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Looking at the fixtures, it's tough to see an upset (aside from fearing England are going to go out at every stage). Switzerland beating Portugal I could see happening and I don't think there's a favourite as such in the Japan vs Croatia match.

Tense this. Bye Germany. Goodbye my sweepstake chance...

If Spain and Germany go out (big if as a lot of game time to play) then surely that's the biggest group upset of all time? Unthinkable. Germany just equalised... never mind.

Dude is a massive batty boy... Batty for England’s green and pleasant land that is, he’s homesick is my guess. Unlike David Batty who was actually Batty, cos that was his name.

Boring but 3 nil up. I'd take Saints getting a few boring 3 nil wins thanks. (Wife just fell asleep on the sofa...)

I said one goal would open it up. Spank these bitches.

Who needs JWP... 😬

Sterling frustrates the shit out of me when he plays for England but at least he tries to make things happen. Rashford has been poor.

We just need one goal here to open the game up and make it exciting. Wales want the nil nil even though it doesn't do them any favours.

Was my first thought.

Piss. Wanted an "easy" tie for some confidence purposes early on in Jones' reign.

Wow some great games today for neutrals!

Goal after VAR check! Nice one Mo.

Maya was outstanding. Delighted for Japan and I have Germany in the work sweepstake.

In another dimension, Gakpo signed for Saints in the summer and was never picked for the Dutch after a string of average performances... 😁

That was the first one that came to mind for me too. I was sat in the Itchin (which I don't normally do but fancied a change and was just over his shoulder when he listened to the crowd and smashed it in. My wife (Norwich fan) went nuts too, the hardest she'd ever celebrated a Saints goal! Graziano Pelle's against QPR was special too. Chaz Austin scored a decent goal on the spin to equalise and just a few minutes later Pelle overhead kicked it in for the winner. Damn we had a good team then back when we could attract the creme de la creme of European talent. I saw a lot of games in our League One days, it was those seasons I went to SMS most but weirdly not many goals stand out for me as crackers but I must have seen some.

I had to read Lightwater at least 4 times before I saw the swear. Propah nawty.

Mane out injured yesterday, Benzema out today, it seems like a lot of players are getting injured before this WC...

Would that have evaded the swear filter when this site had it... 😁

Winner- Brazil Runner Up - Netherlands England Out - Quarters Surprise team - USA

Is he a firm number 9 or can he also play in the 10 position? 😜 Seriously it's refreshing to hear us wanting to tap into the youth in the Spanish market - we got a lot of mileage out of Romeu who was La Masia trained and have been linked with other Barcelona youth players over the years (Tello for one) so it would be nice to see us raid that market for talented youth. (As long as it's not too late and we go down before we get the chance to.)

Mildly harsh but otherwise spot on really. We really are a shambles right now. Maybe a fresh set of eyes, any new fresh set of eyes, is what we need right now to see where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Maybe someone that can spot we have 3 very good centre backs so maybe having them as a 3 at the back could work. Or someone that can see we're a CM light without Lavia and an out of form JWP. Or someone that can clearly see we have fuck all in attack and that it needs rectifying and fast. Jones is fresh eyes, despite his lack of experience and maybe that's what we need right now because clearly under Ralph we were growing stale.

Welcome Nate. Hope he's better than our last Welsh manager, which means not just keeping us in the league but building on it. I'd take the former right now. Seeing as I'm already predicting us for relegation this season, the bar is pretty low so maybe Jones can surprise us. It won't happen against Liverpool but at least he's got the WC to try and get his tactics implemented for Boxing Day. We have the most important transfer window of our lives coming up too. At least we can go into it with a fairly settled managerial team. I'm not dancing over the moon (or whatever the phrase is) with this appointment but he gets my support no different to any other manager. For now.

Jones Out. There I said it first. 😛 Seriously he has my support as long as he picks a formation that suits us, picks players in their strongest positions and gets players performing. We need transfers in January but he's got, what, 2 or 3 games before then to see what we've got currently.

Ah that explains it, I thought it was because i had 43 tabs open on my phone.