adrian lord

Awful

Police, I suspect, love a Bubble - means lots and lots of cushy overtime, with reduced risk of actually having to intervene in disorder. Win - win for them.

The tail end of the group stage tends to lots of dull dead rubbers and B teams. France or Argentina for the title.

Something tells me that this ref won’t get the final.

Ffs Kane

I thought Ghana were supposed to tire out and collapse?

The truth is we have got three or four, maybe five or six, very ordinary players.

This is even worse than the first half. You can’t imagine France or Spain or Argentina serving up such unimaginative dross faced with a team like Ghana.

Shaping up to be one of those days

Someone needs to run at players and dribble, it will draw fouls and maybe a penalty even if it doesn’t work in terms of creating open play chances.

Hasn’t someone written a book on how to breakdown obdurate defences?

This half is not ending very well for England at this rate…

Turgid stuff with Ghana parking the bus and us not moving quickly enough or passing fast enough.

Messi having a mare!

That was much more of a penalty than a lot of the ones that the pundits seem to think were nailed on yet they didn’t agree with that one. It was potentially broken ankle time with two sets of legs man-trapping his feet. Missed it anyway!

Because some of us don't accept low standards and know that punditry could be at once both enlightening and entertaining.

Bell is a humourless tosser 👆

One of the best aspects of the England performance was the demonstration of the strength in depth of the squad. All the players looked fired up for the tournament whereas in the Wokegate era and prior, there were significant star players who looked like sullen passengers, clearly resenting missing the summer hols.

Massive statement of: Line drawn, we are going again together. He is the bedrock of our success, the foundation stone of our superb run last season.

Prig.

The halo -wearing ball 'head' in the badge could acquire a pair of field glasses in silhouette, other than that no changes.

Why sack our best manager since at least Koeman? Self-harm is not a recommended strategy.

A degree of natural justice has prevailed.

Agreed. Moreover why ditch our best manager since at least Koeman? An act of deliberate self harm if ever there was, and cementing-in a bad situation. Extremely unlikely to recruit anyone approaching his talent so we would almost certainly be back to employing duds and donkeys similar to those we have suffered since Ralph departed.

Never apologise, never explain. We should keep Tonda, circle the wagons, increase the players' wages and get promoted automatically next season.