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Post by Hogan on Jul 12, 2021 6:29:03 GMT
When’s the prem kick off then
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ic
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Post by ic on Jul 12, 2021 7:07:17 GMT
Fucking get it up you
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sween
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Post by sween on Jul 12, 2021 7:30:25 GMT
You only had to support 7 different teams and wait til the last game of the tournament to see a win. Congrats lol
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Post by Maskya Yoshida on Jul 12, 2021 7:41:21 GMT
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sween
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Post by sween on Jul 12, 2021 7:45:08 GMT
That said i dont blame anyone for loving us losing, the amount of fucking cunt football fans in this country is shocking not to mention the unbearable gutter press
Waking up to find out the fa have had to condemn the racist abuse toward the black players man. Literally just nuke this place its a failed experiment.
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xabi
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Post by xabi on Jul 12, 2021 7:50:06 GMT
Could appreciate the hype if I was English, but Jesus the media was tough for neutrals the last few weeks. Do think the English squad overall was a lot stronger than the Italians.
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Post by notpropaganda on Jul 12, 2021 8:19:06 GMT
Not gonna pretend I wanted England to win, but absolutely did not want those young black men be the ones to miss the pens. The dregs that are a lot of England fans don’t deserve that squad.
I think Southgate was too conservative. I expected Italy to own the ball and England to be defensive which isn’t the end of the world, but I’m sorry yous offered absolutely no threat on the counter attack. It’s unsustainable to “let them have it”. Pickford was your MOTM, I don’t think your keeper being your best player can ever really translate to deserving to win.
Started well, went into last five minute defending mode at about the half hour mark and that was it apart from a wee spell in ET.
Sterling was sensational all tournament and even last night was the only one that ran at Italy. He was poor by his own standards from the tournament but he has been England’s best player, no doubt about it.
I love Jorginho but he absolutely should’ve seen red.
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Post by sween on Jul 12, 2021 8:22:48 GMT
Pickford had a class tournament again, miss me with all the shit small arms banter and calls for him to be dropped
This all over
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ic
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Post by ic on Jul 12, 2021 9:14:57 GMT
Listen I support a shit team in a shit country with both having zero chance of ever winning anything, I'm bitter as fuck
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Post by ChappyHova on Jul 12, 2021 10:12:09 GMT
I see Grealish has come out and said he wanted to take a pen. I know Southgate said that he chose the takers last night but I just assumed that was him shielding the players.
I can see room for criticism now if he's picked the 5 players and not asked if they wanted to take them, but I guess it's possible that 7 players said they'd have 1 and Grealish wasn't in Southgate's first 5.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Jul 12, 2021 10:18:02 GMT
Self preservation if I'm being cynical.
Managers decision ultimately. But penalties are a lottery. They shouldn't define a performance nor a player. You can miss with a good penalty and score with a bad penalty.
Still hasn't sunk in that that was the final of a European Championship. With England. Who held their own and were there on merit.
So many what ifs but I really hope in time it's viewed with the tournament as a whole in mind.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Jul 12, 2021 10:26:08 GMT
Also was VAR broken? Not a single check I can recall and having just seen the Jorginho challenge, was he lucky not to see red?
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Post by #FreeBTS on Jul 12, 2021 10:58:08 GMT
I can’t believe that with how minute they get on details no England player towards the end of the shootout took a pen down the middle. One of the coaches should have taken it out of their hands and just plain told Sancho or Saka just to put it right down the middle.
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Post by Stu on Jul 12, 2021 11:00:38 GMT
Wouldnt be a surprise if Southgate didnt choose Grealish to take one, he clearly hasnt picked him for much throughout the tournament. Get the feeling hes not his biggest fan.
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Post by Olivier on Jul 12, 2021 11:03:33 GMT
There's definitely been a sentiment in Scotland this time that the anti-England agenda is very much focussed towards the media. The players and Southgate have actually come across well and received a lot of support up here.
The media thing stems from us being fed the English coverage. I read we were the only team competing in the competition that didn't have our own dedicated coverage - did Wales have Welsh language coverage or something on S4C? At the start of the Euros BBC and ITV both launched with a decent enough mix of presenters. Elidth Barbour etc were all involved. But they were only involved in covering Scotland. Same with Savage and Wales. For all neutral games we were left with the English-focused commentary teams and the Scottish staff were cast aside. There's no reason we couldn't have had Rory Hamilton or Rob McLean on many more games. Especially this year as the vast majority of coverage and commentary was done from studios in the UK.
Listening to them shoe-horn in references to English football was tedious. It's become a meme up here that so and so was "linked with Watford last summer" then when Wales play Denmark and both keepers are ex-SPFL but they don't seem to be aware. Just the small things but the things that make you feel like this coverage is targeted towards you.
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