in tournaments. 

Given the depth of talent I expect more, especially how he bottled the final with his tactical masterpiece.

12 minutes ago, downendcity said:

In fairness, apart from Sir Alf, no England manager has won anything either and GS ,with a WC semi and a Euro final to his name, has a better tournament record than all bar Sir Alf. 

That's true, however most England manager's have had a pedigree of winning something or having some sort of achievement.

That said good result today, playing attack minded football. My issue is if he changes to some half brained 5 at the back when he comes up against a decent team and coach.

2 minutes ago, downendcity said:

 

Ah, but has he ever managed a team to promotion from the championship?

 

 

 

 

Or actually won anything 

Did you watch Russia? 

10 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

You certainly have much more money than us and have spent far, far more on players.

Just out of interest, in those 30 years since we signed Tillson, how much have City spent and how far has it got them in terms of league position?

 

How much has the nice man ploughed onto your shambles and where has it got you?

39 minutes ago, SecretSam said:

For bribes

For consistency.

 Consistency of ruining footbal l as a game.