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England v Spain: Euro 2024 Final, 14 July

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  • Let's pick a winner as manager next. Southgate has never won anything major as a player or manager bar one League Cup. He is out of his depth with the young players around him and only still manager because the FA suits like his media friendly image.
  • Williams is the type of forward I like, he plays as a winger and central and Yamal couldn't get away from Shaw 1st half but as the attacks increased in the 2nd half  he received the ball wide and set up Nico Williams for the winner. 
    Dani Olmo had a great tournament after replacing the injured Pedri and did the header off the line.

    I was gutted after losing to Italy at Wembley in the last Euro's but this would've been a mugging and I wonder if Gordon will do a Ben White if GS stays ?
    Had a great 5 minutes in a group game and then no more minutes !

  • we are in an era where people can be circumspect about the quality of the oppositon after losing multiple finals - 14 year old me was in tears and devastated after losing in the last 16 against Argentina in '98 - I won't even go into '96 - that's my era - I can sleep tonight knowing we are on a wildly different projectory now. 


  • Hard to know how to feel after that. As much as we weren't horrific, Spain were comfortably the better team.

    Did we sit back after our goal due to our mentality? Or was it due to the fact our players are absolutely knackered?

    I'll always view Southgate as a manager that brought hope back to the national side. But surely after two final failures he must be ready to hang it up. I wouldn't be totally opposed to him taking one more tournament, but I don't think it'll yield a different outcome.

    I love Harry Kane, but I think this could probably be the end for him (at least as a starter) in an England shirt. We need a striker that can stretch that play and press with intensity. 

    The quality is there in abundance, it is a young squad, but it needs a manager that is going to promote confident, flowing attacking football. 

    Let's hope for the best for the next World Cup and a good season from Charlton to ease the pain.

    Gutted.

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  • Doesn’t sting anywhere near as much as Italy. They were fucking crap. At least Spain were a good side 
    Completely agree, Italy were there for the taking, Spain bossed us 
  • Better team won. Gutted but as others have said, Italy hurt much worse.

    Kane left on too long imo and I'm hoping that's his last major tournament. Spain were simply sublime at times. The speed in which they can move forward was brilliant. 

    We go again in 2 years for the big one.
  • Thank god we have Charlton to fall back on....
  • Croydon said:
    Better team won. Gutted but as others have said, Italy hurt much worse.

    Kane left on too long imo and I'm hoping that's his last major tournament. Spain were simply sublime at times. The speed in which they can move forward was brilliant. 

    We go again in 2 years for the big one.
    Expect a semi final kick in the bollocks by Argentina, no doubt
  • And one final thing - that second Spain goal was superb.

    I was mad losing to Italy. I do think that we had the players to beat Spain, but they did outclass us tonight in the crucial moments.
  • Thank you Gareth for all you’ve done but time for a new voice to take this young group forward - obviously gutted but Spain fully deserved it 
  • Spain win 7 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time.
    England win 1 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time which included being in the poor group C.

    Remember to reset your comments to 60 years of hurt for the next World cup.
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  • First defeat under Labour.

    Starmer Out.

    ;)
    Yer but we got to a final in the first week of new government with no experience of a major tournament. 
  • Gribbo said:
    Croydon said:
    Better team won. Gutted but as others have said, Italy hurt much worse.

    Kane left on too long imo and I'm hoping that's his last major tournament. Spain were simply sublime at times. The speed in which they can move forward was brilliant. 

    We go again in 2 years for the big one.
    Expect a semi final kick in the bollocks by Argentina, no doubt
    Nothing worse than a kick in the bollocks with a semi 
  • I know he's given a much more free role for England, but this is mad stat. 


  • Spain win 7 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time.
    England win 1 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time which included being in the poor group C.

    Remember to reset your comments to 60 years of hurt for the next World cup.
    Two - Serbia and Netherlands.
  • Last time v Italy I was fucking broken. Felt like a massive missed opportunity.

    This time I’m naturally gutted but we’ve stunk for pretty much the whole tournament and shithoused our way through.

    Come up against a better side and the better side won.

    Southgate won’t win a tournament with us. Off you fuck - get to as many finals as you want but we still haven’t won it so who gives a shit. No prizes for coming second 
    To win you have to get to finals first… let’s hope the next bloke is as lucky with the draws and byes to the finals as Southgate at that.
    To win you have to get to finals first… let’s hope the next bloke is as lucky with the draws and byes to the finals as Southgate at that.
    Silly argument when it was Iceland who knocked us out in the tournament before Southgate… fat lot of good a nice draw did for us then
    We’ve had the easiest draws we could have asked for 
    shitness previously doesn’t mean we should accept us being shit in the future 

    we were favourites against Croatia and Italy and failed like we did when even bigger favourites against Iceland 

    yes you can only beat what’s in front of you but we never punch up , we always eventually punch down 

    would I want Southgate to manage Scotland , wales , palace or millwall … yes please everyone of em and twice on Sundays 
    We were favourites against Italy and Croatia. But those were in a final and a semi final. It’s arguable that we only managed to get to those games in the first place because of Southgate.

