I can’t believe this ref keeps on falling for the Slovenian amateur dramatics
Asking for a friend…are England playing for penalties?
Slovenians got the result they played for
Why does Southgate leave it to the dying minutes to bring on subs?
I preferred the waistcoat years.
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Apostrophe! Apostrophe! Referee. Apostrophe !
Sorry. I’m bored and have been self medicating with brandy
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I don’t get it, Palmer got maybe 15 minutes and Gordon about 5. Yet we struggled to the full backs.
I guess we finish top of the group which is all Gareth will have wanted but its going to take a different mind set to advance in the knock-out stages
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Mainoo, Palmer and Gordon looked more effective than some of the first choices.
I don’t think he’ll do it but Southgate needs to drop Harry. He missed a month at the end of the season and looks well off the pace.
We are through and it’s often a team that looks out of it in the preliminary rounds who go on to win. At least we’ve avoided our nemesis in the next round.
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Take me down to the cell’s 
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Watching the after-game analysis on TV here in Europe the description of England’s playing was summarized in two words: “pure tristesse”.
What needs to happen for an international team to up the tempo tenfold? P.S. lots of criticism of lack of “in-game trainership” from the manager.
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Austria my new favourite team. Belgium entertained me too. I have only seen Spain briefly.
England’s torpor clearly not going to be resolved. Just awful. I gave up at half time cerain it would be 0:0. Hey, we are top of the Group so it doesn’t matter…
Bruce
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Have to say imo the English team really are the most boring side to watch in the tournament. Hopefully they learn how to score between now and their next game.
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Should be no problem if that turns out to be a match against my country’s (
) team
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Or even your country’s team.
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It’s a disgrace. I’ve never liked Koeman as a manager on this level. In the weeks before the tournament it was all about positivity, style of play and how good the Netherlands is and no hard words whilst everyone knows that Depay never functions on these tournaments. The big elephant in the room.
It is very similar to the England team really. The manager lacks brains and strategy and has arrived on this level just to prove the Peters Principle.
I thought Depay was superb yrsterday, just lacked a partner on the same wavelength.
Bruce
But we are still in the tournament.
True but not for long
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