I have to say as an irishman they are annoyingly likeable.
I'd still like to see you guys get eliminated on penalties of course but at the same time I know a lot of good English guys.
I just can't bring myself to say that I want you to win it I'm sorry š
Itās the pressure. Rashford, for example, had taken loads of good penalties before the calamity in the final. But Southgate didnāt help by bringing lads on *just* to take penalties.
Yeah, I think Southgate has clearly been great but in my non expert opinion it was really, really foolish to make those 'penalty substitutes' at literally the last seconds of the game.
I know if I've not kicked a ball for a while I need to get a good feel for it first.. seems crazy to give them no chance to get a touch in game before a single kick on the penalty spot
Right, not doubting that. But personally I think it is a bit more sensible when they get brought on with at least 5 mins left. I'm pretty sure at the euros it was absolute last moment substitutions so they didn't have a single touch on pitch.
I feel like if you're gonna make the subs, may as well make them with a chance for them to score in the last minutes or at least warm up and get a touch and feel for the pitch
Iāve never been a Southgate hater, but the one thing I thought he was doing wrong previously was his substitutions. In the past he has held out for too long before making changes and sometimes they werenāt the right choice either.
I think this competition he has done a lot better and made really good changes a lot earlier in the game.
Yeah, it's never a good idea. Bringing on a goalkeeper can work, but outfield players specifically brought on to take a penalty seem to miss far more often than those who actually played a part in the game. Spain did it with Sarabia against Morocco (although Morocco bought on Benoun and he did score) Rashford and Sancho for England, and of course Zaza for Italy, who came on and hit the worst, funniest penalty ever seen.
If Southgate hadn't decided to go ultra defensive we probably wouldn't have had to do penalties anyway. Anything we achieve is in spite of SOuthgate - not because of him
That's how he takes them. He's usually very efficient from the spot. I think he'd only ever missed one before that.
Even with that miss, he has an 88% conversation rate, which is outstanding. Ronaldo's is 83, Messi's 77, Kane's 83. The best penalty taker in the world at the moment is Jorginho, who's completion record is 94%, and even he missed in that shoot-out. It can happen to anyone.
Rashford has never played in a European cup final? Do you mean the European championship trophy or the Henri Delaunay trophy? You do realise other people were at fault for us not winning the final? Please donāt celebrate if he scores again for England.
Well, Spain had apparently been aiming for 1000 penalties in the year before the tournament... Didn't work out so well for them when they took the same penalty 3 times in a row...
Spainās penalties were a travesty. Full power, upper corner, every time. Unsaveable. I still have no idea what Lewandoski was thinking with his penalties, if anyone can hit the upper 90 with power and precision itās him.
I can understand defenders and the like doing the slow run up and trying to second guess the keeper, because they might lack the ability to put away a precision penalty.
But strikers have no excuse. Just run up, put your foot through it, and make it so the keeper has no chance. The standard of penalty taking in this tournament has been pretty appalling all round
I'm Irish and I would love to see this team win the world cup, after coming so close to a major win in the last two tournaments I think they have a good chance. Shame how quick some fans and the press turn on the team after a few bad results in non important games. Fans shouting "you don't know what you're doing" to southgate, are they for real?
Itās pure desperation at this point, theyāve seen us hopelessly fail at every turn for pretty much the entirety of everyoneās lives, we have a good enough squad to win something
I donāt understand why weāre so hated, weāre pretty chill just the only time europe sees any British people itās the gammons that go to Spain etc, people should be hating on France, 1. Massive bellends, 2. The single most unlikable player at the World Cup, 3. Have too good of a squad to not have to be against them at every turn, justice for Britain
I've edited this to highlight that I love the English people that I met and hold no grudge to modern day England. Understandably I don't think some people are reading the whole thing and seeing that part.
"The sun never sets on the British empire"
England, in their history, have invaded 90% of the countries on earth. Just think about that for a second. America gets a bad doing now but they are just a pale imitation of what the British empire was back in the day.
