England manager can't win, Southgate like many managers before him got slaughtered, despite Southgate probably having the best record of any England manager, short of picking up a trophy. I don't particularly like Tuchel, he's another scruffy little scrote, like a ferret up a drainpipe that's got stuck, although appearance more of a rat....but we still got 3 points so I'll draw the positives from that, rather than the negatives, probably because I watched my lot instead.
Of the last 10 major tournaments only Italy in the Euros won with a style anything similar to Tuchels ...
We'll win the trophy for topping a qualifying group with some ease ... we must have a shelf full... ...and will then draw 0-0 with Burkina Faso in the first game of the actual tournament itself...
Going by Germany's result the other day, it has to be one of their biggest chances yet of pulling off a result.
It's just mental that, everything that is wrong with modern day football. She'll probably bring a long a pillow and a duvet next time.
I remember when I use to go football you use to actually talk to the people standing next to you. My parents were never interested in football, so just use to go along with school mates, and people who I knew in the near by streets - proper community thing. I sort of got established directly behind one of the goals eventually, became friends with a lad whose parents use to take him. It's a shame what football has become, you can never truly recreate that experience in people's minds to share what it was like. Suppose the closest you would come now is non league grounds. Yeah it was a bit **** as well, certainly not pretending it wasn't, probably best left as nostalgia and nothing more.
Tonights international feast is Germany v Northern Ireland at 7.45pm on BBC 2 / Iplayer The alternative at the same KO time is Turkey v Spain on Amazon Prime, but it says it's PPV, so probs about £2.50 unless they've bunged the prices up since I last watched it.
Yeah, I used to stand on the old North Bank when it was a terrace and at various terraces away from home. You used to get to know people who stood in the same places. Those old terraces were electric, the buzz of the game, the rivalry and the banter. All mixed in with a bit of danger. Scoring a goal and the whole crowd erupting, jumping around hugging strangers. I used to remember that half second hush when it would fall silent just as somebody took a shot and everybody took a sharp breath in, for it then to erupt in celebration, or everybody let out a big 'ooooooooh' if it whistled past the post. Those days are gone though, and they are just fond memories now.
I think a lot of football got tarnised back then because of the violence and tragedies that unfolded, so when you talk to people they are surprised of the actual community feel within the game then. I remember some dickhead remarking once about the violence and using Bradford in the same breath - you can imagine I wasn't impressed, and corrected him on the detail.
For those that don't know about Bradford... My understanding was rubbish had accumulated under one of the wooden stand(s), unfortunately a discarded cigarette was dropped, went under the stand and set the rubbish and stand alight. You could smoke in grounds back then. As a result wooden stands were taken out of service, we use to have one at my gaff built by the dockers. If I've got any of that wrong, feel free to correct.
