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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Feels like ages since the last match.  It's been 2 nights!  Been spoilt with the 2-3 games a day.

  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    North Lower Neil said:
    Feels like ages since the last match.  It's been 2 nights!  Been spoilt with the 2-3 games a day.

    Agreed. I was angrily flicking through BBC and ITV at around 4.30 wondering why the football hadn't started! Completely forgot I had to wait until tomorrow and had to painfully watch bloody Ben Shepherd and a giant 2p machine instead. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    edited July 2021
    Saw this stat online.

    If we progress past Ukraine, Gareth Southgate will become the most successful knockout football manager in England men’s national team history.

    He already accounts for 25% of all knockout football victories and is tied with Sir Alf Ramsay and Sir Bobby Robson on 3. The remaining three are split between Sven Goran Eriksson and Terry Venables.
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 961
    Callumcafc said:
    Saw this stat online.

    If we progress past Ukraine, Gareth Southgate will become the most successful knockout football manager in England men’s national team history.

    He already accounts for 25% of all knockout football victories and is tied with Sir Alf Ramsay and Sir Bobby Robson on 3. The remaining three are split between Sven Goran Eriksson and Terry Venables.
    Yet Sven stayed in charge for five years. Incredible waste of money and talent.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    edited July 2021
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    Perhaps a way of saying not all England fans are twats. But a bit of a misguided gesture.

    I wish the whole thing would just be dropped. Sometimes I hate the internet. 
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    World's gone mad
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,002
    Saw an interview the other day with Crouch and Grealish, and Crouch said that you'd go off for England duty and Beckham would sit with Neville and the United lot, Terry and Lampard would sit in another group etc but with this lot when you see all the interviews and videos around the team base they all seem like mates regardless of club. The latest one of Shaw talking about Saka is a perfect example.

    Perhaps it helps that so many of them are young and have grown up through youth teams together.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    sinking feesh said:
    Callumcafc said:
    Saw this stat online.

    If we progress past Ukraine, Gareth Southgate will become the most successful knockout football manager in England men’s national team history.

    He already accounts for 25% of all knockout football victories and is tied with Sir Alf Ramsay and Sir Bobby Robson on 3. The remaining three are split between Sven Goran Eriksson and Terry Venables.
    Yet Sven stayed in charge for five years. Incredible waste of money and talent.
    A strange period when you think about. We brought in a foreign manager yet ended up rigidly sticking with 4-4-2, putting a target man up front and tried to find a way to fit in all the big names regardless of whether it made a balanced team.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Should be two really good games today. Hoping Italy and Spain win - still fancy Spain to win the Euros.
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  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    Sven wasn't perfect but he could spot a talented left back.


  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    edited July 2021
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Saw an interview the other day with Crouch and Grealish, and Crouch said that you'd go off for England duty and Beckham would sit with Neville and the United lot, Terry and Lampard would sit in another group etc but with this lot when you see all the interviews and videos around the team base they all seem like mates regardless of club. The latest one of Shaw talking about Saka is a perfect example.

    Perhaps it helps that so many of them are young and have grown up through youth teams together.
    Definitely - it's really good.  Look at Chilwell and Mount comforting Foden after the CL final.

    Say what you like about Southgate being a bit defensive, naive etc (and I'm still torn between thinking we're a bit too defensive and thinking ah well, it's clearly working), but the culture around the squad and team that he's created is absolutely spot on.  Professional, friendly & confident.

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited July 2021
    se9addick said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Never going to happen, but if fans were still not allowed in, it would have been terrific playing a football match in the Colosseum. It can apparently easily accommodate a modern football pitch in terms of space. Ok, back to reality......
    That would be amazing! 
    We went to Rome in January 2019, just before Covid, and it was an amazing feeling visiting the Colosseum. You can imagine Romans entering the walkways and climbing the steps. It is very similar to a modern stadium but of course you have to respect the pain and suffering that took place in it too. I think it is something football fans, who are brought up to love stadia, get a extra dimension from. I know it was the highlight of our trip for my son and I. 

    Sadly, nobody can go because Rome is a great place to visit. Although nothing tops Venice, who I am pleased to see go promoted to serie A. I think they have the best kit in football. I am digressing.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,364
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    Looks like it’s come from a Welsh supporter. Had it not been something involving England then they probably wouldn’t have bothered.

