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Portugal Croatia, best game of the tournament so far. That was amazing. I nearly shed a tear for the Croatia Veterans at the end. Oh what a way to go out. Modric, Perisic, you will be sorely missed. Anyone who missed it, make a cuppa and settle in for ten minutes of the most exciting highlights!

When Koeman used to manage us I used to find myself applauding defence-splitting passes almost before they happened, as you could see the runs our players were making to end up through on goal. I'd say that I've grown out of doing that sort of thing but I think the reality was a combination of Puel coaching them to go backwards and sideways, along with a lack of capable players ever since.

Yes it is more complicated than simply blaming Brexit for everything, but which of the promised gains pledged by Boris and co have actually been delivered to offset the obvious negative impacts ? Brexit is directly responsible for the Police losing access to ECRIS and SIS2, Brexit is directly responsible for the queues at European airports, Brexit lost a part of our trade with the EU, by far our largest trading partner, and for the additional "red tape" that is now encountered when trading with the EU. Just to be clear, although I voted remain, after the result I posted on here that I thought it was a mistake, that the promises would not materialise, but that we had to accept it and make the best of it. It is that last bit that has clearly not been achieved, and I don't know if anybody has any idea as to how to do so.

Thing is it’s difficult to determine exactly how a player will work out in this scenario. Putting on the Pompey rose tinted glasses, you could speculate he might have been surrounded by lesser players and so wasn’t able to reach his peak level. And that he might relish a second chance opportunity at a higher level club and perform out of his skin to prove his worth. Or he might just be a dog. Yeah, that’s more like it! 😂

Agreed, the boys committed an adult offence, one of the most serious, and will remain a danger for quite some time, if they ever aren’t frankly. The judicial system needs to firm up around this aspect. As for the original judge, this is why there needs to be a retirement age of 65, perhaps up to 70 for exceptional judiciary, because we can’t have doddery old men sitting on important cases like this who can’t keep up with social change. And yes, I’ll probably be one of those at some stage!

Oh great, the wrong type of brexit. Anything that puts barriers to 50% of your trade was always going to be detrimental. There's no version of Brexit that would have avoided that. Besides which, it wasn't really about the money anyway, was it? Or was it? I've lost track now.

Not too fussed about Ballard leaving and scoring goals for Orient. If he moved to the Championship though and banged in 15+ goals in a season then I would be more fussed. Till he does that then someone else can take the punt on him in this league.

Exactly right, the whining remainers have been brainwashed into blaming Brexit for everything, because it’s a simple answer to a complicated, multi-decade question. “Why is Britain massively declining” As someone who runs multiple businesses… socialist bollocks, high taxes, net zero, soaring energy costs and currency debasement have affected us way, way more than Brexit. Brexit could have been an amazing opportunity but our “politicians” squandered it completely.

Farmer Saint could help you with that.

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I wonder who Marine le Pen is supporting at the World Cup.

Agreed. Disgraceful crime, and an appalling sentence at first instance. On appeal it could have been much higher - those were 15 years ISH offences for adults, more if there was concurrent sentence for the 2 offences - so even with the 2/3 to 1/2 deduction for child perpetrators (ridiculously high imo), 4 years is still too light imo.

Sorry, should have been clearer. I was specifically looking at the games Mexico had played at the Azteca.

I'm not saying that we should buy him back, simply that if the reports that we wanted him still were true then we still have the opportunity now to buy him. If we don't then I question the report that we ever wanted to.

I don't like how he's being rushed into the England setup tbh... He should be playing every game for Hants and honing his craft. Has the pace, but needs to develop consistency and variation. Otherwise agree that we shouldn't be criticising too much at this stage. We desperately need to develop some young talent

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No. We need to move away from soft centred sentimentality. Move on.

Then buy him back.

Still not long enough. If they were immigrants they'd have got far longer - bloody two tier justice.

Report says other report is inaccurate.

Nice to see that those lads who were given a slap on the wrists for those rapes of the two girls have been given custodial sentences on appeal. Horrible little bastards.

Surely that's all they needed for this particular person? Unless of course he's completed outwitted the entire Border Force and Immigration System by changing his second name, in which case I don't think Europe pre Brexit would have helped us.

Only a handful of seats left behind the goal. Looking forward to it.

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