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Southgate has instead dropped established international players he
feels lack the necessary technical ease to enact his plan of
attritional possession from back to front. It would have been easier
not to do this, easier not to put Kyle Walker, a player more used to
having the ball at his feet, in his back three.](https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/mar/25/gareth-southgate-england-netherlands) -
I think corndog nutmegged someone once.
Wasn't it a Cruyff turn that ended his promising career?
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The guardian thing is annoying because to my mind it's not true. Since as far as I'm aware, and you may do the search to prove me wrong, I've always tried to give credit, where it's due and linked to the original source material, which not many others do.
But what gets me is that it's like ASM and the arrospok thing, it was an incorrect statement that wouldn't die, and as valid and funny as it was at the beginning, when strangers to you and the thread, start using it, it gets old real quick. Which is what to my mind has happened here.
I don't push back with this because otherwise I'm heading down the whole @MultiGrooves route of kicking in an angry rebuttal to what many feel is an injoke, and I've got no fucking time for that. Because it takes too much energy and just gives strength to the thing.You want to dig about the sheriff, nicknames, fine I'll shoulder that weight, I like them, it's about my team and I'll take the "bants" on that because it IS something I do. The guardian thing is another matter as it dismisses what I've written as not being original, my own thoughts, or my own work, and as a person whose been paid to write, had articles and novels published, and had my work taken and not been credited for it, I take deep offense to that.
Anyway back to world cup chat and whether it's coming home!
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it was, dislocated kneecap, means I'll never really be able to deploy my full talents.
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Fairly sure almost all those words have appeared in the Guardian at some time or another.
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Sub editors darlink!
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So Ronaldo officially to Juve, unveiled Saturday! Can’t confirm 100% as I’ve only seen on insta.
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Sterling might have quiet spells in the game, and might not have been playing to his strengths, but I don't think there's another player who can get a defender backpedalling and shitting his shorts better than Sterling when he's running right at them.
There was a moment in the Colombia game when I'd just started suggesting Rashford might be a better option, then Sterling turned it on again and I remembered why he was there.
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But for all his good runs he produced nothing of any use in the way of shots or passes. Perhaps if Kane stopped trying to be everywhere Sterling might have more options. I know he is relishing his role as captain, and is expressing that by getting involved all over the pitch, but our main target man should not be dropping deep so often.
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ANY FUCKING WAY
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-world-cup-predictions/matches/
GIVE UP NOW.
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This could be said about a number of the front 4/5.
Yes, but I am suggesting that his failure was to a some extent down to those around him not making themselves available.
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You're right, he's also excellent at pressing opposition defenders when they're on the ball, it's no coincidence that when he went off, Colombia came right back into the game by building from the back.