Not watching the game as mid season international football generally sucks, but it does seem that Bellingham and Foden have become this generation's Lampard and Gerrard.
Fantastic finish by 92-year-old Robbie Brady puts Ireland 2-1 up in Finland. Excellent work by Watford's Festy Ebosele in the buildup.
England looked terrible tonight. So many players who are talented individually, but they offer much the same thing. Carsley should have played with a centre forward and a Mainoo replacement alongside Rice to protect the back four and help England retain possession.
I have no interest in the International break, it's just another money making exercise for who? fifa, eufa, the fa? Just ****s up the PL season as far as I am concerned.
Should I mention that LadyC and myself walked into a pub for a post-cinema drink right before Greece scored their winning goal? That's the winning goal that counted, not the three which were chalked off...
International football predates league football so it's hardly surprising it has precedence. The current system seems much better than the old one where club v country fights went on all the time.
The irony is that my daughter lives within sight of Hampden Park so I have a sticker on my car that allows me to park on match days. I'll ignore your outrageous slur on the oldest football nation in the world.
There would be less interest if the money had not grown since those early days. How is it better? There were just complaints from English managers that they did not have enough time with their team. If Southgate's mind-numbing football is the result, then I much prefer the days when Venables never had enough time. The World Cup and the European Cup is more than enough for most, I think. It's the classic. Oh! the world cup is popular, let's have one every year, yes, too much of a good thing. In nearly 70 years of watching International football I can count the enjoyable England games on one hand. Funnily enough, the Scotland games are often more fun because expectation is not high, so games like the Scotland v Brazil world cup 1974 goaless draw stay stronger in the memory. Most of the fun games with England came with Mercer, Venables and Robson and that's a long time ago.