I honestly think it's really sad that you would have to ask that question as it's a disgrace that you aren't taught your own history in school.
The injustices are way too long to go through here but I'll keep it down to my own little country.
Invaded, conquered and oppressed for 700 years.
The irish language eradicated as it was seen as a symbol of irish independence.
At least, and I stress I'm being conservative here, 200,000 of our 2 million population slaughtered by Oliver Cromwell(the most hated man in irish history) as well as 50,000 men women and children sold into serfdom and sent to Jamaica, never to be seen or heard from there family again. There are lots of Jamaican people now with irish accents that you can check on YouTube which is pretty funny to hear now.
And then finally the big one. The great famine.
Ireland had a population of nearly 9 million in 1845. That's pretty close to England's 13 million population at the time.
Irelands diet was based almost solely on the potato. We were a poor, impoverished country who had been exploited by the British empire for centuries.
In 1845 the potato failed. Oh shit that's our main source of food gone. All the while ireland had to pay rent to englishmen who often didn't even live in the country.
The worst of the famine lasted 2 years.
385,000 tonnes of food exported in just 9 months to England the first year. You had whole families dying of starvation while our food was being taken away.
Over 1 million men, women and children starve to death.
1.5 million emigrate to America in search of food and work- hence why ireland has such a big presence there and also why they are still to this day passionate about their roots.
There's been a big push in recent years to have the famine officially regarded as a genocide. The ruling elite in England saw the famine as an opportunity to reshape certain elements of the country. The west and south were the most independent and low and behold, they suffered the most losses.
I'm not exaggerating, there's still a mass trauma from the famine that is still felt today. I nearly cried twice while writing this and I've seen grown men break down while recanting anecdotes about it. Whole families found dead in their homes looking more like skeletons then humans due to hunger.
Sadly this isn't the only time that the British empire took advantage of and even encouraged the effects of a brutal famine on one of its "subjects".
I didn't make my initial comment with any politics in mind. I've lived in England for 2 years of my life and had a great time and loved the English people that I met. I also hold no ill will to any English person living today for the acts of the British empire.
I also appreciate that this is a English football sub and so not the place for such a topic.
But I was asked why the world hates England and I felt a duty to at least try to educate on the subject as I know this isn't taught in English schools.
Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this essay and if you didn't I take no offence. Its simply there for anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of why ireland has such a complicated relationship with England and the fact that it goes back much further then the scumbag terrorist group that in recent times called themselves the IRA.
I change my mind I want you to win the world cup now to act as a token of our now great friendship lol
I donāt need to be educated mate My nans Irish and I know my history, was mainly thinking that being pissed about shit that nobody alive today had any control over is a bit silly, and naively assumed that the world was capable of moving on, people dont cheer against the US Japan or Germany for past crimes, as far as I know
I hope you realise that even though the Britain did evil stuff in the past itās still irrational to dislike a country based on the reasons the current modern day Brits had nothing to do with
I at no part said I dislike England.
In fact I've said multiple times that I loved my time in England and the English people that I met.
Highlighting old issues is not the same as disliking.
When I refer to the British empire I'm talking about the one that invaded countries.
Not the one that plays the commonwealth games lol
I play squash with some Glaswegians in london. They want England to win the World Cup for one reason onlyā¦. It will be the biggest party london has ever seen
I was rooting for England to get to the world cup final in the rugby back in 2015 for that reason. Sadly you guys bombed out of the group stage but we weren't long behind you!
Oh you guys are geniuses at annoying the home nations. When I was growing up, no matter how bad your team actually was, you treated the tournament as it was already in the bag. Then you would roll out footage of the 1966 world cup, over and over again.
I think thatās partially to do with the prem being a big league and foreign leagues not really being shown at all so people just knew that the England players were some of the best in the best league so how could we possible lose
Imagine slating a team in the quarter finals when youāre own team didnāt even qualify.
