[Football] Euros 2024 - FINAL!!! Spain vs England

[Lyndhurst 14]

Southgate go back to leading focus groups in an office in Basildon with a flipchart - that's where you belong

 

[fruitnveg]

Rice the most overrated £100 million player ever ,

West Ham still in fits on laughter 12 months later. Its unreal how bad he is.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

West Ham still in fits on laughter 12 months later. Its unreal how bad he is.

He's not, he's a very good player

Southgate has no idea how to use him.

 

[Simster]

Rice the most overrated £100 million player ever ,

Gets himself into good positions, he can tackle, but he can't seem to look after the ball. Sometimes he gives the ball away like a pub player.

 

[Weststander]

If only, Kane must feel cursed.

At least he’s rich beyond his wildest dreams and takes in more oxygen than us mere mortals.
https://footballburp.com/news/harry-kanes-open-mouth-is-key-to-his-success-say-scientists/

 

[Seagull58]

He's been good all tournament, what are you on about?

He's made a howler every game. One he blocked and two they scored, including tonight. He can't defend, the number one job of a defender.

 

[Weststander]

He's not, he's a very good player

Southgate has no idea how to use him.

Deja vu from other England match threads.

If only England had Gabriel, Jorginho and Saliba.

 

[Weststander]

He's made a howler every game. One he blocked and two they scored, including tonight. He can't defend, the number one job of a defender for 90+ minutes.

He can’t.

 

[hart's shirt]

Yeah for sure. But, meaning no disrespect to the men and women who will go on to win gold, it's football I want us to win. I want our national team to win a tournament before my ever aging father isn't alive to see it.

I hear you.

We'd have had a better chance of that this time with a manager who can tactically get the best out of his players on a football pitch.

When it comes to bringing in business, I want a hungry driven salesman, not a phlegmatic HR manager.

 

[Driver8]

Not that it would’ve made any difference to the result and the deserved Spanish win, but it pissed me off more than it should that the ref blew dead on 94 mins, despite the ball being in play for about 30 seconds of injury time.

4 mins didn’t seem long enough either after having got used to PL games where 5-10 mins seems the norm since the 2022 World Cup.

Seems an odd complaint. There was very little time wasting and the physios didn’t come on at all. The clock doesn’t stop when the ball goes out of play. .

 

[Seagull58]

None of the other players made any mistakes then? He's been one of the few players that stock went up this tournament.

He's been class.

He really hasn't. He has very successfully made loads of 5 yard passes when under no pressure.

 

[Simster]

He's not, he's a very good player

Southgate has no idea how to use him.

In some ways he's a player from another era. Nowadays you simply have to be able to look after the ball at this level. Rice gives the ball away in dangerous areas far too frequently. He is a tremendous tackler, he anticipates danger and he gets into some great positions going forward, but defensively he can be a liability. You sometimes almost wish he doesn't win a challenge because he is liable to give the ball away more dangerously after winning the ball than if the his opponent had simply shrugged him off.

 

[Sea Cider]

Rice the most overrated £100 million player ever ,

He's really been poor. You expect a £100m player to stamp their authority on games regardless of the coach.

 

[nwgull]

Seems an odd complaint. There was very little time wasting and the physios didn’t come on at all. The clock doesn’t stop when the ball goes out of play. .

In injury time? There was over a minute of the floppy haired snake rolling on the floor alone.

 

[WhingForPresident]

The ONE player they have that is better than anything we have and that we should have feared, Rodri, goes off at HT. A f***ing gift from the gods. And that bottling **** still f***ed it. Honestly unbelievable.

 

[Gazwag]

In 12 days time, the Olympics will start. We'll have plenty of winners there. We have sportsmen and sportswomen who can get it done.

But Southgate isn't a winner in football.

He never was as a player,

He never is as a manager.

And quite possibly never will be.

In 20 days time we go to QPR

 

[Ethelwulf]

Should of started palmer and Watkins made a brave call and left out unfit Kane and out of form foden

 

[hart's shirt]

In 20 days time we go to QPR

That's a relief.

We'll probably see more attacking intent in a preseason friendly than England have shown all tournament.

 

[nicko31]

Spain were just better than us plain and simple and we did well to push them all the way. We’d only ever beat them on penalties.

Probably the end for Southgate, the best record of any England manager at tournaments since Sir Alf

 

[Perry Milkins]

That's a relief.

We'll probably see more attacking intent in a preseason friendly than England have shown all tournament.

I saw more attacking intent watching an old dear eat Cod and chips at the Cuckfield chippy yesterday!!