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Croatia are such a set of cunts I’ve found myself wanting France to win

That was a great watch. This world cup has been brilliant, start to finish.

Daddy knows what he's doing.

Let’s not forget, gents, that we could have been discussing the fucking joke of a tournament we’d have had under Hippo Heed.

Players generally improve I disagree that it’s a myth. Barkley is just injury prone so would struggle to improve, Sterling has improved imo even at International level but I’m happy to agree to disagree on that one. It’s a squad where we had players who got more caps during the tournament than they had before it. Which, as I’ve said, have shown they are better than all previous England teams since at least 2004. Southgate is learning as well, this was the blokes first tournament, I’m not willing to just write the bloke off because he made some decisions I disagree with. Capello was a far better manager on paper but he was a fucking joke of an England manager, if we chuck in Southgate at the start of his project we’re back to having no identity and no plan. At the moment we have an identity to build on, we were lacking in some key areas but the talent is in the youth and they’re all playing a similar system to the side which was at the World Cup so it’s creating a potential pipeline. Southgate deserves a lot of credit for that imo. Also when saying those sides look forward to their youth talents improve in 4 years, those are the lads England have been brushing aside in the majority of youth tournaments? I know you acknowledge that point later but it sort of makes the point about those teams moot imo. Of course there is always the risk they won’t come through, or that lads like Foden and Sancho won’t get games but what’s the point in being negative about it? Of course those sides have more quality, all of them (with the exception of Belgium) have had more quality than us for most of football history. You can make pretty much the same point regarding Mbappe kicking on as you can about the England players improving, you’re only one bad injury away from being half the player you were. In 4 years Rashford could improve a lot, look at Kane now compared to his level at the previous World Cup. My main point is really that there are positives to this World Cup, we’re a country that two years ago lost to Iceland, four years ago were put out at the group stage by Costa Rica. I just don’t see the point in scratching around for negatives, as ewerk says we may as well pack in watching England if we can’t enjoy that World Cup.

Not a penalty for those in the studio...for some reason. So hes WASTED all that time reviewing and then STILL got it wrong.

For christs sake, the world cup final just finished, probably the most entertaining world cup final since '98 at least, and what are they doing when they cut back to the studio? STILL fucking whining about VAR.

Considering they still had France to play it was all a bit premature like

Aye I have liked him as a player but his comments after the England game were unneeded. Two fantastic tic goals by France here mind. Could get fucking embarrassing this, hopefully it does.

I’d imagine the friendly police policy ends at the final whistle. The families will get the bodies back in a few week.

Aye. Inspired Bruce Grobbelaar

I'm fine with France winning as they've been comfortably the best team in the tournament, I just hope they do it more persuasively than this. Ludicrous Mbappe strike in the second half would see me right.

Ollie Holt Ive never come across a group of people so easily offended as the English written football media. What a shower of self righteous screeching fuckin old women. Ive been rude to Piers Morgan this afternoon about his Trump "interview", might have mentioned Lord Haw Haw...he's another prick who can dish it but can't take it..

Have you been issuing death threats? My mate got booted off for threatening to kill The Proclaimers.

Henderson had a brilliant tournament. Suggesting otherwise is just bias tbh

Last minute equaliser against conference league Hartlepool today. Something tells me they aren't going to walk league 1

You’d think the sweaties would look at what a tiny country like Croatia had achieved and think that maybe one day they too could qualify for a tournament

I think there’s a ruling that you can’t have more than one long term loan from the same club at once.

Seen a lot of big life changes in the past 2yrs and haven't been looking after myself properly. Work noticed a few tells and my manager had a quick chat to see if everything was ok, which prompted me to reach out. So just had the results of my mental health assessment back. Moderate to severe depression, severe anxiety (which is what I was expecting), but now "symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" which a new twist Don't get BUPA through work until December and so I'm on the waiting list with the NHS. So basically lads, if I start turning the website on and off exactly 12 times, don't fret it's all good

Pity you can't have both. Life in poverty is such a bitch.

Commentators who get far too caught up in the excitement and just start spewing bollocks... Lloris the original sweeper keeper apparently.