Whitey Grandad

So. A commendable performance in a major football competition gets turned into a discussion about racism. I look forward to the day when we can all treat each other as equal human beings without being diverted by the colour of a person's skin. We don't take any norice of the colour of their eyes, or of their hair.

Well, yes, I include Southgate in ‘they’.

Son will play when Ings is injured.

Because anyone on trial is innocent until proven guilty.

It was obvious to most commentators that we had lost the midfield. We had a doughnut formation with everybody around the outside and nobody in the middle. Italy might have got lucky with the rebound for their goal but we could all see that it was coming. After they scored we were struggling to hang on for 0-0 and penalties. They blew their one big chance.

Er, no it doesn’t. Er, yes you can.

But he did have the odd moment. Didn’t injury effectively finish his career? 7th February 1998: Liverpool 2-3 Southampton (Hirst 2, Ostenstad)Saints claimed their first win at Anfield for 17 years thanks to a brace of goals from David Hirst.The striker grabbed his first of the game from the penalty spot after nine minutes to give the visitors a perfect start to the match.Liverpool forward Michael Owen levelled up before the break to make it 1-1 at half-time.It would go on to be another late show, with Egil Ostenstad sweeping home an assist from Hirst to make it 2-1, before the Norwegian returned the favour for Hirst to smash in the third past David James.Owen reduced the arrears in stoppage time, but Dave Jones’ Saints were deserved winners on the day.Southampton team: Paul Jones, Jason Dodd, Lee Todd, Kevin Richardson, Ken Monkou, Claus Lundekvam (Richard Dryden 49), John Beresford, Matt Oakley (Andy Williams 15), David Hughes, David Hirst, Kevin Davies (Egil Ostenstad 39)

To some extent he was let down by the players that he trusted.

Haiti?

Southgate will not have slept well last night and will have replaying all the events in his head over and over again. I think it's fair to say that all his substitutes apart from Grealish let him down to some degree. Whatever, I'm over it already. Anybody else looking forward to Jamaica v Suriname in the CONCACAF Gold Cup tonight?

Such memories are for the future. So you think we might meet them in the final of the European Cup one day?

Whether we pay them the €4 million all in one go or in three stages.

Good luck and thanks for the memory.

??? Against Ukraine Maguire and Henderson scored from a free kick and a corner respectively.

Yep. There doesn't have to be any sort of list but the referee and his assistants will keep a record of who has taken them to make sure that everybody has their turn. There are restrictions of numbers such that if one team has fewer players than the other then certain players will have to be excluded and the referee informed of their names and numbers. Only players on the pitch at the end of the game may take part and there are certain exemptions for goalkeepers who cannot continue during the process.

From the BBC, Extra-time substitute Jack Grealish - responding to criticism by ITV pundit Roy Keane for not taking a penalty - tweeted: "I said I wanted to take one! "The gaffer [Southgate] has made so many right decisions through this tournament and he did tonight. But I won't have people say that I didn't want to take a peno when I said I will…"

A replacement for Jankewitz?

He failed at the last hurdle. Probably because he was up against a much better team than any he had faced earlier.

Italy had made five substitutions in 96 minutes. We had made two, Henderson and Sako, and from what I saw they disrupted what little rhythm and purpose we had at the time. Kane never got a single touch in their penalty area. As others have said, Southgate sets us up to keep things tight. Scoring goals is a bonus if they happen.

Agreed. Best game of the tournament? And the worst?

Yep. Losing the toss to take the first penalty was unfortunate. Not changing the list of takers in the light of the developing situation was a huge mistake. Neither of the late substitutes looked confident but when Rashford stepped up the balance was in our favour. He was looking at the goalkeeper and not the ball when he kicked it.

Shame we never got to see the best in him. Or perhaps we did?

Who exactly are BSC Young Boys? Are they some Thai kick-boxing team?

Yeah, we did well to keep them down to one goal.

Their keeper didn’t have a save to make (apart from the penalties).