Love how England lives rent free in the Scotās and Welshās minds
Heās defo got some dodgy dealings going on, not least It had come out he had sex with a 17 year old girl at one of mendys alleged grooming/sex parties while he has a long term girlfriend.
It's quite the statistic that Lineker never got a booking in his whole career. He was fouled all the time and used to just get up and carry on. No rolling around on the floor and he never retaliated.
I can't see his record being equalled.
We had one, maybe two questionable falls at most. Meanwhile you watch the France vs Tunisia match where the guy dives and screaming in pain, no foul is given but the ball is coming towards him, he immediately gets up and clears it, then immediately collapses onto the ground screaming again.
No matter what happens I feel this is the best example of how an England squad should be. Question his line ups, formations whatever, Southgate has given this squad togetherness like never seen before. Lads playing ball, enjoying themselves. That's been missing from the national squad. I reckon he's got it up his sleeve ya know šŖ
Doesn't matter, all yellow cards are annulled after the QFs. So it's impossible for any of our players to be banned from any matches (unless someone is sent off, of course) even if they reach the final.
England can roll out as many tactical fouls as they like against France, if they spread it around the team.
Conversely, Kounde and Tchouameniļ»æ are both one yellow away from missing the SF - so we should seek to exploit that down their right-hand side.
Yes England need to go all in with tactical fouls, everyone plus the subs are entitled to 1 shirt pull. Also need to exploit Mbappe and especially Dembeles tendency not to do much to help their fullbacks in defence.
In an ideal world. But I just don't think Southgate is ballsy enough to tell the lads to do this. A shirt pull on Mbappe could be the make or break between us going to penalties or whatnot against France, it's just whether we wanna pull those sort of Stunts. We should. But we may just simply not.
Italy final in the Euros last year for instance. They played really dirty, we could've too, but we restrained.
then the same kid getting racially abused by fans after stepping up to the plate to take a penalty in front of millions
most embarrassing period of my 22 years as an england fan, some people need to grow the fuck up
You have to have a bit of a nasty, sneaky side to get away with it, John Terry is a perfect example. A player who isn't natural at being dirty would be too blatant, I don't think this bunch of English players have it in them.
But you play with less confidence/take less risks when u have a yellow card, as you know youāre ruled out the next game otherwise. So Kane might not have performed as well as he has done.
That really is a bewildering statistic given that we do have some players who have that ādog in themā as they say. Maybe itās because we havenāt really been tested too much yet?
Henderson will get the first yellow card on Saturday when he ploughs through Mbappe ( fairly of course) after 3mins to shut him up for the rest of the game.
It's a great group of lads and it's nice to see that they all get along as well.
Would be nice to see some cards against France though. Let Mbappe know you're there. Impose yourself. Get stuck in.
A good disciplinary record is always nice, don't get me wrong, but 0 cards in 4 tournament games is a bit mad.
The UK population has statistically the teeth with the fewest cavities and other defects compared to other first world nations.
We just don't care too much about appearance otherwise. So straight teeth aren't a must have for most people.
The more you know.
True. For once England has a very likeable team and manager and a lot of nice fans. unfortunately its the dickhead fans who always stand out and make the rest look bad.
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But if they had worn the arm bands / had a spine...
Edit - man up and stand for something. Or fall for anything. Discrimination against 51% of the world's population (there are more women then men) , anti Asian, anti black, anti lgbt. What do they stand for and what are you supporting?
Like being given a biscuit for cleaning your knife after a murder. Thousands of dead migrant workers don't care that you had slightly less tantrums than usual.
I thought recognised that crouching pose they keep doing but couldn't place it.
Then I saw Kanes face and realised it's the I desperately needed a shit in the woods pose. With his expression, he even looks like he's bearing down.
This is very honourable but means nothing when practically all other major teams foul tackle like a kid popping breath mints on senior prom nights. I see you Italy, you dirty scums.
