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Well,.........

The spanish will eat both of these teams alive ...probably at the same time.

Wow, I've seen less scrappy matches on Bitterne Park rec.

Good score, aided and abetted by some very poor cricket from Essex. Awful bowling choices and two dropped catches.

Music sounds really tinny.

Didn't notice that ..

I don't know, he's in the list of 13 on the Hampshire site.

Hey, I had one of those,well my employer did anyway, flame orange it was. Got it from Percy Hendy's in Chandlers Ford if I remember.

Dawson named in the 13. Neal and Orr probably the players not to make the 11.

Yes. Spain would, in theory anyway,have to not play well for England to triumph. Or get a couple of reds. That said we have a more structured midfield than France. Have to get past Argentina first and that's not really a nailed on certainty, I'd say 65/35, something like that.

France were always going to get their come-uppance sooner or later, such a team of détestable individuals. Needed a old head like Griezmann to calm them a bit, but he's over the hill, there are others but they don't fit the Deschamps mould, everyone knows that he's not keen on certain types of players, he's gotten into evergoing spats with Cantona and others over it. Zidane will change most of it.

The différence for me was that Rodri became Rodri again. Plus the full backs and Ruiz being so much better than Pedri who's lost his way.

Think the game may well get a bit feisty. Lads need to keep their calm.

Negociating about what exactly ?

Obviously don't see the same "experts"as most here but anyone who wrote Spain off is obviously an idiot. France have no créative midfield, it's one of the main critics levied against Deschamps since always, his preference for brawn over brains. Spain just shut them down and that irks Mbappe because he's not the star of the show, him having the IQ of a packet of frozen peas.

If England get to this WC final watching it live would be a first for me. Was doing my Echo round in St Denys in 66, listened on a crackly Sony transistor radio in my pocket.

Dubious? He kicked him.

Not if you like good football

Indisciplined. Don't like not having the ball. Zidane will sort them out, bring in a bit more diversity.

Saliba down now. Wasn't fit.

The pen was for kicking him. Lucky not to be red carded. Anyway Digne is crap

But they said he'd be back for the QF

So 258. A bit sub-par?

What happened there then? Looked at the score England 60 no loss, looked again 64/3.

Double jeopardy,res judicata etc have nothing to do with breaking the rules in sport. Saints were thrown out of a competition. No action was taken personally against the main culprit of the affair and now it will be as likely as not. Don't think he'll get any sort of serious ban myself, 6 months suspended ban probably.