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5 years ago when their two senior left-backs were injured. Trippier has played regularly at left-back for England. It’s genuinely incredible how you’re so stubborn on everything.

... perhaps because I open my eyes and watch ...

Trippier down the left has been a constant brake on our attacking momentum...
 
If we’d planned a 5-2-3 all along it wouldn’t have been an awful plan. Obvious flaws in midfield and we’d still be talking about Trippier not being capable on the left unless he took Mitchell or someone similar but it would’ve made sense with the squad’s strengths and weaknesses. We play like there’s no plan at all. Just wing it.


You would lose the width that Saka offers, but can always switch to a back four and introduce players like Saka/Gordon from the bench and give width. Bellingham, Rice and Another in MF and Foden/Kane. Sure he did three at the back in Russia?
 
Switching the same XI around just ain't going to work ... the substitutes made a real difference last night and surely must have resonated with the manager ...
 
No one is arguing against that though but playing Saka at left-back because of a throwaway comment from Ian Wright is the sort of thing Football Manager teenagers argue for.

I bow to your better knowledge of the game, and of Arsenal players, than Ian Wright's ... after all, what did he achieve as a player? <laugh>

... and I'm not advocating it because of a throwaway comment ... I'm advocating it because it makes some sense and would definitely give the team a better balance ...
 
At least you're closer to death though, some of us still have many decades of this.


I watched the 2018 WC semi against Croatia with my mate and his kids. His eldest was 9 at the time. At the final whistle I saw how his little 9 year old heart was hurting, and it took me right back to that 1970 QF, when I was 9 myself. Really felt his pain. I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd endured another 50 years of disappointment since, and he probably had that to look forward to himself.
 
I don’t think it’s wrong to expect to play better and beat Slovenia with the players we have. They’ve got second tier players and not even top second tier teams.


Slovenia are unbeaten in donkeys. Granted, they've mostly been playing Kazakhstan and Armenia, but they beat Portugal 2-0 in March.
 
I watched the 2018 WC semi against Croatia with my mate and his kids. His eldest was 9 at the time. At the final whistle I saw how his little 9 year old heart was hurting, and it took me right back to that 1970 QF, when I was 9 myself. Really felt his pain. I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd endured another 50 years of disappointment since, and he probably had that to look forward to himself.

<laugh>

Me too ... they knobbled Banksy ... otherwise I reckon we'd still have won that ...
 
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The only two games in tournaments under Southgate I've genuinely enjoyed from start to finish were both at the last WC:

6-2 v Iran, brilliantly entertaining football against a team who aren't amazing but can hold their own.

3-0 against Senegal. Mature, controlled performance that took a potential banana skin and threw it in the bin as soon as the whistle went.

Everything else has either been turgid or lucky.

What you fooking moaning about, Spurs have been turgid for the last decade, they've not even been anywhere near that word LUCKY, you';ve won fook all!
 
What you fooking moaning about, Spurs have been turgid for the last decade, they've not even been anywhere near that word LUCKY, you';ve won fook all!
huh? He didnt mention Spurs did he? Wasnt he talking about England?
 
What you fooking moaning about, Spurs have been turgid for the last decade, they've not even been anywhere near that word LUCKY, you';ve won fook all!
Youre ****
And you know you are
Youre ****
And you know you are
 
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