TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM

[Duderonomy]

Yeah, still in shock. Been my whole life waiting to beat Germany at the knockout stages. A controlled performance, Sterling needs to be kept as far away from our goal as possible and I wasn’t sure Kane was playing for most of the match. Glad to see the BBC commentators rightly criticizing his performance for a change, very happy to see Grealish come on and make the difference.

But for all the plaudits Sterling & Kane will get, the rest of the team is having to provide tap-ins for them. Sterling was much better today, but Kane is like playing with 10 men.

On the plus, watched Sweden vs Ukraine and Ukraine do not scare me.

 

[ppadilha]

clearly this will be a fairy tale Euro for England.
Just like 2016, when they got to be part of Iceland's fairy tale run, this time around they'll get to meet Denmark in the semis and be the supporting cast in another beautiful story...

 

[Duderonomy]

Boooo!

 

[Jimster]

My understanding was that "It" was coming home.

Start Grealish FFS.

'Kin 'ell, SWE v UKR was nod-off material after the first half. What are they going to do, BORE England to death?

 

[DOR]

Jimster said:


Start Grealish FFS.






!!!!
I love the energy he brings for everyone (Players and fans). I can't put down their play yesterday, but the energy does rise with him on the field. It was great having players like Shaw step up and have a great game as well. And Pickford is having such a great tournament.
IT'S

 

[Duderonomy]

COMING

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

TO DENMARK

 

[DOR]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTUnnryhMxE

:'-)

 

[ketan]

picture duder sitting in Montreal on the night England go through and the Habs lose the Stanley Cup :bonus:

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

I didn't have to watch last night, I just noticed the tonality of the hootin' and hollerin' in the neighborhood. From the noise I guessed 2-1 england and was right.

 

[Duderonomy]

Drinking happened. Met a weird coke-head Russian, and a dude from Tunisia “loving the freedom” of being away from his homeland - beer in hand, chowing down on a hotdog. Discovered that Ubisoft is still a going concern and that G’n’Ts, IPAs, and whisky with pickle-juice chasers produces a well-rounded hangover.

 

[Duderonomy]

The Canadians lost to a team from Tampa. TAMPA? Understand it was nearly a series shut-out, so not a total disaster. Would’ve loved them to have won so I could witness first-hand Quebeciose getting rowdy.

 

[ketan]

Duderonomy said:

so I could witness first-hand Quebeciose getting rowdy.



check out the tam tams once social distancing relaxes. i can't remember the name of the parc but follow your spirit and you'll get there.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

heavy "st george flag as cape" street fashion today.
my hope is, given the game starts right as my kid goes to bed, three goals to one team (either) in the first 15-20 minutes. that way there's no need for game drama and therefore gut-shot-squealing neighbor drama past 8:30 or so. just nice boring possession ball for 75 minutes, polite celebration that's already been deflated by 75 minutes of boredom, and my kid gets a night's sleep.

 

[Jimster]

Fair play to Italy. England were on autopilot for the second half and were punished.

Pennos are a shithouse way to decide it but ours were weak

Deliberately toned down my own emotional investment in the whole affair and feel much better for it.

#FILTERTHERAGE

 

[Duderonomy]

Italy played a great tournament of positive attacking football. I’m sure the manager having faith in his players to be offensive works better on the psyche than “Ok lads nobody crosses the halfway line unless I say so, whatever you do DON’T take risks and we might win”, which seemed to be the English tactics for most of the tournament.
I like Southgate but looking at the talent he left sitting on the bench and it’s criminal. Like peak Barca being limited to only one of Xavi, Messi or Iniesta on the pitch at the same time. Bringing on Sancho & Rashford at the death, they’ve barely touched the ball and then they’re chosen to take penalties? Poor decision IMO.

Getting to the final was a brilliant achievement but I never felt that emotionally involved because of the safety-first style. Ukraine game aside, nothing much got me out of my seat. Even that game felt a bit easy, and the German side we beat was a shadow of the team the won in 2014.

As a fan I want, along with the risks, the joy of:

Kane/Bamford
Sancho - Grealish - Foden/Saka
Mount - Bellingham/Phillips
Shaw - Mings/Maguire - Stones - Trip/TAA
Pickford/Pope

I don’t watch football for the pleasure of backwards passes.


Finally, winning this would’ve been good, but it’s not the big kahuna. I want the World Cup. The players should take all the regret from this and use as fuel for Qatar. Southgate needs to have confidence in the talent at his disposal.

 

[Jimster]

Qatar is a colossal scam, bribed their way into hosting the tournament and will have all the atmosphere of the dark side of the moon, and I ain't talking Floyd. Yet nobody cares. I think England winning it is not possible. The environment and the tactics are not conducive.

This squad are not good enough at creating chances, it's been the elephant in the room since the last world cup and the team were exposed for what they are once more last night.

Thank fuck it's over. The media hype around the minutae of the England squad was getting unbearable. Fucking "Sweet Caroline"... I couldn't be part of that, as a player or a fan, plus the fake patriotism... It's a slippery slope into excusing the government any accountability for their self-serving scheming under the veil of accusations of "Not being a team player"... thank fuck I can't kick a ball straight.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Yeah the other thing is the media frenzy/patriotism fever has obscured the elephant in the room of the gov deciding the best way forward after 18 months of restrictions is to give up responsibility for controlling coronavirus and just letting it run rampant through children and young people (of which apparently 7-9% get long-term, possibly permanent effects).

Honestly it's absurd but I genuinely think if England had won there'd be a lot less room for further debate about whether 100,000 cases+ a day is cool or not, so it was overall a good thing they lost.

 

[Jimster]

Most people are stupid selfish cunts, no?

Nobody on the Strut, of course.

 

[DOR]

I'm just kinda blown away by many of Southgate's decisions throughout the tournament. How do you put Sancho and Rashford on so late (Did they even touch the ball more than once?) and then expect them to score such important goals with a few minutes of playing time?
But the real inconceivable decision of having a 19 year old kid that has pretty much zero penalty experience take the 5th slot like that. That shit is now possibly going to sit with that kid for most of his career (Tho, I really hope not). Saka was one of my favourites on the team. Loved his hustle. He didn't deserve that put on him. Should have put him 1st up 2nd and leave the final slot to Kane or somebody else.

Mix all that with his usage of Grealish and it all just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.