We've just gone 1-0 up against the Czechs. Stirling scored from 5 yards out after a lovely ball across from Sancho. I'm looking at the team and thinking player for player, for England standard this is one of the worst teams I've seen. However, it's not about the big names and Southgate has done a terrific job putting this team together and bringing them on playing his way, Centre backs are Maguire and Keane. A bit of a step down from the likes of Rio and Terry. Midfield is Henderson, Dier and Alli. How weak does that look? Even the goalkeeper Pickford doesn't yet seem to be at the level that we expect our England goalkeepers to be at. It works, though. We always look good and I expect us to have another monster tournament at the Euros.
We need another goal to finish this off. I'm not sure if we've dropped off this half or if the Czechs have stepped it up. We've been under a fair bit of pressure.
Best I've seen Sterling in an England shirt by miles. Normally he spends his time tackling himself and falling on his arse.
Sterling, Kane, Rashford, Sancho, Hudson Odoi. No need for defenders, now. I have always believed that Southgate will win a major trophy with us.
I don't agree it's a poor England team on paper I think there are a lot of quality young players in there and Kane is among the best CFs we've ever had. Credit to Southgate for removing the fear factor, puts us in with a shout of winning something.
We've got a cracking set of kids with some class seniors who have a good few tournaments in them yet. Great chance of winning something. Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk
Did you have one Scottish and one English commentator for the match? On the ESPN broadcast, the English one says, "I see England has climbed to fifth in FIFA's world rankings. The Scott replies, yeah I had a good, long, look at those FIFA rankings... looking for Kazakhstan.
Great performance, and Portugal drew so a great chance to win the nations thingy cup in June. the dutch look canny mind
Just been reading that one newspaper is reporting traces of cocaine found in the toilets at Wembley... is this what is fuelling bad behaviour... that and the usual culprit alcohol?
Absolutely not. A huge amount of people use sniff on the regular and very rarely does it lead to disorder, quite the opposite for the most part. The bad behaviour is fuelled by the world we live in and people with no character seeing someone else doing it and thinking they are funny. They’ll find traces of cocaine anywhere in England mate, pub, restaurant, office toilets, we don’t all go around causing mayhem as a result.
Hit every nail on the head. Might nit be the best “players” but, as steam, it works and it’s an England team I’ve enjoyed watching fir the first time since the 90’s
I'm going to disagree with you on this one. I know a lot of people can get very volatile when they've had a few lines. Of course it's not everybody, some people can use it to heighten the experience that they have on a night out and simply won't turn aggressive on it. Cocaine and alcohol mixed together can cause paranoia, I've seen it enough times. If people are naturally aggressive then it can make them a lot worse when they've got that inside their bodies. I've seen good decent office workers change when they're on cocaine, showing signs of aggression that they never would without it. A football match is the wrong environment to take it in, imo. I was like that in my 20's, I never really enjoyed it, tbh. I done it because my mates were doing it and I'm pretty weak willed like that so just followed suit. Thankfully, I've grown out of it now. I've got nothing against people that do it, I would never judge. My older brother still has it every time he goes out. It definitely changed me, though. I was pretty aggressive and 'up for a fight' when I was on a night out and using that.
I’ve been surrounded by people who bash gear my whole life and to this day, and I can assure you it’s the alcohol that fuels not the beak. A lot of people have a few lines to subdue the effect of alcohol, but that’s a lovely taxable killer so that’s all ok. I guarantee this, people didn’t just start having a few cheeky lines on a match day in the last 6 weeks so to link the 2 is preposterous.
Yep. We are still playing bang average (at best) teams, at the moment. We are doing it comfortably, though. Still question marks against how we'll hold out against France, Germany, Spain at the big tournaments, but we can't do any more than we are currently doing.
