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  1. I doubt a mid table Premier League club are going to spend big money on Cash, they will be looking for better value elsewhere. A top club is not going to come in for him and no club outside the Premier League will be able to afford his wages.
  2. There’s plenty of speculation about Russia having FSB officers on location during the attack. The guy who arrested and cut off one of the terrorists ears certainly does resemble a guy recorded at the massacre calmly watching it unfold.
  3. The crew issued a mayday signal which alerted the traffic controllers that the ship was having a mechanical failure. The traffic controllers were then able to stop traffic approaching the bridge, but there were 7 cars that had already gone too far.
  4. You now get money for generating clicks on Twitter
  5. I don’t think you can expect to win a tournament and claim he has underperformed by not. Losing the final against Italy at Wembley is the only match that sticks out at a tournament and it was on very fine margins. England 2018 was virtually the same squad who were humiliated by Iceland so perhaps he overachieved in that tournament? In Qatar they went out to my pre tournament favourite in France (again on fine margins with your captain and best player missing a penalty). I don’t think you should claim he underachieved in Qatar. So, as you yourself noted, England should have gone further than they did in tournaments from 2004-2016 but since Southgate I would argue they have been going about as far as you’d expect them to (with a frustrating penalty shootout loss in the 2020 final being the biggest disappointment).
  6. So to summarise, we all agree England underachieved in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2014 and 2016 (I had forgotten them losing to Iceland ) then Southgate shows up in 2018 and suddenly they are making semifinals and finals of major tournaments.
  7. It wouldn’t surprise me if a manager like Southgate would have topped that group in 2010 and avoided having to play Germany in the first knockout round. Instead a very average USA side top the group and got an average Ghana in the knockout.
  8. England 2010 WC - win one match (scraping past slovenia) to get pumped by Germany in the round of 16. England 2014 WC - win no matches and out of the tournament after round 2 of the group stages. 2008 England couldn’t even qualify for the Euros. It’s not hard to imagine Southgate doing better with those tournaments.
  9. Probably because we play about 10 mins more injury time this season each match. Would also possibly explain why every club is in injury crisis.
  10. Southgate doesn’t get England ‘punching above their weight’, though he has them winning the matches you’d expect England to win on paper. I’m not his fan but to give him a little credit that is far better than his predecessors managed. I would also suggest this is potentially because international football is a unique set of circumstances/challenges for a football manager. What makes a good club manager doesn’t necessarily translate to international football tournaments. It’s not actually a guarantee that a new manager takes England forwards from here.
  11. Not the LBGT rainbow but the Telegraph was suggesting it resembles the trans and lesbian flags.
  12. Supposedly the first draft of the design had the flag as a rainbow colours and the FA knocked it back. Surely they must know En-gur-land football fans are not known for their progressive politics? It was an entirely predictable result. I don’t really know how such a big company like Nike could make such a mess of it.
  13. You have to wonder though why Nike have done this. They must have known what kind of reaction they would get changing a countries flag, they are not completely tone deaf. Are they marketing on the idea that all publicity is good publicity? Was it a boozy long lunch dare between design executives? I can’t imagine this kit is going to be a big seller for them though.
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