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Hmm, interesting. Well, I can't really see how they're going to differentiate when the letters will go out en masse anyway, so hopefully we've dodged it...

Not enough!

Personally I put it down to them not trying hard enough due to a lack of national pride, bearing in mind they're also mostly too stupid to play football without explicitly-defined systems nowadays and switching to a system with England seems beyond them. The weird thing about THAT is that they seem to get worse when they DO have time to be made to fit a system, prior to tournaments. *Disclaimer - not English and the only bit of the last match I've seen was Henderson's pass to the opposing striker.

Ships in the night, the realities of the impact of age on performance. Fonte's started on the slippery slope, not helped by the shirt-pulling directive. Townsend is about the level of Redmond and no better, but as players regularly come to us and improve it's difficult to say he wouldn't do the same. Henderson or Dier over Romeu? Not at the moment, but yes for the majority of the past year.

I'll be happy when I get the tickets and see we've been comped the postage, until then I'll adopt the default position of assuming they just won't send them.

Yeah, I think you may need to embrace the mid 2010s. Twitter account customer service is mostly about sending automated responses to entitled whiners now they've got over the problem of publicly-visible complaints, and that achieves precisely nothing anyway. This "I want a personally-tailored response, never mind that there are other 8000 people" stuff is pathetic.

It seems it was for Inter for everyone who wasn't top priority. A nice little hat-tip to the Israel travellers or massive TO balls-up, you decide.

Such impatience. They didn't even send my Leicester tickets out in time before Israel (left before Weds post and didn't return until Sunday after the match) and I'm not remotely bothered that they won't turn up at the moment. Of course if there's no news by Monday or we need to get to the Post Office collection before leaving at 8am on Weds morning... Sounds like they've got re-print contingency worked out with Inter anyway, so pretty much the opposite of a farce, tbh.

In which case I am in awe of their prejudicial methodology.

Untrue, they were just as good and as flat as when he was at Stoke, we just didn't exploit them.

We scored a Crouch header from a Delap throw at St Mary's. Jamie Redknapp was stood on the edge of the box watching it, and later said on MNF that he "didn't know Delap had a throw like that when he was at Southampton".

*didn't pay for. Because they haven't charged anyone for it. Although if they DID charge, they absolutely should offer that.

You may leave. The first one is absolutely pathetic. The second one just ill-advised and not very clever.

If I beat the Sammarinese keeper from 60 yards I'd be bloody well insisting it was, whether they were closing the ball down or not.

Weird. Just weird. Davis has always been rated by a fair few. Fonte has always been rated by practically everyone. Yoshida... yes, his commitment to being paid loads for not playing much is to be commended.

They're idiots then.

I couldn't even finish the introduction due to the appalling misuse of apostrophes, after I've had a week to calm down I might actually read some of the contributions. Talk about giving yourself away.

Doesn't actually answer the question.

Very easy to believe tbh, getting rapidly up to full speed and having a high top speed are two different things.

Things I DID see - nuts on the floor of the away end, and nuts being sold immediately outside the ground, absolutely enormous bagels.

Well, there's a poisoned chalice.

There's been no atmosphere at Anfield outside their two compulsory singing of YNWA for at least 10 years.

Thing in this list I didn't see: being applauded by home players, padded chairs, cheerleaders and popcorn. THERE WAS POPCORN?!!!!

I should think he's under a bit of pressure from his club not to be wearing himself out with long trips to Europe, that would achieve it nicely - without having to "retire from international football", which might not be as popular in Italy as the time-honoured tradition of falling out with the manager.

Depends who you believe - I saw one bloke with a Feyenoord jacket on walking away from the square, but equally I saw a very loud group of Vitesse supporters move to that square en masse a couple of minutes before it happened. I think the consensus is that it was all caused by Vitesse fans and a few Saints fans reacting to them.