    Strikes me simply as just trying to make a dig at England fans and little more.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    I think it is a nice gesture, but £7k is way over the top. Parents will be taking their kids to games and try to make them cry!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    Thousands of kids (and adults) have cried at Charlton games. Where’s the money for those poor souls?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    Really really weird. Give it to charity or something. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Macronate said:
    Thousands of kids (and adults) have cried at Charlton games. Where’s the money for those poor souls?
    They should know what they're getting themselves in for the moment they enter the turnstiles ;)
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,727
    The internet meltdown over that girl, and the booing of the German anthem, is absolutely ridiculous. People just can't wait to have a moan at England and the English, chomping at the bit to slag us off. 
  • Jdredsox
    Jdredsox Posts: 534
    Croydon said:
    The internet meltdown over that girl, and the booing of the German anthem, is absolutely ridiculous. People just can't wait to have a moan at England and the English, chomping at the bit to slag us off. 
    The minority that took it too far don’t do us any favours though do they?

    what I don’t get about booing the anthem is, you’re not going to intimidate these professionals, at best they’re not going to pay you any heed. At worst you will piss them off and motivate them more. 

    On a different note. Is it 5pm yet? It’s been far too long without a football match on TV. 
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  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,167
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think it is a nice gesture, but £7k is way over the top. Parents will be taking their kids to games and try to make them cry!
    Great news for season ticket sales at The Valley
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    Croydon said:
    The internet meltdown over that girl, and the booing of the German anthem, is absolutely ridiculous. People just can't wait to have a moan at England and the English, chomping at the bit to slag us off. 
    The anthem booing is annoying and disrespectful but many fans of many countries have been doing it for years. 

    The comments about the crying child are massively unpleasant but the only time I saw them were when people saying how disgusting it was reposted them. I suspect that if people had just blocked/reported/ignored it then 99% of people would never have seen them. 
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Today will be an easy day watching football without all the nerves we can look forward to tomorrow. A Spain - Switzerland starter, which like Switzerland's previous match, looks a foregone conclusion. I still expect to see Spain win, but hopefully the Swiss can manage another surprise as Spain look ominously good now they have worked out where the goal is. Followed by Italy against what's left of Belgium after the Portuguese gave them some rough treatment. I hope for a good game - either of these will be tough if we meet them later on. But for the moment, it's just neutral football. Tomorrow will be very different.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    kigelia said:
    Croydon said:
    The internet meltdown over that girl, and the booing of the German anthem, is absolutely ridiculous. People just can't wait to have a moan at England and the English, chomping at the bit to slag us off. 
    The anthem booing is annoying and disrespectful but many fans of many countries have been doing it for years. 

    The comments about the crying child are massively unpleasant but the only time I saw them were when people saying how disgusting it was reposted them. I suspect that if people had just blocked/reported/ignored it then 99% of people would never have seen them. 
    Seems such a simple concept to me but it’s apparently beyond some people - if you don’t like something don’t give it a click, don’t retweet it etc. It’s only going to spread that unpleasant opinion to a wider audience. That’s literally how the internet runs - on clicks, likes and shares.


  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    Rufus is a dogs name said:
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    World's gone mad
    if her old mans cutting about in a galvin green cap i doubt they need 7k

    very strange behaviour by the person who started the fundraiser - as tickets are only on sale to uk residents the child has more than likely lived here a while. 
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    cafctom said:
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    Looks like it’s come from a Welsh supporter. Had it not been something involving England then they probably wouldn’t have bothered.

    Strikes me simply as just trying to make a dig at England fans and little more.
    strikes me as him being a twat 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    https://youtu.be/O2uEcTos9sw
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    CAFCsayer said:
    Scoham said:
    Someone’s managed to raise over £7k to give to the parents of the crying German girl so they can buy a present for her. Weird and unnecessary or am I missing something?
    https://youtu.be/O2uEcTos9sw
    we had a client who was a "medium" and the temptation to do this was often overwhelming
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Macronate said:
    Thousands of kids (and adults) have cried at Charlton games. Where’s the money for those poor souls?
    I've had a blubb more than once...
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    Macronate said:
    Thousands of kids (and adults) have cried at Charlton games. Where’s the money for those poor souls?
    Idle_jr wants to know where his £50k valley compensation is

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