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The Big Short is a great movie, great recommendation! On QE, I do think it’s time we call an end to it, or at least start to ween the economy off it. Brought in to prevent the scenarios you outlined, correct but as a short term measure rather than a 10+ year policy. My concern is that it’s...

Astonishing. The Sven team had: Neville Campbell Ferdinand Terry Ashley Cole Beckham Scholes Lampard Gerrard Owen Rooney There’s been other good players in and out the team in those years. There is no excuse for not getting past the quarter final with that cohort of players. That is failure...

Croatia had a better team than us in 2018, particularly in midfield which is where they won that game. Prime Modric and Rakitic against Lingard, Alli and Hendo… Nations League, it’s a glorified friendly so I don’t put too much on that. Italy is a 50:50 in my view, they were the in-form team and...

We weren’t tactically bad against France and didn’t lose to Italy, so it’s not as black and white as you make out.

Was the case throughout 1990-2018 too? Overturning failure for so many years isn’t an easy task, evidence by countless leading coaches failing as our national team coach.

It’s funny that there’s all these asterisks to justify your feelings toward Southgate. Just look at our previous results with the ‘golden generation’. 2010 we can second in the group with USA, Algeria and Slovenia and got battered to Germany. Tournament football is all about outcomes and 2020...

I’m pretty excited about our team and think the set up is pretty bang on. Perhaps Bellingham as an 8 might work, but it could limit his ability to operate in the final 3rd. You made a claim that the Czech team was ‘the worst in years’ when it clearly wasn’t, they beat the Netherlands and had...

The Czech team that gets to a quarter final in 2020 is worst than their 2016 when they finished last in their group with 1 point? Their last quarter final appearance was when they won a group of Greece, Russia and Poland and there was no Round of 16.

Guardiola has a lot more time to drill his players than any international team. His teams have tended to succeed at the highest level too so Guardiola isn’t the manager to follow here - he should’ve won more UCL’s with the teams he’s managed. Over a 38 game season, no one comes close to Pep but...

That Czech team KO’d Netherlands, this is truly bending your narrative to suit what you’re arguing here. Deschamps has been in charge of the French national team since 2012 and won one World Cup. Lost in the final v Portugal who finished 3rd in their group, won in 2018, 2020 got KO’d on...

Did we not go for it in Qatar? If Kane bags that penalty, we had momentum to win that game and with a semi against Morocco, every chance to make the final.

You’re not going to change your mind so I won’t try to change your mind. We’ve had easy runs in the past and bottled it. Southgate, even if this is his last tournament, has been a success for turning the tide of the national team. France, perhaps the most successful international team in the...

Even the best teams in world football are defensive. Coaches get less time with players, the nature of matches is different with less games and KO games being 1 leg. In any case, before we got knocked out in 2022 we were the top scorers in the tournament and set a record for England highest...

The clue was in the squad numbers to be fair. I don’t think there’s an obvious and convincing CM partner for Rice. Bellingham at CAM can hardly be considered a negative move either as Foden hasn’t been great for England, Palmer has only had a few caps and Saka is a deserving starter. It’s good...

The international game is more defensive than the club game, fact.

To be fair, the Attlee government achieved all its manifesto by 1950 and had been in government during the war years. Then you had war in Korea and a successful wartime leader as your opponent… Attlee ushered in a consensus that last until Thatcher, that was his success.

There was more to it than that. Remainer Tories preferred the prospect of Brexit than to a Corbyn government. The tories only increased their vote share by 1.2% whereas Labour lost 7.9% vote share and haemorrhaged votes from Brexit leaning parties (Tory & Brexit Party) and Remain leaning parties...

Flying out on the 19th to Frankfurt and after Slovenia, I’ll be basing myself in Brussels between all the games after the Group Stages because I’ll be working. Perhaps I’ll see you one or both of you out there!

The mistake was getting rid of Boris. A lot of the public still him and he’s a good campaigner. As for Truss, I actually agree with a lot of her observations on how to fix the economy. Her delivery was disastrous and generally incompetent to govern. Like you said, after 14 years, the Tory...

Talked about, both parties pick out their golden boys/girls and parachuted into ‘safe seats’, for sure. David Miliband was the supposed heir in 2010 and Burnham in 2015 before ‘Red Ed’ and Jezza had other ideas.