Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Don’t give a shite about England games anymore.
Had a nice night eating tapas and drinking honey rum.
Had a nice night eating tapas and drinking honey rum.
Nations League
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Farmer Jack
Stuart Pearce
Fifa: "Hold my prawn sandwich."
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
The only times I've cared about England was under Venables and Eriksson.
Euro 96 was exceptional and that period captured the hearts of the nation.
Eriksson wasn't your typical England manager. The FA suddenly went against the grain and those moments were inspiring where we felt like we could suddenly achieve something.
Since then, it's been McClaren, Capello and Hodgson, who all drained the life out of the team and the nation.
Southgate has come in and bred the youth, and at first it was a breath of fresh air, but his tactics are getting found out.
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Spot on there Bryan, 100% agree.
Berkshire Red
Jack Armstrong
Funny how much love Mount gets for one cameo. He was starting for ages and brought absolutely nothing to the team. Eventually Southgate had the guts to drop him, or was he injured? Need to see more performances like last night.
Danga
Formerly JLingz
Well I watched the first half, nodded in my chair at half time, woke up at full time and there had been 6 goals.... typical.
I thought England were much brighter the first half then they had been recently, but that isn't saying much. I have absolutely no enthusiasm for this upcoming WC.
I thought England were much brighter the first half then they had been recently, but that isn't saying much. I have absolutely no enthusiasm for this upcoming WC.
Chappers85
Can't Play Left-Back
Finally got around to reading that Michael Sheen speech that everyone's banging on about....WHAT A BAG OF WANK! It's awful! The imagery is all over the place with a lot of cliched blood and thunder bollocks thrown in about plucky little Wales. The Red Wall imagery in particular has some very dubious connotations. There's no rhythm or metre to speak of.
So I thought: 'Maybe I'm being too harsh. Let's watch the delivery, it's a speech after all.' OH MY GOD! It's like watching Legz Akimbo from The League of Gentlemen! Utter cringe! It's so awkward!
He's a great actor. He was fantastic as Cloughie and very good in other roles, and genuinely seems like a really good bloke. But he needs to leave writing to actual writers!
So I thought: 'Maybe I'm being too harsh. Let's watch the delivery, it's a speech after all.' OH MY GOD! It's like watching Legz Akimbo from The League of Gentlemen! Utter cringe! It's so awkward!
He's a great actor. He was fantastic as Cloughie and very good in other roles, and genuinely seems like a really good bloke. But he needs to leave writing to actual writers!
Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
The Spanish away kit is a tasty number…..
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
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Farmer Jack
Stuart Pearce
That header travelled like a bullet train... ...
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
Scotland promoted to League A.
England relegated to League B.
Bloody hell. Could things get any lower than that?
England relegated to League B.
Bloody hell. Could things get any lower than that?
football post
I'm still here Crewton
Please excuse my ignorance but what does this actually mean?
How many teams are in league B and do we know who they are yet?
Does it really matter what league we are in?
Is it just a case of having friendlies, sorry fixtures against weaker teams in the future?
Sorry for all the questions but like I said I really haven't got a clue what this Nations league thing is all about.
Raymondo Ponte'
It's all about mid-table...
Same here, norra clue how it works.
It's all a baggabollux.
It's all a baggabollux.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
I think the basic idea is that teams play others of equal ability, thus sparing the pointless games against the minnows and scoring ten goals in a canter.
A is the top group and D is the bottom. I guess that's all there is to it, you have already given the answers. Just divide the number of European teams by four to get the number of teams in each grouping.
If you want to know more, look it up.
Raymondo Ponte'
It's all about mid-table...
It's hard to be interested tbh Vals, thanks anyway.
Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
I think it’s got summat to do wi xG
Huxley
John Robertson
The only practical consequence is that for euro 2024 England will be seeded lower so instead of being the strongest side in their group they will have to play a top seed.
Rigler
Jack Burkitt
Not sure this belongs in the Nations League thread?
It doesn‘t, so I moved it to the Euro 2024 thread: