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Post by ancienthatter on Jul 14, 2024 22:42:29 GMT
Second near miss of the weekend 😉
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Post by atmosphere on Jul 14, 2024 22:42:33 GMT
Do you think we could keep Southgate around in some role? Player welfare possibly if a role like that exists with England?
Anything where he doesn't have to coach the players, pick the players or make the subs
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Post by bristolhatter on Jul 14, 2024 22:48:12 GMT
Best team won. Southgate has done an awful lot of good for England, beyond the results, in changing the feel, nature and dynamic of the team. For that he’s one of our greatest ever. Others disagree with me, and that’s fine, but I haven’t enjoyed this tournament, even with getting to the final. Our football has been turgid and a tough watch at times. It’s fine as long as you’re winning, and getting to finals is great, but no-one remembers the losers. Being back-to-back losing finalists isn’t a source of pride for me, it’s one of sadness. I want England to play the attacking football we know they can play. We might end up going out in quarter finals instead of semis or finals, but so what? If we’re not going to win things, at least make it fun to watch. I don’t want to take away from Southgate. He should be proud of his efforts. But it’s time for a new chapter. Absolutely, you look back at previous tournaments (pre Southgate) and think we have no regrets (red cards aside!), in 96 we lost on pens to Germany but we weren't necessarily dominating them. We had an amazing squad in 2002 but we lost to an amazing Brazil team, Ronaldinho's goal was lucky but no regrets. Southgate just seems to stick when he should have twisted, we didn't play well and we weren't particularly strong, time for someone else
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 14, 2024 23:32:13 GMT
Klopp is still under contract at Liverpool. He's just become an ambassador for their charity foundation.
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 14, 2024 23:32:52 GMT
If we are to go to down the foreign route then Zidane is my number 1 choice.
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Post by ldjh79 on Jul 14, 2024 23:36:49 GMT
Best team won. Southgate has done an awful lot of good for England, beyond the results, in changing the feel, nature and dynamic of the team. For that he’s one of our greatest ever. Others disagree with me, and that’s fine, but I haven’t enjoyed this tournament, even with getting to the final. Our football has been turgid and a tough watch at times. It’s fine as long as you’re winning, and getting to finals is great, but no-one remembers the losers. Being back-to-back losing finalists isn’t a source of pride for me, it’s one of sadness. I want England to play the attacking football we know they can play. We might end up going out in quarter finals instead of semis or finals, but so what? If we’re not going to win things, at least make it fun to watch. I don’t want to take away from Southgate. He should be proud of his efforts. But it’s time for a new chapter. Absolutely, you look back at previous tournaments (pre Southgate) and think we have no regrets (red cards aside!), in 96 we lost on pens to Germany but we weren't necessarily dominating them. We had an amazing squad in 2002 but we lost to an amazing Brazil team, Ronaldinho's goal was lucky but no regrets. Southgate just seems to stick when he should have twisted, we didn't play well and we weren't particularly strong, time for someone else Agree although I thought if Rice made it 2-2 with the late header it could have been a memorable ET and pens like V Portugal in 2004, ....................................................................which we'd still lose
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Post by Waldorf on Jul 14, 2024 23:54:44 GMT
Klopp is still under contract at Liverpool. He's just become an ambassador for their charity foundation. As if that would matter if we wanted him.
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Post by Waldorf on Jul 14, 2024 23:55:28 GMT
Gutted, by the way. Absolutely gutted.
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Post by vicar on Jul 15, 2024 0:02:08 GMT
And to be fair… it’s much easier to bear when the best team by a mile won the competition. Best team by a mile until tonight, I thought we played well and the game could have gone either way.
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Post by Bilby on Jul 15, 2024 0:04:58 GMT
Do you think we could keep Southgate around in some role? Player welfare possibly if a role like that exists with England? Anything where he doesn't have to coach the players, pick the players or make the subs Fashion Guru!
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Post by samscfc on Jul 15, 2024 0:22:37 GMT
Spain absolutely worthy winners. We've won 2 games in 90 minutes during the tournament - it's been a great ride but the better team won.
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Post by 1994hatter on Jul 15, 2024 6:34:42 GMT
Italy hurt more than this by the way.
This one is annoying because it’s the second time in a row but I can take losing to a better side.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Jul 15, 2024 7:07:22 GMT
Italy hurt more than this by the way. This one is annoying because it’s the second time in a row but I can take losing to a better side. Not sure why but I never thought we'd do it this year or got too excited (aside from the last minute goals).
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Post by scfc73 on Jul 15, 2024 7:18:49 GMT
Italy hurt more than this by the way. This one is annoying because it’s the second time in a row but I can take losing to a better side. I agree. There was more a sense of we threw it away against Italy. Spain won every game they played, deserved winners & despite them dominating possession last night (which we knew they would do) it was still a relatively close game.
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Post by timberwolf on Jul 15, 2024 7:39:39 GMT
Italy hurt more than this by the way. This one is annoying because it’s the second time in a row but I can take losing to a better side. I agree. There was more a sense of we threw it away against Italy. Spain won every game they played, deserved winners & despite them dominating possession last night (which we knew they would do) it was still a relatively close game. Far better than the game going to a penalty shoot out and england lost and some poor sod having to live with that for life and even worse if they were not white.
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