Lord Duckhunter

It’s hard to know where to start with this pony. Italy were the better side, they’ve been the best side in the tournament. We’ve been the second best, no shame in that. We will be a threat at the next World Cup, because we’ve got good yo7ng players. Nobody has said it’s a “warm up”, that’s just a straw man planks like you line up. Kane is a class act, a really good player.

Pickford was great tonight

Best team won. Fair play to Italy, they were battered first 20 but after that outplayed and out thought us. Our young players and manager did the nation proud and we’ll be a threat at the next World Cup.

What are you on about? He’s been fantastic so far.

They’ve got this “amazing” record, but when you break it down it’s not quite so impressive. The only top sides they’ve beaten are Belgium & Holland (Spain was technically a draw), this amazing unbeaten run is mainly against poor and average sides. I know they can only beat the sides put in front of them, but there’s a lot of cannon fodder about nowadays. I doubt they’d have faced sides with the fire power we’ve got, once you’ve seen of the front 3, you’ll have Grealish, Sancho & Foden chomping at the bit, with Rashford still in reserve.

I’ve been pretty confident from day 1 and I’ve seen nothing since to knock that confidence. We need to jump on Jorginho early and disrupt his rhythm, sides used to do it a lot against Chelsea and as good as he is, he sometimes struggles when sides dictate the pace of the game. Kane can drop into the 10 a lot and let Sterling & Saka run the legs off their centre halves. If we score early it’s going to be a piece of piss, 3 or 4 nil. I reckon it’ll be like the ‘98 World Cup final, everyone predicting a close game, but France blew them away. I honestly believe the same is going to happen tonight. It’s coming home…..

Problem is it’s not an exact science when picking up oldies, some you think will be great, are pony. There’s no manager that comes close to Lawrie when it comes to picking oldies for us, yet it was disastrous at Sunderland. Fat Sam did well at Bolton following a similar approach. What made Lawrie great was mixing the youngsters in with them. Bally had to be the greatest IMO. But he certainly wasn’t afraid of personalities.

I was at that game. Ensured we qualified for our first World Cup since ‘70

What about Peter Reid under Branfoot, that was another weird one. I think he was Branfoot’s mate.

One of the reasons some of us voted the way we did.

Sad news, as I posted on the euro thread, I knew him during the 80’s and spent quite a few nights out with him. Decent bloke, funny, and down to earth. RIP.

Sad news on the eve of the game. The death of ex international Paul Mariner. Despite playing for the skates he was a bloody decent bloke, I spent quite a few nights sinking pints with him during his spell with the Albany Capitals in the 80’s. He was a passionate Englishman great company, not a billy big bollocks at all.

It’s a crime even if you don’t use the bbc services, that’s the difference. Unless you can get locked up for not paying for Netflix despite not watching it. So it’s not the same thing.

Interesting article from John Humphreys on bbc pay. Saying he was extremely well paid and “I didn't exactly drive a hard bargain with the bosses. I didn't even employ an agent to put the squeeze on for me. There was no need to.” He then added “When presenters were banned at the height of the Iraq crisis from writing for newspapers I was called by a BBC boss and told not to worry, they'd make sure I didn't lose out financially. I rather enjoyed being paid for writing a column without actually having to write it.” Says it’s better now, but it needs to change its approach to paying its “talent” and says it’s now facing “the biggest crisis it has ever faced”.

So is burglary, drink driving & flashing your cock, what’s that got to do with going to prison if you don’t pay for the BBC?

We used to have all this pony in the 70’s & 80’s. Loads of foreign players said it gave them an extra incentive to put one over us.

The problem is Jenas will probably be co commentator on BBC.

The team/supporters whose anthem is getting booed I’d imagine.

He seemed genuinely confused that the Danes had 10 men, complete and utter fuck up. He only mentioned it at the end and didn’t seem to realise they restarted second period of ET with 10. Unprofessional

It’s moronic and self defeating.

No, I judge him on how he plays, which barring the odd performance has been shite. #LDgacy

Unbelievable isn’t it. Hes been far and away our biggest threat in the tournament, yet people are still wanting him hooked.

Walker was superb, Kane played well, but Sterling MoTM. Fair play to Southgate, ruthless subbing the sub, but you can’t argue with what he’s done. Keeper is the only worry for me, he’s borderline Boruc, I’m not sure he’s all there.

Swap the keepers over and we win 3-0. Well deserved. Best 2 teams in final. Horrendous commentary, didn’t even realise they were down to 10 men till right before the end. Skate twat

I’d get Foden on