Andrew

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/12/photographer-croatia-good-shot-world-cup-yuri-cortez Noticed this at the time but didn't realise he carried on taking photos, couple of them in the article are superb

I'm not so sure of that tbh, Colombia were just shy(1 point) of Argentina in the qualifiers but if we'd beat them instead we'd be saying it was massive. Sweden came through Holland, Italy and Germany on their route to the tournament and QF and if we'd played and beat any of them as well as we did Sweden, who proved themselves more worthy of the position than any of those teams, we'd also be delighted to have done them in that manner. Course it could all have fallen differently but we got where we did on merit, being historically big has counted for very little in this World Cup so what does it matter that it was Colombia and Sweden in the knockouts? We still won those ties and we still have a world cup semi-final to our name, and a world cup penalty shootout win, and most likely a golden boot winner as well.

you may as well try, could've tried owt with that ref and had a chance at getting away with it

Looking back at the match from this morning it feels like experience told in the end to me. We worked hard first half but needed to be more than a goal clear by the time our energy waned. Once that wasn't the case Croatias big game players, Modric, Rakitic and Mandzukic, all Champions League winners started to really drive the game in their favour, Modric in particular was absolutely sublime but Rakitic as well just stopped losing the ball at all and our legs had gone. Vrsaljko started having more and more influence as Young tired, when Rose came on we actually got back in a bit and created again as a result. They got away with way too many fouls in the first half with the ref bafflingly reluctant to hand out a booking despite Lovren dishing out fouls all over the place, constantly in late and leaving some on Kane ove rand over again. I don't get this "one shot on target" stat thats going around either, we scored from one, Stones header was cleared off the line and Kane had one saved before he then hit the post.

Well, unlike you lot I've really enjoyed this world cup overall, its been great to have a supportable England team again and who knows, might actually look to the nations league and qualification for the euros with some enjoyment in mind. It feels a far cry from the gerrard/lampard/rooney/terry era now and thank god for that.

But it didn’t, so we don’t.

Is this fucking ref allergic to booking Croatians?

I voted to stay in though. My fucking off is washing my hands of this whole affair from an entirely different starting high horse

"Can everyone please look to the left for this one?"

Aye Ive just read some of the interview, basically "I don't like how the brexit I voted for is going, fortunately I am rich enough for it not to matter so I'm fucking off and leaving everyone else with the consequences" Cunt.

Various rumours about that we're negotiating with chelsea for the permanent transfer for an "unnamed" chelsea player as well as the Kenedy deal.

12 injured in Nice, Riot police on the champs elysees clashing with fans after frances win last night. Its not just us. Belgium going a bit "colombia" after their loss last night, whining about the way France played.

What a load of fucking bollocks that tweet is. Political "Leaders" my arse, what is fucking leadership about that load of shite? I want my political leaders to have some fucking brains and the balls to do whats actually best for the people of the country, having the expertise and experience to do so regardless of whether a heap of people who don't understand the issues don't like it. Since when has letting "I want that, even though its known to be terrible for me" happen been the way to lead anything? You don't let your stupid fucking kids run into traffic or drink bleach because they wanted to, you fucking stop it because you know that its bad for them.

Theres no way I'm not having a team so I guess thats how its going.

I think a lot of those who voted remain, especially on the younger end, may have doubled down on how great europe/immigration is in defiance of the result/government

Steven Taylor has just signed for Wellington Phoenix I guess thats my NZ team choice sorted!

Funny thing is the article is meant to be a football one, he just really fucking hates the tories

I read that yesterday, its brilliant

He can't want it surely? He has shirked responsibility for his bullshit at every single turn, getting himself into the PM spot at such a contentious time sounds like his nightmare.

About as well as Peter Schmeichel saying we should appoint Pearson rather than Benitez. And for many it was aged about as predictably.

Hard to imagine, no full tory Cameron government, no brexit to speak of, certainly no may as party leader, probably boris. Corbyn still a low mark backbencher standing up for his "principles" rather than being a useless opposition leader. What a world.

Well, who didn't see this coming? oh. yeah.

Well, fuck

Kenedy season long loan to be announced this week according to the mail