What an absolutely fantastic result to wake up to that was.
It might sound strange but I don't think that could have gone any better. If we hadn't have conceded there would have been so much noise and emphasis put on the not having conceded all tournament. That won't be an issue now. Going...
Is this season the passing of the torch season? Or is it just a blip and mercedes and Lewis will be back next year?
The first few races promised a really close season. Shame it's not turning out that way.
Great to see Lando doing so well. Future champion?
Wouldn't that make his achievements all the better?
Assuming you mean a surfeit of quality players I think that's only true of the attacking positions. It's why I was very much in the we should load up on attack and go for death or glory line of thinking. I say was because well, it's hard to...
I think regardless of whether you rate him as a manager or not you have to respect his achievements with England.
He's only the second manager (Alf Ramsey being the first) to take England to consecutive tournament semi finals. And only the fourth manager to even get to one semi final.
He's...
Yeah, that'll do.
We've won our last three games 1-0 then 2-0 then 4-0. It seems pretty clear cut that we're going to beat the Danes 8-0 in the semi and the Italians or Spanish 16-0 in the final.
It's a funny one.
I'm in the 'not convinced Southgate is a good manager' camp. I think he comes up with a game plan and if that proves ineffective he's in trouble. Last night his plan worked perfectly so deserves the credit.
And despite my misgivings about him his achievements really do need...
As a side note, I've just realsied that none of the teams from 'the group of death' got past the last 16. France: out. Portugal: out. Germany: out.
I guess it really was the group of death. It certainly killed their chances...
I'm not going to read through the thread. I'll take your word for it.
Personally I'm perfectly happy with both the performance and result. We didn't sit back, we didn't park the bus, we played with greater energy and urgency than in the group games. We won. I got pretty much everything I...
See that's where we're going to differ.
Greece 04 had no attacking players. They were a well drilled defensive unit. Their strength was their defense.
I genuinely don't think our defense is very good. I think our attacking threat is. So for me it seems illogical to sacrifice our strength...
37 goals in 8 games is not pragmatic must not lose football regardless of who it's against.
I'll be honest, I'm struggling with your definition of entitled.
I googled it and got this:
feeling that you have the right to do or have what you want without having to work for it or deserve it, just...