An old Scottish boss of mine who was a living breathing Celtic obsessive told me that he never watches internationals. Why? Because Scotland were shite...
Italy win, it all went wrong then when Rashford spent all his time campaigning against the government rather than practicing his penalties
Yep. Thats precisely why he missed. Don't worry, when you're on here saying why its keeping WWC kids hungry is in their best interests, you can blame Rashford.
Southgate's going to get that a lot from now on. Holding them back until then just seemed strange, were they really that much better at taking penalties on paper? Might not have mattered, but that's life.
I love Italy, love Italians, love the way they play under Mancini. They deserved it.
But we had a very good run. Far too defensive at times: that was our undoing. Sitting back. Not playing adventurously. We can take a leaf out of the Italians' book on that.
Not good penalty taking, despite all the practice. A lot of 'great' saves in shootouts are anything but, it's players not getting it far enough in the corner or high enough.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
How many minutes before the pundits call for Southgate's head? After all, he knows how important penalties are. He has had them practising. And they were shite. Must be his fault.
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
I hate penalties. There must be an alternative. Well played Italy though.
The alternative would be take the penalties after 90 minutes and then play extra time - the team which lost the shootout then has to win in the 30 minutes.
If that had happened today I think Italy would have got another goal in extra time.
England were sorting out the Knighthoods. England were planning the bank holiday celebrations.
Only trouble is they forgot to win the match!
Good japes, except of course the people making preparations for a win have nothing to do with pitch performance - who doesn't do preparation in the event you win? Lot of 'Italy 2020 Champion' scarves in production could equally have been for naught.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
Doubt it in Glasgow, they will sell out in the celebrations.
Fair enough. Italy were the best team in the competition. Strange decision to bring players on in the last five minutes to do pens
Not sure why Sterling or Shaw weren't taking penalties. Aren't Saka and Sancho the two youngest players on the pitch? But England didn't create enough chances in the second half, the better team won.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
Yep. I said to Mrs RP earlier looking at the awful lunatics trashing London hours before kick-off that there would be fucking riots if Italy win.
I hope not. But there are a decent number of football "fans" enjoy mindless ultraviolence as much as they do the football. And enjoy bigotry as much as the next BNP supporter. So yes. Smash up the Italians because they have stolen it. And attack anyone with forrin skin and / or names because look at the migrants who just let England down.
How many minutes before the pundits call for Southgate's head? After all, he knows how important penalties are. He has had them practising. And they were shite. Must be his fault.
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
Doubt it in Glasgow, they will sell out in the celebrations.
How many minutes before the pundits call for Southgate's head? After all, he knows how important penalties are. He has had them practising. And they were shite. Must be his fault.
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
I hate penalties. There must be an alternative. Well played Italy though.
Golden goal was tried and that failed.
The only other option would be a replay - and I don't think that's practical.
Basically what's needed is a higher scoring sport which doesn't end in a draw, and where the rules are designed to discourage cheating. Rugby, perhaps. Or cricket.
Not good penalty taking, despite all the practice. A lot of 'great' saves in shootouts are anything but, it's players not getting it far enough in the corner or high enough.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
I hope this doesn't happen but if it does the culprits ought to feel the full force of the law.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
Yep. I said to Mrs RP earlier looking at the awful lunatics trashing London hours before kick-off that there would be fucking riots if Italy win.
I hope not. But there are a decent number of football "fans" enjoy mindless ultraviolence as much as they do the football. And enjoy bigotry as much as the next BNP supporter. So yes. Smash up the Italians because they have stolen it. And attack anyone with forrin skin and / or names because look at the migrants who just let England down.
How many minutes before the pundits call for Southgate's head? After all, he knows how important penalties are. He has had them practising. And they were shite. Must be his fault.
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
The criticism I've seen on Twitter and online is that they were young kids who hadn't kicked the ball all game and put under too much pressure with just a couple of minutes on the field.
Not good penalty taking, despite all the practice. A lot of 'great' saves in shootouts are anything but, it's players not getting it far enough in the corner or high enough.
Not good penalty taking, despite all the practice. A lot of 'great' saves in shootouts are anything but, it's players not getting it far enough in the corner or high enough.
Maguire's was the best penalty.
Aim at a corner and kick if with maximum power.
All the stuttering run ups cause a loss of power.
Stuttering has never seemed worth it to me. Ok, the keeper may move too soon if you do, but if you hit it well them guessing the right way won't matter. And if you do it too often they will start to wait for you, and if your placement and power aren't great (many 'great' penalties are not, they would be easily savable if the keeper guesses right) now they have a chance.
Is the mod team going to do something about the obvious troll?
It's not obvious to me. Who are you suggesting? All the names look familiar to me.
