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‘Her stated evidence’ vs ‘his [Evans] stated evidence’ is basically someone’s word against another — that wouldn’t be enough evidence for a conviction in most court cases. There’s a lot more pressure on the police to increase convictions for charges relating to sexual assault crimes. In part...

The only way was up after Hodgson (whom I backed). I fancied Southgate to be a good manager because he was successful with the younger age groups. But success this tournament was making the quarter finals and restoring a bit pride back in the national team. After the World Cup kicked off and...

He was also convicted on very murky evidence in the first place. To prove the victim was drunk, they used CCTV of her stumbling at a takeaway IIRC. He went through the hassle of a retrial after he was convicted and served his jail time. That to me, at least says he was desperate to clear his...

Some potentially good news, the likelihood of a team winning the next round after penalties is 25% when they’re ranked lower than their next opponent (power rankings not FIFA). Croatia have got a good midfield, so it can be a tough game, but I think two penalty shootout wins in a row will be two...

When you phrase it like that, of course not. But, you’ve got to have faith in the process Robins is implementing. He and the club have said promotion is the goal, and bar a sale forced by our star player’s agent, that’s looked to be the case. We got a good deal for a player who’s only really...

France were my pick before the tournament, but if England get to the final, I’m flipping that because I’m not capable of going against my team!

The bolded part of your quote shows the irrationality of your argument if you truly believe that. Sterling wasn’t the only one to receive criticism. Lingard was criticised v Tunisia for his misses, Pickford was criticised v Belgium, Dele was dismissed as ‘unfit’ and calls for Loftus-Cheek were...

The Netherlands (3rd place in 2014) and Italy are teams who routinely do well at major tournaments, and have winning records against ourselves, were beaten by Sweden. They cannot be anywhere near as bad as you make out to do that. I like how you dismiss Switzerland as easy opponents, a team...

- Stones scored it, so does it matter? No. - The ‘first chance’ that was offside? You can clearly see he knew he was offside, at one point he basically stopped, the commentators noticed it too, he was well offside and he knew it. Either way, he could’ve made the slickest finish and it wouldn’t...

To say Sweden are rubbish just demonstrates how little you know about football. That mindset reeks of the arrogant and ignorant approach we had to ‘lesser’ nations in the past and got shown up for. As another poster pointed out, they beat Italy and the Netherlands to even get to a World Cup...

What? 1 chance against Panama which Stones followed up? He missed a couple of offside chances, so what? They wouldn't have counted anyway.

What would you like me to expand upon haha

I agree with the Biamou points because goals aren’t necessarily the be all and end all. Much like when Rashford missed a clear 1v1 with plenty of time and space? For Sterling’s chance, it was good goalkeeping and recovery defence. Should’ve done better, but his options were cut off very quickly...

We don’t create many chances from open play. Harry Kane’s only shot (that I can recall, first half) came from a Sterling dribble. Sterling, or anyone, isn’t the problem per se. The stat about Kane speaks for itself, he’s taking about half the amount of shots for England as he does for Spurs. We...

He wasn’t selfish at all. Sweden recovered that very well. The goalkeeper gets a touch and pushes it out wide. Then, a defender immediately covers the near post (option A closed) and before he can control the ball, 2 Swedish defenders cut the passing lane within about 3 seconds. He should’ve...

That’s unfair on Sterling. He plays in a different role at Man City and even Sané struggled in the German setup — international football is played a lot deeper so players in that mould get less chances all together. Yesterday, Sterling was our most threatening player, his pace constantly put...

I was just pulling a figure from thin air, I’m not entirely sure if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me. It’s pretty obvious we need to replace McNulty, Robins wanted another striker regardless of McNulty leaving or not. So another target is needed. Hopefully, we’re ambitious in finding this...

Not necessarily. If the target he wants, for arguments sake, cost £500k, would he need the £700k? Probably not. You don’t want to be reckless and overspending on your transfer budget. That’s how you get into financial trouble just as we’ve got a relatively stable financial footing. It’s a...

He’s been our most threatening player by quite some distance this half. Granqvist has constantly been on the back foot even when we’ve made clearances towards their corner flag. I’m convinced that for the first ‘miss’ he knew he was offside. As for the second, pretty frustrating, good...

It’s the wrong Armstrong unfortunately, we want Adam please Mr. Robins!