Ok go easy, my grandad was Otto Herman Wiele. Although I always support the opposing team[as he did and was Mentioned in dispatches.]Originally Posted by magirus
Indeed, the French were a right set of powder puffs. On a different tack, it was really f****** hilarious sad to see those miserable German fans earlier . . .
Dave, I think you might be overlooking the fact that England have only lost twice under Southgate - once to Germany (who they have also beaten) and once to Brazil. Providing they play possession football from the back and keep their shape, then opportunities to score will come.
They have nothing to fear except a lack of confidence (and Spain/Portugal, France, Germany and Brazil) and penality shoot outs
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Would it have been given as a penalty if it was the other way round, answer no.
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Just watched ‘The Impossible Job’ not a bad show about the England managers since 66, Christ the Keegan admisssion still gets me to this day and the fact he still doesn’t talk about it or any other England boss is admirable...
Allardyce wasn’t bitter at all!
Yeah. This time will be different.
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A few thoughts from the matches so far - the final third and finishing in general has been quite poor by most (apart from Spain). The Mexico game was a good example - they should have scored more. I put this down to lack of sharpness with most not playing competitively for around a month.
Lets see if there are improvements in the second round of games, otherwise I can't see anyone beating Spain. Hopefully England and Belgium can show up tomorrow - the latter especially have so much talent.
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Spain have certainly looked the strongest so far. Followed by Mexico (but Mexico will struggle to keep that press and energy for the whole tournament)
Brazil and Germany may be doing an Italian slow start.
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History tells us friendlies and "easy" qualifiers aren't good indicators of how England will perform at the finals. Remember England had a great win in Germany not long before Euro 2016 and look how that turned out.
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I certainly don’t see it as anything other than a blip and would be shocked if either team failed to get through to the knockout stages.
Unfortunately that also seems to be Joachim Löw's conclusion. 'We had difficulties in the first half and failed to score in the second', was his summary of the game. I am afraid that team and management are complacent, they won't realise how difficult this can become until they fail to win against Sweden, which will prove to be too late.
Remember how France did in 2002? I am scared.
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It's not how you start it's how you finish. Despite playing the best football, Spain only got a point.
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The arrogance of Germany and Low is staggering. I think most teams need a shake up after winning the World Cup - the world moves on and you need a nice mix of hungry players. Leaving Sane out of the squad has only been one silly decision in a long line of issues IMO.
I was amazed to see the body language of the 'Mannschaft'. Normally, when things don't go to plan, the players take it up another notch (or two, three). And the last tournaments showed that the Mannschaft had staminae and pure physical endurance. I didn't see it; yesterday showed: head down, hand going through the hair; theatrical moves... (we hadn't seen that since the period of Lothar Mattheus!). It looks as if this generation is getting older (Gomes, Ozil, Kroos) and that experience wasn't enough to get them through the game. Having said that, big chance that they will recover quickly - as a result of their experience.
Menno
Mannschaft, my a£$3. This ain't no team.
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It made me think how many penalty shoot outs we have lost, dodgy decisions and a couple of goalkeeping stinkers that have costs us. Strangely it has generally not been about being outplayed as such.
Still - worth trading all those for one dodgy Russian linesman surely
Not being able to win on penalties cost us massively in the 1990s when we probably deserved to be in 2 international finals and could've picked up 1 or 2 titles. And we had a great team in 98 too so who knows how far they could've gone?
It's very hard to win anything in international football if you can't win the odd game on penalties and I think our record is 1 shootout won in 8 or 9 attempts.
Saying that the more recent losses on penalties have probably been deserved based on the performance of the team in normal time.
Don't get me started. My birth year, as well.Still - worth trading all those for one dodgy Russian linesman surely
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It did make me go back and watch Stuart Pearce's penalty at Euro 96 vs Spain. I reckon the whole country was holding their breathe willing him on. I was on the piss in Blackpool with mates for that match and we watched it in a pub. Pretty sure I had a tear in my eye as that pen went in.
Belgium set no heather on fire. Had Panama taken 1 of several chances the flattering scoreline could've been very different.
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Finally, home, Surinam take-away and MOTD, good luck guys!
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
Oh, btw, De Bruyne was totally not at ease on the position he played, waste of this fabulous player.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
Sat on a train having to watch it on iplayer, sigh...
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1-0
This could be a rugby score yet!
ENGLAND playing brightly but this Tunisia team have got no shape - they look all over the place
Strong start. If your chances fall to Kane rather than Sterling, you'll have much more hope!
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Would be great to finally see a big score for England in a group game...
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Lingard thinking too much. Great cross.
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What the hell was Walker thinking about there?
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Clumsy but harsh for my money.
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Here we go!
You know it...Here we go!
That was a blatant elbow, no conspiracy theories needed, what an idiot, and now Ali going off injured.
I feel sorry for Southgate there, nothing you can do to legislate for stupidity...
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I have no idea how Tunisia are back in this game. It should have been GG after 15 minutes. Funny old game.
The Man City players have been absolute dogshite. England should be ahead
Three minutes added time! Are you avin a Giraffe?
Ryan, it should have been 4-0 after 15 minutes.....
Not sure how sterling missed that. Even if it was offside leading to it, he doesn't fill me with confidence. Rashford needs an extended run out.
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Have to say that Kane getting rugby tackled in the box, well I thought that was what VAR was brought in for?
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I just can’t wait for the first Scotland match of the World Cup
I am involved in a business with some Dutch guys, they keep sending emails and text messages in complete disregard of the world cup. Some people...
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I'm afraid you're far too old to live to see that.I just can’t wait for the first Scotland match of the World Cup
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And another wrestle Kane moment.
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V poor crossing from England.
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Bring on Rashford I say!.
England should have had 2 penalties by now......................
(and thats coming from a Welshman!).
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