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Negativity starting nice and early. How on earth can you judge from less than 10 mins?

Referee's been crap so far.

Unchanged lineup - pleased with that.

Not sure where you live, but Southern Water doesn't add fluoride to the water supply. There will be some naturally occurring fluoride, but the levels are super low. Do you mean chlorine?

Yep. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/43976693/page/4

The penalty incident was before they got one back.

Brazil were pretty unlucky - they had a lot of good chances. But Belgium played very well too against a top team. But not sure what that has to do with what I said - I was merely pointing out a terrible call by the VAR team. At the World Cup, with the aid of VAR, they should be able to get such...

BBC clearly showing contact was made when the ball was still in play. Terrible decision.

Think this sub might come back to haunt Martinez. Lukaku's great at defending from the front, ignoring his goal threat on the counter.

He's clearly not though, is he? They showed a good segment on him pre match and he has been brilliant for Barca over the years. Plus, he was injured for the second half of last season at PSG and hasn't been able to get back to full form. It's like saying Messi is overrated because he was gash...

Amazing that none of the commentators or pundits seem to have noticed that Kompany actually got a touch on the corner. Not sure why Lineker was suggesting the current result was a big shock either.

I'm glad there's some love for Sterling in this thread - there's been a whole mob after him this entire World Cup. It's become popular to dislike him. I haven't seen Twitter but I think I can pretty much guess what people have been saying about him on there without looking. On the BBC player...

I have no idea which tweet you are referring to, but based on your other replies which I have now just read I've inferred that you were referring to the name of someone's Twitter account. It didn't come across that way when I first read your post!

Ernest has being doing the same gag for 15 years - yet people still find it funny? I'm still waiting for him to kiss Dick Knight's arse in the centre circle. He welched on that one.

Err...

Which mod's on thread title changing duty? I've been on NSC at regular intervals throughout the day and have only just found out we've signed this guy after seeing it on the BBC website!

England players have revealed quite a lot about their preparation for penalties since the game - not sure how wise that is given the possibility that we will be involved in at least one more. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44730127

From Southgate himself: "Maybe we are getting a bit smarter. Maybe we are now playing some of our game by the rules the rest of the world are playing."

I didn't want it to be over, because as long as it wasn't over, I still felt hope. I was dreading how shit the rest of the World Cup would be without us in it, especially since we were given such an amazingly favourable route to the final.

I referenced diving and playacting - I know football was a lot more physical in the past. If in 66 thugs got away with kicking Eusebio and Pele off the park, then I can't imagine those players diving and playacting to the slightest touch would have done them much good? During this World Cup...