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Oliver looks stressed

It's hail and it's a whole April's worth of rain. Might be difficult to design a stadium to cope with that

She's not come to her senses yet. We're camping

That thunder and lightning is coming my way from 1am tonight. Might need to exit my tent smartly

Germany just going around the Danes. Why didn't we do that?

Schmeichel saving with his face

Not sure anybody knows why...var is daft

More excitement in 7 minutes than 3 England games

Gundogan Standing in front of the keeper

We've dropped a place though

One is 10th in the rankings, one 19th. I'll leave you to work out which is which. Maybe international football isn't for you? Retire with Southgate and all is forgiven

Switzerland if we bore past Slovakia...guy has the lack of the devil

I've not seen or heard too much but I think they weren't expecting much beforehand and have been pleased. I've certainly seen an increase in the number of german flags in cars in the last couple of weeks.

I'll be watching this in a bar surrounded by Germans so come on Deutschland

Or it's a matter of opinion and people are entitled to theirs. The majority believe he's a failure. I believe he's a failure. He should be competing at the highest level, that is making the final and playing good football with the skills at his disposal. Anything else isn't good enough.

How long is it since we won something? Much longer than any of those countries you mentioned.

He took a risk in bringing Shaw and it didn't pay off but he should've taken another left footed left back to mitigate the risk. It was foolish and will maybe cost him.

I've answered this already but the forum is messing me around on my mobile. A squad of players to choose from was definitely thr best we've ever had. The squad he actually chose has limitations. There's a reason the rest of Europe has us down as favourites. Or should I say had. They're baffled as to why we're so poor.

Shams he didn't select them then

I said we have the core of an amazing team. Gap in central midfield is down to the ***** selected there. Bellingham, rice with mainoo is an excellent 3, I've not seen anything of Wharton but people seem to rate him too. Leftback is the issue in the squad of course. Which squad is it inferior to then? Bellingham alone is the best player we've had. What other Englishman has torn it up at Real like he has this season. Yet he's being played in a different way.

I've watched England for a long time. We've only looked good in 2 tournaments. Under Sir Bobby Robson when the hand of god ****ed us over and under Venables when football was coming home but it didn't. It was still enjoyable though. Every other tournament from 1980 onwards has been dour and drab. Several times we've gone in thinking we have the players this time to challenge and we've failed miserably and the manager has gone as a result. For many years we didn't have the players in the 80s and 90s particularly, certainly not the depth that we have this time. Kane, Foden, Bellingham have been this season 3 of the best players in the world, throw in Saka, Palmer, Rice, Stones and yes, even Walker and you've got the core of an amazing team. Since the premiership was established, England have failed to make proper use of their resources. However this time, we have probably the best squad of players I've ever known, yet we're dragging our knuckles along the floor with no ambition or purpose other than let's scrape a win and 2 draws against mediocre opposition. We made Eriksen look world class ffs. Southgate is a defensive, negative, boring coach who has picked the wrong squad of players to have a balanced team and is digging his heels in rather than deciding to change his mind. We should have coasted into the round with lots of goals, great confidence and a rosy feeling that this year is ours. We're the exact opposite and that's fully on the manager. His limitations have been seen before in previous tournaments and yet we persevered with him, that's on the FA's head.

Yep well done Southgate. The other manages were crap and you've been a modicum better. Let's give a round of applause. Why can't they all be crap?

Slovakia then. Southgate must have the luck of the devil. If we can't make the final, even playing like *****, he needs retiring to the Conservative MP retirement wood yard

Can he call up Rashford as a replacement? Straight in on the left...

Winning always helps morale and we aren't doing that. Also, I'm sure the players aren't enjoying trying to play this system either.