Off Topic International Break Thread

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Davies with the assist for the 1st and scores the 4th. Also took the captains armband late on.
 
To be fair to him, he improved as the game went on. Ireland playing some lovely stuff and 3-0 up! COYBIG! (Or orange this evening..
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Very soft disallowed goal for Luxembourg.
Knight's impact will have people paying attention. He's at Derby too, who are skint.

That save from Bazunu was incredible from the angle that they don't show:
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He's already a fantastic goalkeeper and he's only 19. Interesting to see what City do with him.
 
I'm probably going on selective memory here, but when I hear of players being released from a squad for whatever reason, such as before this game against San M, is it always players from the Sky Favourites that get released?

Now this may not actually be true, also it is skewed because there are probably more of their players in the squad to start with. It just feels like the teams with the biggest squads most able to cope with players getting injured on international duty, get their players let off. Whilst the "lesser" clubs, who presumably not only have fewer good squad members, but are more likely to have their best players on international duty, don't have them released. The impact of one of them getting injured in an international is therefore presumably greater.

Interested if anyone actually has stats either way, or just a rabid hatred of the Sky Favourites like me?
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Insisting that a Gerrard/Lampard pivot would work goes a long reason to explaining that
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The Gerrard-Lampard teams were collections of individuals. While I've been extremely critical of Southgate, because I think his style is too cautious, I would say his teams are actually teams, trying to work together to execute a strategy.
littleDinosaurLuke said:
He’s really embraced that Pied Piper role for Wales.
And has helped Wales to some good times in the past few years.
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My first educational institution was the Pied Piper Nursery School. The Pied Piper, or Rattenfaenger, accomplished two things. He used his magic pipe to lead rats off a pier to drown and to kidnap children. Either way, it's a nice metaphor for education.
 
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I think this break has shown there’s not a lot wrong with Kane’s finishing if you can get him service. You can probably ignore his pens as a barometer (though nobody would have saved the one he just put in) but there’s been one or two very tidy finishes.

If Conte can get the team going round him then he’ll fill his boots for Spurs too.
 
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