Football

Well done France. Mrs Landslide's sweepstake marches on.

Thierry Henry doing a great job of looking sombre and defeated.

He's the new version of Stephan G'Uivarch.

He's abysmal isn't he?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTY4bA-w4eo

Hope they pick him should it be an England / France final....

The thing is, I don't think Lukaku was outstanding against Brazil either.

I think Big Centre Forwards are almost superfluous in teams like this, like a Plan B that skilful Number 10s or wingers can use if cutting in or running in behind isn't an option.

It doesn't really matter if he's a bit shit if you've got an Mbappe or an Hazard/de Bruyne who are that incisive in their passing and running.

I’m terms of %, how much of an advantage is an almost total lack of sportsmanship?

I mean, with guivarch you could argue he was an early false nine, (if you had no real memory of him and only remembered how Newcastle got stuffed with him). But giroud missed a sitter or two and clattered a couple of people as well.

Unquantifiable.

https://mobile.twitter.com/parrillabby/status/1016775041235800066/video/1

Where’s the bike walker now France have turned over Belgium. Good team performance, glad matuidi got a chance to show how invaluable to the team he actually is and loved that mbappe was constantly taking the piss with the Belgium defenders.
Amazed that Martinez turned to the ultra defensive midfield of dembele, witsel and fellaini, and then took off dembele wh n he was chasing the game.
Like Danny Murphy he talks a lot of sense but not sure what he saw to like with witsel’s performance. Am I blinded by my tottenham man love for dembele to think despite not having his best game he still offered more than witsel and fellaini..

Documentary they showed after the match as they takes about the last time England were in a semi final reminded me of how much I admired bobby robson, and what a good/great manager he was..

I don't know about that. Dembele, twinkle toes with the build of a fridge and the speed of a man, was shit. Mertens came on and made more of an impact, I know I know maybe dembele was doing stuff that wasn't visible.
If Lukaku had balls he'd be my aunty's granny I know, but there were more chances for him when mertens was on.

Dembele was shit.
Since the comment about witsel being a bad impression of a footballer he seems to have got better.

How does giroud get picked?

World champ coach.

That is the whole point of concussion it doesn't kick in straight away. That was the equivalent of a boxing uppercut.

I felt bad for Giroud, he huffed and puffed but a better, quicker striker might have had three tonight

You got your football licence at Argos?

You tell me what you saw.

Sad for Belgium. Hazard is so skilful and that KDB pass that kakkers didn't get on the end of was incredible. They deserved more. We deserved jonnys.

that KDB pass

Was another where the striker has backed off assuming the defender was going to beat him to the ball but didn't happen.

Where’s the bike walker now France have turned over Belgium.

So lufuguss tropes are OK as long as they're not directed at you? How lame...

Just woken up and seen the result, I like France, not as much as Belgium, but I'm OK with them going through...

Sorry

Exactly. Plan B was crosses from Mertens to the big man, because the France defence was too strong to let the Belgians penetrate playing the way they'd have liked to have, which means centre forwards are superfluous.

Ray Parlour!

The Romford Pele.