So Andy Murray got his wish, a nice pay day being last on centre court and live on the beeb
*Ker-ching*
Thank god he lost, please don't come back next year.
Switzerland couldn't beat Scotland yet we should fear them?
It'll be a totally different game anyway, Switzerland (I doubt) will put everyone behind the ball and frustrate us, they will attack. A more open game would suit us better
Cameroon ran rings round us, we were all over the place, they could have been 4-0 up at one point but their inexperience gifted us 2 cheap penalties and we got out of jail. Spin it a different way if you want but that was the match I was watching
So we can be clueless put scrape to a semi final because we played typical English football and we're regarded as heroes yet this time we play a slower game and set up to be hard to beat and we're useless even though the end result is the same?
compare and contrast...Italia '90. General consensus was our boys were heros and Bobby Robson was a genius.
However, let's assess the performances
Match 1: v Ireland, score 1-1, performance: rubbish
Match 2: v Netherlands, score 0-0, performance: rubbish
Match 3: v Egypt, score 1-0...
Utterly ridiculous comment
He brought on Toney for extra time fresh legs AND he is an excellent penalty taker. AND he assisted the winning goal. To criticise that substitution is deranged
Our problem in the past was we were niave and conceeded stupid goals and had bad discipline (ala Beckham/Rooney red cards) Southgate has fixed that, we are hard to beat, it isn't pretty but it's better than before
Because that's tournament football, it's about winning and results. Portugal 8 years ago were awful to watch, how they won it is anyone's guess, Spain 2006 had one of the best squads ever taken to a tournament, they won it but almost all their games were boring to watch.
Would you rather we...
exactly this, the same haters who said Germany were past it when we beat them in 2000
People even criticising his substitutions even though (for those that know football) he reserved 2 for extra time and Pens when Slovakia used all their's. Brought on Toney, a cert to score a pen and and...