Whitey Grandad

Maybe, but I know when England will get knocked out.

I wouldn't. But Happy Birthday anyway!

These things always go in cycles of gradual centralisation followed by explosive decentralisation into much smaller units. It's the story of the universe.

A quote from Tuchel, "I haven't seen the data yet but I think..." He's another spreadshit manager. From an analysis by Paul Hirst of The Times of the 37 minutes after we scored and they got their second, "84 O’Reilly blocks a De Paul shot and then breaks free from his position in the midfield block of four, surging forward to tackle Messi and force Argentina back into their own half. Anthony Barry, the England assistant manager, runs off the bench and yells at O’Reilly, demanding that he retreat to his defensive wing position."

I saw the one in '66. My chances of seeing the next are no better than 50:50

I see no evidence of that. Quite the opposite.

What rubbish. Who chose the players? Who chose the substitutions?

But I haven't forgiven them.

Anyone with any intellect would never go near the place.

Here, have a shot. You missed? Here have another one. Pickford saved it? Never mind, have a free header. Hit the post? Try again...

I don't feel bad at all. I feel ashamed that the whole world saw us as a quivering bunch of clueless cowards. We got further than I thought we would. Even in the early games we were a shapeless amorphous blob with no structure or style. Apart from Rice, who was our midfield supposed to be?

Kane couldn't come off. We didn't have another centre half to replace him.

He doesn't know how to deal with crosses.

Then deal with the crosses by stopping them at source. Not by swapping attacking players for a centre half or two.

As Rooney said a few minutes ago, with a back four everybody knows their spacing. When you go to a back five nobody knows where they stand an tgey start leaving the ball to each other. Their second goal tonight was awful defending. Their player was effectively unmarked.