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Like he announced we were looking to mutually terminate Eghosa's contract a week after he'd already signed for his new club.

Given the (alleged) gulf in quality, that's genuinely one of the worst performances I've ever watched of any team at any level. Zero shape or tactical awareness. Blushes spared by some good fortune & outrageous individual brilliance.

As you say, I expect it will just be Mainoo for Gallagher, but I'd be going with something like this:

Once again, an interesting game, in the knockout stage of a major tournament & all anyone talks about is VAR... Yet we're supposed to believe it's improved the game.

And all because of VAR, again. Bin it.

We didn't have to completely destroy the whole spirit of the game for that though In the L2 Playoff, it was once again a ref being condemned for a wrong decision, not a single mention of a player intentionally cheating to con him. That should be where the focus is, with strict punishments for...

Or, you know, just use the same old system that's worked perfectly fine for a hundred years.

Yes. They are using Semi Automated VAR, i.e. not relying on someone just having a guess when a ball is kicked & where to draw a line whilst using a 50fps camera.

True, but incredibly rare & getting even rarer. There were 62 on field reviews in the PL last season. I think there were only 3 where they rejected the VAR & stuck with their original decision.

Yep. Unwritten protocol is if you're sent to the screen they expect an overturn. Watching a ball strike someone's arm, in a natural position, from a yard away all in slow motion with a snickometer. This is what the game has become 😡

It's not the referees. They are correct decisions. The laws are stupid though & VAR is a stain on the game.

Spot on Clive, it's all about changing the game to fit VAR. It's destroyed the game we knew.

Correct decision by the law but the handball law is an absolute fucking mess.

??? It's clearly the correct decision & well spotted.

As if it wasn't baffling enough that Italy didn't start Jorginho, to not bring him on at half-time is incomprehensible.

Spot on. It's very un-Southgate like tbh. Might just be me but everything just feels a bit 'off' this time around... Southgate's admittance that he's "experimenting", the barbs from the players about criticism in the media, even the behind the scenes & training glimpses seem like they are...

No.

For me the problem is I can't actually see what we're trying to do. In previous tournaments, although not always pretty, I could see a plan, a style of play, an end goal where 'once it clicks' etc. we'd be a decent bet. Now, I have no idea what the plan is. Chuck your best XI players on the...

Almost zero pressure on us & still utterly dreadful. I'm struggling to see what the plan is.

Definitely him, he's tried to go back & delete them all subsequently but there's still evidence. I'm not saying it's not happening, seems an awful lot of noise from a few different sources now, but I wouldn't pin all your hopes on just one guy's patchy history.