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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 12, 2021 17:39:45 GMT
Bottom line is - it was a football match when all said and done.
No one died and everyone moves on. It must be wonderful having 40 million experts watching you do your job and then tell you why you did it wrong.
Everyone makes choices and the 99 times you call right are quickly forgotten and the one you called wrong haunts you for ever, and plenty will remind you about it (being a goalkeeper has a resonance with that thought).
I, for one, didn't think that squad was strong enough to make the later stages of the knockout rounds let alone the final. But, each to their own opinion.
World Cup to come (if we qualify) and this team will take an awful lot of learning forward into that competition.
Finally, I agree with Boris (there is a first for everything !). The scumbags who have resorted to internet trolling should crawl back under their stone. Despicable behaviour and not football fans at all.
I rest my case.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jul 12, 2021 18:17:17 GMT
First off, from the Welsh quarter - bad luck, England, but well done on reaching the Final.
Spotted this tweet on the other board, but worth sharing here as an interesting tot-up that shows the English players' penalty-taking inexperience. Harry Maguire's rather belied his, mind you...!
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Post by gazz on Jul 12, 2021 18:24:19 GMT
You don't need to be an expert to know that he got it wrong, Lennie, you just need a pulse and working eyes and brain - even a person who'd never seen a football match in their lives could see that Italy were taking the p**s.
I agree that the squad isn't as great as some are claiming, mate, and I don't get the constant "man for the big occasion" comments regarding Jack Grealish. I see someone who can play a bit, but I certainly don't see the world beater we're being led to believe that he is.
Someone compared him to Paul Gascoigne last week, which I found to be truly laughable.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 13, 2021 8:12:18 GMT
I'm not saying he didn't get it wrong, Gazza.
He called it at the time and he has to live with that. A man who can't make a mistake can't make anything.
Nobody has mentioned the thuggery that Italy employed to unsettle the England squad. 6 yellow cards to 1, I believe.
3 inches to the right and Rashford would be a hero.
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