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I hope so but that fear of loosing might kick in. The creative players and attacking options for England are great.

https://youtu.be/gLF-_Z8TK1k?si=nWO2MGUm6G5ImJmt

Wembley right now.

Ha, would love for them to hold on for a famous win.

Southgate is a shit manager.
We have good players pretty much throughout and decent depth, particularly in the top half.
He's a good man-manager and seems to have made some progress on the mental side, but there is no clear tactical plan to get the most out of the resources he has.

Kerry Katona, Coleen Nolan, Christopher Biggins, your boys took one hell of a beating.

Nice one, all this Ingerlund talk was starting to get on my nerves.

That was such fun. Should have been more.

Shamelessly stolen, but if we can’t beat Iceland we’ve got no chance against the bigger teams like…….Tesco & Sainsbury’s

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Southgate is often accused of being a limited manager tactically. This may be true in some ways. But it is also to misunderstand the extent of what he is being asked to do. Southgate has to deal with two things. First, England delusion, post-colonial angst, the Arthurian myth dynamic as expressed through trying to win a football tournament while not really being good enough. It seems hard even now to accept that other nations also have talent.

This is one source of drag. Simultaneously Southgate, like all England managers, has been asked to make up a set of tactics. There is no indigenous Premier League style, as there is, say, a Dutch or Spanish or German style. What is the English way? Ferguson-era hard 4-4-2? Hit Les?

The Premier League is instead a petri dish for imported ideas, dominated right now by the Guardiola blueprint and versions of German-style pressing. But it remains the case that none of these are exemplified by or built around English players. England can’t play like Manchester City. They have too many holes. So Southgate has adapted, became pragmatic, made his England into a grooved defensive unit. Don’t concede. Keep the ball. Be good at set plays. These have been successful and legitimate tactics

Alright Barney Ronay - calm down.

I actually agree with most of that and as I said, he's bought some good stuff the table. But it's turgid. And denies that attacking talents we have/have had. Give me El Tel any day.

I feel like I’ve said this before, you have to pick players who play at champs league level and then England don’t have all the other players around the ones they do have to make them great.
And well Greece and Portugal! Have done similar. Stick 11 men behind the ball. And win.

Also, el tel never had anything like firework bum coke head fans. True measure of success that.

In other more relevant news.

Scotland played okay tonight, never a penalty and first goal we had focused on not being injured about 10 minutes before.

Tommy Conway looks very good.

3 losses and home soon.

Spain imported their ideas and created a successful team, as did so many others....Germany transformed the way they played under Loew, they weren't fun to watch in 2002, despite getting to the WC final. The Netherlands were playing anti-football the last time they came close to winning something. So I'm not sure I agree on that point.

England and Southgate have no excuses. They have a lot of very good players and should get to the semis, that's not delusion, it's reality.

firework bum coke head fans

Where do I sign up?

I think there will be affiliations over there

You're making his point for him with your delusions.

Do you think winning two knock-out games is beyond this group of players?

After 3 qualification matches and the pressure of England sweet England?

Genuinely impressed to see fake Bellingham shirts in Spanish beach shops already

I was on Vinted a couple of days ago and I saw a fake version of what was rumoured to be Newcastle’s 24/25 shirt. Nothing like the shirt that has actually been released. Globalisation is crazy man. Some factory in china or south east Asia keeping an eye on the football shirt rumour mill and can get a shirt onto the uk market before the rumour has been disproved.

So Man Utd are in week 3 of their post season review. They’re making the Chelsea hierarchy look competent and that takes some effort.

Yes!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/10/valencia-fans-who-racially-abused-vinicius-junior-given-prison-sentences

Great news!