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Bruising first half, with England 2-0 down to France. Both evenly matched, when England had VAR rule one out. England worked hard in the move to keep people onside. Even the graphic 5 mins later looked onside. But that changed the momentum. England lost momentum after it was ruled out, and France dominating the midfield. From there, they opened space behind the defence. Carter is okay as a right back, but is a weaker link at left back, and was second best throughout. After good spell of pressure France got their opener from behind right back, getting a ball across for a tap in. But there was space on the other side, with Bronze pushing up. Bronze's outstretched touch, after 2 England defenders were bypassed, gave space for the second. After that, France have moved into being more compact, out muscling England, and keen to counter. England have excellent attackers. With luck, France will be compact again, giving England space in their half to get back into it.

I was tempted, but it turns out it's not Lisa Stanfield playing up front.

I see our third kit has been leaked ahead of our Amazon Prime series, Pirates of the Solent, as we try to capture that Wrexham Hollywood buzz.

Opportunity

Barcelonasaint's point concerned player fitness, and was supported by his second post. Trolling that it's suddenly about structure willfully misses his point, and is a return to you being a bell end.

After surprise TP and Sule pennies, any thing's possible. Hoffenheim pulled out of a 12.8 million pound move for him last summer. Most agree that there is talent there. We paid something like 10 million euros for him. At this stage a thing over a couple of million euros is an accounting profit. A sell on would be nice, and get what we can over that couple of million, so that everyone can move on.

Looking forward to this season's pre match Pride shirt. Although it's slightly less colourful than...

If only I had something like that. But that was definitely one my brother got. To be fair it was just one of many from the Britannia Music Club. We didn't get pocket money as such, but got recurring things bought for us. Since my brother was in Britannia, I didn't have to ask for music. He'd let me order things too, once in a while. That's why, by the time I was buying music my tastes were already refined. Which is why I reckon it was something by the Bangles. 🙂

Just a moment ago played the start of The Damned United with Clough putting the boot into Revie on air, and the reaction of the players to his arrival. 🙂

While not as nice as some of the mock ups, that's not bad. Some other red and white striped shirts this season, courtesy of a Beeb article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c939y2r0g7lo Nuremberg Olympiakos

Rice

Wow. I've heard of people who have a thing for car exhausts. But to take on the loading bay of a ferry is quite something. I can see where the money's coming from now. 🙂

I'd love to know what you're doing to bring 2.5 million into the UK economy in September. 🙂

You could. But there might be a shipping charge. And until they confirm that ship won't be a P&O ferry, it's a trigger risk. 🙂

Coronation

No one making plans for Nigel. 🙂

I'd like to hear ex-Saint Tony Funnell's view of our chances.

I've been working in my lab on these... There were some initial protests from the neighbours. But they're all quiet now...

Just what I was thinking looking at the lists. Quite a few I listen to a lot, that could have been adfed.

Absolutely. I quite liked him for us, so great to see him continue developing with VA. Quite the good signing, and another plus to the multi club model.

10 off the top, so must be some of my favs, if I can't get to my 2 Unlimited collection... It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" - Eurythmics Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3- Ian Dury and the Blockheads pushes out Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army Eurodisco -Bis All the Things She Said - Simple Minds Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk Koko - Goldfrapp Open Up - Leftfield & Lydon Rock the Casbah - The Clash, pushes out E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite All I need - Air, pushed out Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I'm stopping before I remove others for Radiohead or David Deviant and his Spirit Wife or the Prodigy or...

They also check pronouns on all reports, so pretty busy. 🙂

Here's a FT article from a few years back. It shows some strengths and weaknesses of ID cards, through how they have worked (or not) in other countries. https://www.ft.com/content/2ec95b9a-4709-11e8-8c77-ff51caedcde6

Not seen a kick of it. As much interest as I had in it's previous format.