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It's been a really weird game. Long parts of it have seemed a bit shit from both sides if we're honest and yet both of them could be on 3 or 4.

Haaland momentarily shattin himsen thinking he'd fluffed that

Bonkers it's only one nil still haha

Also this. Holy shit. 85m to pretty much wipe out the cost of getting relegated the dodgy bastards.

Spurs trying to throw money around like they didn't just almost get relegated completely breaks my brain. How and why are they trying to outcome United for the worst run club in English football. They make us look sensible.

Norway did you just make that joke.

That's more like it. Brilliant finish.

Imo Kane has evolved in to a better all round player than Haaland will probably ever be during his career. The move to Bayern has done wonders to complete his game. I'd still rate Haaland as the better outright 9 if that's what your team needs. You'd probably argue that with all the creativity in attacking midfield in your team you probably could do without Kane. The outright physical freakishness probably gives you more to aim at and his pace behind would help you counter and press. He's probably a bit of a better fit for Tuchel?

Joking aside, Ramsey genuinely was out best player for a lot of that run including that game. And not because Bale was poor. Ramsey at his peak was genuinely brilliant.

On this showing they'd have been better off sending Bodo Glimt as a team than this.

In the niche category of top class Arsenal attacking midfielders to appear for smaller over performing nations in international tournaments: Aaron Ramsey 2016 > Martin Odegaard 2026.

Yeah you're not wrong. I just think that France are so absurdly good with so much immense strength in depth that quite a few of them can afford to have a bad day and they can mix it up.

I don't want to be that guy and I definitely don't want that conversation but the only African team that are even vaguely close to being considered potential winners are Morocco. Not only does nearly their entire squad play in Europe's main leagues but of the 10 outfield players started against the Netherlands, only Ounahi was born in Morocco. I'm not touching ethnicity and nationality with a barge pole, people can go debate that elsewhere (and by that I mean not on FoxesTalk), but what is definitely the case is that all the rest of them grew up in Europe and most significantly received their footballing education in the academies of European football clubs. Whilst their progress is commendable and should be celebrated, it's not exactly a big win for Africa in terms of footballing culture and a massive, massive gap in wealth and opportunity would need to be narrowed significantly if you wanted to be here in X years time celebrating a squad of players genuinely developed in Africa being talked about as contenders for a world cup. Which, by the way, is not an attack on the individual nations involved but more at the generally horrific wealth imbalance in the sport.

I'd say they'd go in to most games against most of the teams in the tournament without being too severe under-dogs, sure. But they'd need more than just "a bit" of luck to beat France imo.

Or, keep spying but we'll recruit Oliver ****ing Skipp to throw people off because nobody will ever think we're doing our research if we let Leicester off the hook for 10+m for him.

I mean, Charlie ****ing Manson was better than Jeffrey Dahmer but I'm still not getting his face tattooed on my chest.

The Spain away kit replacing the maroon with our royal blue but maintaining the yellow trim. That's the one. Might look a bit Leeds but it'd be banging. On that note, it ****ing pains me but I've seen a few people around town in Leeds' trefoil and it absolutely slaps.

Alright, fair enough. Still, you'd do a white one with simple blue trim, no? I don't think the moroon is abhorrent but it doesn't exactly scream Leicester. And yeah, yeah, FA Cup, fine, whatever. But still.

What I can't get my head around is, if you're going to make up a company, why not make up literally anything else? Sports betting, "game" websites and crypto are all going to set people off. Why not make it a pretend ****ing elephant sanctuary or an organic banana plantation or something that'll make everyone go "awww." And why design such an ugly ****ing logo that nobody wants to buy your merch? Moronic at basically every level.

Wait. Sorry. I'm only half paying attention to this thread. Have we waited years for a trefoil / running fox kit and the ONLY version is a maroon away shirt? The home one is just this abomination above?

Out of interest, Ricey, I know you used to see these because of your time at SI. You left years ago though didn't you? Do you still have contact there that shows you the kits early? You always seem to have had a sneaky peek.

If he doesn't manage to hit the linesman with this pen we riot

Narh wtf this is a joke Never seen anything like this

Worst penalty shootout ever

Second half is going to be 5-4 after Raj goes bed. Sane, Havertz and Undav to all score.