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I thought that the quality of the Korean crosses was excellent throughout the game. Probably should have done better with the first but the second was a superb cross for the guy to run on to.

Cracking win for Morocco this afternoon. Boufal looked lively. Belgium look like their golden generation is done.

The thing with narcissists is that all attention is good attention and he laps up both the good and the bad. He is loving this because, as usual, it is all about him. You will never win no matter what you post as every response feeds his need for attention. It doesn’t matter what the subject of the thread is, eventually it will become about him. For your own peace of mind you should let him find another target. Once you get him as a stalker he is like herpes, impossible to get rid of 😏

There are good, bad and indifferent games every week in the EPL just as there are in every World Cup. Teams just want to get out of the group stage. Things generally improve once the knockout stage kicks in and most of the chaff is sifted out.

The interview after the first game summed him up perfectly. Most managers would be delighted that they had just won 6-2 but his first thoughts were about the goals we conceded. Fair play to the USA tonight, they had a game plan and stuck to it and probably should have win the match.We had no ambition and no guile and were happy just not to lose. Southgate in a nutshell. You win World Cups by gambling and having balls. Southgate is a nice man but is not a gambler and doesn’t have any balls. We will get out of the group which he will see as job done, but what he has demonstrated yet again is that he can play safe and get the basics done but doesn’t have the nous to actually be a winner. He will never get a top job in the EPL when he leaves the England job.

Didn’t van Gaal advise him to stay put at the time in order not to jeopardise his chances of playing in the WC? Apparently he decided to stay and it wasn’t down to money.

This explains why you talk like you are still in the 20th century Duckie.

“Dopey bird” 😂

I guess that says it all. A Home Secretary who is clueless about “legal” routes and ways for people to apply for asylum here. And she has the brass neck for laying the blame for channel crossings at the feet of the migrants. Can you imagine being so ill informed and incompetent and keeping your own job? She has one sole purpose and that is to make it as difficult as possible for people to apply for asylum in this country but it is a strategy which is failing miserably.

He might find that an easier question to answer than if it had been posed to someone who made a living from manning a nuclear submarine.

FIFA didn’t have much of a reputation to trash in the first place, but you would assume that the purpose of hosting the WC for the Qatari’s was a giant PR exercise in convincing us they are good guys really. Within hours of the first ball being kicked FIFA’s reputation has sunk even lower and the Qatar’s have managed to confirm what most people thought about them in the first place. They have had 12 years to iron out any potential problems and yet here we have the hosts sticking two fingers up to all of the agreements that have been signed up to and we watch while FIFA collapse like a pack of cards. There has been a strange atmosphere around these games from the start which doesn’t look like it is going to evaporate now the football is under way. What was a dumb decision to start with now finds it’s chickens coming home to roost. Can’t see many upsides to this other than hopefully David Beckham’s grubby quest for a knighthood is finally buried for good beneath the Qatari sand along with his reputation.

It was a refreshing change to see a Southgate team playing attacking football and scoring goals, even if it was against a very poor opposition. He still managed to betray his real feelings by starting his interview by talking about the goals conceded. You won 6-2 Gareth, nobody gives a shit about a last minute penalty. Keep out scoring the opposition, win the cup and nobody will give a toss that Maguire lost his man in the box. Wales will clearly play out of their skins against us because that will be the equivalent to their final, but we are so much better than them or the USA and I hope that he doesn’t revert to type. We should sail through this group. We look so much better when we are on the front foot.

Perhaps they would have been high up the pitch pressing for a winner anyway? Who knows, if it hadn’t have been given we might have scored 3 more? The fact remains that we won the match 4-2 and the officials were happy that it was kosher. The same happened in the Argentina game. We can whinge about the Hand of God all day long and perhaps the result would have been completely different if it hadn’t been given, who knows? It really doesn’t matter. Both goals were given and the rest is history.

