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They look every bit like a team ravaged by a virus… Mbappe looks lively but completely isolated.

I thought the message from governments to get the vaccine was to protect health services and stop infections? The vaccine clearly did that, and once omicron changed the picture, I’ve not seen anyone promise that the vaccines would prevent all infections. Accusing every government and media...

This year, yes. We lost to one of the finalists after missing a penalty. In 2018, with Ashley Young at LWB and Dele Alli at #10? I don’t think so. (Still made the semis) In 2021, with two international rookies at CM and a 3ATB system with no world-class CBs? I don’t think so either. (Still...

Well until the new variants changed the picture, the vaccines stopped many people getting infected, which has a pretty big impact on transmission. I think the science is pretty clear on the limitations the vaccines have in the post-omicron world. In any case - why would every government, media...

Do you think our squads have been clearly stronger than the other top sides? I’d put us in the same category as the other teams you like to say are in decline - talented, but flawed (in our case, at CB and CM). The teams we’ve (narrowly) lost to in tournaments have all proven themselves to be...

Who “completely lied” about the vaccine and transmission?

It’s international football - the manager really should be English. It’s one thing for smaller nations without the same funding or football tradition. But we can’t claim to be a top football nation with a divine right to be winning tournaments if we don’t even have an English manager capable of...

Yesterday was an U23s game?

Well it worked great the last two times we bought in a manager from Europe who’d won a lot of stuff at club level. May as well take the highest scoring, closest-knit team at the World Cup and parachute in Mourinho - what could possibly go wrong?

Yeah I think this is the main takeaway from yesterday. Sounds like we had multiple injured players on the bench, so the subs were never going to end well whatever he decided to do. (Still think there were less worse options he could have gone for though) It’s been a problem for Robins since day...

Heard lots of good things about S2 of The White Lotus - watched the first season and was pretty underwhelmed, but have heard the second is much better. Is it worth bothering with?

Weird - that fear hasn’t stopped England players trying to knife the manager in the past. Who would you have as a replacement?

So was anyone on our bench able to come on?!

Is Waghorn even fit?

LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO

Hard to know which is the dumber scenario out of Dabo being on the bench despite not being fit enough to play, or Kane suddenly leapfrogging Dabo in the RWB pecking order.

The ITKs were pretty definitive that he would be moved on in the summer. He got injured and Robins said it would have no impact on any plans to move him on. Yet here we are today, and not only is he still at the club, he’s getting subbed on ahead of Dabo for his seventh appearance of the season...

God knows what we were doing on that trip to Spain - we look knackered.

He got it hopelessly wrong today but there have been plenty of games when Robins has tweaked things so we come out with a win - too many games to count last season. I really don’t see it as one of his main weaknesses, even after today.

Do we? I seem to remember quite a lot of comeback wins last season, for example?