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Oh! Transfer window closed already?

Give that we have only got into two other WC semi finals in my lifetime, l’ll take it!

Narcissistic tw*t. I hope the guy sues him.

According to the stats though this doesn’t appear to be the case. We made plenty of chances but our conversation rate was pants.

Is it just Lefties who protest against Trump? I know Tories who have protested against him too.

Agreed. Definitely moved his hand towards the ball.

I think that the anti Trump protests have been brilliant. I live in a small village in the middle of nowhere and even we have had posters hanging out of windows telling him to go home. As to what they will achieve, a darn sight more than sitting on a PC whinging to people you have never met about things you can't change I would imagine. Trump didnt want to spend more time in London because, bless him. he didnt feel welcome. I would say that in itself is a huge result. How do you pro Trump types feel about the pro Robinson Yaxley-Lennon marches? A waste of time too? Did you go?

No what is odd is you accusing other people of telling lies. For starters it wasnt me saying that you follow me around, it was another poster (but he is right, you do). You are using exactly the same tactic that Trump uses (the "fake news" b*llsh*t) to muddy the water and to avoid answerning questions. Anyone reading this thread or the terrorist thread can see exactly where you are coming from. Everytime anyone has a go at the likes of Trump, Yaxley-Lennon, O'Neill, Rees-Mogg, Johnson, Hopkins, Pepe le Frog etc (note all from the far right or alt-right) you are straight in there defending them. Never ever happens with anyone from the left of centre. In fact, we all still remember your famous quote "socialism is dangerous." Remind me again how dangerous the NHS or the Welfare State is please. At least the likes of Batman and Sour Mash don't pretend to be anything other than they are, and they deserve respect for that. You on the other hand have a very clear and obvious agenda which you pretend doesn't exist. But as I have said before, you are a busted flush. You are clearly well right of centre, the only question is just how far. Now man up and stop telling porkies. You have an ally in Batman, so you will be fine. Oh and whist talking about Batman, the current Mayor of London is a legend for allowing the Trump blimp to be flown from Parliament Square. If that is all he ever does while in office it will make him more popular than Boris Johnson ever was in the job.

Perhaps we can close this thread now and concentrate on Saints players and targets?

Park the unpleasant far right politics for a while. What about the fact that the people you so readily support (that is the likes of O'Neill, Hopkins and Trump) are deeply unpleasant human beings. Yes, this is throwing a label on them, not because I have difficulty in refuting what they say, but because of what they say. Still sporting the alt-right avatar I see.

Yes, I saw that too. Not sure it is a good idea signing a short arse!

A Bobby doesn’t have to walk a beat for the police to have a “presence.” They are more likely to be in mobile instant responce units now apart from the fact that the Criminal Justice System has been decimated by Government cuts due to the austerity measures. You don’t see as many police cars around - hardly ever on motorways now.

We were the better side for the first 25 minutes or so but as the half went in Croatia were getting progressively better and we were saying we needed to make changes in the second half as we were starting to struggle. Agree that a second goal would have done it though but taking the match as a whole, Croatia were the better side.

For a large chunk of the first half we were going through comfortably but from the moment we allowed them to push us back we were screwed. If we had taken our chances who knows , but the longer the match went on the more Croatia looked better - and they are not a good side. Alli never liked fit enough and we were reliant on a few players when we needed everyone to step up. Our one ace card n Kane want used well enough. But wtf , we got to a semi final with a team no one rated, so fair play to Southgate and the squad. As for Lovren, what a tosser!

If only it were that simple.

It was! It seemed to surprise Lukaku. I think someone like Kane would have made more of an effort to get his head on the end of it. It was screaming out for a diving header. When Mertens came on he put some great crosses into the box but Lukaku didn’t get a sniff.

Me too. So much quality in the team. But Lukaku and De Bruyne were below par tonight. Had they been been on form I think they would have done it. Fair play to the French though, the did a job on Belgium and defended very well. Croatia will be tough. No point in thinking about France just yet!

Truly bizarre. You know that the 70s ended years ago?

Trippier has to be in there. He has had a superb tournament so far.

Southgate's stock has definately risen through this competition. He seems to have a blind spot as far as Sterling is concerned though. Having said that old jazz hands will probably we the match winner today! Good luck England. As for Belgium, I dont understand why they get so much grief. So many class players, strong team belief and they are the ones to beat if you want to with the cup.

Trippier has played very well so far but would anyone have said that he was world class before the WC? Yoshi played well for Japan in their 4 matches and now people are calling for him to be the Saints captain and , presumably, be first name on the team sheet when before he was seen as an adequate cover at CB and nothing more. Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar and Suarez are all definately world class players but none of them have played up to their standards in the WC. It is a one off competition where, at the most, you get to play 7 matches. Anyone can shine or look poorer than they are in a handful of matches. If Trippier is indeed a world class full back, he will need to demonstrate that in the Premiership and CL matches next season too. To be world class you have to do it week in, week out.

#potkettleblack #textbook

He signalled to the ref that it wasn’t a pen. Their guy should have gone for the head butt and so should have Henderson. Agree that the ref should have called the captains together and warned them both that red cards are on the way if the crazy stuff continues. Columbia should face some action for their poor behaviour and post match comments. They really seem to believe that their behaviour was ok!

Spot on!

Perhaps that is where we have been going wrong all these years? Maybe we should have been looking at throwing certain matches in order to proceed? As for Brazil or Sweden, have you stopped to think how we struggle to break down strongly defensive teams and maybe, just maybe, a team that comes at us might just leave some space for our poorly formed attack to get some chances? None of us knows if we would have played better last night if we had put out a strong team against Belgium. Those rested certainly didnt look any fresher but who knows, with another game under their belts playing in the strongest team, maybe they would have won it without the penalty lottery?