England v Ukraine (3rd July, 8pm, Rome)

[Harry96]

Looks like morningside arena is also fully booked. Any other places that’ll be showing the game? 

[whoareyaaa]

19 hours ago, Unabomber said:

Hopefully he doesn’t stick with 5 at the back just cos we won the last game. Need to adapt for each game. 

no chance he changes it Grelish in for Saka will be the only change I feel

[goose2010]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

no chance he changes it Grelish in for Saka will be the only change I feel

hummm i think he will. 

 

Can see him going back to 4 at the back 

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, whoareyaaa said:

no chance he changes it Grelish in for Saka will be the only change I feel

No chance he'll play 3-4-3 against Ukraine. It's completely unnecessary in a game where we will dominate possession against a team that will sit back.

[Guest WarehamFox]

Pickford just on Sky Sports, is he a robot? Like watching Red Dwarf, very strained interview.

[Bert]

7 minutes ago, WarehamFox said:

Pickford just on Sky Sports, is he a robot? Like watching Red Dwarf, very strained interview.

It’s not Pickford being interviewed - media trained, FA PR answers. The media guy gets the questions, answers them and tells the players what to say. 

[fuchsntf]

On 30/06/2021 at 10:22, filbertway said:

So in my attempt to put it this into Leicester terms

 

 We've beat Southampton 1-0 at home. Drew 0-0 with Palace. Beat Burnley 1-0. Beat Everton 2-0 at home. Now we've got Brighton at a Neutral ground for a chance to play Villa or Burnley at home in the semi's. 

But it aint is it...!!

& Thats the problem....having fans who can only consistently Demean & discredit Everything England does..

Like some Dozos when Leicester play..!!

Edited 1 July 2021 by fuchsntf

[ClaphamFox]

47 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

But it aint is it...!!

& Thats the problem....having fans who can only consistently Demean & discredit Everything England does..

Like some Dozos when Leicester play..!!

It's so weird. Yesterday I read somebody claim that even if we go all the way to the final and win it, people won't have happy memories of this tournament because England have been too defensive. I could only assume that this person somehow missed the footage of 40,000+ delirious fans at Wembley and all the news footage of people celebrating wildly all around the country. Presumably, this individual was also unaware than when we won the World Cup in '66 (which we're still obsessed with 55 years later), we did so by playing precisely the kind of well-organised, pragmatic football that Southgate is currently deploying to great effect.

 

I get that some English people just can't get into supporting England - nobody's forcing them to watch the games. But to hate your own country's national team to such a extent that you become utterly deranged about it is a bit odd. 

[Duquesne Whistle]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

Yesterday I read somebody claim that even if we go all the way to the final and win it, people won't have happy memories of this tournament because England have been too defensive. I get that some English people just can't get into supporting England - nobody's forcing them to watch the games. But to hate your own country's national team to such a extent that you become utterly deranged about it is a bit odd. 

Was it a Che Adams?

[Super_horns]

German ref ?

 

I can see the headlines and hear the comments now if things don’t go well !!

Edited 2 July 2021 by Super_horns

[st albans fox]

5 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

German ref ?

 

I can see the headlines and hear the comments now if things don’t go well !!

He’s a decent ref - a bit fussy sometimes 

[KrefelderFox666]

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

He’s a decent ref - a bit fussy sometimes 

He let a lot go in the Belgium vs Portugal match. For me, he let too much go but I would rather that than those refs who blow up every few seconds for nothing. Either way, as you say, he is a very good ref and has been around for a while.

 

I don't think the ref will decide this match.

[Super_horns]

24 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

He’s a decent ref - a bit fussy sometimes 

 

19 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

He let a lot go in the Belgium vs Portugal match. For me, he let too much go but I would rather that than those refs who blow up every few seconds for nothing. Either way, as you say, he is a very good ref and has been around for a while.

 

I don't think the ref will decide this match.

Yes hopefully we will be good enough to decide the game ourselves.

 

He’ll probably just be hoping for a quieter game than he got from the Portugal and Belgium players!

[IsItMuzzy]

On 30/06/2021 at 00:10, TK95 said:

This could go the way of Sweden 2018 or Iceland 2016. There's no inbetween 

So we either win or we lose? That’s a bold call 

[mancunianfox]

3 hours ago, Super_horns said:

 

Yes hopefully we will be good enough to decide the game ourselves.

 

He’ll probably just be hoping for a quieter game than he got from the Portugal and Belgium players!

He's not going to love Jordan Pickford then!

[The Horse's Mouth]

You'd think they'd try and hide the blatant match fixing 

[ClaphamFox]

30 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

You'd think they'd try and hide the blatant match fixing 

They’ve hidden it pretty well from me.

[Corky]

9 hours ago, Super_horns said:

German ref ?

 

I can see the headlines and hear the comments now if things don’t go well !!

Don't Mention the VAR is nailed on.

[Foxxed]

We need a thorough performance to show we're a team that could beat Italy, the team of the tournament so far.

[NasPb]

England arr winning this thing 100%

[Nalis]

On 01/07/2021 at 21:43, ClaphamFox said:

It's so weird. Yesterday I read somebody claim that even if we go all the way to the final and win it, people won't have happy memories of this tournament because England have been too defensive. I could only assume that this person somehow missed the footage of 40,000+ delirious fans at Wembley and all the news footage of people celebrating wildly all around the country. Presumably, this individual was also unaware than when we won the World Cup in '66 (which we're still obsessed with 55 years later), we did so by playing precisely the kind of well-organised, pragmatic football that Southgate is currently deploying to great effect.

 

I get that some English people just can't get into supporting England - nobody's forcing them to watch the games. But to hate your own country's national team to such a extent that you become utterly deranged about it is a bit odd. 

People think you can win tournaments easily with gun ho attacking play but how often does it actually happen? Looking at Euros and World Cups in the past 20 years you could say Brazil 2002 and Germany 2014 were attacking but even they were pragmatic when they needed to be. So even accepting those two, thats 2 winners out of last 9 Euro/World Cup tournaments.

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, Nalis said:

People think you can win tournaments easily with gun ho attacking play but how often does it actually happen? Looking at Euros and World Cups in the past 20 years you could say Brazil 2002 and Germany 2014 were attacking but even they were pragmatic when they needed to be. So even accepting those two, thats 2 winners out of last 9 Euro/World Cup tournaments.

People have an overly romanticised idea of football and the way it is played.

 

I don't think it's unique in that regard, either.

[Ric Flair]

Hahahahaaa Sancho starting now he's got his Man Utd move!

[Bert]

Vindaloo for breakfast and not the song 

[Raj]

7 hours ago, Foxxed said:

We need a thorough performance to show we're a team that could beat Italy, the team of the tournament so far.

England ain't beating Italy.

They will scrape through tonight and probably lose to Denmark in the semis