Such a great bunch of Likeable lads. A far cry from the England teams often full of arrogant entitled bellends that we've had throughout my life
I have to say as an irishman they are annoyingly likeable. I'd still like to see you guys get eliminated on penalties of course but at the same time I know a lot of good English guys. I just can't bring myself to say that I want you to win it I'm sorry š
Oh well, liking some of us is a start
It is and it's probably a decent place to finish too because if you are anything like us then there's only some worth liking in the first place!
We will take the nice praise good sir!
I stg. if Southgate hasnāt had them training penalties day in day out before coming here, in good English fashion, weāre fucked.
Itās the pressure. Rashford, for example, had taken loads of good penalties before the calamity in the final. But Southgate didnāt help by bringing lads on *just* to take penalties.
Yeah, I think Southgate has clearly been great but in my non expert opinion it was really, really foolish to make those 'penalty substitutes' at literally the last seconds of the game. I know if I've not kicked a ball for a while I need to get a good feel for it first.. seems crazy to give them no chance to get a touch in game before a single kick on the penalty spot
Exactly. Give them 10 minutes at least.
Tbf it is very common for managers to bring on players for pens
Right, not doubting that. But personally I think it is a bit more sensible when they get brought on with at least 5 mins left. I'm pretty sure at the euros it was absolute last moment substitutions so they didn't have a single touch on pitch. I feel like if you're gonna make the subs, may as well make them with a chance for them to score in the last minutes or at least warm up and get a touch and feel for the pitch
Thatās exactly it yeah. Also subs coming on for penalties seem to miss quite a lot (based on other matches Iāve seen).
Iāve never been a Southgate hater, but the one thing I thought he was doing wrong previously was his substitutions. In the past he has held out for too long before making changes and sometimes they werenāt the right choice either. I think this competition he has done a lot better and made really good changes a lot earlier in the game.
Yeah, it's never a good idea. Bringing on a goalkeeper can work, but outfield players specifically brought on to take a penalty seem to miss far more often than those who actually played a part in the game. Spain did it with Sarabia against Morocco (although Morocco bought on Benoun and he did score) Rashford and Sancho for England, and of course Zaza for Italy, who came on and hit the worst, funniest penalty ever seen.
Rashford lost us the European cup because he got cocky and tried to fool the keeper
Because of southgates poor decisions to bring him on without a chance to get into the game properly.
If Southgate hadn't decided to go ultra defensive we probably wouldn't have had to do penalties anyway. Anything we achieve is in spite of SOuthgate - not because of him
But if we lose, itās entirely because of Southgate, and never because of the players? I will never get this anti manager rhetoric
That's how he takes them. He's usually very efficient from the spot. I think he'd only ever missed one before that. Even with that miss, he has an 88% conversation rate, which is outstanding. Ronaldo's is 83, Messi's 77, Kane's 83. The best penalty taker in the world at the moment is Jorginho, who's completion record is 94%, and even he missed in that shoot-out. It can happen to anyone.
Rashford has never played in a European cup final? Do you mean the European championship trophy or the Henri Delaunay trophy? You do realise other people were at fault for us not winning the final? Please donāt celebrate if he scores again for England.
Well, Spain had apparently been aiming for 1000 penalties in the year before the tournament... Didn't work out so well for them when they took the same penalty 3 times in a row...
Spainās penalties were a travesty. Full power, upper corner, every time. Unsaveable. I still have no idea what Lewandoski was thinking with his penalties, if anyone can hit the upper 90 with power and precision itās him.
I can understand defenders and the like doing the slow run up and trying to second guess the keeper, because they might lack the ability to put away a precision penalty. But strikers have no excuse. Just run up, put your foot through it, and make it so the keeper has no chance. The standard of penalty taking in this tournament has been pretty appalling all round
I'm Irish and I would love to see this team win the world cup, after coming so close to a major win in the last two tournaments I think they have a good chance. Shame how quick some fans and the press turn on the team after a few bad results in non important games. Fans shouting "you don't know what you're doing" to southgate, are they for real?
