Just got back from walking the dog to slow my heart rate down. Got a sneak preview of the pens from a neighbour’s yells which were a fraction of a second before the action on my screen, he must have been watching non HD or something, which was actually quite calming. We deserved that. Played the better football for the vast majority of the game, just about kept our heads in the face of some pretty vile provocation, and definitely had the bottle. I only know two Colombians and they are both lovely people, I refuse to believe that the way their team behaves is a true reflection of their national character. I think Sweden will be really tough, they are awkward buggers and came through a very tough qualifying group plus beating Italy in the play off. But we are better than them, and we should at least have an honest contest this time. Get in!
If Colombia had succeeded, the quarter finals in my opinion would have been devalued by their presence after their thuggery for the first 65 minutes in tonight’s game. So well done England for slaying the dragon
Congrat to all england fans (included myself!) . Awful, afwul match to watch after 85 min, before that it never look they might score. Unfortunately in that fatal corner trippier was a inch too short or misjumped 00,1 second too late... never the less great win against hard team who were very unsportmanship time to time. They did play well too about 10-15 min of the match. Now against hard working defencemonster sweden. ... Hard match ahead again and hope southgate learns some weakness in their defence until saturday.
Scary and brilliant all in one game, I think I have found a new love in Trippier okay he plays for Spurs but still loving him! And I never rated Henderson but seen a new side to him tonight and shows Dier to be rather ineffective. Columbia were dirty and not penalised, but that is part of football that will never change! I thought we did really well up to the equaliser, and then really struggled. I could not watch the penalties did the washing up and listened to my husbands shouts from the living room, bearing in mind he is Scottish he shouted very loudly for every penalty we scored! And for everyone we saved! My heart rate has finally calmed, well at least until Saturday.
'Don't come home': Colombian stars who missed penalties against England receive DEATH THREATS from furious fans – 24 years after a player was murdered for scoring a World Cup own goal Vile messages targeting Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca started to appear within minutes of Colombia being knocked out of the World Cup after losing to England The posts warned the players they were 'dead' and urged them to kill themselves Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar, who was shot dead after his own goal for Colombia at the 1994 World Cup By Matt Roper for MailOnline Published: 11:01 AEST, 4 July 2018 | Updated: 11:02 AEST, 4 July 2018 343shares View comments Colombians urged calm last night after the two players who missed penalties against England suffered insults and threats from furious fans on social media. Vile messages targeting Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca started to appear within minutes of Colombia being knocked out of the World Cup following the dramatic shoot-out. Uribe's penalty hit the crossbar while Bacca's attempt was saved by hero England goalkeeper Pickford. The posts, mostly aimed at Bacca who fans thought took the worse penalty, warned the players they were 'dead', urged them to kill themselves and told them not to return to the South American country. please log in to view this image +3Colombia head coach Jose Pekerman, left, and England head coach Gareth Southgate, right, comfort Colombia's Mateus Uribe after the round of 16 match between Colombia and England" The sinister messages were made despite a police investigation into early death threats made towards Colombian player Carlos Sanchez after he was send off three minutes into the team's World Cup opener against Japan. Many outraged football fans pointed out that yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar, who was shot dead after his own goal was blamed for sending Colombia home at the 1994 World Cup. One post by Twitter user David Castaneda warned: 'Die Carlos Bacca. Son of a bitch. No-one wants you, gonorrhoea. To this country you don't return.' please log in to view this image + Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford of England (R) saves a penalty of Carlos Bacca of Colombia in the penalty shoot-out Another, Lois Lane, said: 'The anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar and you are calling for the death of Bacca. I'm sorry, I can't stand such **** people. Get out of my timeline.' And MoreJuanSe wrote: 'Now they start to insult and threaten Uribe and Bacca. Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar, please, please! Let's learn how to lose aswell.' Another, Jhon Duqueismo, wrote: 'Thank you to all the players, except to three-time son of a bitch, useless, dead, Carlos Bacca. Don't come back here.' HumorFPCosky wrote: 'I hate you Carlos Bacca, I hate all of you, I hate your indifference, your animal surname, and your ass's game. You're worse than a cancer, at least with cancer you can go to a doctor and find out what you have. 'Carlos Bacca, get depressed and kill yourself, so you don't continue living this agony.' Patricio wrote: 'Uribe, you are a piece of ****, I hope you die.' Another user, INFINITO wrote: 'That was Mateus Uribe's last game, that man is already dead.' But other Colombian fans expressed their shock at the cruel messages. Brayan Sanchez wrote: 'Don't wish for the death of Bacca and Uribe. Do we wish to repeat what happened to Andres Escobar? Is this Colombia? Games are won and lost, we are a real country.' Andres Escobar, 27, was gunned down by a gangland figure 10 days after his mistake against the US knocked Colombia out of the World Cup hosted in the USA. Hours before the showdown with England in Moscow Escobar's brother, Sachi, told of his fears that another player could be killed if Colombia failed to get through to the quarter-finals, warning that the country 'had not learned the lessons' of the tragedy. please log in to view this image +Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar (pictured) who was shot dead after his own goal was blamed for sending Colombia home at the 1994 World Cup" Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar (pictured) who was shot dead after his own goal was blamed for sending Colombia home at the 1994 World Cup And he pleaded with his country's passionate fans and gangland figures ensure sure that no other player is hurt or threatened if things didn't go their way. He said: 'I want to send an important message to those people who think things can be resolved with violence, and with weapons, that they can take someone's life just because they make a mistake, in this case the life of a football player. 'Football should be a vehicle of peace and social transformation, and at the end of the day, it is just a game. 'But I truly hope that, if Colombia failed to meet these expectations, then the tragedy that happened to my brother doesn't repeat itself. God forbid that it happens again.' And he said of the death threats made against Sanchez: 'As a brother who has gone through this, I know what must be going through their heads, and I wouldn't want anyone to go through that. 'Carlos must be feeling both sad for the mistake he made, and very afraid, and his family too. 'My brother never received any threats, they just shot him dead in the most cowardly way. 'The fact that people are still allowed to say these things on social network sites, even threaten him with death... shows me that nothing good came out of Andres' death, nothing was learned. 'These people are just lowlifes who are not real Colombian football fans, who should be arrested and thrown into jail.
