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Colombia v England - Tues 3rd July 7pm

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  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,484
    Would be interesting, though there's usually no pressure on goalkeepers with penalties but that would add some.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    MrOneLung said:

    ****WEIRD DREAM ALERT***

    Had a dream the Cuadrado burst through and scored, and Harry Maguire complained he couldn't catch him as one of their players attached a bungee rope to his shorts.

    Didnt see the final score unfortunately

    It was 5-1 to us. The Queen scored the fourth with a terrific scissors kick, Sooty got one and Basil Brush scored a hat-trick!
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448

    MrOneLung said:

    ****WEIRD DREAM ALERT***

    Had a dream the Cuadrado burst through and scored, and Harry Maguire complained he couldn't catch him as one of their players attached a bungee rope to his shorts.

    Didnt see the final score unfortunately

    It was 5-1 to us. The Queen scored the fourth with a terrific scissors kick, Sooty got one and Basil Brush scored a hat-trick!
    Now you are talking bollocks, Basil Brush has already been capped by Wales.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961

    Dare to dream

    image

    Sterling has turned in to Arnold from Different Strokes.
    Whatcha talking about







    Willis?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350

    ITV's psychic pig has chosen the winners apples each time (England games).
    He chose England's apples this morning, but once again, he always chooses the apples to his left.

    So. IF we keep England's apples on the left? Quick, email to Southgate!
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/02/gareth-southgate-england-avoid-traps-colombia

    'Again it came back to the Iceland game and the mistake many people made of assuming England were set for a quarter-final against France in Paris. Hodgson and his assistant, Ray Lewington, did not even bother going to the Iceland-Austria game to make a personal check their next opponents, preferring instead to spend the day sightseeing and going on a boat journey down the river Seine'

    How the hell did that bloke manage us for two tournaments?!

    Do managers actually go to watch other games during a tournament through, as opposed to sending a scout? In this WC especially, the distances would make it pretty difficult.
    To not even watch the game though?
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/02/gareth-southgate-england-avoid-traps-colombia

    'Again it came back to the Iceland game and the mistake many people made of assuming England were set for a quarter-final against France in Paris. Hodgson and his assistant, Ray Lewington, did not even bother going to the Iceland-Austria game to make a personal check their next opponents, preferring instead to spend the day sightseeing and going on a boat journey down the river Seine'

    How the hell did that bloke manage us for two tournaments?!

    How would Hodgson have known which game to go to?

    Iceland were in a fairly tight group with hungary and Portugal and if either side had won that match, then i don't think we would have played Iceland.
    Still they shouldn't have spent their precious time on sightseeing I suppose? Why not stay in and watch all the games of potential opponents if they didn't know who they would face in the knockout stage? Well, players might need relaxing but managers? It was France, a country just next to England, not some place on the other side of the world they had never been to. Hodgson and co could've chosen any time of the year to go on a boat journey in a country nearby yet they did that before the big game came? :lol: Absolutely ridiculous and they deserved the sack in my opinion.
    Should've been sacked after the last world cup.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/02/gareth-southgate-england-avoid-traps-colombia

    'Again it came back to the Iceland game and the mistake many people made of assuming England were set for a quarter-final against France in Paris. Hodgson and his assistant, Ray Lewington, did not even bother going to the Iceland-Austria game to make a personal check their next opponents, preferring instead to spend the day sightseeing and going on a boat journey down the river Seine'

    How the hell did that bloke manage us for two tournaments?!

    How would Hodgson have known which game to go to?

    Iceland were in a fairly tight group with hungary and Portugal and if either side had won that match, then i don't think we would have played Iceland.
    Still they shouldn't have spent their precious time on sightseeing I suppose? Why not stay in and watch all the games of potential opponents if they didn't know who they would face in the knockout stage? Well, players might need relaxing but managers? It was France, a country just next to England, not some place on the other side of the world they had never been to. Hodgson and co could've chosen any time of the year to go on a boat journey in a country nearby yet they did that before the big game came? :lol: Absolutely ridiculous and they deserved the sack in my opinion.
    There's no suggestion that they didn't watch the game. In fact i'm sure they did.

    The article simply says that they chose not to attend the Iceland game, but at that point we didn't know that we'd be playing them so i think to criticise him for that is unfair. He'd have probably also got stick if he'd gone to the Hungary game and then we got Iceland.

    We lost because we were utter shit without a game plan and had Kane taking corners, not because he didn't go to an iceland group game.
  • Mentally checked out from work for the afternoon. Got to physically stay here until 4pm. Football is coming on at 3.