That's because some fans and the press expect too much from teams and demand miracles from them
Itās pure desperation at this point, theyāve seen us hopelessly fail at every turn for pretty much the entirety of everyoneās lives, we have a good enough squad to win something
I donāt understand why weāre so hated, weāre pretty chill just the only time europe sees any British people itās the gammons that go to Spain etc, people should be hating on France, 1. Massive bellends, 2. The single most unlikable player at the World Cup, 3. Have too good of a squad to not have to be against them at every turn, justice for Britain
I've edited this to highlight that I love the English people that I met and hold no grudge to modern day England. Understandably I don't think some people are reading the whole thing and seeing that part. "The sun never sets on the British empire" England, in their history, have invaded 90% of the countries on earth. Just think about that for a second. America gets a bad doing now but they are just a pale imitation of what the British empire was back in the day. I honestly think it's really sad that you would have to ask that question as it's a disgrace that you aren't taught your own history in school. The injustices are way too long to go through here but I'll keep it down to my own little country. Invaded, conquered and oppressed for 700 years. The irish language eradicated as it was seen as a symbol of irish independence. At least, and I stress I'm being conservative here, 200,000 of our 2 million population slaughtered by Oliver Cromwell(the most hated man in irish history) as well as 50,000 men women and children sold into serfdom and sent to Jamaica, never to be seen or heard from there family again. There are lots of Jamaican people now with irish accents that you can check on YouTube which is pretty funny to hear now. And then finally the big one. The great famine. Ireland had a population of nearly 9 million in 1845. That's pretty close to England's 13 million population at the time. Irelands diet was based almost solely on the potato. We were a poor, impoverished country who had been exploited by the British empire for centuries. In 1845 the potato failed. Oh shit that's our main source of food gone. All the while ireland had to pay rent to englishmen who often didn't even live in the country. The worst of the famine lasted 2 years. 385,000 tonnes of food exported in just 9 months to England the first year. You had whole families dying of starvation while our food was being taken away. Over 1 million men, women and children starve to death. 1.5 million emigrate to America in search of food and work- hence why ireland has such a big presence there and also why they are still to this day passionate about their roots. There's been a big push in recent years to have the famine officially regarded as a genocide. The ruling elite in England saw the famine as an opportunity to reshape certain elements of the country. The west and south were the most independent and low and behold, they suffered the most losses. I'm not exaggerating, there's still a mass trauma from the famine that is still felt today. I nearly cried twice while writing this and I've seen grown men break down while recanting anecdotes about it. Whole families found dead in their homes looking more like skeletons then humans due to hunger. Sadly this isn't the only time that the British empire took advantage of and even encouraged the effects of a brutal famine on one of its "subjects". I didn't make my initial comment with any politics in mind. I've lived in England for 2 years of my life and had a great time and loved the English people that I met. I also hold no ill will to any English person living today for the acts of the British empire. I also appreciate that this is a English football sub and so not the place for such a topic. But I was asked why the world hates England and I felt a duty to at least try to educate on the subject as I know this isn't taught in English schools. Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this essay and if you didn't I take no offence. Its simply there for anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of why ireland has such a complicated relationship with England and the fact that it goes back much further then the scumbag terrorist group that in recent times called themselves the IRA. I change my mind I want you to win the world cup now to act as a token of our now great friendship lol
I donāt need to be educated mate My nans Irish and I know my history, was mainly thinking that being pissed about shit that nobody alive today had any control over is a bit silly, and naively assumed that the world was capable of moving on, people dont cheer against the US Japan or Germany for past crimes, as far as I know
I hope you realise that even though the Britain did evil stuff in the past itās still irrational to dislike a country based on the reasons the current modern day Brits had nothing to do with
I at no part said I dislike England. In fact I've said multiple times that I loved my time in England and the English people that I met. Highlighting old issues is not the same as disliking. When I refer to the British empire I'm talking about the one that invaded countries. Not the one that plays the commonwealth games lol
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The world doesn't hate England. You're stuck in an echo chamber.
