Dark Munster

Good job it wasn't this one. Along with the cement factory and the not so Nice weather, it could be too much for him.

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Venables partially learnt from past mistakes by having 5 players well-drilled and prepared for penalties. It worked against Spain. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to anticipate preparing more than 5 penalty takers. In fairness, he had more players prepared than previous English managers, and some after too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4jeSJg7uA

Since their loss to Czechoslovakia, Germany have won 6 out of 6 shootouts, with only two misses prior to yesterday. We all know England's record, 6 losses out of 7, in some cases not practicing because "you can't recreate the pressure during practice." But that's ok, penalty taking is a lottery, and England are just unlucky.

Indeed. Unlike us, they actually learn from their mistakes. Having said that, they were lucky today that Italy were even worse than them at taking the pks.

Difficult without Ramsey. IMO yellows should be expunged from the group stages.

Fifty, to be precise.

Annual salaries: Hodgson €5,000,000 Coleman: €260,000

Amazing they did it without Bale doing that much in the match. It was a great team performance.

Go back over the last 50 years and we have a grand total of 6 knockout wins. Beyond pathetic.

Contrast Wales' performance with England's. Talking of England, Belgium are doing their best emulate them now.

Yes they are. The goal was no more than they deserved. A performance that puts England to shame.

Wow. Belgium look pure class.

Robin.

Good shout. Definitely could do worse than Guus.

Maybe Puel can control him, since he managed him previously and knows him well. Just like Pochettino with Osvaldo. Oh.

Corrected for you.

Spot on. FA stands for what they are good at. F**k All. Since 1966 we've managed to win just six knockout games - Paraguay, Belgium, Cameroon, Spain (on penalties), Denmark and Ecuador. SIX ****ing games in 50 years. Barely one ****ing knockout game won per decade.

We could a lot worse than offering him the job. And he may even do it for less than £3.5 million a year.

I've been waiting for them to do that since I was a nipper. It's amazing how consistently incompetent an organisation can be over 40+ years.

WTF?

Pelle gets the 4th for Belgium.

Easier said than done. It was a classy goal.

He blows hot, freezing, cold, hot.