Helped by a Russian linesman who held grudge ;-)
We've got a pub area hired out with a bunch of Danish clients with us. will be good fun.
The team are playing as if they don't know each other. What time the fuck is going on in training who knows.for those concerned about my disappearance!
fair to say it was a heavy one.
Positives - Harry Kane off the mark, Walker and defence good again, Top of the group, Unbeaten. the Danes i was with enjoyed it.
Negatives - we was poor again, slow, gave away the ball loads- i wasn't against Trent in the middle as i like his range of passing and he can score - but i concede it doesn't look like it's going to work for him there.
I think GS will make a few changes against Slovenia
I'll be the forums biggest sheep shagger come the 6 nations Jim ;-)Didn't have you down as a bitter sweaty Gaz?
;-)
Pep: Win Every game. Take risks. Make Mistakes. The more risks we take the more we'll win than lose.
Waistcoat: Play safe. Don't make any mistakes.
No wonder our players are confused.
I get where he comes from on a lot of stuff. We'd all probably pick slightly different squads and systems and tactics so there's never going to be universal agreement for what an England manager does, and overall his record has been second to Sir Alf. You can talk about easy fixtures and a lack of getting over the line in certain games, but there have been good England squads in previous decades who haven't got out of groups or have been far worse. This isn't the best collection of English players ever, when you look at the technical ability of the likes of Spain and Germany we're miles off - no one wants to keep the ball for starters.
But whilst most of us are incredibly critical (rightly), he is willing to just ignore it and back the team - I would imagine as you say he'll take the point as it means we're pretty much assured of qualifying one way or another.
Could be a job coming up soon, interested ?When City lose (apart from the Cup final this year) it takes me a couple of hours at the most to get over it.
Normally when England lose it takes me a couple of minutes.... not this game. This game I am still fuming about. Partly because I feel that Wasted Waistcoat is definitely wasting the best players. Kane is past it, River needs a kick up the back side, (he is not a bad player, not good enough for City but..) Bellthingy needs to be put out to pasture and shown how his oversized ego needs to pipe down, Phil needs to forget that some of them are older than him and take them by the scruff of the neck and show them how it's done. Kyle wants to put his arm round a couple of players and say look this is how we do it, RUN for goodness sake. John Boy welll let's face it he's perfect. ;-) and look how he has shown Guehi to follow in his footsteps.
Trippier wasn't too bad just needs to forget the rest and concentrate on his game. Rice, well he might be better with fried chicken and Saka did have a couple of good passes.
That's my take on a miserable night and it is probably not what you think but hey ho it is my opinion. :-)
EDIT: Plus every single player, even those who didn't feature in as many matches as a certain three players were flaming well tired from exhausting seasons. It's time they had a summer off.
Well, here's my prediction as to how it will pan out (for what it's worth):
England will scrape past Slovenia, and will qualify for the knock-out rounds.
England will win the tournament, largely thanks to some other fancied teams being surprisingly knocked out - and of course a couple of Kane penalties.
And Southgate will receive a knighthood in the next New Year's Honours List.
Remember - you heard it here first.