The Football.....

[Brandane]

Or for them to treat England as part of the same country as Scotland when many of them do not NONE OF THEM believe that.

Get over it.

I fixed your post, on the assumption that "them" are the Scots..
I am pro union by the way, but still strongly believe in having a national identity. We are separate nations and long may that continue within the union. Especially when it comes to football. Who wants to watch Team GB playing football?

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

so because my opinion differs from yours , im suddenly paranoid and taking hallucinative substances.........what a nice englishman you are, glad your not in my friend pool

May advice, don't say online what you wouldn't say to someone's face

 

[gbb]

It wasn't Germany, or Belgium, or France, or Ronaldo.

It was the best tournament I can remember, including what I still think was the best game of my lifetime.

We gave a good account of ourselves, lost to the better team.

The beautiful game lives!

Well done Italy! Worthy winners.

Roll on the World Cup!

Spot on, fantastic tournament, a generally very very good performance from England and TBF to the Italians, they didnt generally descend into diving antics....a little perhaps but they played a fair game IMHO, better than i expected.

There's only one winner, everyone else is a runner up, thats inevitable. The other runner ups would have been happy to trade places with England.

 

[vickster]

Every Scot today -

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What, they look like utter pillocks and a bit like Leo?

 

[Venod]

but they played a fair game IMHO

 

[Dayvo]

i cant possible quote the amount of times " its Coming Home" as been posted here on this thread.......thats arrogance right there

Sounds like Liverpool ‘supporters’: not the Scousers/Lancastrians ( GENUINE fans) but wannabees from less fashionable areas who want a successful team to follow by association/band wagoning.

 

[vickster]

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I think that's what they call a high tackle in rugby, almost throttled the young chap!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

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The poor lad was falling over and Chiellini helped him stay on his feet.

 

[Scaleyback]

It isn't GS's job to teach the players skills. The slow build-up is the same tactic every top team uses - even Italy. The sad fact is we don't have top-class players to execute that approach - they're pretty good, but not the best in Europe. (They still created a few problems for Italy, but those guys have a pretty good defence too, so clear goal chances were few.)

GS organised the defence superbly. How many goals did they concede compared to the other "top" teams??

I think they exceeded their potential, and GS can take a lot of credit for that.

I think my post was quite complementary about GS, but . . . and of course there is always a "but"

" It isn't GS's job to teach the players skills " I agree but did he select the correct players for this match ? opinions vary of course.
" How many goals did they concede compared to the other "top teams??"

I think there are far better ways to quantify success than this defensive 'slant' ? In a time when all the experts/pundits rave about the young attacking talent available to England should we not be asking how many goals did England score compared to the other top teams ?

Now admittedly this is not bad, but . . . (that bloody word again) Denmark & Spain played one less game than us and Netherlands/Switzerland & Belgium played two (or more ?) less. It is generally accepted that GS 's teams have a defensive bias. Probably the biggest error GS is accused of making yesterday was not including more game time for any/all of the following: Grealish/Sancho/Foden/Bellingham/Rashford/Calvert-Lewin. I mean throughout the tournament not just the final.
So to sum up, I want GS to continue as England manager but I want him to 'take off the reins' give this 'golden generation' of young attacking talent licence to scare the 'bejusus' off 36 year old centre backs. Maybe it will all fail dismally and we can 'retreat' back to trying to sneak a one nil lead and hang on. Be mindful that this did not work yesterday and it did not work against Croatia in the World Cup semi final when England led after 5 mins.
All about opinions of course, you may disagree . . . . but

 

[HMS_Dave]

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Yep, then there was the Jorginho on Grealish tackle which could have ended his career. I suppose it was porn to some Anti-English fans...

 

[Scaleyback]

Southgate arguably has the best record of any England manager in history, and is way out in front of anyone save Ramsey.

Hopefully your statement will come true but not at this time.

Fabio Capello:- 66.67% win ratio (42 games)
Gareth Southgate:- 63.94% " " (61 games)
Alf Ramsey 61.06% " " (113 games)

Source:

 

[Smokin Joe]

you mean the same as the english hate the welsh rugby team.....its not just a one way thing you know

I spent forty years living in England and that was not my experience. Going back to 1978 I remember being in a pub watching Scotland's opening World Cup match against Peru and the whole place was willing Scotland on. The same attitude towards Ireland when they were playing in a major tournament and I never heard a bad word about any Welsh teams, rugby or otherwise when they played. Unless things have changed dramatically in the last few years it is still the same going by what friends back in London comment when talking about sport.

 

[Rusty Nails]

As posted before, you either haven't read the words, or haven't understood them.

Like the vast majority of those people who sing it, or more accurately just chant the chorus over and over.

Yes there is an element of anti-English (football) on here, and not just from Scotland, but it doesn't take long for terminology to slip in from the other direction which is clearly meant as a slight on Scots.......... Scotchland, Jocks, Sweaties.

All sadly predictable, very immature and all very football supporterish.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yep, then there was the Jorginho on Grealish tackle which could have ended his career. I suppose it was porn to some Anti-English fans...

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At least show the full thing

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He stood on the ball, there was no intent. He was also booked.

 

[srj10]

Mancini heading home with the trophy and a copy of the National