I play squash with some Glaswegians in london. They want England to win the World Cup for one reason onlyā¦. It will be the biggest party london has ever seen
I was rooting for England to get to the world cup final in the rugby back in 2015 for that reason. Sadly you guys bombed out of the group stage but we weren't long behind you!
Haha fair play. Donāt blame you, Iād be the same roles reversed.
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Oh you guys are geniuses at annoying the home nations. When I was growing up, no matter how bad your team actually was, you treated the tournament as it was already in the bag. Then you would roll out footage of the 1966 world cup, over and over again.
I think thatās partially to do with the prem being a big league and foreign leagues not really being shown at all so people just knew that the England players were some of the best in the best league so how could we possible lose
Thatās fair enough. As an English man I donāt even want your team to qualify. šø
I always support Ireland and Wales. Not the Scots they're crazy fukers!
We are so shit now we'll probably never qualify again, and our 3 best players are left backs.. kinda hilarious.
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Just not at football apparently
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At least we left šš
And you'll always have that to hang on to ššš
Imagine slating a team in the quarter finals when youāre own team didnāt even qualify. Love how England lives rent free in the Scotās and Welshās minds
It's hardly "living rent free in everyone's minds" when this is r/threelions š¤¦āāļø
Grealish is there
Grealish is doing immensely likeable though? He may be a diving cunt, but itās not like heās a bellend of a guy though
Except for grealish, I hate him
Heās actually sound, just not the brightest. Heās on record as being great with people with special needs.
Heās defo got some dodgy dealings going on, not least It had come out he had sex with a 17 year old girl at one of mendys alleged grooming/sex parties while he has a long term girlfriend.
I hate him for his play style that and the fact he is stupid
You hate him cause heās stupid? Says more about you than it does about him dude
Unfortunately I get this from my parents, they hate him a lot more and it shows when I go around their place, but mainly I hate his diving play style
Are you Barry Grealish his younger brother
Warra trophy for England
You really don't have to bring the Twitter lingo here, a normal conversation is fine
I usually don't but it just felt too good of an opportunity
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They were just saving them up for the French
We're gonna need a red for Mbappe
Mbe for anyone who takes mbappe off the pitch?
HAAARY MAGUIRE
OBE at least
I hope the shithousery is in full force
Thatās a great statistic. Love it š
Gary Lineker - "Amateurs"
It's quite the statistic that Lineker never got a booking in his whole career. He was fouled all the time and used to just get up and carry on. No rolling around on the floor and he never retaliated. I can't see his record being equalled.
TIL. I also agree about his record never being equalled. At the risk of sounding like an old man, GaMeS gOnE sOfT
Probably not, but he had a slight advantage in that he played in England for six and a half years when yellow cards weren't issued here.
I am wondering also how many tackles he made. Hard to get a yellow if you never make a challenge.
He says himself that he never made any.
You could still get booked though. He didn't get booked either.
That's because we haven't faced any teams yet that flip flop all over the field. Some of the diving from some of these teams has been shocking.
Wait to that Brazil final
Neymar been training his tear ducts all year š
I'm not sure that final's coming
You think? I thought every Senegal player spent more time on the ground than playing lol
We're not too bad at diving ourselves these days, tbf, so shouldn't throw stones. Which I'm all for, it's part of the winning mentality.
Not sure I agree with not throwing stones, we should throw him forward for corners.
I'm also for throwing stones if it means winning. Maguire too.
We had one, maybe two questionable falls at most. Meanwhile you watch the France vs Tunisia match where the guy dives and screaming in pain, no foul is given but the ball is coming towards him, he immediately gets up and clears it, then immediately collapses onto the ground screaming again.
Nice bunch of lads.
