Not a bad back up lol. As much as I love ya though mate I am going to have to propose a thread ban in the unlikely event we meet in the final.
Sports I used to enjoy at international level were Cricket and Football. I have both Australian and Brazilian blood, guess which country I chose to support. Probably the reason I hate international sport nowadays
Yeah same. That Owen goal got me so excited before Beckham and penalties gave me a taste of what's to come.
It's almost certainly due to nostalgic bias (together with a preference for solo-goals over wonder-strikes), but my two favourite ever goals continue to be that Owen goal, followed by Giggs' SF goal a few months later.
Yeah agreed on that. France have been crap, including Mbappe. Was thinking about which French players would get in our team. Mbappe, Kante and Saliba, definitely. Hernandez would, but more because we don’t have a left back. I don’t think Griezmann would. That’s it.
He’s so **** at free kicks. Scored I think 1 from about 40 million attempts for Juve. I’d be delighted if I was a keeper and CR7 insisted on taking them over Bruno Fernandes.
I seem to remember him scoring one Beckham v Greece style, think it was for Real though rather than Portugal. Loads of people saying that is why he is better than Messi as he is so reliable in the real pressure moments. Can’t remember who it was for/the context it was scored
He scored a belter I think against Pompey for MU, then fooled everyone that he was good at them since.
I mean you're not wrong and I'm certainly not trying to make a defence for Southgate now! I said pre Qatar it should be his last and that definitely seems the case now. I think it was easier to play his style in the first two tournaments when the squad was decent but not brilliant and he made the off pitch improvements to elevate us. But since he put us in contention with those two tournaments, and with the talent we now have, he simply has no idea what to do with them to progress further. The squad has outgrown him. We've lost the structure of the team and don't control games like we did earlier on in his tenure even if we weren't free scoring. I'll genuinely be shocked if we get past the Swiss based on what we've seen so far, but maybe we'll finally get going and yesterday can spark us into life. Not holding my breath though.
Slovenia are so well organised and work so hard, you could almost make up a well-known phrase or saying about them.
