AlexLaw76

Maguire was good for England 18 months ago, so......... It is shite like that which will get Southgate in the mire

Good game on Sky. Top of League 1. Plymouth winning 2-1

out of interest, how many do you know?

On paper, Southgate has achieved brilliant results in the main. But, we were not particularly good at the Euro's despite getting to the final. Both the Euros and the World Cup came with favourable routes to the latter stages, with many of the usual big teams being under-par. Many of those big teams have sorted out their shitz, so god knows now. He's a relatively negative / risk averse manager and wedded to a group of players for the last 2-3 years. He is seemingly ignoring any club form, and sticking by said players. Which has been the un-dooing of many England managers before him. Pickford, Maguire, Shaw, Trippier, Walker, Rice, Sterling, Phillips, Kane and Saka, all picked no matter what. Some of those, I wonder if they deserve their place in the squad/starting 11. (I mean, we had 6 fullbacks in the squad and started with Saka on the left). Throw in his insistence on having 3-4 RBs in a squad/10-12 defenders, which is quite frankly bizarre. Kane rarely does not play 90 mins, so we have no idea if Abraham/Toney/whoever could step up, bar the odd game/30 mins they may get. Does Sterling have to play every game? He is not world class as many parrots in the media say, and when is stinks, he really does. Is Grealish really better than Maddison?

Got to laugh. Many people endorse the general squad picked, as these players "don't let England down". How is that working out? Southgate is rooted to around 8 of this starting 11, no matter what.

This is Southgate being "ruthless"

That's right. Saka who plays as a right-wide forward for Arsenal. great stuff

Pellegrino was fucking shit

No i dont, I just have a different view - which used to be perfectly OK

Slightly off topic….

What does it matter who anyone here suggests who would come in?

answers to what?

I suspect it would have been a very short period of 'special operations' if he won.

More largely peaceful demonstrations. Someone is quiet on this one......

It is not a gripe, it is reality. If the balloon goes up, our security largely depends on the appetite of the USA to go to war in Europe (again).

Shame he is still employed by the club 🙃

More than enough of what? For NATO to be effective, it requires the USA all-in. That is the price we on this continent has to pay for disgraceful defence spending for many decades.

A race-hate mod on the rampage. Like the EDL, but different

When you (and others) say NATO, you mean the USA. Without the USA, everything else is utterly pointless. Do the USA have an appetite for significant war in Europe again? To bail-out Europe's pretty feeble defence strategies/spending? Maybe.....

https://twitter.com/thesaintcentre/status/1572118663339347968?s=46&t=IJfYu7chyAFZVdvLUy76nw

Pochettino or Tuchel will probably be the next Juventus manager, as Juve are shite

Seeing it during football highlights on MOTD, or whatever. Slow mo of goals being scored, with some vastly overweight lad, probably half cut, with his phone out filming whilst celebrating (with the customary gut hanging out)

who knows. But it was crystal clear from the very start of the queue (and sign posted all the way), what was allowed in with everything else being off limits - bar no exceptions. There were also people grumpling for having to turn off their phones as they pass through the security scanners, and keeping them off until they are out the other side.

11 hours - almost to the minute from getting my wristband in Southwark park, to going through the security scanners at Westminster. It was very well done to be fair. Huge amount of staff across the entire queue, loads of police (from all over), plenty of refreshments etc (some free, some not). Inside was surreal. the coffin was very high up and the Soldiers and Beefeaters keeping 'vigil' just made it very moving. There was one funny. As you can imagine security at Westminster was incredibly strict and you could not take in food, liquid etc. Anything non-perishable or opened was donated to food banks etc (and there were mountains of it). A chap a few behind me was moaning/almost kicking off as he had to bin his multi-pack of lockets. He was trying to say they were like his medicine. After arguing with the staff, a copper came over and said don't like it, please feel free to go home and watch it on youtube. The packets of Lockets were thrown into the bin.