PaddockLad

England have been mostly decent and at times very good. Too much reliance on the set piece & Kane though. There were bags of goals in Platt, Gazza and Pedro. Dont see that in Lingard,Ali and Henderson. If they'd gone two nil up last night Croatia wouldn't have lived with them. Tbf England were knocked out by the first decent side they played.

Nice to have you among us Nostradamus

Danny Drinkwater

Cheers both.

So am I....the old boy had the temerity to croak it last month...slap bang in the middle of the group stages... I ended up a bit distracted by it all and didnt transfer Harry Kane into my dream team before the Panama game. I was top going in to that weekend ,5th now

Accies haven't been the same since Alex Neil went to Norwich

English by birth, brought up north of the border by a Scottish father and an English mother...

Am hoping England win but am fairly ambivalent about the whole thing...international football is ok, but it's not real life is it?

England have had some luck for a change. Strikes me the biggest factor though is that Southgate is England's first manager to have played at the top level in the modern era, i.e. the premier league. He understands these mostly unsung lads, knew the blend for a good squad, knew how important set pieces could be etc...

May needs the DUP for a majority though. They’ll down tools and make life very fuckin awkward for her. Add a few more resignations,letters and she’s very likely toast. Then it’s all up for grabs...

Hope you forwarded that email on to @The Fish

That's all very well, but that's not taking into consideration the highly motivated cunts in parliament who would happily see no deal. Or are you saying CT is right ( ) and that: a. May will complete negotiations for a very soft brexit & b. the Euro loonies on the Tory party will just give up Can just about see a but that will only happen with b...

So it would appear Davis walked just to save face among his peers and the Brexit public at large.. "See, I did try..." etc etc.. Boris jacked because he's Boris, and Boris comes first in the book of Boris. They're trying to take her out and maybe get someone in they can properly put the squeeze on and manipulate... Javed? Got to say it's all very well saying that the main leavers in the cabinet have come up with fuck all in two years, that's possibly the point? They know this is May's last chance saloon, they may have her just where they want her?. They know the EU will reject what's on offer out of hand, what does she do then? I wouldn't underestimate them tbh, they had the perfect outrider in Farage to attract the vote but the 60 odd Tory Euro loonie MPs who put Cameron into the position where he put the referendum into the Tory party manifesto in 2015 pulled off a huge political coup just by doing that. They're really not about to give up as far as I can see. If any more resign they're maybe not giving up, it's perhaps just all part of a loose, flexible plan? Just heard Richard Drax on the radio saying the PM should be preparing for WTO now, withdraw any further payments to the EU and see what they come back with. This appears to be how the hard line brexiteers are thinking. There's a lot more to be played out iyam.

Why do brexiteers need it to go through?

Ok am not an expert armchair or otherwise. I do know there are votes on withdrawal from the EU in the commons slated for 16/17th July. She won't win them.

May has to win a parliamentary vote on the chequers agreement. There are around 50 hardcore brexiteers on the back benches. She needs the DUP & 100% of her own vote to get It through. What do you think is going to happen Mr armchair exoert? First rule of politics: learn how to fuckin count

48 letters trigger a no confidence vote.....but she could still win that, and now we're into proper shithouse territory she could then stuff the cabinet with arch remainders to ensure the chequers agreement has support at least at that level. Trouble is, it's not even a white paper yet and with needing the DUP to even stand a chance, that's if absolutely every fucker was onside then it would rather appear she's well and truly fuckin fucked...

Gone

Those years in which you voted Tory twice, for Brexit, and for a Brexit favouring Labour leader too? Those ones? The politicians are cunts but the easily led such as yourself have enabled them. Well done.

1922 don't trust Gove for precisely the sort of shit he pulled at the weekend. Gave the deal his full backing for his own ends rather than any sort of principle. The loonies will ensure either half the cabinet walks or there is a leadership challenge or possibly both if that fucker is steering the ship. To think Cameron thought a vote on Europe would solve all the Tories problems with it

Hank Winter in with the lads on the Volga https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/world-cup-after-28-years-and27-games-here-was-90minutes-of-heaven-l3r3xdcqs

Unless Labour come out as anti Brexit then that will resolve nothing as far as I can make out. The EU won't accept May"s bullshit deal as it stands, she'll maybe won't replace him or the other two who resigned, she'll maybe continue negotiations herself, or appoint someone that will water things down even more, put up with the shellacking from the 1922 committee tonight and more subsequent cabinet resignations and a challenge to her leadership. There again, who the fuck knows?