Lighthouse

All that means is that we have two decent Championship players who are thoroughly inadequate at this level. Tella did absolutely nothing last year, whereas Armstrong scored a couple of goals. Neither are worth having in this league.

The first true test of what a Jones team is capable of. I’m hoping Lavia is back to replace AMN and we don’t repeat that first half against Lincoln.

We aren’t getting anything out of the system, this crap has been happening all season. Without it we’d be mid table and it’s going to carry on happening.

That and the fact that he did all that p*ssing around, trying to get around the keeper and when he did he still wouldn’t shoot. Wouldn’t even take on the single defender standing on the line. The fact that our best striker has such awful instincts in front of goal is pathetic.

Just back from possibly the sh*test win I’ve ever been to. Lincoln looked like a mid table League 1 team, well up for a cup game. Nothing more, nothing less. Against Prem opposition, we’ll get battered playing like that. First half especially was awful, three CBs knocking it over the top for a goal kick. We’ll never get the time and space to score those two goals in a league game and the two misses… holy sh*t. Adams and the keeper could have won Strictly with the second one. TBF to Jones and the team, we did look better after the subs but that’s starting from a pretty poor datum. Perraud and Adams I though we’re decent throughout, Stu and Edozie likewise when they came on, misses aside. AMN looked like he’d won a competition to play the first half. The defence were never really troubled enough to comment, their #7 looked like he could play a bit but that’s all.

Because we have an open and free press, which is allowed to criticise public figures. It won’t always be nice and some people will abuse that privilege but it’s important to have it.

Whereas these days you just get pretty much ignored by people who are bored with how gullible you are.

The greatest final, perhaps, but there were quite a few 0-0s earlier on and aside from France and Argentina, none of the decent teams really turned up. Germany and Belgium were very poor, Italy not present, Brazil, Portugal and Spain all substandard, England about par for the course but nothing more. A very good WC overall but I’m not sure if it was the best.

Probably enough to have finished him off.

France look dead on their feet.

There goes Sir Geoff’s record.

Starting to think we might not get Upamecano in January either.

No, I’m absolute confident this will be England’s year. We just need Estonia in the final this time, instead of Italy.

The mental image of a German walking down the street, minding his own business and being tw*tted in the face by a live octopus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63996982

Given that they were already okay with industrial scale rape and murder, I’m not entirely sure what this law is supposed to be enabling. Perhaps they want it enshrined in their constitution, so that they can start handing out medals for ‘exemplary raping in a combat scenario’.

Redmond, on separate occasions, scored eight and nine goals in all comps, in a single season. Boufal either scored one or two. I don't even rate Redmond but he clearly contributed far more overall.

I think you may have overestimated the appeal of an online message board, relative to driving around in an Aston Martin and ploughing page three girls.

Got a 24 pack of Desperados in the back of a kitchen cupboard and honestly, it’s been there since summer. I pretty much only drink at home if I’m hosting a BBQ but will quite happily have two to four at the cricket, football, an après-ski bar or such like. Very rarely exceed that though, hate the feeling of being really drunk or hungover.

Because a player having a good tournament doesn’t translate to being a decent club player. What does having a superb WC have to do with playing for a top European side?

Stephane Guivarch and Roque Junior both started a World Cup final for the winning team once. Let’s not pretend Boufal has suddenly silenced his critics.

Annoyingly, I seem to remember him scoring two of his only three goals that season he moved to Liverpool against Saints. It was our second or third game, away at Anfield. I’ll also add Milan Baros to the list, from Euro 2004.

Well, I look forward to Angers doing just that when the transfer window opens.

Well RVN won the golden boot a few times, I’d say that was doing alright.

She sounds a bit of a lightweight TBH.

Sky rather weirdly phrased this match as, "Argentina attempting to reach their first WC final since 2014." What, one whole world cup since they last reached the final?