Off Topic World Cup Thread

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For those of you who needed reminding that the French have made farce an artform, there's the visual of Hugo looking pissed off because the only thing preventing him from picking up the World Cup is how Emmanuel Macron just won't stop yakking with Didier Deschamps.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Just seen this......

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7th most distance covered? No wonder he looked ****ed [although the distance is almost certainly wrong]. Now if we could only stop Gareth Southgate playing Sterling at centre forward...........
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I don't recall him get an assist - unless they are counting being fouled for a penalty in which case he got 2 assists!
 
Odd tournament for England. There is a seed of a good team there and Southgate seems aware of the limitations of the resources he has to work with. But it didn't take much for the bubble burst. Has he learnt the lessons? Don't play Stirling in this system (or any system to be honest). Try to make pro-active substitutions before the opposition equalise. Don't play Stirling in any system. Kane is a centre forward, he cannot supply the through balls to himself. Don't play Young at left wing back. Don't play Stirling. Encourage our midfielders to pass forward.

Plenty to work with but Southgate needs to, somehow, instill a bit of forward confidence in some players to make it quicker and more positive in the final third. We still won't win a tournament but it would be so much better to watch.
 
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NotSoMightyEastbourneBoro said:
Odd tournament for England. There is a seed of a good team there and Southgate seems aware of the limitations of the resources he has to work with. But it didn't take much for the bubble burst. Has he learnt the lessons? Don't play Stirling in this system (or any system to be honest). Try to make pro-active substitutions before the opposition equalise. Don't play Stirling in any system. Kane is a centre forward, he cannot supply the through balls to himself. Don't play Young at left wing back. Don't play Stirling. Encourage our midfielders to pass forward.

Plenty to work with but Southgate needs to, somehow, instill a bit of forward confidence in some players to make it quicker and more positive in the final third. We still won't win a tournament but it would be so much better to watch.
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Agree with most of that, but personally I wouldnt play Sterling <laugh>
 
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NotSoMightyEastbourneBoro said:
Odd tournament for England. There is a seed of a good team there and Southgate seems aware of the limitations of the resources he has to work with. But it didn't take much for the bubble burst. Has he learnt the lessons? Don't play Stirling in this system (or any system to be honest). Try to make pro-active substitutions before the opposition equalise. Don't play Stirling in any system. Kane is a centre forward, he cannot supply the through balls to himself. Don't play Young at left wing back. Don't play Stirling. Encourage our midfielders to pass forward.

Plenty to work with but Southgate needs to, somehow, instill a bit of forward confidence in some players to make it quicker and more positive in the final third. We still won't win a tournament but it would be so much better to watch.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.....but what about Sterling?
 
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Just been reading the HYS on the BBC website about the penalty award. There's a very sizeable majority saying it was. I agree.......and not just because Shearer said it wasn't. As it became apparent to Perisic that the ball was almost certainly going past him, he rapidly brought his hand down from an elevated position and connected with the ball.

Does anyone, who's not being paid to be controversial or just an idiot ex-footballer, think that it wasn't?
 
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