Two shots on target for Greece and two goals. Fantastic finishes, to be fair. I suspect there'll be a few eyes on Karetsas, the 17-year-old who got their 2nd. Big half needed from Steve Clarke's men now.
As bottle jobs go, Scotland was that giant bottle of Tuborg in the centre of Tivoli Gardens ...correction: no longer in Tivoli Gardens
Georgia just beat Armenia so badly that System of a Down are actually going to record a new album in response
Clearly a man without education. "The ancients did not fall into the error of biological racism; black skin color was not a sign of inferiority. Greeks and Romans did not establish color as an obstacle to integration in society. An ancient society was one that for all its faults and failures never made color the basis for judging a man." Italy, like all of Europe was populated by people from Africa, so this idiot does not even know of his own origins. The main Italian colonies were in Africa, including Italian Eritrea, Italian Libya (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica), Italian Somaliland, and Italian East Africa Italians participated in the slave trade and of course the Romans relied on slaves for he probably doesn't also know they did not have electricity. Italy like countries everywhere always included morons like Buzzo who barely know they are alive.
Lee Dixon just said Kane likes the look of this free kick , Reece James scored an absolute peach of a free kick , Dixon proving he knows nothing about Harry Kane and he's free kicks
I'm sure Kane did like the look of it, to be fair. He'd still have hit it straight into the wall, though.
So an update on the CONCACAF Nations League standings 1st - Mexico 2nd - Panama 3rd - Canada 4th - Airstrip One
"We did not have an empire or colonial history." What the **** was the Roman Empire, then? Even ignoring Biblical-era and modern day stuff, they were doing it in medieval times. They had two city-states competing over it, for a start. Genoa also had a big hand in the trade in Panama in the 16th century.
Tuchel had better be successful, cos if he isn't and he keeps turning up wearing that ridiculous coat and hat, then the **** that Schteve got for his brolly will be nothing in comparison....
Two wins, two clean sheets and not a lot in terms of excitement. Not really Tuchel's fault and probably more down to the opposition though, to be fair. Albania's 3-0 win over Andorra puts them 2nd, as Serbia are yet to play due to their NL play-off.
It’s hard to gauge Tuchel’s England so far. Partly because England have a great group of players and a strong qualifying record recently (in results even if the performances haven’t always been thrilling) but also because England at home against teams who know they’ll be up against it and come setup to frustrate will always look a bit like this. I think these two games were a bit more exciting than a lot of the latter era Southgate fare but Tuchel wasn’t hired to win these games. We were winning them anyway. He’s been hired to get England over the line in late stage knockout tournament football and we won’t know what that looks like until we’re there.
And therein lies the problem. Apart from tournament finals, there are few opportunities to competitively go "toe to toe" against the good national teams. Rugby used to have this problem. The north hemisphere nations rarely played their south counterparts, and the gulf in ability was often really big. Nowadays the nations play each other yearly, so the north began to raise their game to the point where they could be peers or betters to the south. IMHO the key data analytics you will be able to study for the Tuchel era are the : 1. scale of the wins over the lesser teams 2. clinical rate (goals scored / attempts on goal) 3. perceived difficulty of each attempt scored #1 is a good general measure of dealing with busparquet. #2 / #3 is for assessing what happens when you play the good teams (who will present you with higher difficulty / fewer scoring opportunities) .
The referee for South Korea/Jordan was not a good advert for the quality of refereeing in the Uzbek league, given he couldn't spot a blatant handball before VAR enabled him bottling a big call
Totally forgot to mention: Yang made his international debut, coming on as a halftime sub against Jordan So that's two Spurs players who saw that blatant handball, then...
