Kitchandro

Interesting. From what I’m reading, it’s the Turkish government who have asked for it to be called ‘Türkiye’ as well, as a branding exercise. So make of that what you will, but as far as I’m concerned we have anglicised names for most countries and Turkey is just one of them.

Deutschland? Italia? The correct pronunciation of Mexico? They did this with Czechia a couple of years ago but we’ve reverted back to Czech Republic now.

Why are they calling them TurkiyUh, again?

Scottish pundits saying they were miles better in the second half when all they did was get over the halfway line. Terrible side.

If Canada are gonna keep playing all out attack I might have to start supporting them.

Christina Unkel 😂 Referees should not be employed as pundits.

These pundits do my head in. The handball rule is that it has to be intentional. I hear this every other week. Why are there 3 former professionals plus a presenter and not one of them can make this point. There is no such thing as an objective handball, so the only thing that matters is if the referee thinks the player did it on purpose or could have avoided handling it. Based on that it’s quite obvious that is not a penalty. Harsh is irrelevant. The presenter should be asking one question. Do you think it was intentional or not? If no, then you don’t think it’s a penalty. These guys are saying ‘no, I don’t think it was intentional’ and then saying they think the decision is correct. Idiots.

I’d be amazed if he’s ever set foot in a pub in his life. And if he’s ever had any mates.

Get up you lazy cheat.

Going a bit early here but Portugal won’t win this tournament. Flattering to deceive as usual, they should be hammering these.

I think a booking was fine, the contact wasn’t that strong. He’s lucky the player didn’t make a meal of it though. Definitely worth a card. Meanwhile Danny Murphy stopped gobbing off Ronaldo for thirty seconds to say he didn’t even think it was a foul. A lover of footballers, not football, that bloke.

2 hours in and not even in the top 30 stories on BBC Sport - no one can justifiably utter a single word of defence for King Power.

Yeh I was always delighted to watch them suffer the 7-1 because they were a horrible team and without their referees they’d have gone in the first round. The Croatia game was a joke and they knew they couldn’t beat Colombia for skill so they just kicked them for 90 minutes and never got booked. Similar to Italy they haven’t produced the same quality players since the early 2000s.

No I’m not going to give him a chance.

They could have just said nothing but it’s like they get some sort of commission per lie.

Mexico looked like they were playing with the handbrake on to me.

Some of you should have known this in 2002 with Korea, but back then it was only England who had games fixed against them apparently.

Why are people always desperate to find positives in things. Sometimes things are just shite. I’m comfortable with how shite Russell Martin and this football club are.

Infantino is a caricature of evil on the level of Disney villains, except he has that one quality which makes someone all the more hateful in that he presents himself as a respectable man. Reading just a paragraph of his press conference makes me want to chuck up.

I was always World Cup mad but the last two tournaments in particular have made me uncomfortable to watch. When it was in Russia I was quite politically naive and ignorant but I find it hard to believe anyone can be with this one, American news and social media is impossible to avoid. Anyway, it saddens me I won’t be able to enjoy it when in truth the players should be getting a huge amount of criticism for not boycotting. It’s comfortable to point fingers at a blatantly corrupt authority like FIFA and say well there’s nothing we can do. But it’s a lot harder for people to accept that Messi, Ronaldo and co plus their teammates saying ‘we’re not playing in a fascist country’ would have forced FIFA’s hand. It’s just another reason I can’t enjoy football anymore. These people are ridiculously powerful and privileged and yet they aren’t willing to make even the tiniest stand for the public.

Every manager is a risk. We’ve already tried Steve ‘safe pair of hands’ Cooper and Gary ‘no nonsense’ Rowett. The fact is you can make calculated risks on up and coming managers based on proper research. Which is the club’s job. Which it doesn’t do. I’m not clued up either, but the club should be. Loads of managers are better than Martin, but if they do absolutely no scouting in the lower leagues or abroad then we’ll never know who they are until they are picked up by Brighton or Bournemouth. Well-run clubs take risks on young managers who haven’t reached their ceiling yet. Yes I know I’m a broken record but being in League One is not the excuse for hiring Martin. People were making similar arguments for not attracting good managers in the Championship, even in the PL.

Yes, it’s easy. It’s a shite league with shite teams. Having Southampton’s resources was a massive advantage, and plenty of crap teams get promoted. By default, someone has to get promoted. The National League is far more difficult to get out of. Let’s start scouting there? If you’re suggesting that getting Southampton promoted suggests he has qualities that National League managers don’t, I don’t agree with you. Most managers get where they are by having the right contacts and, in Martin’s case, misguided confidence. Many other average managers would have got Southampton promoted. Loads. They didn’t have the right contacts or didn’t buy enough media clout in order to get the job.

You said it was a ‘problem’. Well it wasn’t a problem for Speedie because he had a good season. So who is the negativity a ‘problem’ for? Is it a problem for King Power and Martin if I don’t give them a chance? Good, hopefully they jog on. It’s not a problem for me. I wish we’d caused more of a problem for Rodgers and Cifuentes and Rowett. We couldn’t possibly be worse off.

Nope, the problem is the opposite. The problem is we have no standards, we are too late to say enough is enough. There’s a clear pattern of that over the years. David Speedie was over 30 years ago and he wasn’t negatively affected at all by the fans’ perception of him so doesn’t that prove you absolutely wrong?

Possession football has never really been about the amount of possession though, it’s the intention. The intention is to have possession, rather than it being a byproduct of other factors as you are suggesting. The thing that really characterises Russell Martin’s style is a lack of intensity and movement off the ball. The aim is to keep the ball, not to score goals. When we were a good side, the aim was to win the ball back and look for the most efficient way to score a goal. That’s the very basis of a good English football team. So it doesn’t matter how much possession we actually have, you can still play with a good tempo and be creative. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) play at walking pace because you have more of the ball.