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Arguably Harry Maguire was the biggest miss of all. Think he'd have contributed more than Stones or Burn did..

Assume you've been drowning your sorrows tonight as a lot of what you've written here makes no sense at all. Croatia are a team in decline whom England beat quite comfortably, Germany were knocked out by Paraguay and Brazil by Norway. As for Italy, they didn't even make it to the World Cup for the THIRD time in a row. So unfavourable comparisons with any of those countries is nonsense. While there are a lot of mercenary instincts in the England squad - as there have been since the days of Shearer, etc, to be honest - doubt their patriotic fervour as a group is any less that of the Basques and Catalonians that make up most of the present Spain line-up. It's also easy to forget Argentina themselves, even during the Messi era, endured a long and painful series of tournament failures, including successive defeats to Chile on penalties in Copa America finals. Somehow, in 2021, they finally managed to overcome that hoodoo and haven't looked back since. Messi and co are a battle hardened squad in a way that England aren't. Can't see a coach emerging any time soon that will build a winning mentality within the current England squad. Like many before him, Tuchel has proved to be a triumph of hype over substance.

Doubt Villa fans will give a flying one. He's part of their best team in 30 years and that's all they care about. That's part of the issue with English football. Too many fans - and players - care far more about their clubs than the national team.

Anderson, Bellingham and Rice, at a combined cost of £300m+, form by some distance the most expensive central midfield in the history of world football. It's time for them, individually and collectively, to provide performances that fit that tag - both vs Argentina and whoever we face at the weekend.

That's the Angus Gunn who was FOURTH choice keeper at Forest last season.. Indeed, he isn't available, as he's off to MLS (with San Jose) when it resumes after the World Cup.

Except Vestergaard was subbed at half-time in the 9-0, so wasn't on the pitch for Vardy's 2nd that night. There's no point in making him seem worse than he actually is..😄

Where did that come from? There's more evidence to suggest others were greater instigators of episodes of unrest than KS.

It's what you do when you see a mate in distress, especially when you need that mate to recover in time for the World Cup in a couple of weeks. As far as the game is concerned, would have been interesting to see Arteta do what Maresca did with Chelsea in the Club World final and continue pressing for a second (and indeed, third) goal. Instead, he sought to park the bus and ended up paying the price. Sadly, though, gooners still look best bets to win the PL next season.. 😟

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It's incredible how many of our old boys can put Seagrave behind them so quickly..

Sunderland are a far bigger club than Hull, who couldn't even shift their full ticket allocation yesterday. There isn't a hope of the tigers being able to attract the likes of Xhaka or Brobbey.

It'd be no different to signing a known druggie. Was going to suggest Mykhailo Mudryk as the first signing, but he's still got two years to serve of his ban.

If so, hantavirus would be too good for him..

You obviously didn't see his autobiography, in which MON makes NO mention whatsoever of his time as manager of Forest. He does, though, mention his talks with Vichai about a return to City in 2015. But he eventually decided to stay with Ireland, whom he took to the Euros the year afterwards. That was a real sliding doors moment for us, as it allowed Ranieri to slide into the club.

Richard Osman. Susie Dent. Michael Sheen. Stephen Graham. Hannah Spencer.

Very unfair on Jedward. They did OK when they took part in Eurovision.

Both Van Dijk and Salah are in serious decline. Slot needs to replace both if he wants to avoid running out of credit with the Liverpool fanbase.

The same Semenyo who turned out for Newport in THAT FA Cup tie.

The same Fofana whose sale saved us from potential liquidation? Although that wasn't how it was spun to us by Rodgers and Rudkin at the time.

In most SPL seasons, the league is won (usually by Celtic these days) long before the final day. This season, Celtic played twice away at Hearts during the regular season. So it was their turn to play at home in the final weeks.

It's a documentary that could have come out five years ago. Most Foxes forget how badly Vardy struggled during his first season with us. Only Pearson's perseverance with him rescued his career, both then and again in 2014-15 when he went a full SIX MONTHS without scoring. Vardy is a strong character who needs careful management. Sadly, under the current regime at City, he wasn't always given that.

The winter World Cup really shafted us. We won 4 out of 5 games before that (and Danny Ward kept 4 clean sheets! 😯) This gave BR a stay of execution on his ridiculously expensive contract, awarded him by Rudkin in late 2019 to keep him from going to Arsenal or Spurs.

Seriously doubt that, given the way the Greek gangster treated MON when he and Roy Keane had a brief spell in charge there. Vichai tried to sign him a couple of times, before and after St Nigel's second coming, but was knocked back on both occasions. His legend status with us remains undimmed. No reason for him to risk tarnishing it now.

Too right.. 36 years without a trophy for them now. Can only see that run extending in the years ahead. Meanwhile we're the only Midlands side to have won the grand slam of domestic trophies this century (not that it'll stop Salford or Stevenage stuffing us next season, mind..).

More like a Temu Hamza..