benjii

It's not helpful to speculate. Please remember that everyone is entitled to be presumed innocent until proven Gylti.

Sounds as though CollinsDic will have to pack away the glow-sticks and ease of the eccies, come September.

Your boss sounds like a fucking moron. Sorry to hear about the beatings.

Can't blame him. I'm sure we've all wanted to get into Young Boys at some point.

Anecdotal but... .... one of the reasons why saying restrictions should be removed because ICU cases are not high misses the bigger picture.

Then we'll have no chance of doing anything, unless we get another set of easy fixtures. Not saying JWP is the answer but with the same central midfield we will get schooled by anyone decent. You can't have two cloggers in there and just hope Sterling, Kane or a full back pulls something out of the bag. Admittedly, if you rarely concede that can get you fairly far but if you want to excel you need people who can build play properly. It's not a criticism of anyone in particular, just that if we don't find a better class of ball player in central mid then we have no chance. Spain absolutely murdered Italy in midfield and would have killed us. I also doubt we would get anything against Belgium or France. So we're something like the 5th best team in Europe. If we had Spain's midfield or Italy's midfield, we'd be the best. Sadly, we don't.

Carry on having zero quality on the ball in midfield but getting piss easy draws? Need to build a team with more ability and less reliance on pace. Although we're on on right track.

Yep, we've barely touched the ball since the 20th minute. Too plodding in midfield and no one taking control of the play. That's the problem with two tacklers in there. Think we'll lose comfortably now. Southgate needs to do something. Get Bellingham or Grealish on, be braver on the ball, and push the defence up on Chiesa.

This BBC build up is fucking class. Come on England!

He's not "in the running", he's the only feasible choice unless someone does something ridiculous in the final.

If we are expected to pay all his wages - and they really are 65k a week- plus a few million in loan fees then it's quite an expensive loan for someone who will presumably be cover. A full back loan makes perfect sense but if its going to cost 6million quid then it could be better to go for a cheaper Cuco Martina / Jeremy Pied option and invest more in other areas. Improving at centre back, GK or attacking mid is more of a priority IMO.

Haha! I posted that with the express intention of seeing if you posted this. So stick that in your pipe.

He's a better passer than defender. Ironically, because his passing is so good, we were over reliant on him to start attacks. He's definitely worth selling for a fair price.

Agreed, except if we beat Denmark we will be playing, in the final, a team which is far better than anyone we have played so far, whether it’s Spain or Italy. Significantly better. We haven’t really seen how this team would do against a top team and I still worry a bit about our defence. But a one-off match, home advantage, Sterling in form and Kane getting his confidence back… we’ve got a decent chance for sure.

Congrats to Saints on following up their spring time signing of Theo with this excellent and timely first summer signing.

Let's be honest, though. Ukraine are shite. This reminds me a bit of the last World Cup where we played a load of shite teams. I expect us to beat Denmark too but I think the final will be difficult. But still, well done so far to everyone.

Cracking dive from Kane. Boo, cheating Italians etc.

Very harsh red. Barely a foul, really. If England had Spain’s midfield we would win the tournament at a canter. If they had Sterling and Kane, they probably would.

I’m inclined to agree with this. I think he’ll probably sign for another couple of years, but not until it’s clear one of those doesn’t want him. Which is fair enough and also good on SFC for being patient.

Ozzies letting the side down. They need to up their game or they'll get booted out of the vaccine, death-injection, population control gang. Someone really needs to remind them that this whole endeavour won't work unless they get people injected. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57661144 On a less idiotic note, I'm actually finding this increasingly psychologically difficult. The lockdown etc. obviously sucked but didn't have a huge impact on me personally for various reasons. It's very clear now though that it will be many years before we get even close to "normal". We will need boosters and we will have lots of variants for years to come and that will impact various things, not least travel. The impacts will be taken as validation by the dumb-ass groups that they were right all along and there's some plan afoot, and this whole situation will contribute to the societal malaise that political opportunists and online echo chambers are creating. That's assuming war doesn't break out with China. I'm feeling the outlook is bleak.

As usual the pundits are going well over the top. We were ok but nothing special. Sterling very good. That said, we avoid Belgium/Italy/Spain until the final so we won’t need to be brilliant to get there. Real chance to grind out a trophy.

Stephens over Tadic?

The point would be not to get relegated?

She converted it to equity when she owned 100%, I recall. Therefore didn't gain anything as a result. To the extent that the money improved the value of the club then, yeah, in theory she would get more back down the line but that's very tenuous in a business as viccisitudinous as football. For all intents and purposes she wrote the debt off.