Alex

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?

Saw him saying that on the news and my immediate assumption was he’s just made that up. Because he’s another one who, whilst not being as bad as LK, has never really taken this government to task much.

And the tourists. And the locals

In fact, I’d say they’re classier too

Fair

That’s another thing. If you’re going to persist with Kane. Consider he’s a 30 year old, whose legs have gone a bit and who’s come off the back of a long hard season. Also playing in very warm conditions tonight. AND DON’T PLAY HIM THE FULL 90 MINUTES! Give Watkins or Toney a good 25 minutes. What’s the point of running Kane into the ground in a match situation like that? If Kane doesn’t like getting taken off when he hasn’t scored, so fucking what?

I think Mainoo will start the next game. That’s your one and only change imo

Also applies to Mainoo and Palmer to a lesser extent btw

Southgate making a cunt of Gordon there like. If by some fluke it comes off they’ll say it was great, but what you meant to do as a winger in that amount of time? Honestly think he wants him to fuck up by trying too hard in the tiny amount of time he had (to prove a point because he doesn’t rate him).

Maybe