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As Robins said about this transfer, it’s very much a wild card signing. At 23, Bright could get better and he’s naturally talented. But, he’s got to prove his worth this year and highly doubt we’ll put up with his past antics now he’s contracted to us. He’ll either be a transformative player...

A question I’d like to pose... Does anyone think there’d be issues with ticketless fans of another nation breaking into the final if their nation was hosting it? For me, I’m not surprised so many people chanced it because we knew there’d be 20,000+ empty seats to sit in. With that in mind...

The amount of people who said they’d be happy with this last season almost lost the plot when we were there in reality. We were pretty safe for almost the entirety of last season. The only exception being was the loss to Bournemouth (A) and Rotherham’s win v QPR leading up to our fixture with...

Denmark are ranked 10th and Germany ranked 12th, Croatia ranked 14th. 3 teams in the top 15. Italy beat 2 teams in the top 10 in the knockout stages. Austria are ranked one place above Ukraine. Then again, we all know how flawed the ranking is so it’s a pretty useless measure.

I’m not turning it into a victory at all. I’m bitterly disappointed we lost that game. I felt like we had the tools to beat Italy, but they were the best team of the tournament and deserved winners. To compare our teams, Italy have a better midfield by quite a distance, a better central...

Had we won penalties against Italy, would that have changed your mind?

So beating Germany could be considered a massive success for us and Southgate has evidently improved us in that regard, right? Our teams in 2002-2010 really should’ve done better. Losing to a Brazil side when we had the lead, a Portugal team we were probably better than and a got hammered by...

Not at the Euros.

That still doesn’t account for winning just 1 knockout game in 68 years. The Czech Republic beat the Netherlands in the knock out stages, so clearly weren’t a bad side. As for Croatia, World Cup finalists and took Spain to extra time. As for Scotland, fierce rivalries can provide shock results...

Even this shows they created 4 big chances, 2 of which were in the sequence of their goal. xG has its usefulness, but it’s not the be able and end all of describing how a match went. If England want to carry on playing as we are, I’ve got no problems with that. That being said, we need to be...

They’re in a transitional phase, for sure. But they still have good individuals players. Havertz, Gnabry, Sane, Müller, Gundogan, Kroos, Neuer, Kimmich and you could even add in Werner. Not sure why so many England fans want to put an asterisk on our own achievements. It’s really peculiar and...

We beat Germany, scarcely an easy draw. Frankly, European football has never been more dominant. Brazil and Argentina are generally not as strong as they were nor our the other South American nations; Chile, Uruguay and Colombia. Winning the Euros is generally on a similar plane to winning...

The evidence is there. 4th place in the World Cup, 3rd place in the Nations League and runners up in the Euros. This is was achieved by the 2nd or 3rd youngest squad in the tournament. The failures hurt, for sure. But, I highly doubt anyone was calling for Joachim Löw’s sacking following...

I agree that it would have probably have been better to have started either Saka or Sancho. An interesting stat from the game was our passing completion in the final was 74.9%. This was about 10% below our average for our tournament so it’s entirely possible that the team lost its composure...

We limited Italy to low quality chances throughout and were quite comfortable. However, our transition play was non existent. So we were defending as if it were the final 5 minutes for around 65 minutes and there’s examples of Rice, Maguire, Phillips and Walker punting the ball down field and...

The Athletic has two really good articles on the final. To summarise very basically, we passed up too many opportunities to counter attack, we defended really well until we went to 4-3-3. England ‘controlled the game without the ball’ was a quote from a coach from Dortmund. From the Telegraph...

The transfer window isn’t shut and we clearly haven’t completed our business yet. Our strikers look like a strong part of our team and I’m sure we’ll look to strengthen the defence and find a replacement for Matty James too. A lower to mid table finish will do for me. I don’t think we’ll get...

I don’t think he would, unlike COH, he’d get shrugged off the ball a lot easier without drawing fouls either. I like Allen, he’s good at passing and pressing. He’s not really a CAM, but also doesn’t look like he would fit in as a CM in our system. He’d be a very good signing for a League 1...

Thank you for the information you’ve provided previously! Just out of curiosity, how much is it for a normal away game? I agree that the higher caps you have, you should get to go to games. It is more or less the same principle as buying a season ticket at Cov. If we get a big away tie against...

Disagree. Besides, he clearly isn’t going to be a starter. Our budget will be the approximately the 4th lowest in the division, there won’t really be better alternatives for that role for where we’re at now. We still have gaps to fill in defence and central midfield. Although I’m hoping Rose...