Alex

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

https://www.moretvicar.com/collection/viz-magazine-shop/product/blyth-spartans-mug One for @Kid Dynamite

Surprised it's only 6 in 10.

I wasn't really saying he was great or anything. Just he took the responsibility of being the one who became the extra man in midfield when we had possesion and he was almost always an option then. He used the ball quite well, keeping it simple. I love Lascelles fwiw but I wonder if Southgate thinks those 3 who played last night are better on the ball and wants players who can bring it out from the back in that system. I'm not sure I agree with that but I'm trying to see it from the manager's point of view. I also get the feeling he'd settled on a squad a while back and it would've taken something exceptional or fitness issues for that to change. Again, I can see the logic of that for your first XI and sticking with that (more or less) rigidly, ditto the system of play. Where I feel he's perhaps missed a trick is being too rigid around the squad. I'd probably have taken Lascelles and Shelvey but just throwing them in the mix when they hadn't featured in any of the friendlies was probably a bit too much of a risk for a boring bastard like Southgate.

And that stuff is just the stuff he can 'prove'

The size of Jones' audience / influence is terrifying

I thought Maguire did well stepping out nd being the extra option in midfield

I’m not against it per se but trialling it at the World Cup seems a bit daft to say he least

I don’t even remember snogging the Fish

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.

CT wearing his hat for the occasion

Not getting at all carried away

That fucking advert with him in Think it premiered around the time Visa stopped working for about 24 hours as well

The best bit is, according to the UN's International Narcotics Control Board, the UK is the world's largest exporter of medicinal cannabis.

I suppose it's a decent enough analogy, i.e. Johnson using something he knows fuck all about to describe something he's equally ignorant of

Would be pleased just to see us get out of the group then see what happens. Not expecting a lot which has been my position for just about every tournament since '98

Looks like a Gatesheed Spice Heed

I would stop eating until you're sick, Adam Richman

I wouldn't let that keep you awake at night.

Head says England, heart says Tunisia?

Btw, has anyone else noticed Kyle Walker looks like Jimmy Hill?

Who to?

Heart says 2-0, head says 1-1