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We won 3-0 and all of Southgate’s selection calls that were ‘questionable’ were vindicated. Henderson scored, Kane scored and Saka too. The midfield 3 unit worked very well with Henderson and Rice giving Bellingham the licence to put in the performance he did. Kane looked very good despite...

Which is why playing Henderson could make a lot of sense. Let Rice and Bellingham support the front three more. Really hope Foden has a good game presuming the reports he’s going to start are correct. Like Mount, he’s not really had a stand out game at international level against good...

He performs well for England mostly, has tournament experience that our alternative just do not have and finally, as we saw yesterday, is a weapon from set-pieces. I like White, Gomez and Tomori, but they’re not better than Maguire when he’s on form.

There’s been a lot of upheaval in the Iran camp - sacked their manager 3 months ago and the political situation has divided the players apparently. Definitely an unsettled camp and a 6-2 loss will not help morale. Personally, I think Iran will probably advance from out Group presuming their GD...

Even if they did decide to stay, they wouldn’t be a threat anymore. Their days are numbered and the interest just isn’t there for them to justify staying at the CBS.

For a 'football mad' country, the local support doesn't seem particularly interested. The stadium was half full by 60m when the hosts were playing... Has that ever happened before?!

It’s embarrassing. We need to stop giving the World Cup to countries that aren’t really capable of qualifying or particularly interested in the game.

From Mike Ashley’s POV, you’re not wrong. But from a Wasps POV, losing the CBS has killed any reason for them to remain in Coventry. There really isn’t the interest from the city. After you they went into admin, the Coventry project was dead. Avoiding admin was one of the stated aims of moving...

It should be implemented how it is in rugby. The referee makes a call on field and refers it up to VAR to check his marking. If a VAR official is proactively recommending a referee looks at the monitor, there’s an ingrained bias in the decision making. Would that incident have been referred...

Probably goes to show people shouldn’t wet the bed when we lose a few meaningless Nations League games. Iran are a good side and I think they’ll qualify 2nd in the Group if they don’t lose their heads after this loss. Iran drew to Portugal, pushed Spain in a narrow lose and beat Morocco...

I can’t see Wasps returning. They have gates of sun £7k and the ground was the reason d’être for moving to Coventry. Day-to-day, the CBS is arguably too big for us, let alone a rugby club.

How many rugby clubs regularly get 10,000 fans every game? It highlights how dumb the Wasps purchase of the CBS was. Even at the time of the purchase, I always wondered what a rugby club would do with a 32k seater stadium.

At 6.5%, the interest is tracking below inflation which wasn’t the case until this year. It’s a tough spot for those investors.

Yet the council ends up selling to another hedge fund and the taxpayer is losing out. So the narrative that the Wasps deal was a good deal is nonsense.

Let’s be honest, there aren’t many ‘nice’ rich people/entities in football. Oligarchs with questionable ties to sovereign states/dictators with poor human rights records… or profiteering capitalists. There aren’t many ‘white knights’ knocking about.

32k was always going to be too big for a rugby club. 20-23k would be the maximum I imagine. Birmingham would likely be a good shout, it doesn’t involve displacing a major Birmingham team, maybe Moseley? Unlike Cov RFC, they don’t have realistic ambitions to get to the Prem.

We’re singing on slightly different hymn sheets here. I agree that the women winning a trophy doesn’t end the years of hurt and the notion of ‘no more years of hurt’ The women’s team hadn’t won anything since 1984 and they had their own brush with pain in 2009. So clearly the sentiment was...

The reason ‘Three Lions’ remains popular is because it captures the nations mood around failure and the dreaming of success. I never seen Lineaker, Moore, Gazza or Psycho play football yet the sentiment of the song is just as relevant in 1996 as it is today. For the women’s team, they had...

Football coming home surely applies to women’s team too? They haven’t won a major tournament either!

He’s just had a below par game, it’s not that deep.