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Why the negativity towards Shipley? He scored the same amount of goals as COH in 19-20 less games. He’s a good role player and he ended last season really positively!

Kane will be able to play to a high standard up to to 34 or 35 you’d think. Hope DCL can kick on to the next level as he’s an out and out striker. We still have Greenwood and Rashford to develop and mature too as well as some younger talent still in their teens. There’s plenty of development...

The host nation has not faired well in recent European Championships history. Only Spain and France in 1964 and 1984 has won the tournament as hosts. Portugal, France and now England (technically we weren’t) have lost in the finals as hosts. We’re in good shape going into Qatar 2022. For all...

Penalty shootouts favour the away team? Have you got a source for that?

Sterling has missed more penalties than he’s scored and Grealish isn’t a penalty take for Villa. Sancho hasn’t missed and Rashford has scored 13 of 15 penalties (not sure if that includes last night). Saka was a surprise choice, especially for the 5th and final penalty. But, if he’s scoring...

There’s no shame in losing to the best team of the tournament so far. Mancini is one of the best managers in international football too. The mentality has got to be ‘we’ll get to the final of the next tournament’. Under Lowe, Germany got to a final in 2008 and two semi finals before winning the...

That’s a pretty harsh assessment. This is a young team and they got beat by more experienced team. By and large, we managed their threats well, and in the end we were undone by a fortunate goal. In fairness to you, Italy were the better team with more possession and shots than us and it felt...

Chiellini said our bench could get to the final of the Euros and I’d say that’s pretty spot on, minus our sub centre backs and goalkeeper. Being able to take a lot of key players off around the 60 minute mark against Ukraine was massive benefit to us. Against Denmark, we were in complete...

Mount’s work rate off the ball is what puts him above Grealish and Foden in that 10 role. His role is massive today in stifling Jorginho. Kane will also have to drop off and help out too I imagine - but he also needs to keep tabs on Bonucci who has an impressive range of passing for a centre...

I'm confident that Mount will do a good job of nullifying Jorginho and that is key because we don't want to have a repeat performance of 2012 where Pirlo controlled everything from deep. Italy/Spain have the best midfield in the competition, but I am confident we can nullify them.

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Saka will need to put a lot of pressure on the Emerson/Chiellini channel, the former who is half the player Spinazzola who didn't really make an impact against Spain. Saka will play a key defensive role too.

It's going to be a tough game, but I back us to win the game. Personally, I feel like we have the defence to keep Italy at arms length as Austria did and our double pivot is key to this as Rice will slot in for Shaw when he attacks and Phillips will need to harass Veratti when he's on the ball...

Not a huge fan of signing Bright if some of the things he’s done in the past are true i.e. skipping training and team meetings. That said, we’ll probably get to sign him on a cheap contract, he’s 23 and I’m hoping Robins can sort him out. Hoping it works out, but not very optimistic about this.

In a minority here, but England. The reality is that if we got promoted, we’d probably get relegated straight away whereas winning the Euros would immortalise a group of players. If we were guaranteed to stay in the top flight for 30+ years like last time, that might change my thinking. The...

Good signing, happy with that!

With the World Cup being next year, it’s very good for momentum and then the following Euros in 2024. Looking at the squad, most of them will be around for the next 6-10 years at least. The only area of ‘concern’ we have is developing future world class central defenders.

I think their manager making all those subs early prevented the game from being ended within 90 minutes. It was also a shrewd move from Southgate to make the one sub in normal time. We were in complete control in extra time and that was epitomised by the way we just kept the ball for a few...

We could caveat that, but anyone watching the game would have felt we had the beating of Denmark from around the 70th minute. They defended well, but we passed on 2-3 really good attacking opportunities when we were 2-1 up. It’s an academic point to make, but I believe we would have scored...

The stattos at Goldman Sachs reckon we have a 58% chance of winning and are predicting England to win in extra time. They predicted 2-1 v Denmark and the same for Sunday. I have had a few disagreements with mates on this, but Italy haven’t looked that good in the knockout stages. Their...