Turkish

He’s quite dashing. Is he our best looking PM ever?

😂 hurt so bad, seriously? FYI I quite like the bloke. You seem a bit rattled again though

“I know what it’s like to be young in Britain, I used do Thursdays nights at the Hacienda”

Champagne Manc. He's probably got some fake story about when he went to the Hacienda as well. It'll be his "my dad was a tool maker" mantra.

Delete the thread. The person who started it isnt allowed an opinion on politics.

i thought having a big lump up front to get on the end of high balls was dinosaur football used by has been managers? Arent we above all that?

I wanted to follow their advice and go for a walk, but then i remembered the advice they also gave on how to stay alive during this heat which was to stay in a cool place with the windows open so im fucked.

English mentality, pace, strength, power. Once a player starts slowing down they get written off as their legs have gone. Messi has adapted his game to where he is now, hes a different sort of player to what he was 10 years ago, obviously you're talking about an all time great here but how many English players adapt their game so well? I'd add to that how many get the chance to? I still think a lot of the problem is the South American and South European teams create footballers first, whereas we take athletes and try and turn them into footballers. Im seeing it now at U13s level, bigger, stronger earlier developing kids who aren't good footballers are 95% of the time prefferred over smaller players who haven't developed phyically yet. It was like it when i was a kid 35 years ago and nothing has changed despite all the stuff we get told.

I know Grealish is past his best and injured but it was made for someone like him, give him the ball, keep hold of it, win free kicks, slow the game down and he has that quality in tight spaces to create something, but we NEVER use players like that properly. It's always about speed and strength.

We have them going forward, Palmer, Foden, Grealish a few years ago were these sort of player that we dont use properly. In this tournament we went for pace and strength as usual instead then didn't use it properly. What we've lack for years is that controlling central midfield player, a player that can dictate the tempo, do the simple things well, keep the ball moving etc. Michael Carrick was the nearest thing we've had to that in recent years and IMO should have been the first name on Englands team sheet in those days. We dont seem to like those sort of players when we have them they get labelled as boring, sideways & backwards type players because they're not spectacular, exciting players who score goals and create chance after chance.

Dont blame the manager, but at the same time saying you didn't agree with anything he did in the last 30 minutes. Classic Aintclever 😂

I dont agree semi final is under performance, only two teams can make the final, we are the 4th ranked team in the world so semi final is about par. We won in Mexico, beat a good Norway team who knocked out Brazil so overall we've met expectations. However, that doesn't take away the fact that the last 30 mins last night undid a lot of the good work before that. It was almost naive to expect us to be able to hold out for 30 mins defending the penalty area against a team of that quality. We had the game won had them in our hands then let them off the hook

We don’t sit at the top table. Were the Newcastle, Spurs, Aston Villa or Everton of internationals. However we had enough to beat Argentina, the last 30 minutes played right into their hands. We only had 12% possession because we had so many defenders on and no outlet when we did get it forward, that’s on Tuchel.

Yep think back 88 euros lost every game, 92 euros went out at group stages didn’t win a game, 94 World Cup didn’t qualify. 2002-2012s “golden generation” never got past the quarter finals yet people are bleating on now like we have some divine right to win every tournament we enter anything less than that is abject failure and “not being very good at football”

Compared to our performance from the 70s-2010s our recent tournament performances have been good, fallen short at the every end but a lot better