Andrew

Thats got to be a pen to england, the bloke wrestling hims not even looking in the direction of play

This bit of build up with 4 former england players from differing eras all responding to the things mentioned in that little doc feature is great, really might be one of the most actually interesting bits of football pundit chat I've heard

Allardyce in this "interview with previous england managers" thing. He's so sad. Its brilliant. And the prick still thinks he was hard done to in losing the job

Maguire in the defence as the one other and Young preferred to Rose. Pickford Walker Stones Maguire Trippier Henderson Young Alli Lingard Sterling Kane Thats a really attack focussed line up, would probably prefer Rose to young but I like it.

Belgium win 3-0 for the first statement by a fancied team so far! First two goals were particularly good.

What a cracking hit by Mertens!

This sounds like a proper game so far!

Fucking hell that penalty was a stone waller on review and the BBC are still making out to be a close call or debatable in some way.

I hate the "Zlatan" thing, thought it was quite funny that the sweden coach refused to crawl up to him to call him up to the world cup. They've just won which means they've done better than they did at the euros with him in the team, you can bet he'd be out talking about how much hes missed.

The fucking radio commentary just been talking about ibrahimovic, "he is here in russia, I believe hes been promoting some sort of credit card, which we cant advertise. He did need a Visa to get here though."

VAR has given a penalty in the Sweden v South Korea match. Referee let it go initially. 1-0 to Sweden

Glorious failure!

Hopefully a really aggressive team selection from Southgate, Trippier, Walker, Stones and Rose to be in the defence(with one other), Lingard and Alli in midfield with Henderson anchoring and Sterling and Kane up top. Come out of the blocks quickly and score early, let Tunisia then have to come out and let the pace and quality of delivery from wide do the job. In reality a narrow win by a goal from a set piece if the rest of the tournament is anything to go off.

I really enjoyed the job Mexico did on Germany, they could've won by a lot more than they did. I'm not all that convinced of the "controversy" of the Swiss equaliser tbh, Miranda never looked like he was getting there anyway, for that space, 4 yards out to be so empty was shite by Brazil, where was the keeper?

They didn't, it goes on! Belgium and England today to actually show up?

Whatve you backed tonight gem?

You've got to give them away first though, Nacho hanging the leg for the penalty was poor, he should know better considering he'll be up against Ronaldo in training all the time. No doubting the quality of his freekick but that second...

It was a great, entertaining game, but neither of them...won, both conceded 3, Ronaldos first two were as a result of terrible defending and terrible goal keeping. Portugals centre backs were terrible as well, both got roasted by costa, completely on his own for his first. France were poor, argentina, germany, uruguay even have been entirely unconvincing, no big team has shown up and shown themselves to be in control and ready to make the tournament theirs yet.

The big teams have largely been poor so far, Brazil up this evening to sort it out!

The very man who introduced me to this forum

Messis missed a penalty

But I mean, it’s just weird, bad weird.

Ronaldo man, incredible

Why? That just makes no sense at all