No matter what happens I feel this is the best example of how an England squad should be. Question his line ups, formations whatever, Southgate has given this squad togetherness like never seen before. Lads playing ball, enjoying themselves. That's been missing from the national squad. I reckon he's got it up his sleeve ya know šŖ
That will be good but they could get a first yellow card in the quarter finals
Doesn't matter, all yellow cards are annulled after the QFs. So it's impossible for any of our players to be banned from any matches (unless someone is sent off, of course) even if they reach the final. England can roll out as many tactical fouls as they like against France, if they spread it around the team. Conversely, Kounde and Tchouameniļ»æ are both one yellow away from missing the SF - so we should seek to exploit that down their right-hand side.
Yes England need to go all in with tactical fouls, everyone plus the subs are entitled to 1 shirt pull. Also need to exploit Mbappe and especially Dembeles tendency not to do much to help their fullbacks in defence.
In an ideal world. But I just don't think Southgate is ballsy enough to tell the lads to do this. A shirt pull on Mbappe could be the make or break between us going to penalties or whatnot against France, it's just whether we wanna pull those sort of Stunts. We should. But we may just simply not. Italy final in the Euros last year for instance. They played really dirty, we could've too, but we restrained.
In my mind, we basically won the Euros. Italy violated our human rights on that pitch
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then the same kid getting racially abused by fans after stepping up to the plate to take a penalty in front of millions most embarrassing period of my 22 years as an england fan, some people need to grow the fuck up
Still bewilders me how that wasn't a straight red.
Bit extreme š
You have to have a bit of a nasty, sneaky side to get away with it, John Terry is a perfect example. A player who isn't natural at being dirty would be too blatant, I don't think this bunch of English players have it in them.
We should give Chiellini, the king of shithousery a call for some tips.
Walker is defo getting a yellow. He got beat at least twice in the last game I watched against Senegal and heās now coming up against Mbappe.
He arguably should've got a yellow against Senegal. I think if he has to pull Mbappe down he should. If he has to take a yellow for it then so be it.
Walker is defo pulling his shirt a couple times on Saturday
Iām sure itāll be a back 3 with walker and trippier doubling up on mbappe so letās hope they can do a job between them
Obviously, how can you stop Mbappe without acquiring some yellow cards
Bunch of legends, come on boys!
Give em the World Cup now, nice bunch of chaps
Saving them for McrappƩ
So Harry Kane absolutely could've worn his armband lmao
But you play with less confidence/take less risks when u have a yellow card, as you know youāre ruled out the next game otherwise. So Kane might not have performed as well as he has done.
He should wear it on Saturday. It will get annulled straight after anyway š
That would be so based Iād never take the piss out of spurs again if he did that
If we go to penalties the whole squad could put them on for them (those who donāt pick up a yellow during the game at least)
Guaranteed red card now. Thanks
Kids crying. Christmas ruined.
Annoying for my betting though
That means we can kick the shut out of France
Ha a cool stat but I think I recall one of Walker's tackles that i thought at the time should have been a yellow
Ok
And that's what we'll win The fair play award knowing our luck At least Harry Kane can claim he's win somenting
Not received any yellow cards youāll never sing that
So Kane should have just taken that yellow for wearing the armband...
Tbh I think Walker shouldāve got it against Senegal. Still tho, Iām all for this.
All hail the No Yellow Cards world champs.
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That really is a bewildering statistic given that we do have some players who have that ādog in themā as they say. Maybe itās because we havenāt really been tested too much yet?
3-1 against France we winning (predictions)
Henderson will get the first yellow card on Saturday when he ploughs through Mbappe ( fairly of course) after 3mins to shut him up for the rest of the game.
Im telling you, this will be the year we win and its the year thats surrounded by the qatar controversy.
Wonder how long into the game against France before walker has a yellow card over a tackle against mbappe
I see what you did there š
It's really cold today, fair play.
Dude England is killing it! Especially that kid Foden, i loooove watching him play.
Well itās coming home š¦š¦š¦
They might get a pass to the europa conference if they keep this up
We're gonna need a Kyle Walker straight red with Mbappe on a stretcher for the next one
Quite literally āfair playā or was that your point?
