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2-1, slightly better than the last game lol

Belgium one up. Good.

Yes, I was waiting for someone to bring that up. You don't mention how well we did in previous shootouts under his charge, in stark contrast the the pathetic ones prior to him. Also being 100% prepared doesn't guarantee 100% success, otherwise if you meet another well-prepared team it would go to 100 or more successful penalties each.

Age is always the great leveller, isn't it. Messi perhaps the exception.

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I agree his caution held us back in that final, but that doesn't mean his contribution should be written off in the way some do, or that his achievements in reaching 2 major finals should be belittled. If it is so damn easy to do what he did, how come England have only ever reached 3 finals and 2 of them were under Southgate? I personally think he didn't have as many truly elite world class players at his disposal than a lot of his predecessors had, so I think his legacy in addition to those finals has been instilling a togetherness and team ethic back into England that wasn't present previously and a belief that we can get to Finals and potentially win tournaments. The current England squad is still benefiting from that legacy to some extent in my opinion.

If they want to bring along an older player to add experience in the dressing room, just add one of them to the coaching staff. Job done.

It’s amazing isn’t it? Little Southampton FC cheat in the EFL and get the book thrown at them. The President of the US cheats for his national team in front of the whole world and FIFA bend over backwards to help him.

Was Spains best defender tonight. Everytime it went to him, he slowed down the play, stopped any momentum they had going forward and then lost the ball the majority of the time.

Sycophantino is so far up Trump,s ass I'm surprised he's got enough room to write this.

Good job JWP isn’t in the England WC squad otherwise Infantino would have been on the phone to Nuno and had JWP frozen out of the competition.

I think Southgate deserves a fair amount of credit for his time as England boss. However, his legacy is tainted by the fact that he did screw up that final against Italy. Once Shaw got the early goal we should have smelt blood and gone after them. They had two aging centre backs and Southgate wasn't ruthless - sadly his nature is caution but he should have thrown that to the wind and had he done so I'm convinced we'd have won comfortably.

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He got some minutes! Only now does Mainoo see a chance, in England's darkest hour, with Hendo crocked.

He's been able to dictate things for a long time. There would be discussions. But a departure would be a glowing one, at least seemingly on his terms. Rather than an incoming boss just dropping him.

If you found out, one of the Tracy brothers would have to bump you off.

Surely this is it for him and Portugal now right? I know he’s come out and said this is his last World Cup but surely he can’t be planning to stink out the Euros in 2028 as a 43 year old. See if the new Portugal manager has it about himself to take the decision away from CR.

Fucks sake Henderson's world cup is over. Complete waste of a squad place. Managers need to F off about bringing in cheerleaders at the expense of another player.

I thought it was a cracking game.

He was less than happy, when Martinez took him off in their last game, which they promptly won without him. That would have been an interesting post match conversation. Martinez is a manager brought in to ease massive egos. He's going too after this. There's only so much of Ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes anyone can stand. Or should have to. In fairness, Ronaldo was taking up decent central positions, as no ball came into him. Also in fairness, he's not been capable of too much more for quite a while. He's squeezed every last ounce from his career.

Almost one for each year of his age.

Came here to say the same thing!!

Cristiano Ronaldo makes it all about him doesn’t he. Standing on his own. Cameras surrounding him. Crying. Not with his teammates. Not even attempting to shake hands with people and be gracious in defeat. Wet wipe.

Just the seventy cameras around Cristiano Ronaldo at the final whistle. 😂😂😂

Sheffield Wednesday have signed Callum Slattery from Motherwell... https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/sheffield-wednesday-callum-slattery-8767734