HYUFD made a slightly wild comment but don't hound him off the board. That's a feeble thing to do. We don't just want like minded robots on here, surely?
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
Yep. I said to Mrs RP earlier looking at the awful lunatics trashing London hours before kick-off that there would be fucking riots if Italy win.
I hope not. But there are a decent number of football "fans" enjoy mindless ultraviolence as much as they do the football. And enjoy bigotry as much as the next BNP supporter. So yes. Smash up the Italians because they have stolen it. And attack anyone with forrin skin and / or names because look at the migrants who just let England down.
Honestly - what on earth is wrong with you
I have eyes and a brain. Is what I posted most England fans? No. Is it the racist infestation that they are taking the knee against? Yes. They couldn't behave before the game. Why expect them to behave now?
How many minutes before the pundits call for Southgate's head? After all, he knows how important penalties are. He has had them practising. And they were shite. Must be his fault.
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
Made the final in one of the two tournaments this country can play in.
There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.
Charlie Croker
I hope this doesn't happen but if it does the culprits ought to feel the full force of the law.
No shit
And Southgate's contribution with the ww2 talk should be recognised.
Weirdly, in the long run England scoring so early was probably a negative on balance in terms of how it affected how they approached the game after that.
Black Lives Matter But Can’t Score From The Penalty Spot
Not cool.
What, we have to accept that the multiculturalism of the team is why it’s the best English team ever because of all the backgrounds of the players, but now we have to ignore that because we’ve lost?
Its been said that our country needed this cup run after going through Covid and the lads have done well and its been great to have the Final.
Italy are the country that probably needed the cup more than we did, that have been hit hardest this past year and a half. As disappointed as I am to lose, happy for them that they've got this.
Roll on 2022 World Cup now. Hopefully it can be like 2018 and 2019 Champions League finals.
No negative comments to make, the lads have done us proud.
Fair play and well done to the Italians.
Yes, it was actually the best England performance in my lifetime. They didn't win. But they might have done; and if they had, it wouldn't be because they had fluked it.
Still. That is the best England will ever do in my lifetime. All downhill from here, sadly.
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Talk about counting your chickens before they've hatched?
Night all.
It wasn't exactly the 1966 cup final, was it?
You'd be resigning your seat.
I know they're good at penalties but you'd still want to kick the ball a bit before you took a penalty.
But we had a very good run. Far too defensive at times: that was our undoing. Sitting back. Not playing adventurously. We can take a leaf out of the Italians' book on that.
Boris' luck ran out?
Not good penalty taking, despite all the practice. A lot of 'great' saves in shootouts are anything but, it's players not getting it far enough in the corner or high enough.
Hopefully the idiots tonight near the ground and across the land don't cause too much chaos.
Only trouble is they forgot to win the match!
Charlie Croker
Also, can I predict that Twitter will now attack taking the knee and how wonderfully multicultural the team is. "The ones who look English scored. The migrants missed" etc etc.
Such a crass and stupid comment
If that had happened today I think Italy would have got another goal in extra time.
Both not acceptable.
The only other option would be a replay - and I don't think that's practical.
We’ve all been there.
The better side won I'm afraid.
I was prepared to just these things be but after that comment, bollocks to it.
What a twat
I hope not. But there are a decent number of football "fans" enjoy mindless ultraviolence as much as they do the football. And enjoy bigotry as much as the next BNP supporter. So yes. Smash up the Italians because they have stolen it. And attack anyone with forrin skin and / or names because look at the migrants who just let England down.
And to be fair England picked up in the second half of extra time a little. But the temptation to not risk anything is very high.
Ah well. Bring on Qatar...
Fair play and well done to the Italians.
Aim at a corner and kick if with maximum power.
All the stuttering run ups cause a loss of power.
Laying England for a tournament is free money.
Never in doubt.
Don't project your own prejudices onto others.
55 years of hurt, and counting.
On to Qatar and World Cup Glory!
What the fuck is going on with Rio’s beard?
https://twitter.com/donaeldunready/status/1414345439126634496
We won that 4-2 in play. If we were that good and deserved to win we would have scored 2-1 or 3-1 against Italy.
HYUFD made a slightly wild comment but don't hound him off the board. That's a feeble thing to do. We don't just want like minded robots on here, surely?
He's not going anywhere.
And Southgate's contribution with the ww2 talk should be recognised.
Italy are the country that probably needed the cup more than we did, that have been hit hardest this past year and a half. As disappointed as I am to lose, happy for them that they've got this.
Roll on 2022 World Cup now. Hopefully it can be like 2018 and 2019 Champions League finals.
Still. That is the best England will ever do in my lifetime. All downhill from here, sadly.
There's no need for a forward to try the clever dick stuff, that should be left for players who can't score goals.