Lionator

The best world cups of recent times from an organisational perspective were Germany 06 and Russia 18. Tournaments are just better when they’re in Europe. The USA will put on a good show of course and will make a killing financially but if you want a good tournament give it to a European nation.

I’m 99% sure Trump will invade Iran if he wins the election and the stuff about them planning to assassinate him is the psyop which is paving the way. Similar things were said about Saddam and Gadaffi

Very excited for the kings speech today, hopefully a few radical things thrown in.

Another £105m down the Chelsea drain

It’s click baiting. They might ‘consider’ her but it doesn’t mean it’ll happen.

A win, it’s possible that all other teams lose but I’d suggest unlikely. Therefore it’s basically a knockout game for us.

Coady strikes me as a guy who was raised well by his parents. Trustworthy, confident but not arrogant or egotistical, and would be a good friend.

A person at the FA leaking that it could be Sarina Wiegman to see how much right wing p*ss they can boil.

I mean 2030 will also be an absolute joke of a tournament, being held on 3 continents ffs.

Has to be Lampard for me

All they had to say was sorry and that it was a mistake that won’t happen again, why can’t people just take responsibility and aim to grow from it?

Southgate wasn’t limited though, he improved the team no end and I don’t think he was a yes man. Even though he bottled it when the pressure got too big. The yes man argument is wrong in my opinion, we appointed people like Capello who turned out to be a disaster and he definitely wasn’t a yes man. International football is all about pathways and systems, you need someone who can oversee that and integrate good players together.

Carsley is not a yes man, if you’ve paid any attention to the under 21’s, he’s an incredibly creative coach who plays a good brand of modern football, and has led the team to glory. If he’s well thought of by the young players who will be the bulk of the team over the next 4/5 years then it wouldn’t be a bad appointment. High profile foreign appointments are often disastrous in international football.

Sounds like Wolves pre season game against Como went well @The Bear. Hwang racially abused and Podence sent off for decking the culprit. No surprise that Dennis Wise is involved at Como.

Vance as VP basically writes Ukraine’s obituary compared to a ‘moderate’ like Haley or Rubio. Scary times. War is coming to Europe.

The only thing we've learnt from this tournament is that the world cup is going to be a mess. It'll be expensive, in stadiums miles outside of cities with terrible public transport, far too hot, a terrible format, a good chance of getting shot etc. It makes you long for the days of Russia 2018.

Part of the reason why they looked so good is that all the other teams didn’t look particularly good. I think probably the next best team were Germany but for German standards, that’s a poor team. In terms of overall quality of the top teams, I think it was a very weak tournament but I thought the non elite teams actually looked quite good (Türkiye, Austria, Romania, Slovenia etc) albeit not enough quality to go far.

Easy to go to by train too provided the timings work out

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It's very, very enjoyable and they reap what they sow. Their staple players got old and they've tried replacing them with average academy players (usually tapped up from other counties) or other established players from other counties, who have one good season and they throw a tonne of money at them. Furthermore, they have that horrible danger as their T20 captain, it honestly couldn't happen to a better bunch. Seeing Derbyshire batter them by 90 runs the other week was bliss, and now we've made fools of them yesterday. Hilarious, I hope they rot.

Yeah there's no chance we sign him permanently, Currie I wouldn't rule out though.

I've read the forums!! Sharon451's explanation made the most sense to me!! I was kind of being sarcastic but he was a dodgy dude and it's well known that the drug mule's run the island and bring good income for it too.

Because it's the England job and for English managers, it's the ultimate. If he fails then he's got credit in the bank to get another PL job. Either way it's not happening, Southgate will stay on or they'll promote from within.

Seems like Bellingham is the fall guy. Sources from within the squad and pundits seem to be going hard on him and his supposed ego.

More likely pushed or thrown than fell and Spanish police are covering it up so that they don't upset the wrong people.