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Andy Carroll once gave me a J-bomb in the Colly, his entourage sure knows how to party. He’s past it now, could’ve been a really good Prem striker. I think he’ll struggle in this market!

Before Rotherham away, he was definitely an early POTY contender. Injuries, a change of system with wingbacks, and McCallum’s form resulting in him falling down the pecking order. Looked ok v Birmingham in the cup replay, but that’s about it from memory. We’ll ship him on, I’m sure he could...

Law of averages too. Every team is going to make mistakes. Remember when Man U spent £8m on Bebe? Complete bust. Yet, it’s not a lot of money to them and potential reward outweighed the risks. When we signed Hyam, did anyone think he’d be good enough to start for us in the Championship? I know...

Waghorn’s ‘first words’ video after signing mentioned that’s what he likes to do and that’s what the manager wanted to do. Looking COH’s impact last season, pressing from the front is something we’d like to do. Injuries and lack of squad depth probably impacted our ability to implement that...

Saudi (Italy joint bid) and China likely to host the 2030 tournament too... I understand the need to broaden the appeal of the game... but I’m not down for appeasing dictators/authoritarian regimes. Last week was a stain on English football, but v specific circumstances unlikely to be repeated...

Fair point. Having been to a Lazio v Roma game, I’ve seen them in action. There are a variety of factors at play here, another probably being that the Met police probably hasn’t had to have dealt with anything remotely similar to last Sunday in a long time. I’d like to think it isn’t only...

No and he was great for us. That being said, if you’ve got a maverick who does whatever they want, doesn’t show up to team meets and skips training... They’re red flags. Back then, he was a loanee who was going back to Wolves and a high performer in a decent team (top half). Now, we’re probably...

As Robins said about this transfer, it’s very much a wild card signing. At 23, Bright could get better and he’s naturally talented. But, he’s got to prove his worth this year and highly doubt we’ll put up with his past antics now he’s contracted to us. He’ll either be a transformative player...

A question I’d like to pose... Does anyone think there’d be issues with ticketless fans of another nation breaking into the final if their nation was hosting it? For me, I’m not surprised so many people chanced it because we knew there’d be 20,000+ empty seats to sit in. With that in mind...

The amount of people who said they’d be happy with this last season almost lost the plot when we were there in reality. We were pretty safe for almost the entirety of last season. The only exception being was the loss to Bournemouth (A) and Rotherham’s win v QPR leading up to our fixture with...

Denmark are ranked 10th and Germany ranked 12th, Croatia ranked 14th. 3 teams in the top 15. Italy beat 2 teams in the top 10 in the knockout stages. Austria are ranked one place above Ukraine. Then again, we all know how flawed the ranking is so it’s a pretty useless measure.

I’m not turning it into a victory at all. I’m bitterly disappointed we lost that game. I felt like we had the tools to beat Italy, but they were the best team of the tournament and deserved winners. To compare our teams, Italy have a better midfield by quite a distance, a better central...

Had we won penalties against Italy, would that have changed your mind?

So beating Germany could be considered a massive success for us and Southgate has evidently improved us in that regard, right? Our teams in 2002-2010 really should’ve done better. Losing to a Brazil side when we had the lead, a Portugal team we were probably better than and a got hammered by...

Not at the Euros.

That still doesn’t account for winning just 1 knockout game in 68 years. The Czech Republic beat the Netherlands in the knock out stages, so clearly weren’t a bad side. As for Croatia, World Cup finalists and took Spain to extra time. As for Scotland, fierce rivalries can provide shock results...

Even this shows they created 4 big chances, 2 of which were in the sequence of their goal. xG has its usefulness, but it’s not the be able and end all of describing how a match went. If England want to carry on playing as we are, I’ve got no problems with that. That being said, we need to be...

They’re in a transitional phase, for sure. But they still have good individuals players. Havertz, Gnabry, Sane, Müller, Gundogan, Kroos, Neuer, Kimmich and you could even add in Werner. Not sure why so many England fans want to put an asterisk on our own achievements. It’s really peculiar and...

We beat Germany, scarcely an easy draw. Frankly, European football has never been more dominant. Brazil and Argentina are generally not as strong as they were nor our the other South American nations; Chile, Uruguay and Colombia. Winning the Euros is generally on a similar plane to winning...

The evidence is there. 4th place in the World Cup, 3rd place in the Nations League and runners up in the Euros. This is was achieved by the 2nd or 3rd youngest squad in the tournament. The failures hurt, for sure. But, I highly doubt anyone was calling for Joachim Löw’s sacking following...