Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan

I feel like I've seen an ex and she's with a much bigger more handsome man based on Abbas' efforts against us this season

There was a small sided tournament earlier in the summer that some English teams played in that was really fun to watch because it was more like this. It was clearly a gimmick but interesting to see how a 7-a-side tournament of professionals went, and it did seem to suit the women's game more. I've always thought it is interesting that there isn't such a range of physical differences in the women's game between positions, the centre backs for example aren't particularly tall like in the men's game, you could quite easily put Leah Williamson in most positions on the pitch and she'd look comfortable because she's athletic enough to do most roles and physical enough, but to compare to England Men's you wouldn't want John Stones in many positions other than where he has played. England have a real shot at the final now, Italy don't look any better than Sweden or the Netherlands and we've now (admittedly a bit scrappily last night) got past both.

I was born after 88 so I'll take your word for that. Sweden have a couple of good players and can be a force on their day. Bizarrely their captain was plying her trade in the Championship last year for London City but was comfortably a level above nearly everyone else in the leauge.

It was a good game with quite a lot of drama. Think the most mis-matched quarter final will be Spain Switzerland, but otherwise it is a very good tournament so far in terms of the matchups. Makes me realise how good a proper 16 team tournament is, like the early 2000's Euros where every game felt like a big deal

I'd personally have good old Fabrice Fernandes on the right, cutting in onto his wand of a left foot...

You need an angry Rooney ideally, get him a bit wound up and nothing stopped him

Started watching football properly in 2002 so there is some definite nostalgia picks here, and a real flair of Joga Bonito going forward... Playing a 4 2 3 1 Neuer Lahm Puyol Carvalho Carlos Gerrard Makelele Messi Kaka Ronaldinho R9 Subs: Niemi, Cafu, Svensson, Schneiderlin, Totti, Henry, Beattie

Think it means that shirt pictured is available for sale next week. Next year's kit will be months away still, especially as this season's is still full price

The close-up of Beattie celebrating then seemingly shouting "no" at himself for celebrating against us, like it was instinct to celebrate but not what we actually wanted to do

Interestingly announced on the website as "Men's First Team" rather than U21s. As with a few signings this year, looks to be one brought in ready for next season or to go to Turkey next season, rather than to help us stay up

There seems to have been an awful lot of player turnover the last year or two, looking at the squad list for the most recent match I'm not really sure who a lot of them are! Seems we've loaned out a few who were regulars in favour of WSL academy players, assumedly to help the books balance a little more.

Ben Brown named as red-ball captain. He has experience and will play every game barring injury so makes sense.

Can we make Lallana watch this on repeat this week in the vague hope he remembers how good he used to be and turns it on again just for one game

I think Armstrong did a good job there when asked last season but basically because he just ran up and down a lot. Not sure anyone we have is technically or physically good enough to be in midfield

I imagine it's also to do with staffing. If you're only opening 3 stands, and you know you're going to need the Itchen open anyway because it houses all the hospitality etc then it makes sense to close the stand that no-one needs to go into anyway.