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Are you fucking right in the head? Tunisia were time wasting from the fourth minute when they realised that they couldn't cope with what we had. We dominated that game from front to back; name a save Pickford had to make other than the pen that he almost saved. Tunisia turned up with an anti-football tactic and got rightfully beat. If England had any kind of direct plan B, we'd have won that game 10 minutes earlier but they never stopped. And, as fans of Rafa's Newcastle, we can all appreciate that. Southgate's subs were fully focused on height because he knew they were poor at set pieces and tbf, that might be the greatest moment of his career. Give credit to Maguire for bullying and winning every header he challenged for. I say, play the second string against a Panama side with a high line and then try to turn over a sub-par Belgium

Aye the side with a questionable penalty who showed zero ambition in the match definitely deserved to draw with the team who had numerous chances, at least two good penalty shouts and were the only ones trying to win.

I've actually met him. He was on cruise holiday I was on in the med in 2005 I think. He'd just got a job in Australia I think. His sense of humour was on a par with that Brummie mackem we've acquired

Just a tedious pedant

Wow! a geographical whizz-kid eh Alex.

Aye. I think they re-wrote a version of Three Lions for an upcoming tournament (probably to shoe-horn in fucking Sewpa Kev) and that was they thought that line was. It was "jewles" as well though.

Incidentally (and this is going back a while) was it someone on RTG who thought the lyrics to Football's Coming Home went - Jewels remain still cleaming? @Gemmill

It would be absolutely delicious if the pro-Brexit stance that the DUP have taken, against the will of their people, led to the armageddon that they fear the most.

Those sports are different though, I'm not sure how it works in cricket but in tennis it's obviously an in or out decision and is near instant, just like goal line technology is in football. Those sports are also naturally more stop/start than football. I'm happy to give it a go but decisions need to be made more quickly and only time will tell if that's possible.

But it’s changed 3 games by calling penalties correctly, where the result would have been different for the better. Is getting 3 right and 1 wrong not miles better than 4 wrong?

It seems immediately apparent that VAR with competent officials is useful and that VAR with the other 90% is a complete waste of time

Optics.

Aye, it’s no shock to see the usual suspects talking absolute nonsense. That was a good performance by England, we missed a lot of easy chances but that doesn’t mean we didn’t deserve to win, the reason we had so many to miss is because we dominated the match and carved out a lot of good chances. The ref was shite imo, it reminded me of when we played Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship and they just continuously fouled and the ref didn’t book anyone to make them pack it in. The penalty decisions were abysmal as well. Overall a good opening match and it’s the most confident and impressive England display at a World Cup for fucking donkeys. Just have to beat Panama now and we’re through in all likelihood which is a great way to start off.

I don’t even remember snogging the Fish

What is covfefe?

Noelie seamlessly transfers his nufc analysis to the England side

Every silver lining has a cloud.

We roar when Harry scores!