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I’m pretty excited about our team and think the set up is pretty bang on. Perhaps Bellingham as an 8 might work, but it could limit his ability to operate in the final 3rd. You made a claim that the Czech team was ‘the worst in years’ when it clearly wasn’t, they beat the Netherlands and had...

The Czech team that gets to a quarter final in 2020 is worst than their 2016 when they finished last in their group with 1 point? Their last quarter final appearance was when they won a group of Greece, Russia and Poland and there was no Round of 16.

Guardiola has a lot more time to drill his players than any international team. His teams have tended to succeed at the highest level too so Guardiola isn’t the manager to follow here - he should’ve won more UCL’s with the teams he’s managed. Over a 38 game season, no one comes close to Pep but...

That Czech team KO’d Netherlands, this is truly bending your narrative to suit what you’re arguing here. Deschamps has been in charge of the French national team since 2012 and won one World Cup. Lost in the final v Portugal who finished 3rd in their group, won in 2018, 2020 got KO’d on...

Did we not go for it in Qatar? If Kane bags that penalty, we had momentum to win that game and with a semi against Morocco, every chance to make the final.

You’re not going to change your mind so I won’t try to change your mind. We’ve had easy runs in the past and bottled it. Southgate, even if this is his last tournament, has been a success for turning the tide of the national team. France, perhaps the most successful international team in the...

Even the best teams in world football are defensive. Coaches get less time with players, the nature of matches is different with less games and KO games being 1 leg. In any case, before we got knocked out in 2022 we were the top scorers in the tournament and set a record for England highest...

The clue was in the squad numbers to be fair. I don’t think there’s an obvious and convincing CM partner for Rice. Bellingham at CAM can hardly be considered a negative move either as Foden hasn’t been great for England, Palmer has only had a few caps and Saka is a deserving starter. It’s good...

The international game is more defensive than the club game, fact.

To be fair, the Attlee government achieved all its manifesto by 1950 and had been in government during the war years. Then you had war in Korea and a successful wartime leader as your opponent… Attlee ushered in a consensus that last until Thatcher, that was his success.

There was more to it than that. Remainer Tories preferred the prospect of Brexit than to a Corbyn government. The tories only increased their vote share by 1.2% whereas Labour lost 7.9% vote share and haemorrhaged votes from Brexit leaning parties (Tory & Brexit Party) and Remain leaning parties...

Flying out on the 19th to Frankfurt and after Slovenia, I’ll be basing myself in Brussels between all the games after the Group Stages because I’ll be working. Perhaps I’ll see you one or both of you out there!

The mistake was getting rid of Boris. A lot of the public still him and he’s a good campaigner. As for Truss, I actually agree with a lot of her observations on how to fix the economy. Her delivery was disastrous and generally incompetent to govern. Like you said, after 14 years, the Tory...

Talked about, both parties pick out their golden boys/girls and parachuted into ‘safe seats’, for sure. David Miliband was the supposed heir in 2010 and Burnham in 2015 before ‘Red Ed’ and Jezza had other ideas.

The 1970s. Our electoral system has gone through alternating predominance where one party dominates for multiple terms. If Starmer was genuinely popular, I’d 100% agree that the Tories are done for a generation. He isn’t and the electorate seem more intent on punishing the Tories (rightfully...

Frankly, we don’t know because the leader’s of tomorrow seemingly come out nowhere. Sunak himself was junior minister and relative unknown in 2019 - elected MP in 2015, he’s relatively inexperienced. Likewise with Labour, Starmer hasn’t even been an MP for 9 years yet (relatively inexperienced)...

5 years ago, it was unfathomable that Labour would overturn an 80-seat majority in this election. They’re on a precipice of a record majority and complacency would be dangerous for Labour. Echoes of 1945-51 in terms of the electoral outlook. Labour overturning a massive majority with people...

Pure opinion here, I think the electorate will tire of the Labour Party quickly in government. In 1997, the electorate were genuinely enthusiastic about Blair and his vision of ‘third way’ politics. There isn’t that same enthusiasm for Starmer and most of the key policies are tinkering around...

Duh. Blair is obviously far right.

It’s not helpful when you choose to not define what you call far right. The big difference is that Nigel Farage is an ex-Tory, whereas the National Rally and Brother’s of Italy have their roots in neo-nazi/fascist movements. That’s a starting point. The AfD, started as a breakup from the CDU...