Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted July 17 Paid Members Posted July 17 13 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Yep, and it's curated by Chris Martin. This is the thing everyone should be focusing their anger on. I'm not watching football again in protest. As a Millwall fan this affects me not one bit. Quote
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted July 17 Paid Members Posted July 17 They also had Michael Buffer do his catchphrase before the semi final AND introduce the 10 second countdown for kick off. The fans don’t even bother to do the Royal Rumble klaxon after 1 so what’s even the point. Quote
d-d-d-dAz Posted July 18 Posted July 18 Emma Hayes on The Rest is Football today proving again she's one of the best pundits and analysts in English football. Boggles my mind she's not all over either ITV or BBC broadcasts, considering some of the dross that gets work. Quote
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted July 18 Paid Members Posted July 18 Time to park the bus, lads Quote
deathrey Posted July 18 Posted July 18 France are barely trying! Where was this England on Wednesday?! Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 18 Author Members Posted July 18 Good Soccer Aid game that. Love to see the BBC role out the nWo b team in Stephen Warnock and Martin Keown. Might as well have got Scott Norton and Vincent involved. Quote
DavidB6937 Posted July 18 Posted July 18 As pointless as it all was, what a way to end this World Cup journey. Absolute madness. Quote
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted July 18 Posted July 18 Incredible game, credit to both teams, could have easily been 10-10 The final will be such a damp squib now Quote
d-d-d-dAz Posted July 18 Posted July 18 (edited) If you ever want a shining example of how the technical nature of football has moved it away from the fans; that game was absolute nonsense, technically, but probably more 'fun' to watch than anything else at the tournament. There was some nice skill, some decent training ground passing and good finishing, but goodness me it was about as intense as a cardigan and a lovely cup of tea. No pressure on the ball, defensive positioning all over the place, no one tracking back, massive gaps all over the place. Bacon says it was a game of SoccerAid, but in that you've at least got Olly Murs and Marlon Dingle hair arsing about like a pair of twats. Tremendous entertainment. You'd be absolutely furious if your club played like that in a game that mattered. Edited July 18 by d-d-d-dAz Quote
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted July 19 Paid Members Posted July 19 (edited) Mike Maignan left his feet less than a World of Sport era wrestler in a low ticket sales community centre. Absolute respect for that level of verticality. Edited July 19 by johnnyboy Quote
The Curious Orange Posted July 19 Posted July 19 If it wasn't clear enough already - Rashford and Saka speeding away on the counter attack last night for the third goal showed what a mess up it was not having leaving anyone with pace on the pitch last Wednesday was. Quote
Paid Members FLips Posted July 19 Paid Members Posted July 19 Even if it ultimately meant nothing it was the most entertaining game not to feature Cape Verde this tournament. Before the tournament I was trying to convince my mate we should really bin Kane, Pickford and a couple of other older names off to give the younger lads a chance to come to fruition even if it doesn't necessarily mean we hope to win it. While I'll admit I was maybe wrong about Pickford for now based on last night's performance from our backup option, I'll stand by my opinion on Kane. The fluidity and positive attacking mindset we had from the top half of the pitch compared to the rest of the tournament trying desperately to just cross it in to Kane was night and day. Yes he scored goals for us, but I think this team could have scored just as many if not more without him there. Bellingham coming on last night and immediately making a difference shows that. While we don't have any straight up strikers to replace him with, I don't think a false 9 is out of the question either and BBC Sport has a decent article up saying Gordon could fill that role based on past experience. If he performs at Barcelona I think it should at least be trialled for the Euros. I look at players like Gordon, Bellingham, Eze, Saka, Anderson, and Spence and see something you could really build a world class team out of but to work we need to drop the old guard like Kane, Stones and Jordan Henderson who inexplicably got a spot this year. We need to start the likes of Mainoo, Saka and Rashford. Between the actual tournament and last night's game, I think we had two halves of a perfect team but never brought them together, or gave them the right mindset. If we went at Argentina like we did last night, but had our first choice keeper and defenders on, we'd have hammered them. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 19 Author Members Posted July 19 I don't think you can draw any conclusions from what was essentially a training exercise, and if you think Kane is the problem, I really don't know what to say. Genuinely baffling. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 19 Paid Members Posted July 19 If England did bin Kane at least he'd have more time to play golf with his good mate Donald Trump. Quote
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