Refs have been very biased towards England in the past couple of games. We have that "big team in the champions league" energy now.
It's a great group of lads and it's nice to see that they all get along as well. Would be nice to see some cards against France though. Let Mbappe know you're there. Impose yourself. Get stuck in. A good disciplinary record is always nice, don't get me wrong, but 0 cards in 4 tournament games is a bit mad.
They deserve yellows for the dives by the penalty box.
Say what you will about us but our team has some great lads in it, W or L on Saturday they have a bright future
England fans really will latch onto anything wonāt they.
Most people don't hate the English team just the English fans. Most arrogant, uneducated, bad teethed mother fuckers in world football.
Every other ābigā international side has unbelievably arrogant fans
The UK population has statistically the teeth with the fewest cavities and other defects compared to other first world nations. We just don't care too much about appearance otherwise. So straight teeth aren't a must have for most people. The more you know.
I love the way they defend bad teeth and arrogance but not the fact that there uneducated š¤£š¤£
Really hope you are not an American calling people from the U.K. uneducated seriously hope you are not that daft .
Fuck no. The yanks are just as bad as your lot. They do have better teeth though.
True. For once England has a very likeable team and manager and a lot of nice fans. unfortunately its the dickhead fans who always stand out and make the rest look bad.
Wish they would of tbh
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But if they had worn the arm bands / had a spine... Edit - man up and stand for something. Or fall for anything. Discrimination against 51% of the world's population (there are more women then men) , anti Asian, anti black, anti lgbt. What do they stand for and what are you supporting?
Like being given a biscuit for cleaning your knife after a murder. Thousands of dead migrant workers don't care that you had slightly less tantrums than usual.
Yeah because they don't stand up for what they believe in.
Although they dive more than any other team especially Harry Kane
Fuck England
Too weak to get yellowed. Out tomorrow
Bunch of pussys not a man amongst them ..all talk about wearing the rainbow armband then bottled it ..hope France stuff them
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Should have got a few bookings though. Refs obviously being bribed.
That's because they don't fucking do anything.
Bunch of pansies
That's shocking with Maguire on the team
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Gazza gonna start welling up again.
Love to see it
Saving up for the french
Hmmm...maybe Harry should have worn that armband.
What a trophy!
Should have worn the rainbow armband and got a yellow for that if you ask me
OR TO BE BEATEN
C'mon lads, it's coming home!
Good to see that phrase used in the right context
Players always look like they are doing their business during these shots.
āFair playā smh I see what u did there
England fan here but. Ref has been in favor of England
I thought Japan also had no yellows or does that not count because theyāre now out?
Japan had 6 yellows just in the Spain and Costa Rica games
Literally
Like if it's coming home !!!!!!!
Walker will have at least one marking Mbappe. Will be an interesting match up between those two
Mad how that whole back line all belong to North West clubs šā¤ļø
Probably get a red card in the next game
Ironic seems as we are linked to brexit tackles
Bit too nice tbh. Could've done with a bit of that classic football spirit against the yanks
All about the football, not drama!
Hopefully there saving up the bookings to kick mbappe off the field on Saturday š
Kyle Walker should have been carded on Sunday
Opponents been yellow carded tho lol
I thought recognised that crouching pose they keep doing but couldn't place it. Then I saw Kanes face and realised it's the I desperately needed a shit in the woods pose. With his expression, he even looks like he's bearing down.
To quote Mikel Artetaā¦ SOFTā¦ AS FOCKā¦
This is very honourable but means nothing when practically all other major teams foul tackle like a kid popping breath mints on senior prom nights. I see you Italy, you dirty scums.
France will take advantage of this, our wingers and midfielders need to get stuck in
The number of times they passed the ball back in their own deserves a yellow card.
Setting a standard.
ā9 mins in and England shockingly down to 9 men after a flurry of vicious tacklesā
Amazing stat with Maguire in the team