Jimmy_D

Separate teams. The Southampton team that won those isn’t affiliated with Saints.

Even if you step back for a moment and look at it from a purely footballing perspective, there’s no way anyone would be able to deal with the constant scrutiny and abuse he’ll be getting if he plays in England. You’d get almost no benefit from signing him and the cost to the image of the club would be immense.

Absolutely not. I’d go and support Sholing instead.

It must have been torture waiting two years for her first loss in a competitive game so you could finally criticise her.

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-14---the-penalty-kick “When the ball is kicked, the defending goalkeeper must have at least part of one foot touching, in line with, or behind, the goal line.” I thought it’d have to be retaken initially as I thought the foot had to be on the line, but it doesn’t and she timed it perfectly.

Lauren James effort into the top left corner at least one that immediately comes to mind, 9/10 times that doesn’t get saved.

Absolutely gutting. Spain managed to take one chance, England unlucky with the chances they created. Refereeing nowhere near good enough for a World Cup Final.

One where the keeper stopped short of the player, and the player stuck a leg out and back, and dragged it to slightly brush the keeper and then went down himself as there wasn’t enough contact to bring him down. Never a penalty but it could have fooled some refs probably on another day.

Get in! Well fought win there.

Are you really trying to downplay a coach that’s reached four major international tournament finals in a row, winning at least two of them, to crazy golf level?

Looks like it’s a moot point anyway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66530873 Tactics-wise she’s obviously very good. We’ve faced teams using all different styles of tactics at this World Cup, missing some of our best players, and had an answer for all of them. With her international teams she’s managed to get players willing to run through walls for her, and more than that, believing they can run through walls for her. Whether she’d get the same respect from a men’s team… she certainly would from some players, but probably not all. I don’t think it’d be impossible for her to build a team that works given enough time, but the chances of that seem relatively low to me. That said, I reckon she’d be a better shout than some of the players that have walked into top management jobs five minutes after retiring from playing.

Oh sorry, I’ll just go ahead and restore all the posts that aren’t talking about football, and are instead speculating about people’s sexuality or implying that people need to watch extreme videos because of their sexuality. Oh wait. No I won’t.

Y’know, we’ve just won a World Cup Semi-Final. Any chance of anyone talking about football?

Fantastic performance today! We’re in the World Cup Final! Top quality goals. Australia’s counter attacking game got them the win against us in the friendly, and probably gave them the best chance against us today, but we looked far more comfortable against a team that doesn’t use a high press. A final is always a one-off game where anything can happen of course, but we go into it with a fantastic chance of holding both the Continental and World Cup at the final whistle.

Great going forward, defending… not so great. Getting something from the game after going behind three times, that is promising.

We haven’t been at our most dominant this tournament, a large part of that is the players we’re missing, as well as how well other teams have progressed, but it’s huge credit to our resilience under Wiegman that we keep finding a way to win. Caicedo is some player for Colombia.

Played a team of mostly reserves, played like a team of mostly reserves. Disappointing but not the end of the world.

Knockout football, it’s the result that matters, but blimey we’ve rode our luck to get through that one. Nigeria’s defence and pressing was immense, at least there aren’t too many other teams that play like that.

Isn’t it normal to refer to managers by their last name? Klopp, Guardiola, Redknapp etc?

Che Adams price has surely gone up now. Averaging 9 goals a game so far this season…

A win? On opening day!? That’ll do Not as straightforward as it could have been, and we’ll need to get used to a lower standard of refereeing, but did well to stay focused, and the way we saw out the game was excellent.

Gerrrrrrrrrin!

Difficult to read too much into that, SW not the strongest opposition, and we don’t know exactly how we’ll line up by the end of the transfer window, but we’ve looked very decent and there’s a lot to be encouraged by.

Not a bad finish to start this season!

Just had a short promo about our last season at this level on Sky. That last season in the Championship was so much fun to be a part of. Completely exceeded expectations having just come out of League One, and watching Lambert step up and dominate a higher league was phenomenal to watch.