CB Fry

I. Have. Also. Posted. About. Your. Human. Pastime. Of. Foot. Ball.

I don't think it has ever posted anything on any topic other than Covid-19. So we have yet to hear its views on whether Vestergaard is off to Tottenham or not.

I've heard one of the main symptoms of Long Covid is that you can't catch a single case of the common cold for an entire decade.

I've not seen any woke warriors (whatever that is) "desperate" for players to play in Qatar and I've seen no-one "defending" them going. You're just making this up for "you're all hypocrites" kicks. Absolute bullshitter.

My favourite kind of hypocrisy are those who only ever comment on racism, homophobia or human rights as a way of having a pop at people they don't like. And by people they don't like, I mean people that do comment on racism or human rights on its own terms. But, if you wank off to Guido Fawkes every day, that's your world view. For these people the issue will never be what Qatar actually do, but the fact that Gary Lineker will eventually have to present a TV programme from there so he's a hypocrite. If that's the only level you need to engage with issues, then really it's incredibly easy.

Not any more odd than your usual approach which seems to be "all journalists are just making it up". Do you believe the original story from The Athletic now?

Congratulations to Harry Maguire for being included in the Team of The Tournament. Also included is Sterling and Kyle Walker. And, little old Pierre-Emille Hojbjerg. Looking at the whole team, yes I admit it's really strong but it clearly lacks someone who is excellent at free kicks and corners.

It's taken you all day to come up with that obvious wind up and you've blazed over the bar like Roberto Baggio. Embarrassing for you.

No one is going to be singing "you let your country down" to this set of players for gawd's sake.

I get what you are saying, but we once had a midfield of Scholes, Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham once and we achieved jack shit. Actually just had a look at the team that were knocked out by Portugal in Euro 2004 and apart from the goalie the outfield 10 are better than what we had yesterday in every position. Apart from, funnily enough, maybe one of Rice or Phillips in place of one of the midfielders to add some protection. Basically, what I'm saying is you can't have it all with England.

Whenever I think of penalties I go here. A lovely line up of takers you could rely on. So good we didn't even need the best penalty taker the country has ever seen. Ruddock Shearer Horne Micky Adams plus our Tim. Name on the cup, lads.

This was one of the more frustrating things. We know they've been practicing but for the love of god, that's what they've been practicing? Stupid stoppy starty dancing about after a stupid tippy tappy run up. You can see them lose confidence in what they were doing halfway through their dance routine. Yes practice but practice putting your laces through it Shearer style. At least Waddle leathered it.

St Kitts and Nevis?

It's fascinating that on this forum the people moaning that Southgate is not up to it and can't ever win a major tournament and would never get an elite level club job and he's an average manager are the same people moaning that James Ward Prowse wasn't in the squad and if only he was there he'd be better than Champions League winning Jordan Henderson and Manchester United's Marcus Rashford. The same JWP who is the dictionary definition of an average, non-elite level run of the mill player. If you could rank him in terms of middling, non elite averageness he would be right up there with, er, Gareth Southgate. Get your story straight lads.

I think this is widely accepted.

I reckon we should bring in someone with international high profile calibre to sort this out. Someone like Fabio Capello or Sven Goren Ericsson. Or someone with boatloads of International management experience like Roy Hodgson. Or maybe the most exciting passionate manager of his generation like Kevin Keegan. Southgate has created the conditions that has got us to a major semi and a major final. None of that lot even got particularly close to it. Now dismantle Euro 96 in the same way you have dismantled WC18 and EURO2020 - just two wins, and one was against crappy old Scotland. Couldn't beat the Swiss. Couldn’t score against a poor Spain team. Didn't make a single substitution (not one) in a 120 minute semi. What a load of shit. Any tournament can be dismantled and downgraded. I could do Italia 90 too if you like. The difference is Southgate has done it. Better than any manager for 50 years. Through people management, attention to detail, a bit of ruthlessness, making us hard to beat in a way I have never seen. I think we should focus on the achievement rather than the failure. Next tournament we could be home after the group stage. Which would be our normal level. Thanks for the memories Gareth.

England didn't have a better squad. They didn't have a better squad than Belgium or France either. I don't get this strawman argument. We've never got to a tournament final for half a century. It was a huge achievement to get that far. Let's not pretend that it was some nailed on thing and then just a case of turning it on in the final.

Jesus wept. Maybe the lad is a bit of a prick. Adam Blackmore is not "briefing against" some teenager who barely ever played for us, and when he did he couldn't handle the occasion. He's not the Secretary of State for the Environment, he's some kid footballer. And has he gone to Arsenal or Juventus because he is such a red-hot prospect? No, he's gone back to the comfort blanket of home. He's gone to the club we bought Mayuka from. So let's not pretend any uptick in form playing in his home, in a lower standard league immediately equates to "that's what we let go, look how brilliant he is". He couldn't hack the UK, he couldn't hack the Premier League. Good luck to him but whether he does well or not is not something any Saints fan should ever care about ever again.

Being that the absolute best Sako could have done was get us into a situation that we would have had to take another penalty, whoever was down as number 6 (Sterling, surely?) should have stepped in. Oh well, it's done now, but I am amazed that the thing Southgate really, really screwed up was the penalties. Of all the things.

Good luck at the Wankdorf, Alex.

What does this even mean?

My scapegoat is Cafe Guisseppe just down the road from me. I've just come back from posting a fresh turd through his letterbox. It's the least he deserves.

Didn't Michael Owen score of the most memorable goals in England history that night? It's not quite comparable to Sako's contribution tonight.

Not sure about that.