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Obviously you would need a certain percentage to get a seat, it's not rocket science.

Great performance, Southgate has certainly proved me wrong. Will be fantastic watching the lads take the knee in the final, wonder if the wankers will still boo?

Yes I did, I've always thought it was a shit system. Dominic Cummings is spot on when he says that any system that gives us a choice between Johnson and Corbyn is not fit for purpose. Think of the amount of brilliant, talented people this country produces, and we are left with a binary choice of a bullshitting fat shagger or an aged anti-capitalist.

I wouldn’t expect a coalition to include the SNP, just three three UK wide parties. This bi election is a classic example of what is wrong with FPTP, Labour win by just a few hundred votes, it could easily have gone Tory yet over 60% of the vote went to lefties. The system is fucked.

Can’t see us beating the Italians, they look head and shoulders above anyone else.

English ref fucks it all up.

This is what needs to happen, nothing is ever going to change as long as there is three parties on the left (four if you live in Scotland or Wales) and just the Tories on the right. If another Blair comes along or if the Tories do exceptionally badly there is a chance but the odds are stacked against Labour since the rise of the SNP, plus Unions are getting less and less relevant so Labour will just go the same way. The whole FPTP system is just dated, not sure how it will ever change but the Tories would have to seriously mess up to lose their grip on power.

Would we have needed to if we were still in the EU?

I’m pretty sure the thinking behind the rule is to stop players getting injured by flying knee high tackles.

Looked like he left his foot in to me, I would have given a red.

One sent off, one carried off. Great for us.

Looks too negative to me, 5 defenders and two central midfielders that offer nothing going forward. Hopefully Southgate has a cunning plan.

Great use of VAR again.

I would be amazed if the others didn’t do the same, just a matter of time.

Has opened up nicely but so did the World Cup and we couldn’t even get past Croatia so I’m not holding out much hope.

True. Forget the pandemic, the effects of Brexit, climate change, pensions time bomb and elderly care crisis, the biggest problem in the UK today is a few middle class people exaggerating the amount of racism there is.

Agree to an extent, we are essentially highly-evolved hunter gatherer monkeys who are tribal by nature. But I think it's a bit of both, I expect those on North Senitel Island learned their fear of foreigners from their ancestors. From my experience young kids don't give a shite about skin colour. Anyway it is irrelevant, there are many parts of your nature we have changed over time, we have progressed a great deal on racism since even when I was a kid so we can carry on trying to make it a thing of the past.

Not surprising considering his managerial record prior to England is: 12th placed finish - 13th placed finish - 19th placed finish, relegated, sacked.

Don’t give a shite, I want all the British teams to do well.

I like Wales, why does it matter if they hate or like us?

I hope Wales get through, at least they have shown some balls unlike our bunch of tarts.

Don’t think Spain drawing is good for us, we need them to win the group otherwise we get them in the next round if we finish second, or get Germany, France or Portugal if we finish top!

Better than saying we got to the last 16.

Can’t see that shite beating Portugal, Germany or Spain, best we can hope for is the quarters IMO.

Draw was a good result, the last thing we want to do is win the group. We will get dumped out by the first decent team we meet as usual.