Ayatollah Hermione

Not sure if it was the shite weather or what but that game last night couldn’t have felt further from a World Cup semi-final IMO. It’s not even because England are out either; they’ve gone out plenty of times and the tournament has still felt massive at this stage. This is the first time in a couple of weeks that it’s felt worse for being in the winter

The more rapidly we advance, the more hysterical they’ll become. This is just the beginning

Remember when Charnley contacted the Spanish FA before the 2018 World Cup and asked if they wanted Rafa on a temporary basis? Presumably in the hope he’d have a good tournament and they’d pay to get him out of Ashley’s hair

I can see Southgate letting the dust settle and choosing to see the contract out after the Euros. The FA will probably encourage him down that path so they don’t have to make any decision either

Got to say like, Southgate plays some dodgy, cautious football but I prefer it to Capello and Hodgson who did the same with worse results and dogshit performances to boot

It’ll be like the striker search where there was about a dozen names mentioned and then Isak rocked up out of nowhere

I can’t see Lascelles leaving unless they’re 100% confident of a replacement being sorted. Even then, I think you’d see the replacement signed before they sold him on

Might not seem that way since they flopped massively at the WC but beating Denmark was a great result at the Euros.

We’ve definitely got our NUFC heads on but would Burn have won that header? We’re all just playing notes on the hypothetical fiddle of life

This is a good point as well. This is a team that has conceded once in 9 games and those games include teams such as Croatia, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. This tournament is still anyones, I reckon

0.01 vs 0.0001

Portugal had a lot of the ball but did the keeper have much of a save to make outside of that Fernandes/Felix strike? I do think the semis will be too much for them, especially with injuries piling up, general fatigue and lack of tournament experience but I thought the French were very poor for vast stretches of the game tonight. Whereas, Croatia have the know-how, the talent, the tactical structure and the nerve in extra time and pens to actually go and win it IMO

I reckon the Croatian camp has just become a lot happier, like. They could do a job on Argentina and Morocco will do France if they play like that

That’s especially hurting as we were handed the chance to equalise and fluffed it. Still, on the plus side, Trippier, Pope and Wilson back for the friendly next week

The problem is that he picked Mount and Sterling as his two subs

Was thinking that but not sure who else you’d take off. Rice and Bellingham won’t go off, can’t take a defender off for a striker and other than Kane, the wingers have changed. And he’snever going to take Kane off

That’s truly atrocious

It won’t be popular but Rashford for Foden is the change here I’d say

Shite ref here like

Sadly, Pope got his chance when Pickford was fucked and fluffed his lines. That ship has sailed

Aye, now that Brazil are out, we’ve got the bench full of absolute mad dogs that no other has. If it’s still 0-1 at 68 minutes, can see us making some changes that might put the shits up them

Does Southgate have THE JAM? Does he have the COJONES?

You know how we take the piss out of the Mackems for getting angry at their own invented scenarios?

Here he is

Henderson has to go off for Phillips. Shouting isn’t quite enough against a team like France. We need a better range of passing in the middle