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If it inspires your players then yes. Yes it does.

Neither did Mourinho, so its a fair point. But maybe de la Fuente has that other slightly indefinable factor - charisma.

I admit I enjoyed his failure at Chelsea after they completely filleted us when he left, but I don't bear him any grudges now. I just don't believe he has the chops for a job this big, it would chew him up. He'd still be picking most if not all of our gilded superstars, he can't just pick a team...

Potter wouldn't work at England for the same reasons it didn't work at Chelsea - a dressing room full of big players, big egos, sat there looking at a teeth-sucking beardy thinking "sorry...Graham who ?". He doesn't have enough on his CV (Southgate did at least have an entire career playing at...

OK. See you at the next tournament then, I suppose. I wouldn't expect to see you on any of the qualifying threads. Thanks for popping in.

Prince Harry should just stay out of politics imo.

"I utterly condemn this unwarranted attack on President Zelensky"

No blood on his hand ?

Indeed. If I was stood behind or close to someone being shot at, you wouldn't see my arse for dust. Yet everyone there is just sort of crouching down, craning to get a look. "Gee whizz Cletus....somebodies started gad darn shootin' araand here"

I'm not generally one of the tin hat brigade, but I can't help having a bit of a chinny reckon at this. Multiple shots heard, but seemingly nobody else there was hit, just a graze on Trumps ear. Then instead of him being bundled straight away into an SUV, he gets a few moments to rise up from...

Don't blame you. Getting away from the Amex on a Sunday night at potentially gone 11pm would be fun wouldn't it.

If someone doesn't want their choice to be commented on, then maybe don't put it on a public internet forum ? And I was hardly hurling ABUSE was I. I mean christ. These people.

I would NEVER go to the Amex for anything that was not absolutely necessary. Thus far that has included home games (not friendlies, obvs), and a covid test. I simply cannot relate to anyone who would go out of their way to yomp all the way there to watch a game on TV. Madness.

Can't be doing with watching England games down the pub any more. A rammed bar, beer flying everywhere, everything at 20 decibels, stray kids, cokeheads, braying morons, standing room only, endless queues for beers. Mmmnah. I am officially an old fart. So my plans tomorrow involve a few...

Well, there's always a hell of a lot of churn in squad personnel over 8 years, and sometimes you're not left with the players you want or need to lay down a template to go it with for every game, or every tournament. Anyway, it really doesn't matter who's in charge. Everyone in the country is...

Penalties only come down to luck if you don't prepare for them properly. Thankfully the days of the manager wandering around asking "who fancies it then" are now long gone.

Not arguing with any of that. And none of it will matter if we bring home the paella on Sunday. But just making the point that Southgate's England career has been under the hot lights of 4 x tournament qualifications + 4 actual tournaments (all overseas aside from the 2021 job), whereas El Tel...

In a couple of games afterwards, I'd agree. But we made desperately hard work of the scotch, and fluked it against the spanish. 2 games made a summer.

vs Switzerland - crap vs Scotch - crap (till Gascoigne) vs Holland- great vs Spain - crap, and lucky vs Germany - great Thats 3 out of 5 craps, which equals....mostly crap. But it was fun.

The Shining is not far off my top 10 all-times, she was superb in that. Can't recall her in too much else tbh other than Popeye, but she made her mark.