Right on cue Batman, as ever. Yet again you spectacularly miss the point. Who do “we” think “we” are? We are the descendants of a nation that forged a massive empire and sent people like you to keep Johnny Foreigner in line. You of all people should understand that we have the moral upper hand in these matters, after all, it is our job to civilise these savages isn’t it? Isn’t that what you signed up for when you served Queen and County 🫡🇬🇧? As you well know, racism in football was never going to end overnight through footballers taking a knee but that doesn’t mean it was a worthless exercise. The whole point was to raise the issue and keep in as a main focus, which it did. The same with Harry Kane wearing a rainbow armband. Again no one believes that it will change the Qatari position on gay rights overnight, but it is one small step in the right direction. Change does not happen with inertia. Change takes time. If the anti woke brigade had their way nothing would ever change but the posters like you would have nothing to kick off against. Posters like you (who infect Twitter like locusts) think they are being clever, but are, sadly, also part of the problem. You trivialise these issues by focussing the narrative on the way that you chose to frame it. Try looking beyond an action as an opportunity to ridicule and piss take for a change.

Gutted at the result. I was assured by those ITK that Qatar had paid off Ecuador to ensure they would start with a win so I bet my mortgage on it. Off to buy a tent tomorrow. I did have a side bet about snide comments about knee taking and rainbow armbands, so maybe all is not lost 🌈

On what Planet are people like Braverman and Patel Blairites? They and Raab and Williamson are far more comfortable in a pair of jackboots and are about as liberal as Attila the Hun.

Surely you would be one of the first to know? If it does die, where are you going to find stuff to post on here?

You beat me to it. I think Jenkins ran about 3/4 of the length of the pitch too?Wonderful goal. I seem to remember Jimmy Greaves going down easily in the box for their equaliser. Tommy Jenkins went on a similarly mazy run in another match but was brought down in the box for a penalty.

It is related because the guy was saying he would be happy to pay stupid money for a basic food item than rejoin the EU. I think the expression I am looking for is cutting off your nose to spite your face. I’m still waiting for someone to explain the everyday benefits of Brexit to me but I am sure an explosion in the cost of living isn’t one of them.

I am due to meet a couple of old school/football team buddies on Saturday. I have know them both for 58 years. One lives in Southend and the other just outside Oxford. Not seen the for a while due to the lockdown etc. I have managed to avoid the dreaded virus all the way through the pandemic but have felt a bit rough this week so took a test this evening - Sod’s law, it is positive 😩

As much as I admire the sentiment, Murdoch wields too much power outside of his own country. He sees himself as a kingmaker and with so many media outlets across the world has far too much influence for one man, especially when that influence is used for what is best for Rupert Murdoch. Having said that, hell hath no fury like a Donald scorned and I’m looking forward to the fall out between Trump and Murdoch.

I agree. We just didn’t have the depth in the squad to maintain that high intensity game for any length of time. Ralph clearly thought he was getting a striker in the summer, God knows what happened there but the lack of a consistent goalscorer and the loss of Lavia did for him. I feel gutted for him that he went out on a low but think that most people will remember him fondly and wish him well for the future. Nathan Jones has a tough job ahead of him but interviews well and obviously has plenty of self belief. I admire his optimism in saying that he can turn Che into a consistent scorer. As many have said before me, if we don’t find a quality goalscorer in January the second half of the season will be an uphill struggle. Let’s hope that Tino and KWP are both fit for the restart too. Farewell Ralph and thanks for your hard work and dedication to the club over the last 4 years.

But then you didn’t rate Pelle either did you? 🤭

I read a quote from a guy yesterday who said that he would rather pay £5.00 for a loaf of bread than rejoin the EU. Little wonder that we are where we are. The way things are going he might get his wish sooner than imagined.

If you haven’t been persuaded yet that Donald Trump has a 100% Narcissistic Personality Disorder then I suggest you watch the recent interview where he says that if a Republican candidate wins it is down to him and if they lost it had nothing to do with him whatsoever. He wasn’t joking. It is staggering to see that there are still relatively intelligent grown ups who still buy this shit.