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We are so reliant on Bellingham and Kane. We really need others to step up if we want to win this thing.

Just how good has Bellingham been for us in this WC? How good was it to see Haaland go off? Two players should not have started. One because he was not fit. The other because he isn’t good enough. Fair play for the changes at half time.

We are not France. We are not Spain. But we are in the semi finals 🥳

Good that they are raising money for charity, but if they want to put on a show, why not do it before the match starts? It’s bad enough with the hydration (coaching) breaks. They are trying to turn it into another Super Bowl.

I like it, apart from the awful sponsors logo.

I’m not sure how it works if they are deliberately trying to give Argentina pens in this WC given that Messi misses half of them. If he had any, Infantino would be pulling his hair out.

Only if the current holder of the FIFA Peace Prize gets involved. Interesting point though. I thought the point of booking players for taking their shirt off when scoring was down to the sponsors wanting their names to be seen on pictures of the goal scorer. There are no sponsors names on shirts in the WC.

Which have actually become coaching breaks with a bit of hydration thrown in.

The Belgium team had a meeting beforehand and were fired up by the red card situation. Sounds like Trump’s intervention backfired bigly which is just as well as you can just imagine the grief if Balogun had scored the winner. Trump hates losers, perhaps Balogun and Pochettino will be receiving visits from ICE agents soon!

When we bought him he did get in that team.

If they want to bring along an older player to add experience in the dressing room, just add one of them to the coaching staff. Job done.

It’s amazing isn’t it? Little Southampton FC cheat in the EFL and get the book thrown at them. The President of the US cheats for his national team in front of the whole world and FIFA bend over backwards to help him.

Second most successful manager is a pretty low bar to be fair. Apart from Ramsey every other manager has failed to deliver. No one is saying that Southgate was a poor manager. The point is, with what he had at his disposal we could have done better if he had not been so cautious. Losing is not the issue. It is losing when you have the potential to win that is so frustrating. England failed to qualify under Ramsey against Poland, but anyone watching that game will know that England gave everything in that match and left everything on the pitch. I wish I could say the same about the two finals and the semi under Southgate.