Interesting view from Tim Vickery, an English journalist who's extremely knowledgeable about South American football, on the radio this morning. He said that he thought the way the Colombians behaved was indefensible, but that the reason they performed as they did was that they over-estimated England and decided that they had to stop us by any means possible. They also thought that the appointment of an American referee would be certain to work against them. Had they set up less cautiously (three defensive midfielders), and played properly, they would have had a better chance of winning fair and square.
He was very good on the wireless before the game, making the same point about the very defensive set up and saying that the absence of James really changed the way they would play and not for the better. He also said that Falcao is useless with his back to goal, as he proved to be.
Now I've slept on it, I can think a bit straighter than I could last night. If we're going to keep the game beautiful and inspire people with it, there has to be a way of enforcing the rules so the antics Columbia pulled last night are properly penalised, and becomes a redundant tactic that teams don't try - because they can't get away with it. By the end of the week no-one will care or remember how Columbia approached the game or the dreadful example they gave that anything is OK as long as you win. And then, at some point in the future, we'll see another team doing the same. Teams who choose to play like Columbia did for much of last nights match don't deserve to be at the World Cup. Maybe we can't fix FIFA, but we can at least try to enforce the rules so cheating is punished and not rewarded. I thought the referee was made of the right stuff, but he let some things go - rather than do the right thing and possibly have a riot on his hands. Sly cheating used to work for two reasons - the ref couldn't catch it all and the general public was oblivious to much of it. These days the latter isn't true with all those cameras and replays catching pretty much everything. So now we have the situation where the referee doesn't have the tools to identify and punish actions the rest of us can see on TV. Agree with Strolls sharing of Tim Vickery's views - if they'd respected us a little less, set up differently and tried to play properly, who knows?
I going to comment about the many negative comments coming from members when the game was leveled at 1-1. I say this in good spirits as someone observing from the outside looking in. Please remember, l'm on your side. I say this without any intent to upset members, in truth, I say it as a way to instill more positive vibes for future matches. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ When l clocked on this morning here in Oz, the game had just been leveled at 1-1. I noticed there was a rush of comments along the lines of ......... Oh, were done for .......... that's it, game over, etc etc. I couldn't believe how so many were making the same comments. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Well, l can tell you, whatever has happened in the past for the England team, is in the past, completely. You have a good new young manager who has a genuine interest in achieving for the national side. He's not a 'buy in' manager, pretending to have the national interest at heart, Whether he can make further inroads is yet to be seen but hey, he's having a real dig and is not afraid to pick new young players, who in turn, want to succeed for their country as well. Southgate could of easily taken the tried and tested method by opting for the likes of Rooney and such but no, he has showed that he wants to build a new team for the future whilst making the most of the current situation and getting the desire results. Well done to him ............... and well done to you folks supporting the English team. You have already succeeded and l sincerely hope you continue to win. Truth is, you have a genuine opportunity to go all the way, the only thing that might stop you is a lack of confidence which really, shouldn't be the case. I urge you to get behind your team and when and if your behind the eight-ball or whether the scores are level, show some belief and back your team. I'm sure they will appreciate it. Aussie ( with tin hat on )
Nice one Aussie. But never underestimate the capacity of the English sports fan to look on the pessimistic side. It’s in our blood.
Sweden have a mean defence and won't be giving many penalties away, so it'll be a low scoring game. England will have to be patient. Not convinced by Sterling, he's fast but not on his game at the moment, low on confidence and constantly running into traffic. Would prefer Vardy or Rashford.
I'm not sure if this has been posted on here before or whether it was on another site. However, Liverpool won the league in 1966. Manchester City were champions of division two.
