OTF

Is it too late for England to bring Joe Hart into the team?

When was the last time someone young, pacey and promising went to a big English club, didn't play and then went on to resurrect their career successfully elsewhere in England? If there is an answer, ask it again for a british player.

Pfft, he's not the king. Thank fuck.

The Griezmann one is tough because the replays they saw didn't show clear contact of the ball from Risdon. There was another made available afterwards that showed a clear deviation. Now I know that the ball then came back off Griezmann before the contact, so Risdon touching the ball on his tackle doesn't rule out a penalty still, so there's still a decision to be made. What works in the defender's behaviour is that after getting to the ball he doesn't make any additional movement to get to Griezmann, it's his rear leg that slides in from the momentum of the tackle for the contact. Griezmann's touch at this point is too heavy and he would not have beat the keeper to the ball. He goes to ground easilt knowing this. It's 50/50 IMO and I'm biased so I say no penalty.

Pretty much agree with the rest however disagree on the analysis of the Poulson one. He basically left the ground at the same time as Leckie was heading the ball and brought his arm up over his shoulder height into what was the subsequent flight path of the ball off Leckie's head. He never had a chance of heading the ball. To all of the never headed a ball experts out there suggesting that that is a natural position for your arm to be in when jumping to head a ball have a look at Leckie, a player actually heading a ball in a leap higher than Poulson's. His arms don't even go close to being shoulder height let alone above. Players with their hands up in the box are cheating and/or daft.

Mbappe comically finding his way to the ground whenever there's a defender near him. Ahhh, France, don't ever change.

Keep your sick kinks to the general forum thanks.

Depends on the club as well obviously. Leicester are a destination club only if you're on massive wages.

Shame his own quoting of the rules betrays his attempt at making a point. "Does not neccessarily" is nothing like "does not mean". A defender sticking their arm up in the air when they're between the attacking player and the goal when they can't get to the header is an obvious attempt to increase their size in an attempt to stop the ball getting past them. There's absolutely zero reasons to have your hand up otherwise in a sport where you're penalised for handling the ball. The yellow is because doing the above is unsporting conduct, also known as cheating.

Fantastic result for Mexico, great to see their player's emotion on display in stark contrast to the Germans who arrogantly refused to show any after what is a hugely disappointing result for them.

Hope the Mexicans can hold onto it here, they're doing fantastically well. If Germany get anything out of this it will be wholly undeserved.

Yep, hands and arms all over the mexican player in the box there, can't help but feel if it was the other way round Germany would have been given a penalty. No VAR either....

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Has Kane been dropped due to concerns about his temperament? @PaddockLad

Double figures Perez.

Nice save Dubravka.

Yes thanks.

Loving this game so far. We better keep our foot on their throat. Diame continues to astound me. He looked finished as a professional footballer, now he's outplaying every single opponent week in week out.

That would have been a fantastic goal if Courteois had fallen asleep

Likely to be a multi million pound match this.

Unsurprisingly no mention from SpursTV of Ritchie getting slammed in the box by Lloris.

Classic Perez, we lump the shit on and he scores.

Certainly not the only one. Linesman has bottled it, up there with the referee from last weekend.

Depressing looking at our attacking options on the bench. It's like taking out a set of failed dentures and replacing them with lolly gummy teeth (bringing Joselu on).

Agreed, Dummett went to ground without actually getting the ball but he was closer to the ball than their player who essentially went to ground and into Dummett with no play at the ball whatsoever. Poor officiating.