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Really? I find it surprising that it can't be changed. The kid Saka was always missing that. Poor. Kid.

Keane just made the obvious point. Why would Sterling or Grealish stand there and leave Saka to walk up and take that. I'd add Shaw and the other senior players to that.

To be fair, if we'd won that we'd have robbed them. One shot on target and outplayed. We lost to the best team of the tournament, and in the night. That said, why two kids were put up after the Rashford clusterfuck I have no idea. Sterling, Stones, Shaw, Phillips or Grealish should have stepped up to the plate. Meh.

I'd play Saka on the right, Sterling left. I have a feeling it'll be Mount though. I'm convinced he'll find a place for Henderson in the middle.

Midfield will be vital. I prefer theirs to ours, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Henderson start to give us a bit of experience and guile in there. Tough game, but we've got enough attacking talent to get a result. Roll on 8 o'clock. Come on England.

Denzil

Sad indeed. He was a decent player, and part of a very good Ipswich team. His scoring record for England was excellent too. Only 68 too, no age. RIP.

Yes, absolutely. To be fair, I saw hide and seek as our solution back then and others pointed out that to be unsustainable. They were right. Normality had/has to resume.

Yep, agree with all of that. Japan, NW, Australia, Singapore, and others were countries I looked at with envy last year. Looking at it now, all I see are countries that hid themselves and their people, but are now in a bit of a quandary as they haven't vaccinated en masse. Don't get me wrong, I've got no idea what our current plan is with the likely number of cases (it almost feels like herd immunity v2 but with the masses vaccinated to reduce the impact) but I'd rather that than live in an unvaccinated society.

Dares

Ha!! That's about the bar for a Redmond upgrade to be fair!

Absolutely. At times he's looked excellent, Pogba esque, but at other times appalling and not interested. The semi final against Chelsea was the worst effort I've ever seen from a professional footballer. I can see why we signed him, and had he applied himself, we'd be talking about fending off big bids. C'est la vie.

Cheers. He looks to have something about him. That price seems cheap. He'd be an alternative to Redmond for not much money.

Spin

Ha!! But perhaps his prayers were answered

Dunno. Did it have a toaster them once, or did I dream it? Most random thread ever.

Uncaring

You make a very good point 😂

Yep. If its McCoist and Tyldesley on ITV I'll watch that rather than BBC. Lee Dixon is OK too, and the studio people are decent as well.

I can agree that God's not a bearded man who sits on a cloud (what would he do on a clear day?)

Nope, his social media posts just show what a self centred cock he is. I dislike him as a footballer as he's been mostly shite for us, and rarely looked interested.

Yep. Kept the ball superbly. Calm heads all over the pitch. Very impressed. Roll on Sunday. Can't wait.

Have a night off mate. Save your flirting for another occasion.

Get. The. Feck. In. Happy days.

Negative tactics. Invites pressure. Keep them on the back foot.