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Gazza crying in 1990 I get, the yellow meant he wouldn't play in a final. Crying when you get knocked out. But crying with 15 minutes to go.. no... something ain't right. Maybe it dawned on him... Messi can win a world cup, but I can't score against Slovenia.

Is tonight the last time we see Ronaldo in a Portugal shirt? Thought he may stick around for one more world cup, but a pen miss and in tears don't look good. Maybe a sign to throw in the towel.

"Don't cry for me Cristiano Ronaldo"

What we're seeing here from Martinez, he's a good small club manager not top level. Seen the same issues at Belgium, can't motivate high quality players. Even Ronaldo in tears!

Its looking like Southgate is happy to stick with the same set of players, Southgate think its his tactical master plan, while overall it's just been luck against weaker opposition. We use this tactics against a Switzerland and they will undo very quickly as we seen against Italy. Just feel we could unleash hell if we wanted but Southgate won't let this happen.

This tournament shows one thing, we have weaker leader on the pitch. Next manager will need to appoint a new captain. Kane ain't up to it. Not impossible Bellingham could be a candidate.

Beyond jammy, not sure if we ever been so poor in a tournament and still made the quarter finals

Times like this you don't just need a good manager in the top seat but also a very good assistant, especially if the manager is quiet. You need an assistant that's get stuck in the places faces to get them to do more.

We equalise I do think we do go on to win this, Slovakia ain't that good. We are making them look good, since Slovakia have scored they haven't created anything and based on England so far they may not need to do much more.

As we say we can't lose today, we win we're through and we lose it's Southgate out. Looking more like Southgate is out.

Kane is killing us out there, the guy looks overweight not sure what's happened to him but he's slowly the game down for England. I think a bit more pace we can easily unlock this Slovakia defence. Do we think going two up top, take Bellingham and Kane off and going with Toney and Watkins.

1-0 Kane pen to just claw us through. Dont expect anything better based on this squad at present. Imagine 90 minutes away from potentially Southgate era coming to an end... so a win win today 😆

Bore game coming I fear again, imagine going out Sunday to Slovakia. Southgate honesty may have to emigrate to Australia for his own safety, the tournament and performances in general but losing to lowly Slovakia, wow never mind beer cups being lobbed out at him could end up being tomato's at Stansted.

This will go to pens, 1-1 draw. Likely Italy win on pens as they always do. Will be hard work for them for 120 minutes the Swiss I think will give it a go.

Under 21's can't win it right?

Not when their a fan of the club. plus the Villa and Birmingham rivalry is a lot more hostile to many.

Abroad its seems like you can take your kids out at anytime for holidays. No questions no problems, i seem to recall back in my school days you could be off for two weeks anytime except exam times. All you needed to fill was a yellow form... fill it .. have a nice time and send a postcard. Now in the uk its a criminal offence, plus pressure on parents to spend more money and take annual leave at the same time. Having spoke to most school teachers, most werent bothered about when kids went on holiday... its the fools at the top.

Think its flexible abroad, unlike here where you get fined... education in places like Germany are probably still better than ours at present

It's weird to think how England put in the worst three of the worst performances at a tournament but somehow win the group and without losing a single game. We've been luckily its been a crap group. Southgate and players acts at the moment like England fans are overacting, but none of the players and coaching staff had have had to fork out £1,000's of pounds to watch this drivel. It's a long way for fans fans to travel to watch 0-0 bore draw against a side that's not even in the top 50 world rankings... fans want entertainment and effort. England winning the group with five points of course is not a bad thing, but you need to inspire the fans with performances. Giving them hope for the later stages against higher ranked opposition. If England had beat Serbia 2-0! everyone's happy. Scored more than one and kept a clean sheet. Draw to Denmark but create lots of chances and but a lot of desire in... it's an okay result fans appreciate the effort against a good Denmark team. England play Slovenia, held to a 2-2 draw but create lots of chances and dominate but can't find the winner but still enough be positive to be about. Sadly we are not seeing this from England, it's like aim to score one early on and the sit back and hope for the best. Typical Southgate methods.

Dire

This game is so dismal, its painful to watch. This simpsons clip sums up England's performance so far. https://youtu.be/rJu2qSJ9zno?si=rG_znqoeSvicVwVv

No can't agree with that, Southgate is poor but other weaker managers who were worse, McClaren had players like Gerrard, Lampard, A.Cole, G.Neville, S.Campbell, Rooney, Terry & Ferdinand yet still couldn't qualify for a major tournament. Revie took England to their lowest world ranking, Graham Taylor completely took a decent squad of Gazza, Lineker, Butcher, Barnes, Waddle, Shilton, Pearce and Platt to pieces. Also don't forget Hodgson.

Same old, same old from Southgate. Two dull performances, just one minor change to the squad. All the options to choose from, it's the same players being used... no squad rotation whatsoever. How do they expect young players like Mainoo, Gordon, Palmer and Wharton gain tournament experience when they don't get playing time.

Should fear no one really, if you want to be serious winners. England do need a big statement win to just send a message... just can't see it. We will probably beat Slovenia in a narrow 1-0 victory.

Italy jammy again