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Seems like it was a pretty good call not to watch it ... thanks for the reposts :)

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. <laugh>
 
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We all know what Tuchel's style of play/identity is already. Lots of possession with a focus on defensive solidity. Largely very dull.

That style often tends to do well in tournaments so we'll see how it goes. Playing Andorra is nothing like any game we'll face in the tournament either so trying certain things is irrelevant imo.

Like I say I just struggle to care even remotely about qualifiers as it's such a formality.

Of the last 10 major tournaments only Italy in the Euros won with a style anything similar to Tuchels ...
 
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. <laugh>

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... <laugh>
 
Imagine if Norn get something in Germany tonight, the fallout there would be worth seeing.
 
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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... <laugh>


Like celebrating a second division title.
 
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Imagine if Norn get something in Germany tonight, the fallout there would be worth seeing.

Going by Germany's result the other day, it has to be one of their biggest chances yet of pulling off a result.
 
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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.

Probs what she ordered on Amazon after she bought the kettle.
 
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Probs what she ordered on Amazon after she bought the kettle.

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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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.
 
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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 you still get that when you go to away games, ones with a decent rivalry anyway.
 
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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.