The_jagster

And also produced the Drawing Of Lots to decide 2nd and 3rd

Sort of, but they also have the experience having done it before so shouldn't be caught out on the negative aspects of being holed up for a tournament. The concern for me is that he's replaced Trent for an actual midfielder, then Gallagher for one of Mainoo/Wharton, and we still look bad. This doesn't look like a team which can just be tweaked a bit to be good. Maybe they are holding some effort back for the latter stages when they need it, I hope so.

They play a solid 4-4-2 and he's drawn someone out of position, what's the problem

Insigne cut inside, Spinazzola was right footed, it all makes sense

Don't know if it's self-awareness in that an excitable but rubbish local radio commentator having an autobiography is in itself an example of the title.

This scenario essentially happened last Euros and Austria ending up winning the game rather than the mutually beneficial draw

Pasting on a phone is awful, sorry

Spot the common team in both Pos Team v t e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 England 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 4 Advance to knockout stage 2 Republic of Ireland 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3[a] 3 Netherlands 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3[a] 4 Egypt 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2

Technically he's not great

But in the good half of the draw we will still face teams like this,think even Belgium would play on the break against us

I agree in principle, and I'd like to see it tried, but we're so slow moving it the passing option will be closed off by the time it's on

Yes, but it's like Baptista and Grealish, what they can do in theory doesn't happen in such a slow England team when attacking.

Fundamentally feel a yellow and free kick is too lenient for cynical fouls like that

He's been awful in the 4 halves since but we've been so pedestrian his one good half was also the only time we looked good

Is Wharton going to make that much of a difference? I don't think I've ever seen him over a full game, don't know what his weaknesses are

Pundits should be saying how great we are to fill them with confidence. I mean Slovenia aren't too fussed about winning but this is absolute *****

Gallagher will still get booked within 2 minutes

They did start/trial a rule where keepers could charge out a loooong time ago but it then went too far the other way in favour of the keeper.

Thought it was nailed on for Gakpo to dive for a pen there

Former Villa man!

Is that what happens to England whatever or are you arrogantly assuming we see off the so called weaker teams in the group

Turned over to Austria, rewarded with two goals and the "thugs" anecdote

Which is in turn stolen from US baseball

I'd go for a walk but it's humid and horrible (and I have sunburn from yesterday despite having no direct sun on me all day!) Football plus internet distractions it is

Nah, it would be that we can't break teams down and we need to let the handbrake off, albeit with some people saying we still created chances