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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

Not being a top nation doesn’t mean we’re not very though does it. 🙄

Maybe but Italy at Wembley will forever be the one that got away. 1-0 up too against a pretty average team we will never have a better chance

Yeah but his “England are not very good at football” is a load of shit. Our last five tournaments have been a quarter final, two semi finals and two finals. Yeah we’ve fallen short at winning something but that isn’t the record of a team that’s not very good at football. Ridiculous to even suggest it

Nah we’d probably have beaten Italy and Croatia but Spain are a much better team than us.

Fuck of you whopper “not very good at football” a made semi final two of the last three world cups and two European finals. You talk so much shite 😂😂😂

Yep. That’s what happens when you have years of left wing propagandists dominating the country spreading their soft as shit participation medal, you can be what you want to be and dont let anyone tell you otherwise ideology. A nation of entitled losers who expect to win just by turning up. They’re probably now in the dressing room saying they’re the real winners because we had a more diverse team