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Butler has not a clue what his favoured first 11 is and more so a consistent system so players can gel into it.
Isn’t that what pre-season friendlies are all about? Got a few piss about games to form a conclusion.
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Mourned up here on Tyneside too.
The term “Legend” is often overused, but not in this case.
RIP.
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Two of the top ranked teams making it to the final was always the most likely outcome. That’s to do with the original draw for the competition and the implementation of “seeded” teams. If you think that is fixing it for the top ranked teams, fair enough. Despite seeing some odd refereeing and VAR decisions the only nation to benefit from the direct intervention of FIFA was the USA.
The next World Cup will mark the centenary of the competition yet there have been only eight different winners. Three from South America and five from Europe. It is FIFA’s job to promote WORLD football and as long as the winner keeps coming from those two continents it could be argued that they are not doing their job.
They expanded the tournament to 48 nations this time round yet the winners will be one of two who first appeared in the 1930s.
FIFA would love to see a country from outside of Europe or South America win it but I don’t see it changing.
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Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson!
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It’s entrenched into the mindset of many people these days that they definitely need next day delivery. So these wagons are rattling along our roads 24/7.
As I-A says you can’t turn back the clock. The consumer genie is out of the bottle, so A-O, let’s go!
Our little village has double length artics coming through it at all times. They are loaded with timber from Kielder Forest going to the chipboard factory in Hexham. One bloke in a machine loading them up in the forest, one driver, one man in a machine unloading at the other end. Three wages. What would a freight network cost to run? And yes, there was a railway line between Hexham and Kielder but it closed in the “golden era” of the 1960s.
Not sure if Tuchel had got everything right up to 30 minutes from time last night.
The opening 4-2 win over Croatia was a bit of a “here we go” moment, but since then England were pretty much carried by 3 or 4 players. Games against Ghana, Panama and DR Congo were the usual “just did enough”, and the Norway tie was basically a PL game where we got the lucky breaks.
The fact that he chopped and changed both sets of wide players and the defence leads you to believe that outside of Pickford, Rice, Anderson, Bellingham and Kane he has no idea of what his best XI is.
Decision making is still poor considering these are professional footballers, and creativity is in short supply. Between Gordon scoring on 55 minutes and the final whistle England had 12% possession. That’s piss-poor! Andorra or San Marino level at best.
I don’t think Tuchel is any better than Southgate. If DS was vanilla, then TT must be pickled onion!
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We played the same as we did against Panama against the reigning Wold Champions.
No wonder we conceded two late goals!
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Lorries getting bigger every year, and more of them.
The damage they do to roadsurfaces becoming more obvious, yet being roundly ignored by the authorities, or blamed on car drivers.
And all while rail freight yards lie empty and derelict, both here and in Europe.Stop buying shit off Amazon!
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Good to see England using the tried and tested Scunthorpe United tactics!
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In a double benefit initiative I understand for a fiver a go you can have a slash on the pitch square you’ve bought.
For a minute there I thought Guns n Roses were appearing at the next weekender!
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