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Whereas I appreciate your thoroughness, I got as far as working out that C like B couldn't meet sooner than the semis but gave up when I started to look whether E could meet sooner.

Group winners and group runners up cannot re-meet until the final. Where the third placed team goes is less clear due to the nature of there being 4 from 6, but it is possile that the third in group A plays first in group A in the quarters, for example, whereas third in group B cannot play another group B until they get a semi.

I'm I right in thinking that Albanian supporters would have this match as their most keen to win of the three? Do these two nations have much bad blood between them?

The Czechs were at the Scotland level of bad tonight. Portugal should probably have had five.

Murphy: "Inches, maybe centimetres"

For those watching via iPlayer; is there an option to turn off Danny Murphy? (And keep the crowd noise, like you can on Amazon.)

It would be nice if the ref would start to clamp down on the Serbian aggression.

6-3

10 goals in 2 games

Game of two halves, this one.

Oh yes, Andy Townsend FFS, what was that about? He must have had some photos of somebody high up at ITV or something.

Tyldesley has me all nostalgic for old school commentators. They don't make 'em like they used to. He and Townsend make a good pairing.

Kane only had 15 goals going into World Cup 2018 and finished to scorer so I don't think it matters that much, they all have to start somewhere. If you look at the number of club goals the England players have then it doesn't seem so bad either.

I was surprised to see that Hungary are the outside bet for today's game.

5 points Total number of goals scored - 148 3 points Tournament Winner: England Top Goal scorer winner: Harry Kane Top Assist: Kevin De Bruyne Total number of penalties (excluding shootouts) 2 points Tournament runners up: Portugal Team with the most goals: England Team with the most conceded: Serbia 1 point A player who receives a red card: Aleksander Mitrovic Team with most yellow cards: Serbia Scorer of the 10th Goal: Meteo Retegui Scorer of the 50th Goal: Dusan Vlahovic Scorer of the 100th Goal: Cristiano Ronaldo Who will score more goals - Austria Who will concede more goals - France Who will receive more yellows - Serbia

My last A-level exam finished at about half time, so I recall watching it in the school gym with others who had been in there too. My head was kettled. We had our leavers prom on the night we played Colombia, we watched that crowded around a small TV in a back room of the hotel the party was at. It's the only thing I remember about the night.

That's what all European stadiums to the east of Germany, Austria or Italy should look like.

When there's a tournament about to start, as now, and a colleague asks me a totally legitimate work request for a piece of work, like "could we have that by Wednesday?", I feel put out by it and feel like saying "don't you know there's a tournament about to start?!". Irrational but i've always felt like this.

Something we don't know is the impact of players being dropped on the morale of those that are left. If one or more of them made a Gazza-esqe scene then that can be quite unsettling, especially for what is a young squad.

Hope so, that's the line up I want him to pick

Haha. Still excited.

Meh, the game is not going to be remembered much in three weeks time anyway.

The lack of protection has been a big issue tonight. Rice has ventured too far forward too frequently, and if he doesn't have a midfield partner that can be in position to fill in when he does then this is what will happen.

Kane's work when deep and around the box was outstanding tonight.

I'm excited. Love a summer tourney and England are geniuley in the group of favourites for this one. The excitement for England has also amped up since I quit watching club football. I used to struggle to get 100% behind certain players, but now my problem is that I have never seen some of the players play