Gemmill

Would 100% have had you down as a never kiss a Tory type.

Election betting scandal is the reverse Truss line.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/labour-drafts-options-for-wealth-taxes-to-unlock-funds-for-public-services?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other I'm assuming this is an intentional leak to a friendly paper.

Where are you, fanny magnet?

Podcasting quit him.

Sunak refusing to deny that there aren't more people involved in this betting scandal. Tim Montgomerie reckons there's "another half a dozen" involved and Iain Dale says there are rumours of a cabinet minister. Sunak remains "incredibly angry" about it all. So angry, in fact, that he's actually been frozen into complete inaction and has yet to suspend anyone from the party. That is like super angry.

Regis Le Bris, he's called. Hard to think of a name that would sound worse with a mackem accent.

It's ridiculous. Shaw has been out for 4 months. He was still injured when Southgate selected him as the only LB in the squad. If your first choice LB is injured, you find the next best English LB and you pick them. That's Chilwell, also injured, so on to the next. It's not ideal, but picking a lad who will be rehabbing for at least the first 3 games of a 7 game tournament is insane. I know Chilwell was second choice and was injured too, but you go to your third choice, you don't take a fucked first choice. You do mad shit like this with a Messi or a Ronaldo, where the psychological impact of not taking them is worse than them being there injured. You don't do it with a Luke Shaw.

The sole left back in the squad, Luke Shaw, is still not training with his teammates. He might be just about recovered by the time England get dumped out.

Aye, the fact that we've played Iceland, Serbia, and Denmark in the last three games and largely been outplayed suggests all isn't well. You're coming up against managers with lesser squads but a well-drilled tactical plan, and it shows. I don't think the instruction is even necessarily to sit back, I think that's just the natural outcome of England not having an organised press and the teams they're playing against having one. They're pinned back rather than sitting back.

The captain coming out post match and saying "we don't know how to pressure, we don't know who goes and who stays" suggests there's just zero instruction from the manager. It's a fairly significant breaking of the ranks from Kane. It also suggests we're probably not far from a mid tournament summit meeting between senior players and the management. If Kane is right about the lack of direction, I'm sure that made it even more galling that he was subbed off early.

ewerk up early sniffing the loungers where those American lasses lie.

Just seen something saying Gareth Southgate would put his phone on low battery mode at 99%.

"We're not quite sure how to get the pressure on, and who's the one who's supposed to be going" That was Harry Kane in his post match interview. Basically saying we don't know what the manager wants us to do.

Palmer and Gordon, two of the form players of last season and can't even get on as subs for fucking chiclet teeth.

I'm absolutely done with Southgate like. I've always been of the view that he's been successful in the past so you give him the benefit of the doubt, but this is a lower league level manager sending a team out with no game plan. We're getting outplayed by lesser teams because our manager is shit.

Pitch looks like the turf was laid this morning.

Trent for Gallagher. Fucking galaxy brain making the change that worked so well against Serbia.

Can you imagine this against France or Germany? They look fucking clueless.

It's not a prediction DICKWAD.

Lineker suggesting England don't press cos Harry Kane doesn't press. Load of shite. It has to be coming from the manager.

Micah Richards' hairline is pure insanity.

It's now 100% official that these players are wasted on this daft cunt. All the excitement pre tournament about our attacking line and all that goofy fucker wants to do is sit back and defend slender leads.

England absolutely intent on winning by a one-goal margin, find themselves pegged back again.