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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.

Agree. Is JWP the best available to us? If so go for it. Personally I doubt very much he's the best available to us and it's more about convenience and sentiment.

John Stones plays and trains with him so should have some thoughts on how to best curtail him. Even so he's like a battering ram and as strong as an ox.

Patrick Berg also stood out for me. He scored early on against Brazil but it was disallowed by VAR for offside.

As someone else said, their guy on the left will be a big danger and probably more so than Odegaard.

Strong, athletic players with the skills to play at Championship level and possibly above. Just my opinion and clearly you will disagree which is fine by me.

Hope you are proved wrong. Good player though he was he's not what we need now.

Has he signed Bazunu yet. He tried to convince everyone that Baz would prove to be one of the best keepers in the Championship so time to put his money where his mouth is.

If we manage to scrape past Congo I don't see us beating Mexico in the Azteca - it will be a cauldron and their record there is very impressive.

No outrage from Troy Deeney, Henry Winter etc etc for blatant cheating of the rules? How surprising.

Can't say I'm disappointed.

The way Germany play is very similar to England. From the start knock it around between the centre backs with zero urgency or purpose then try to get the ball down the wings and cross or lose possession - rinse and repeat.

They no longer pay his wages so he needs to start doing it for us. Maybe sell him and bring in the New Zealand guy Elijah Just.

Yeah, he should have been closer to Martinelli but the main blame has to be on the guy who needlessly gave the ball away and he's the one in floods of tears.

Yeah, the Leeds lad knew it was on him - poor guy is distraught.