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We’ve already qualified for the group stages and we will surely be favourites to win the whole tournament, so it would be a huge surprise if we’re knocked out early. Either way, Southgate is toast after this tournament.

It was someone talking about Kalvin Phillips vs the captain of last year’s worst PL team….nevermind.

Who said anything about Southgate?

They’re far from interchangeable. JWP is great for your FPL team, but I don’t think Pep is likely to sign him anytime soon. Phillips is clearly a good player and has generally played well for England when called upon - the criticism is odd.

Completely different players.

VAR is there to ensure consistency - by the letter of the law, if you get slapped in the face then it’s a foul, that’s the “consistent” way to apply the laws of the game, nuance be damned. At this stage I’d do anything for a bit less consistency from the refs if this is how every game with VAR...

Thank god for VAR, an obvious injustice would have been missed if we hadn’t spent four minutes analysing it, superb entertainment here

It’s usually a train to South Bermondsey and a short walk straight into the away end, but there’s engineering works, so it’s a tube to Canada Water and then a 20 minute walk.

Vallance was saying that Boris would demand to “let it rip” one day, and then demand zero deaths the next. He sounds like a totally bizarre person with no interest in actually making a decision.

Some of my Southgate praise is clearly tongue in cheek, but I think the man management part of his approach is seriously under-rated. The structure and togetherness that Southgate has bought to this team has been seriously lacking in the past and proved to be the undoing of England teams that...

If it was England, our fans would be fuming that Deschamps started with two holding midfielders

Based on what?

Have at it! https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/european-championships-2020-thread.132870/page-263 It’s not a bad read - the mood changes a LOT after half time. Obviously the postgame stuff is a classic forum shitshow.

I mean, I doubt any of us were in much of a state to offer real-time tactical analysis. We looked to go for a smash and grab victory and it worked fine in the first half. Italy made good changes and equalised. Our changes didn’t help things much (including moving from the dreaded back three to...

We were 1-0 up early on which is clearly a great position to be in, but Italy were still a very strong team and so it proved. As I said earlier, it’s quite fair to blame Southgate for how he managed the game but the idea that our victory should have been inevitable because a few Italian players...

So a team who hadn’t lost in three years were there for the taking because they were arguing after they went a goal down? Inconceivable they could survive such turmoil.

Italy were in the middle of the longest unbeaten run in international football history. As I said, blame Southgate for not putting them to the sword in the final, but not many teams were managing that in 2021. Spain, Belgium, and every other team they played at the tournament certainly couldn’t.

In the period where we could reasonably be described as favourites (2021 onwards, come at me brah) then we haven’t lost a game without a missed penalty, or several missed penalties, going against us. The margins are fine in tournament football - blame Southgate for us not managing to blow out...

All he does is win 👑👑👑

Well everyone on here got this one wrong then!