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Post by grovergreenstone on Jun 24, 2024 6:56:35 GMT
My - half-Hungarian - house has gone mad! Two women who know nothing about football and (usually) care even less, explaining the Hungarian goal to me in detail! Apparently it was the best goal ever... From a German called Kevin! I tried to explain that I knew exactly what it felt like to lose a vital match to a last minute goal. But to no avail. I don't remember them being this interested when I (eventually) got home from bloody Worthing... Better to have weird celebrating Hungarians than for the deluded Scots to actually qualify. I don’t get this thing where we’re supposed to be pleased when the Scots (or Welsh) do well. You’ll never see them supporting England. Exactly! They love to see us fail, so it should be the same feeling in return. They are no great loss from a major tournament. Scotland get battered everywhere they go....
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Post by nws on Jun 24, 2024 7:30:01 GMT
My - half-Hungarian - house has gone mad! Two women who know nothing about football and (usually) care even less, explaining the Hungarian goal to me in detail! Apparently it was the best goal ever... From a German called Kevin! I tried to explain that I knew exactly what it felt like to lose a vital match to a last minute goal. But to no avail. I don't remember them being this interested when I (eventually) got home from bloody Worthing... Better to have weird celebrating Hungarians than for the deluded Scots to actually qualify. I don’t get this thing where we’re supposed to be pleased when the Scots (or Welsh) do well. You’ll never see them supporting England. Personally, I'll keep up a fervent Scotland support. I got increasingly frustrated with their refusal to go forward for 80 minutes
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Post by nws on Jun 24, 2024 7:31:05 GMT
Steve Clarke had a right meltdown He's right about the penalty decision though
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Post by pwoodstone on Jun 24, 2024 7:59:57 GMT
He is right but VAR is there to help the ref not making this error so I'd blame the Spanish VAR chap rather than the ref.
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Post by nws on Jun 24, 2024 10:28:02 GMT
He is right but VAR is there to help the ref not making this error so I'd blame the Spanish VAR chap rather than the ref. I found the whole var thing strange. We get 2 minute hold ups for innocuous stuff and then some much more obvious seems to get no attention
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Post by pwoodstone on Jun 24, 2024 10:33:51 GMT
He is right but VAR is there to help the ref not making this error so I'd blame the Spanish VAR chap rather than the ref. I found the whole var thing strange. We get 2 minute hold ups for innocuous stuff and then some much more obvious seems to get no attention Yeah. It took quite a while for the ball to go dead afterwards and I fully expected him to hold it up. I thought it was offside at the time - that was never addressed either. Maybe they checked it?
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Post by nws on Jun 30, 2024 19:35:19 GMT
Well that was dreadful today
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Post by sword65 on Jul 6, 2024 16:27:21 GMT
Pub quote of the quarter final so far." Oi! Kane,get up you diving c**t. You ain't playing in Germany now you know " Mangles fans dont you just love 'em.🤣
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Post by sword65 on Jul 6, 2024 17:05:22 GMT
Pub quote no.2. We(England) will be lucky to get a point out of this🤣
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Post by headstone on Jul 6, 2024 21:10:33 GMT
Didn’t you put them right, Sword?
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Post by sword65 on Jul 7, 2024 3:49:48 GMT
Didn’t you put them right, Sword? There is no point trying to point out to a Mangle that he is a pratt as its the one thing in life he is already certain of. Sadly though despite winning on penalties tempers boiled over and it all kicked off in the pub with several punches thrown and people being barred fir life. Ho hum!☹
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Post by 61666 on Jul 15, 2024 7:53:12 GMT
Ultimately, the best team won. Maybe the FA should take a look at the way the England cricket team have been going about things and get in a manager willing to take risks. Isn't it better to lose a few (we do anyway) by being adventurous, than playing safe and scraping through, only to fall at the last hurdle? The talent appears to be there, but just isn't used properly. Anyway, not long before we can watch 'proper' football again.😇
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Post by daveu on Jul 15, 2024 8:06:30 GMT
Pickford needs to sort out his distribution or be dropped. Every aimless punt just gave the ball back to Spain. When we had the ball we were so bloody slow to do anything with it and couldn’t hang on to it for more than three passes. Contrast that with Spain’s crisp and accurate passing that had England chasing shadows for most of the game. Twice in the whole game England showed what they are capable of and both times they had Spain in trouble, but even after the equaliser they sat back, did what they always do under Southgate and allowed Spain to dictate the game.
Kane has been a passenger the whole tournament and should probably retire from the national team and if we’re serious about ever winning anything Southgate needs to go as well, and the new manager needs to give the likes of Watkins and Palmer a proper run in the team, not just as substitutes when we need to make something happen.
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Post by nws on Jul 15, 2024 8:49:58 GMT
Pickford needs to sort out his distribution or be dropped. Every aimless punt just gave the ball back to Spain. When we had the ball we were so bloody slow to do anything with it and couldn’t hang on to it for more than three passes. Contrast that with Spain’s crisp and accurate passing that had England chasing shadows for most of the game. Twice in the whole game England showed what they are capable of and both times they had Spain in trouble, but even after the equaliser they sat back, did what they always do under Southgate and allowed Spain to dictate the game. Kane has been a passenger the whole tournament and should probably retire from the national team and if we’re serious about ever winning anything Southgate needs to go as well, and the new manager needs to give the likes of Watkins and Palmer a proper run in the team, not just as substitutes when we need to make something happen. Inability to control a ball and pass is a real problem for England. Refusal to take risks has been an England manager thing for decades. It was frustrating that having equalised through upping our game, we just sat back again.
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Post by daveu on Jul 15, 2024 9:12:29 GMT
Pickford needs to sort out his distribution or be dropped. Every aimless punt just gave the ball back to Spain. When we had the ball we were so bloody slow to do anything with it and couldn’t hang on to it for more than three passes. Contrast that with Spain’s crisp and accurate passing that had England chasing shadows for most of the game. Twice in the whole game England showed what they are capable of and both times they had Spain in trouble, but even after the equaliser they sat back, did what they always do under Southgate and allowed Spain to dictate the game. Kane has been a passenger the whole tournament and should probably retire from the national team and if we’re serious about ever winning anything Southgate needs to go as well, and the new manager needs to give the likes of Watkins and Palmer a proper run in the team, not just as substitutes when we need to make something happen. Inability to control a ball and pass is a real problem for England. Refusal to take risks has been an England manager thing for decades. It was frustrating that having equalised through upping our game, we just sat back again. I predicted 2-1 to Spain but in all honesty I got lucky. It could have been 4 or 5, especially second half when Spain started showing a bit of composure in the final third.
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