    It’s coming home.
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Getting excited now , as the country blighted by cocaine and gun crime prepare to take on Columbia
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    I just hope we give a good go and don't fall short due to some dodgy VAR, silly sending off / penalty etc.

    I'm mildly confident we are going to perform well tonight. This bunch don't seem to be carrying the fear weight that previous teams have, and mentally that's half the battle.

    I keep waiting for Sterling or Alli to turn up and make an impacting impression. Hopefully tonight is the night.
  • hudson-son-son
    hudson-son-son Posts: 2,645
    I think that's a good idea actually. Obviously has the huge height advantage for a penalty shootout but also how unnerving it would be for an attacker to see a goalkeeper who has been pretty much doing nothing other than studying your penalty taking technique.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729

    I think that's a good idea actually. Obviously has the huge height advantage for a penalty shootout but also how unnerving it would be for an attacker to see a goalkeeper who has been pretty much doing nothing other than studying your penalty taking technique.
    Personally it’s what the extra 4th substitution in extra time should be used for.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Can still remember Anderton's goal in 1998 like it was yesterday. I had £20 on him to score first and England win 2-0 @ 50/1. Still my biggest single bet win in the last 20 years and not come close since.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,841
    edited July 2018

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/02/gareth-southgate-england-avoid-traps-colombia

    'Again it came back to the Iceland game and the mistake many people made of assuming England were set for a quarter-final against France in Paris. Hodgson and his assistant, Ray Lewington, did not even bother going to the Iceland-Austria game to make a personal check their next opponents, preferring instead to spend the day sightseeing and going on a boat journey down the river Seine'

    How the hell did that bloke manage us for two tournaments?!

    Do managers actually go to watch other games during a tournament through, as opposed to sending a scout? In this WC especially, the distances would make it pretty difficult.
    To not even watch the game though?
    All that Guardian article said was that Hodgson and Lewington didn't go to the Iceland match, it didn't say that they never watched it.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,841
    JohnBoyUK said:

    Can still remember Anderton's goal in 1998 like it was yesterday. I had £20 on him to score first and England win 2-0 @ 50/1. Still my biggest single bet win in the last 20 years and not come close since.

    I'd only have put £20 on Anderton, if it was a bet that he'd be injured
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    stuck a 5 quid free bet on england 3-1 come on lads
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/02/gareth-southgate-england-avoid-traps-colombia

    'Again it came back to the Iceland game and the mistake many people made of assuming England were set for a quarter-final against France in Paris. Hodgson and his assistant, Ray Lewington, did not even bother going to the Iceland-Austria game to make a personal check their next opponents, preferring instead to spend the day sightseeing and going on a boat journey down the river Seine'

    How the hell did that bloke manage us for two tournaments?!

    Do managers actually go to watch other games during a tournament through, as opposed to sending a scout? In this WC especially, the distances would make it pretty difficult.
    To not even watch the game though?
    All that Guardian article said was that Hodgson and Lewington didn't go to the Iceland match, it didn't say that they never watched it.
    The evidence is in the performance and the defeat.
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  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596
    JITTERS
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596
    3.1

    Kane hat trick
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    I'm trying to enjoy the last few hours where part of me believes we are going all the way
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Raheem Sterling has his 41st chance to proves he's as good as he, his agent, Pep,and Gareth Southgate think he is.

    Tonight must be the night or else just another player who doesn't step up to be international class.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126

    Raheem Sterling has his 41st chance to proves he's as good as he, his agent, Pep,and Gareth Southgate think he is.

    Tonight must be the night or else just another player who doesn't step up to be international class.

    Yep, Guardiola, Southgate and every scout in football is wrong and you're right.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668

    Raheem Sterling has his 41st chance to proves he's as good as he, his agent, Pep,and Gareth Southgate think he is.

    Tonight must be the night or else just another player who doesn't step up to be international class.

    Yep, Guardiola, Southgate and every scout in football is wrong and you're right.
    Actually I think he is.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,625
    2-3 to Colombia due to a dodgy keeper and hesitant defence
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729

    stuck a 5 quid free bet on england 3-1 come on lads

    Free bet? You absolute mad man.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,672
    I'm so bloody nervous, only made worse by watching how shit Sweden & Switzerland are. We can't let this slip!
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    edited July 2018
    I rate Southgate but I think the main issue with Sterling is that he has played him upfront / off of Kane. That's not his position.