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Very sad news. I wasn't even aware he was ill. Along with bobby Robson my favourite England manager. Euro 96 was such a fun tournament. RIP El Tel.

The lad's 18, come through the academy, is the son of a former Brighton player and is Brighton* born and bred. If ever there was a player a Brighton fan should want to succeed it's Hinshelwood. I'm genuinely shocked to see him criticised so virulently, especially when playing out of position...

With the number of injuries we have/have had this season I'd be surprised if their isn't some kind of internal dialogue going on between all relevant departments. It's not a good look when Estupinian gets injured 10 minutes after coming back from injury. Same with Lamptey yesterday, especially...

So who's left fit? The keepers, Dunk, Van Hecke, Veltman, Gilmour, Baleba, Gross, Fati, Buonnanote, Pedro, Adingra, Ferguson? Anyone else? So I'm going with: Bart or Steele Veltman/Van Hecke/Dunk/Gross Baleba/Gilmour Buonnanote/Fati/Adingra Pedro Not too bad a team, especially when you...

I've probably posted the recorded version of this but here's a live version. Jonny Greenwood being let off the leash is always a moment of pure joy.

The thick of it. Very, very funny.

Big Al all the way for me. I think he is a serious, serious contender for the title. Two seasons of pure genius that have stood the test of time.

Well that has thoroughly confused me. Seems farcical that you can finish 5th in your qualifying group and still get a chance at qualifying.

That's an incredible achievement. I hope they make it, this is surely their best and possibly only chance to qualify. I've done some googling. According to this website: https://eu-football.info/_matches.php?id=130 Their euros qualifying record is p127, w 13, d13, l 101. Five of those...

How are Luxembourg in the play offs? Surely they didn't finish third in their group?

You'd hope a duet between the national and Phoebe Bridgers would produce something a little special. Luckily it has. Beautiful.

Stones and maguire are nailed on. I think guehi is next in line which leaves Dunk, Colwill and Tomori vying for the fourth spot. I think it'll go to Colwill. Young, come through the system, left footed and can play left back. With him and trippier acting as cover it means Southgate can get...

I'm confused by Everton voting for it. They've been moaning about how unfair their points deduction was for breaking FFP and have complained about how nothing has happened to Man City and Chelsea. Then they go and vote for something that will allow those clubs to break FFP with impunity...

The NSC time wasting police would have gone into meltdown if that had been a Brighton game. Martinez was OUTSTANDING in his time wasting. By the end of the game he was catching crosses and not releasing the ball for 30 seconds. Multiple times. Argentina certainly made the most of any...

To be fair you don't need to be particularly old to remember that. The run from 08-16 was remarkable in its shitness. So basically only kids under about 15 will have no memory of England stinking out tournaments. Still, we should definitely be winning all these tournaments...

You know what? I had forgotten those scores! Your last sentence is essentially what I've been laboring to say. Except you've said it succinctly in one sentence and I've wasted paragraph after paragraph in post after post trying to get there.

This is my preferred option but based not on winning the tournament but on our historical failure to do so. If we're going to get knocked out lets get knocked out having played in 5,6,7 goal thrillers all the way through rather than grinding out 1-0s. The going for the jugular approach is...

The bit in bold I 100% agree with. We have some quality attacking players. I'd love them to be let of the leash. The rest, I'm not sure I understand. Do you think Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, France, Spain, Holland, Portugal etc have been at full power every tournament? Are you...

No, not quite. I'm saying that we never win anything so that shouldn't be the stick with which to beat the manager. Especially as he's got closer than anyone else since and before Ramsey has. I'm interested to know if we were to win the Euros next summer would you change your tune on him...

So he's no different to previous managers? Previous managers who have had a bigger pool of players to choose from. In that case criticise him for tactical inability but not his results. Same as it ever was then. Hence the tired refrain of England will go out to the first half decent team...