Saint Pete

Shaping up to be an "interesting" summer for the Geordies. Already sold both Antony Gordon and Tonali for big money and now Bruno Guimaraes reported to have asked for a transfer with Arsenal rumoured to be waiting in the wings. If they are forced to sell him too, they will be sitting on a major wad of cash and will probably be held to ransom on deals to get in replacements as everyone will know they are desperate (and minted). Maybe we can get them interested in Charles to fill one of the midfield gaps to drive his price up more?

Well, actually if you watch the pens again, both Davinson Sanchez and Akanji did stutters in their run ups to their awful penalties!

Akanji 🤣

Wow, Sanchez gave that a whack!

Barn doors and banjos spring to mind.

Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through). So if we can deal with Erling on Saturday, reckon it'll be the Argies in the semi, but wouldn't be too worried about that having watched their game earlier. Reckon Norway may be the bigger challenge as Haaland is so difficult to deal with.

Yeah, my suspicion is that Egypt goal wouldn't have been disallowed had it been an Argentina one. Argument would have been constructed to say "too far back in the move".

Defending has let Egypt down, had the game in the palm of their hand.

Also, there's plenty for Tuchel to work on if we do meet them in semis. They have looked wide open to the counter attacks from Egypt.

Shite.

Brilliant!!!!

Certainly would have been interesting to see if the same decision would have been arrived at had it been an Argentina goal and not Egypt.

Wonderful breakaway goal about to be spoiled by VAR.

Looking like at least a couple of these Belgian goals will need to be suspended by Fifa in order for the States to progress from this one.

Horror show for that 3rd goal from the US.

I agree his caution held us back in that final, but that doesn't mean his contribution should be written off in the way some do, or that his achievements in reaching 2 major finals should be belittled. If it is so damn easy to do what he did, how come England have only ever reached 3 finals and 2 of them were under Southgate? I personally think he didn't have as many truly elite world class players at his disposal than a lot of his predecessors had, so I think his legacy in addition to those finals has been instilling a togetherness and team ethic back into England that wasn't present previously and a belief that we can get to Finals and potentially win tournaments. The current England squad is still benefiting from that legacy to some extent in my opinion.

Absolute bullshit from the corrupter in chief but what else would we expect? So these independent Fifa disciplinary committees are just applying the rules and regs as they always would do, yet have done something that has never happened in a World Cup before with red cards?! OK... And he seems to be trying to distance himself from the decisions they make as they are "independent" and sometimes he agrees with them and sometimes doesn't. So is he saying that he as Fifa President isn't independent then?!

Was gonna say we will struggle in next one after the amount of effort and energy we put into that but at least the Norway QF is not til Saturday evening so decent recovery time. 👍

I'd totally forgotten he was in the squad! Sure he has played RB for Newcastle before, could do a lot worse than putting him in there for the next one, not sure why he hasn't been talked about more as an option as wouldn't let anyone down in my opinion.

That is an Epic win, one of the best ever for England given the circumstances and everything against them on the night. Well done lads!!

Hell of a game this, but you do fear it won't end well for us...

Come on Pickford.

No fuckkng way

Got to say Gordon has surprised me, been great today.

We need to play to score more goals that's for sure. We aren't gonna keep them out if we sit back too much.