It’s been better than Tripper and Foden but that doesn’t mean it’s good. 90% of the time he’s been getting the ball and either getting tackled or he knocks it back to Walker/Rice.
He’s been mostly poor this tournament. He’s been bullied off the ball repeatedly. Yesterday was his first good performance and he called it with a great goal.
That and I think all the smaller nations have really stepped up too. Outside of Scotland’s first game nobody has looked poor. The bare minimum these teams have is organisation and discipline. They are all very fit.
The adage of ‘no easy games’ actually rings true now.
Almost like a good coach adapts to the players he has. There is no point playing Tiki Taka with Williams and Yamal on the wings. It’s not getting the most of out of them.
Brazil have been garbage the whole tournament
Extremely safe and boring which may be a good thing
If England beat Spain 3-0 then that’s also a storyline
England haven’t been great but every team we’ve faced has fouled constantly. The refs need to be quicker with the cards to stop it. Embolo must have made five fouls without a card today.
You must’ve missed the tournament held in Portugal
Turn the music down if you get a complaint and your teenage kids are home alone
Yeah, I’m a big advocate for indirect free kicks for accidental handball. Penalties for handball which stops a shot on goal or deliberate handball.
The Denmark one was a prime example where an indirect free kick is the appropriate punishment. While today as unlucky as it was for Cucurella he stopped a shot hitting the target and that feels like a penalty is the right call.
Yeah, I know. I said the interpretation was correct.
The rules for handball are shit though.
I don’t like it but it’s been a consistent interpretation across UEFA competitions for a while
The danish arm was outstretched horizontally. This one he had his arm down and bringing it in tighter to the body.
The issue is the rules not interpretation. The rules even have a drawing of how the silhouette of a body should be. It has no allowance for Andersens arm being ‘natural’ for running or balance.
Do you have a full size chimney or the half size? I have the same grill and can get 600+ with a full chimney.
Under the current rules that doesn’t make it a penalty though
The rule is bad but the interpretation was correct
This will be one of the most interesting elements to get the next year or two. Parkinson has only made it as high as the Championship previously. If he did so again with Wrexham that’s a great achievement but he might not be able to take the next step or evolve his football enough.
However, more than any individual player moving on from the manger will be really tough given the relationship with the owners and the achievements.
And HS2 was widely reported to be about capacity. We absolutely do have the distances to make it worthwhile and the high speeds are just a by-product of building now and not in 1850.
London to Edinburgh takes 4hrs 19m for a 332 mile journey. Realistically that should be under 2hrs which would make it more competitive with flying.
Under 6% of land in the UK is built on. This idea there is no land is nonsense.
It’s this kind of restrictive attitudes that have pervaded UK politics for the last 15 years. We can’t afford anything, it’s too hard. Where’s the vision? If we don’t build now then in 2050 the problems will be far worse and more expensive again.
If done over a 20-30yr timeframe it’s do-able. Especially if we use the teams and expertise to move from one to the other. Half the problem we have in the UK is doing things piecemeal and then it costs twice as much.
One way or another we will need more capacity and higher speeds and more motorways is solving nothing.
We should be bold and build HS2,3,4,5 and ban domestic flying once they are built. Nobody should be flying London to Manchester, Edinburgh or Newquay.
It’s so short sighted and why France and Italy etc have high speed rail networks while ours is still Victorian.
It’s not a flavour issue. Wrong type of chips, wrong fish, wrong batter. It seems kind of like fish and chips but it’s often really wrong.
Not saying much is it? England have barely managed more than one shot on target in each game.
Bukayo Saka is world class
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