    We would’ve lost the shootout to Colombia in 2018. We would’ve lost to Germany in the Euros before we even sniffed the final against the Italians. Hell, we would’ve lost to the Dutch in the past midweek or the Swiss before that.

    Ultimately if you don’t win the whole thing it doesn’t matter when you get knocked out but I just know already that we’re going to go back to losing in the Round of 16 and Quarter Final as soon as we try to employ Eddie Howe or Graham Potter.
    We were favourites in all those games you mention , we were undefeated in 1982 and still went out cos of the pony format ,
    England have been beyond lucky with their draws and not capitalised 
    should,have lost in final to France 2018 beaten Italy 2021 and losing to Spain is fair this tourney , there’s nothing majorly impressive results wise with these players against those opponents we’ve faced , of course losing to Iceland is shittier than any of it 
    losing to Germany 1990 and 1996 is fair Argentina 1998 Brazil 2002 as soon as anyone decent comes along we lose in the knock outs , fair enough and we do throw in crap ones but Croatia should have been some and so should Italy , they were under par results .


  • edited July 14
    Spain win 7 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time.
    England win 1 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time which included being in the poor group C.

    Remember to reset your comments to 60 years of hurt for the next World cup.
    Two - Serbia and Netherlands.
    The original post said 7/7 for Spain so it’d be 3/7 for England - Serbia, Netherlands and Slovakia.

    If you’re not including Slovakia for England you can’t include Germany for Spain, making their count 6/7.

  • This is a minge of a tournament anyway , it’s all about The World Cup and Spain are the team to beat , these players with the right manager( if one actually exists) and a favourable draw  could give them a run for their money 
  • Last time v Italy I was fucking broken. Felt like a massive missed opportunity.

    This time I’m naturally gutted but we’ve stunk for pretty much the whole tournament and shithoused our way through.

    Come up against a better side and the better side won.

    Southgate won’t win a tournament with us. Off you fuck - get to as many finals as you want but we still haven’t won it so who gives a shit. No prizes for coming second 
    To win you have to get to finals first… let’s hope the next bloke is as lucky with the draws and byes to the finals as Southgate at that.
    To win you have to get to finals first… let’s hope the next bloke is as lucky with the draws and byes to the finals as Southgate at that.
    Silly argument when it was Iceland who knocked us out in the tournament before Southgate… fat lot of good a nice draw did for us then
    We’ve had the easiest draws we could have asked for 
    shitness previously doesn’t mean we should accept us being shit in the future 

    we were favourites against Croatia and Italy and failed like we did when even bigger favourites against Iceland 

    yes you can only beat what’s in front of you but we never punch up , we always eventually punch down 

    would I want Southgate to manage Scotland , wales , palace or millwall … yes please everyone of em and twice on Sundays 
    We were favourites against Italy and Croatia. But those were in a final and a semi final. It’s arguable that we only managed to get to those games in the first place because of Southgate.

    We would’ve lost the shootout to Colombia in 2018. We would’ve lost to Germany in the Euros before we even sniffed the final against the Italians. Hell, we would’ve lost to the Dutch in the past midweek or the Swiss before that.

    Ultimately if you don’t win the whole thing it doesn’t matter when you get knocked out but I just know already that we’re going to go back to losing in the Round of 16 and Quarter Final as soon as we try to employ Eddie Howe or Graham Potter.
    We were favourites in all those games you mention , we were undefeated in 1982 and still went out cos of the pony format ,
    England have been beyond lucky with their draws and not capitalised 
    should,have lost in final to France 2018 beaten Italy 2021 and losing to Spain is fair this tourney , there’s nothing majorly impressive results wise with these players against those opponents we’ve faced , of course losing to Iceland is shittier than any of it 
    losing to Germany 1990 and 1996 is fair Argentina 1998 Brazil 2002 as soon as anyone decent comes along we lose in the knock outs , fair enough and we do throw in crap ones but Croatia should have been some and so should Italy , they were under par results .


    Italy was definitely the one that hurt the most, but we were only a couple of penalties away from winning the trophy, the closest we’ve been since 1966, and then we’re having a completely different conversation.

    It’s typical England that we’ve won 3/4 penalty shootouts under Gareth and the one we lost was the final in our own national stadium.
  • Spain win 7 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time.
    England win 1 out of 7 in the 90 minutes + added time which included being in the poor group C.

    Remember to reset your comments to 60 years of hurt for the next World cup.
    Two - Serbia and Netherlands.

    You are correct Neil, Watkins scored in the last minute of added time against the Dutch. It's been a long tournament.
  • Alf Ramsey was ballsy dropping Greaves in 1966 for Hurst 
    In Hindsight could Safegate have gambled and binned off Kane at any point .
    Too big a call,  even a shit gambler like me would not have taken 
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