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How much better are this Spain team to watch than the tikitaka lads btw? Tremendous. Played 7, won 7.

Of course Shearer absolutely scoffed at the idea of "England being managed by a German?!" when Klopp was mentioned, the fucking tit. Went on to say that for him the England manager needs to be English. Brexit voter, Shearer. I guarantee it.

I know I said it makes it harder for Biden to step down but the photo of Trump after the shooting couldn't be more starkly different to Biden walking around like C3PO in need of some WD40. So there's also the (outside) possibility that even Biden can see that now.

They could do a Spain and promote Carsley.

Lineker mentioned Lampard on his pod. Honestly I think he's bright enough to know his limitations and would bring a proper coaching team with him. He would be MILES from first choice, but I don't think he'd be any worse than Southgate. Only thing to worry about is how he is with the players - he was pretty happy to hang them out to dry in his recent stints as club manager.

The worst thing about this tournament is that the team and the manager should have LOADS of regrets. Wrong team selections, horrendously negative/conservative tactics, mistakes in the squad selection. Then the fact the team could clearly play when it needed to - evidence having an ability to constantly recover from falling behind - but whenever the scores were level, he was happy to sit back and just... I don't even know what. Wait for someone to produce something magic? There was no attempt to make things happen for ourselves. We went into the tournament with this wealth of attacking players and Southgate treated it like it was a weakness rather than a strength, and negated the squad's biggest asset with his pathetic tactics. On tactics too, Eddie Howe had a year and a bit off when he left Bournemouth and he travelled the world honing his coaching skills and trying to learn. Most of Southgate's job as England manager was down time. The FA would have happily funded him to do something like Howe did, but he didn't bother his arse as far as I can tell. I remember saying in earlier tournaments that he seemed like the sort of bloke that would address the shortcomings in his abilities, but if anything they just became more entrenched. Theres loads to be grateful to Southgate for, but the fact that there won't be a top club offering him a job tells you everything you need to know about his abilities as a manager.

If Howe doesn't want it, and I really hope he doesn't, there's Potter, O'Neill, or someone non-English. And Howe (or a potential foreign candidate) would be streets ahead of Potter or O'Neill.

You stood. Standers don't ace.

I was reading that Mainoo's dad is a big LA Lakers fan, but he just likes to wing it on the kids' birth certificates. It was in an interview with his brother Shakwheel.

England have the players to properly take a tournament by the scruff of its neck. I'm not saying they wouldn't still get beat when they come up against a France or a Spain, but they've been as timid as fuck most of the way through. Odd burst of energy with subs a couple of times but for the most part they've just been bang average. Picking Kane tonight and giving their centre halves an hour of kip was just crackers. He must be trundling about in training too. I sincerely hope that that's it for Southgate. He's done an unreal job, but it's got to be the end of the road now.

Whistle bang on 4 minutes.

Shearer aneurysm if England win this. I'm calling it now.

Get in!

Walking in at 5am tomorrow and resigning in Ian Paisley's voice.

Criminal really that Southgate has indulged Kane with an hour tonight. Their centre halves have had their easiest shift of the tournament. Suddenly now they've got some work to do.

Southgate is almost certainly gonna have to burn a sub replacing Shaw at some point. Hard to believe he can see out the 90 after no starts since Feb.

I'll need to see his fitbit, but I reckon Kane's done about as many steps as I have today.

Shearer sounds like he's gonna cry.

Declan Rice looks way out of his depth.

Rodri was the handbrake all along.

Jordan "Slowlegs" Pickford.

Oh well.

Rodders is off, the absolute plonker.

I love the way the BBC have a studio with 4 blokes in it for 13 minutes of the break, and are then like "should we see what the two lasses on the pitch think for a couple of minutes.... I suppose we should."