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Can call it a great run, lots of fun, but truth is we haven’t sealed the deal with home advantage. Both the World Cup and this tournament fixtures opened up chance for a good run - true, we should be strong entery into next years WC, but we could meet a Belgium, France, Italy much sooner than semi and final.
This was an historic missed opportunity this evening.
Ticketless fans getting in, in the numbers they clearly have should be treated very seriously. That’s the type of thing that can create lots of deaths.
Horrid to see Saka so nervous when stepping up, and so broken at end.
I called it for Italy before the game and I am calling England World Cup winners in Qatar. The team will only get better.
Just seen Donnarumma player of the tournament?
Am I deluded, or do I know nowt about football?
He wouldn't be in my top 3 Italians.
The England team are very solid - albeit perhaps too defensive in their mindset. They are very difficult to break down, and the fact they only let two goals in in the whole tournament is quite extraodinary.
I think they might well improve when Kane moves on.
ETA in fact I'm surprised the picture editors have not juxtaposed them.
Did you lose much money that night ?
But I reckon matching up with the Italians in midfield wouldn't have worked.
As they are simply better.
We did well to get to penalties. The best team in the tournament won.
Foden, Sancho, Bellingham, Greenwood, Rashford, Saka, Hudson-Odoi, Mount, Curtis Jones to name a few.
The likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold are still only 22.
England did really better than most of us expected - can't win them all. Embarrassed by some of our fans though, even if Leon thinks them just being manly.
I said the same. "Oh well. It was a very good run," told my daughter to get to bed and went and put the kettle on.
Hopefully somebody like Bellingham can be the player that become the link player or perhaps Trent Alexander Arnold.
But Leeds Utd could have won it for England, if only Southgate had entrusted that fateful last penalty to the wondrous Kalvin Phillips.
Yours in wisdom, Marcelo Bielsa.
Yes 45%
Pathetically Knee Taking Marxist Wankers: Lose
Lesson there
It’s a shame I’m too much of a tight Yorkshireman to risk losing any brass by actually betting.
And it’s also a shame we just couldn’t get over the line. So proud of this England team.
My family lost 1000 SEK, as my wife had England in the office sweepstake. She was pretty glum, but the rest of the household… wasn’t.
A lot of police, but the fans are mainly drifting home in the rain after the loser Southgate lost again
Sort of.
"Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones
Permanent secretary Tom Scholar among those affected after entering incorrect passwords repeatedly"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/12/pin-resets-wipe-all-data-from-over-100-treasury-mobile-phones
Anecdote:
When Marcus Rashford came on to fuck everything up, the crowd in the pub launched into a sarcastic version of "Feed the World, let them know it's...." etc
When he did that terrible penalty, this was sung again with renewed and expressive vigour. And derision. This will haunt the rest of his career. Oh well. Them's the breaks
You cannot come closer to winning a tournament without winning it than we have just done. Losing on the 10th and final kick of a penalty shootout in the final. Terrific performance by the team and the manager. And such a bummer.
I'm going to Whitstable.
There's no one in this side won't be around next year, or even 3 or 5 years time given a fair wind. You certainly can't say that about Italy, Belgium, Germany or Spain.
What concerns me is that England will keep Southgate blah blah blah
Why? He is tedious and defensive yet blessed with an amazing squad. Get rid. And he is now a confirmed jinx and penalty hoodoo-owner, If we have to keep losing, let us at least do it in style, not this nervous shite
No, that’s not what Sean meant. We all know what he meant, and as usual with Sean it’s pretty repulsive.
We all saw it
It seems obvious that the players who are the best at penalties in training are not necessarily the players who will be the best at penalties in the horrendous situation of a shoot-out. You can't replicate it realistically in advance.
Maybe it would be better to give them to players who contributed something to the match, so that they aren't defined by a single kick. Someone like Shaw, in this instance. Coming on just to kick the ball once seems like an awful burden.
A night to forget: among the English fans that embarrass their country
Our correspondent donned red to cheer Denmark at Wembley stadium. For that he got middle fingers, mimed masturbation, then a punch"
https://www.economist.com/diary/2021/07/09/a-night-to-forget-the-english-fans-that-embarrass-their-country
https://thelordtredegar.co.uk/
To be fair it was a pretty good natured crowd that took defeat well. They were barracking all the penalty missers in different creative ways. Then everyone went home in a subdued fashion
We have all been here before. At least the Union is saved
Very erudite, great writer, but more faces than the town hall clock. The boy’s all over the fucking place. If we’d won he’d be singing the Internationale.
But seriously, shit is fine if it's entertaining or original. This is just shit.
Apart from him not being overtly right wing enough, that is?
Anyway ... Whitstable.
Take care chaps.
We went toe to toe with the best team in the tournament for 120 minutes.
And we are younger than them. We go again. It isn't about politics, it's about football.
On my table in that Hackney pub was a younger woman who was just inconsolable, having been recently introduced to, and enthused, by English football, she was utterly convinced we would win
I tried to solace her but in the end you just have to take the scars, until you are an old git like me who has seen it all before, and it bounces off
We should sack Southgate, however. Do not reward failure
Night night
But yes, some of our fans are disgusting.
I didn't understand his penalty either. Surely when under pressure the fewer moving parts you have the better. It is all very well doing that on the training pitch.
Watch how a golfer selects shots under pressure. Do the simple thing, don't overcomplicate.
Still, they've kept us entertained for a month in a pandemic. You can't fault them for that.
Most successful England manager since Alf Ramsey. Young team, who seem to think the world of Southgate, who have got years of development and potential ahead of them. Playing with style and a confidence that doesn’t make you feel like it could all fall apart at any minute.
Sack Southgate. Jesus.
Edit: I’d love to have a pint with you though Leon, I bet in real life you’re a fucking diamond.
Must say it was fascinating to compare goalies.
Pickford was a hyperactive Duracell bunny.
Donnarumma a Zen like still.
2 saves each.