Alex

Well everyone needs to have belief in and fully buy into the manager’s tactics, just for a start

The head fucking chef at a fucking rave? You fucking what? The game’s gone

Bit optimistic iyam

What a brilliant team performance by Georgia. Completely deserve this after outplaying Portugal. Not just superbly well organised and working their bollocks off for each other. The quality in possession at times has been right up there.

Game hasn’t even started and I’m sick of Matterface already

I quite fancied the Lindisfarne festival this year too. Line up is canny and there’s some good local DJs with a bit of a ‘Balearic’ vibe for after dark. But only in one of the ‘glamping’ bell tents. It’s a fucking pain trying to coordinate getting people my age to go though (4 of us that went to school together have discussed going). The other thing is the very real possibility of less than Balearic weather.

I’ve seen that clip before. The side eye from the nearest dog wondering when they’re going to pull away

They did, that’s right. Venables always rated him iirc. A very ordinary number 10 compared to Pedro. And wouldn’t have been close to being in the top 5 in Italy in that position at that time.

The issue Badenoch will have throughout her public life is that she’s absolutely fucking mental. She’ll end up on GBNews.

Aye. The four strikers in the squad were Fowler, Ferdinand, Shearer and Sherringham. Cole and Wright along with Beardsley missed out.

Erm, Stan Collymore?

He hadn’t scored in something like 10 England matches and there were several other candidates. Cole, Ferdinand and Wright in particular

Braverman’s just employed a similar tactic. Claiming that people called her (in her words) a ‘genocidal bleep’ at the supermarket. Possibly true. Also her kids were there, because of course they would be because that’s a classic appeal to emotion. Then the people who called her it followed her to the checkouts continuing the abuse. Then they rang up several of their friends who repeated the insult over the phone. At this point her security intervened. She’s not a MLF by any chance is she?

It’s the other Bilbao Black Cat 👍🏻

Spot on, mate.

One of the as yet to be decided 3rd placed teams. But it’s Sunday at 5pm

He’s getting the worst out of Foden too. When he plays there for Man City they’ve got width supplied by the leftback. This naturally creates options for him to come inside. Trippier, apart from not playing much in recent months, is far less comfortable overlapping on that side. Seeing Foden hugging the touchline (exactly where you’d be happiest if you were our opponents), isolated and frustrated was fucking soul destroying. I bet there’s loads of the players having a go at the manager in their private conversations.

That international fan day / weekend thing they have where about 30 people turn up proves they are MASSIVE tbh

He’s also scored one goal in a team that’s created next to fuck all over three games and has only managed two goals. He’s a central midfielder being shoehorned into a no. 10 as well imo. He’s only 20 ffs. I wasn’t making a case for him being brilliant.

The bloke’s still on about Kalvin Phillips, man. A lad who did a decent job for England. But who’s also, even at his best, a limited, defensive-minded, safety first robot. Who also arguably held the team back as an attacking unit even when he was a mainstay.

Bellingham has done ok. It’s not really the system imo. It’s the way it’s being implemented. But what I find weird is, at club level you usually have a system at one time that a manager believes in. Then you recruit and use players that fit into it. Whereas at international level, you obviously can’t go out and sign players. So you tailor your tactics and formation to suit your best players. Southgate is obsessed with the system even though it’s to the detriment of some of the best attacking players in the world. Which I think Foden, Bellingham and Saka are when you consider the sort of fees they’d command if anyone could even afford them. Even then I think it’s fairly obvious that you could shuffle those players in this system / add the likes of Gordon and/or Palmer and make it work better. He’s such a limited coach it’s untrue.

Absolutely. He actually had the fucking cheek to say, in light of this, that we should be discussing more important matters. Before attempting to equate this with the expenses scandal, based purely on what he claims he’s heard.

And asked: do you hate the mags anarl?