adrian lord

Police, I suspect, love a Bubble - means lots and lots of cushy overtime, with reduced risk of actually having to intervene in disorder. Win - win for them.

The tail end of the group stage tends to lots of dull dead rubbers and B teams. France or Argentina for the title.

Something tells me that this ref won’t get the final.

Ffs Kane

I thought Ghana were supposed to tire out and collapse?

The truth is we have got three or four, maybe five or six, very ordinary players.

This is even worse than the first half. You can’t imagine France or Spain or Argentina serving up such unimaginative dross faced with a team like Ghana.

Shaping up to be one of those days

Someone needs to run at players and dribble, it will draw fouls and maybe a penalty even if it doesn’t work in terms of creating open play chances.

Hasn’t someone written a book on how to breakdown obdurate defences?

This half is not ending very well for England at this rate…

Turgid stuff with Ghana parking the bus and us not moving quickly enough or passing fast enough.

Messi having a mare!

That was much more of a penalty than a lot of the ones that the pundits seem to think were nailed on yet they didn’t agree with that one. It was potentially broken ankle time with two sets of legs man-trapping his feet. Missed it anyway!

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