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Ah bollocks. Went for a piss at the wrong time.

Fùck. What a time that would have been to score. Just needed hitting.

For all our defensive shape there’s a lot of room in behind our back three, and it’s making me nervous. One mistake, one moment not fully switched on is all it takes.

Watching the BBC coverage replay the key moments from the game at Euro 96, I want to win now if only to avenge this photo: Has a man ever looked more German?

Another boring 1-0 win would do me nicely. That said, a boring 6-0 win would be even better.

Don’t fancy Belgium then? Whoever comes through that side of the draw will be the favourites by virtue of the path they’ve had to follow but if, and of course it’s a massive IF, we can beat the Germans tomorrow night we will become strong tournament favourites. That’s not necessarily because...

I’ll say it again, what a day of football that was. It’s not that ‘you couldn’t write it’, of course you could, it’s just that the script is so perfect that it would lack credibility. I mean, this is something straight out of the godawful football movie trilogy (how is it even a trilogy!?) that...

They aren't - they're watching and wondering why people bother with this boring, low-scoring game. But that's mainly because their brains are made of CHEESE!!

What an absolutely incredible day of football so far. I've been relatively underwhelmed by this tournament up to now, but today has been utterly unbelievable. Where the Swiss found the strength to do that, I have no idea. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster. I hope and prey England v Germany...

Thread title’s ageing well I see…

It’s incredible how well the vaccine is working. As I posted on the Good News thread a couple of weeks ago, cases are now resulting in around 20x fewer deaths than they were in January, so to reach the same kind of death figures we did at the January peak we would need to be recording over 1m...

Really assured performance from Austria this. Confident in possession, not afraid to have a go and resolute at the back. You couldn’t ask for much more from a team of massive underdogs.

I hear you, and I can hear that voice in the back of my head as well. But for context, in 2010 Germany were ranked 2 places above us, whereas now we are 8 places ahead of them. I can see why people get frustrated by Southgate’s approach, but one thing I think he is very good at is getting...

I felt the same about our penalty hoodoo against Colombia at the last World Cup. Ultimately, I believe that any so-called hoodoo is of our minds own making, some kind of collective inferiority complex as a nation. The fact is I believe that in the here and now we have a better side than Germany...

Not that it would be enjoyable at the time, but wouldn’t a penalty shootout victory over Germany, precisely 25 years and one week since our Euro 96 defeat, be cathartic for us all - not least Gareth Southgate of all people. It’s almost written in the stars.

Would’ve been great to have had Hungary, but in the end that Germany goal saw us miss France so on balance I think you have to take the draw we’ve ended up with. Yeah, Germany seem to have an Indian sign over us when it comes to knockout games but this time I genuinely think we are better than...

You’re right, sorry. Portugal stay above on head-to-head. We need the Hungarians to hold on and France to win.

Interesting how this all shaping up, given the talk of throwing the final group game for a supposedly easier draw. It’s looking quite possible that 5 out of the top 6 ranked sides in Europe are all going to be in one half of the draw, the one that isn’t being England. It’s also possible that...

The first tournament I am old enough to remember watching is Euro 92 - this is the list of permanent England (or semi-permanent in the case of Sam Allardyce) managers from then onwards: Graham Taylor Terry Venables Glenn Hoddle Kevin Keegan Sven-Göran Eriksson Steve McClaren Fabio Capello Roy...

We’ve just played three sides that weren’t inclined to come at us - I think a pragmatic approach was probably the right one; we’re through without conceding if nothing else. I believe this England’s team’s strength is its pace and fluidity on the break. We’ll have more chance to do that whoever...