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Super entertaining match. England won with the deck stacked against them.

It’ll be a fun match vs Norway with both sides going for it.

 

Hopefully the Trump/Infantino corruption doesn't get rewarded tonight. Hope Belgium destroys the US.

 

He shouldn't be there. Guy is 90.

 

Did you read Kevin Myers article?

 

I even took an extra penny off the cunts.

I felt it was a safe bet.

Even if it went to 3-3 England still could qualify.

 

I hadn't but I just did. I guess I should have guessed from the good catholic given name that even he wasn't sasanach! Just that scowling bastard Pickford among the whole lot then

 

Someone said that if US loses today Donny will cry scoring fraud and demand a search for more goals.

 

Jokes aside what I've noticed is a general abandonment of responsibility by the people who could normally be trusted to go all out attacking Trump.

Suddenly they're not interested.

 

Trump isn't avoiding the World Cup. He's all fucking over it. It's packed with things he loves.

 

And Mexico just got knocked out. Adding to things he loves.

 

When did this fucking iceberg lettuce become a thing? I want normal soft leafy lettuce. Not this crunchy crispy shite.

 

"they're building high stadiums, so high, where there's...... no air... none.... I don't know if you could breathe there, I can breathe there but you, not so sure. ..... and they sacrificed people, just ate the dawwwwgs too...."

 

Anyone else think the current England team is CLEARLY better than the so-called 'golden generation' they keep trying to shove down our throats from the 2000's? I can concede on defenders, fair enough, Ashley Cole especially, but Kane and Bellingham alone are as good as, if not better, than any of the egomaniacs from that period.

 

Your generation is so golden that our team needs one of yall as a star for us to win.

 

The players were excellent. The balance was fucking awful because the main manager of that era was an accountant who was too busy trying to be all things to all men and the next best guy, Keegan, was an emotional fish..

A real boss like Clough would have been happy to put guys like Gerrard on the bench and maybe use him for 7 minutes a game.

That would have taken huge balls. Gerrard after Istanbul was this undroppable phenom. Benitez routinely benched him to great effect and was hammered by the fucking media.

Lampard-Gerrard destabilised that entire set up.


2010 South Africa was the apogee of that insanity. Kamikaze tactics, bad luck, no balance, overconfidence etc.

It's after Euro 2016 that you start to see some sanity and composure creep in and creep in until you eventually wind up with the opposite problem, lower key guys with better cohesion and a negative manager.

 

Haaland Looks Like He Was Created in a Sinister Soccer Lab Somewhere...REED was Always Told BIG Guys Played Goalie...

Would Looooooove to See Norway vs Argentina, Just for the SIZE Difference in Haaland and Messi...Haaland's Always the BIGGEST Guy In the Room Or On the Field, It Seems...




REED

 

Worth pointing out too that the three best midfielders England have had in years are Gascoigne, Scholes, Bellingham.

You can see that Tuchel has done what Eriksson was unwilling to do, he's dumped Foden and Palmer and refused to try to balance the unbalanceble.

So far it has paid off.

So far.

 

Haaland is to soccer what Tommy Hearns was to the welterweight division:- a one-off.

 

Exactly It's almost unfair. Not only is he bigger and stronger than most opponents he combines it good instincts and a terrific finishing ability.

If he played on a deeper side Norway would have been favored to win it all.

 

So do the frogs

 

The French have won WCs without Olise.

 

How would it impact the odds if they met in the final and you take him off the frogs squad and put him on his rightful nations roster?

 

He would make a huge difference this year, not gonna lie. Especially because he and Kane already chemistry considering they're teammates at club level.

My point is the Frenchies have been to the promise land before.

In an attempt for us to get the promise land a first time, we're depending on a Brit.

Funny because US soccer hard-core fans typically hate on England.

 

May the power of Sam Darnold and Gary Payton be with Belgium in Seattle tonight.

 

They will need Cortez Kennedy, Edgar Martinez, downtown fred brown and Jamal crawford to contend with this juggernaut!

 

If this was the 2018 squad with a fresh De Bruyne, Hazard, Kompany and co it wouldn't be close.

France of all sides played stinkball against them in the semi-final.

 

Belgium stil have enough individual quality to do a number on the US.

 

Problem is they can no longer do it in waves. The U.S. is also quite capable of scoring themselves. They won't need to play bunker ball and wait for an opening.