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Did he fu ck mean that, Keown.

Martin Keown is effing useless. "Why is Martinez standing there he should be discussing solutions with his staff" ...two minutes pass, Martinez is now discussing solutions with his staff. "Bit late for that now, they should have worked on plans before kick off" Idiot.

Roberto Martinez will sort this out and definitely win 3-2 I reckon.

It hasn't just emerged, it was in Tim Shipman's (excellent) book on Brexit which was out around Christmas time last year.

He did a run up like Fred Flinstone the effing idiot.

Solid gold shoot out so far.

Someone needs to tell Croatia they are on the easy side of the draw and just need to stroll into the final.

Sisto will want to see Denmark knocked out so he can get on his way to join the pre-season in China.

WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD CUP

Brilliant. As if anyone who wanted to get out of that VAR booth alive was going to give that.

Yes, we know - but they underperformed. Shaqiri will be in and out of the team due to Champions League and the other competitions Liverpool are in, regardless of performance. You know players like Tadic and Bertrand and Cedric are regulars right? Rants what Shaquiri would expect, as Gabbiadini expected too.

If Shaquiri signs for Liverpool he will know he will have a real challenge to be a first team regular. He'll be a squad player. If he signs for us he will expect to start 30+ plus games as a central member of the first choice team. Like, say, Tadic was. Really, really not difficult to understand is it?

He was being rubbished for being in a situation where we were scrabbling around signing an out of contract player through sheer desperation after completely cocking up that January transfer window. We brought him in as emergency cover in case of injury to the third and fourth choice CBs we had. We had no interest in actually signing Caceres and only signed him because we were desperate. He wasn't "on trial" with a view to signing him, he wasn't part of any plans whatsoever. We played him once when we had two games in quick succession, then packed him off. Just a few dins on here thinking it was anything other than that. Delgado looked good in a world cup once as well.

He'll come to us over Liverpool if Liverpool don't actually want to sign him. Which is probably the case. Much like Tadic, we are the right level for Shaquiri. Mid-rank Premier league. Would be a decent signing for us and a pretty pointless signing for Liverpool.

His agent is working overtime. West Ham and Everton involved. We don't often sign players with that much noise around them, so probably Goodison or London bound.

This is all over the place. If you write off '90 and '96 as failures, why are you bothered about our route through this tournament? Ultimately we will encounter France or Spain or Brazil and we'll lose and come home, so we might as well be home with the Germans now, in your words. And weird that your dismissal of those two 90s tournaments as "underachieving" but you then describe the idea that we "beat 2 out of 3 average sides and we’re one game against top quality opposition from a final". Also known as, er, a semi final. Being one game away from a final is underachieving so who gives a sh it, right? 4 years ago Germany beat Portugal, France, Brazil and Argentina and won the thing. They didn't ponce about wetting themselves being "absolutely delighted" over easy draws.

Bridge took a while to get going and was ropey in his first year under Jones.

This is better business than signing a Championship midfielder, let's be right.

I am beginning to seriously worry how Gao is going to pay his loan off. Because that's all he wants to do, right?

In 2002 we'd won a knock out match only days before we lost to Brazil, 3-0 v Denmark. 12 years is longer than that. In 96 we got to the semis - we progressed through a knockout round.

When we lost in 02 we hadn't failed to win a knock out match in a major tournament for 12 years, lost to Iceland two years before and bombed out in the group stage of the previous world cup. Different scenario. Indeed Colombia might well beat us, so maybe we should have looked at the best possible chance to win a single knock out game rather than look to far ahead to a semi final we aren't good enough to deserve anyway.

He loves us, always has. One decent season under Hughes, sack him off and get Brendan in. Perfect fit.

Quite. We're not good enough to win it so ridiculous to plot theoretical routes to the final. Feels to me weve chucked away the chance of a Brazil quarter-final, an actual iconic match that this team and English fans really need, for the likely elimination to one of three countries who in the public consciousness are "flipping-Iceland" level of dullness and mediocrity. If we do make the semis, then great but I think all we'll end up with is a collective loathing for James Rodriguez or Shaquiri or whoever as a new bete noire of English football when they bang us out. Pointless waste.

Indeed. We should have gone all out to get Japan in the next round. A quarter final against Brazil is what the WC is all about and we should embrace it. We haven't won a major tournament knock out stage for 12 years, we made hard work of beating Tunisia and we think we can look over the heads of the likes of Colombia to potential semi finals.

Last season he played 45 games and the season before 39. We've finally, finally signed a first team regular from another club. Praise be.