World Cup 2018 | 28th June | England vs Belgium Match Thread, KO 19:00 (BST)

[Don Karleone]

Yep. I get your point. There is clearly media bias for Rashford over Sterling.
But my way round it. Is to totally ignore the media. Why does it matter what they think ?

It isn't just the media. It permeates through the whole England fan base.

 

[cleavers]

Yep. I get your point. There is clearly media bias for Rashford over Sterling.
But my way round it. Is to totally ignore the media. Why does it matter what they think ?

Its hard to ignore when its virtually rammed down your throat.

 

[davymcfc]

Disjointed performance tonight. Not many players on the fringes staked a claim to get in that starting 11. Belgium’s second string deserved winners.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Tbf Rashford has rightly been criticized on motd

And tbf to rashford they'd be better wondering why as a team we can't get the ball to the forwards in decent positions with any regularity in open play. Vardy and rashford weren't great tonight but really they were feeding off scraps imo. Kane has barely touched the ball in open play in the tournament so far and Sterling keeps having to drop to the half way line to get any touches. The reality is that this England team and the way it is set up is shit and the best players we have i.e. Kane and Sterling are being totally wasted.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Its hard to ignore when its virtually rammed down your throat.

F*ck em.
Letting them win by complaining Rashford shouldn’t be getting praised.

 

[The Colonel]

Unfortunately we're not beating Colombia, Southgate has shown tonight how we'll set up against big teams and we were completely dominated

Hardly

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Hardly

We had one shot on goal the whole game.
Aside from the missed rashford chance we never threatened Belgium.
I forsee disaster against Colombia

 

[The Colonel]

I've seen it said a fair amount on here tbh. I wouldn't be pushing for us signing him but I wouldn't be dead against it either. But I do think bluehammer is missing the point. I don't think this is about city fans hating rashford or about rashford being a united player. It is merely about the difference in the way the two are treated relatively by both England fans and English pundits. The ridiculous way that shit things rashford does are turned into something to praise is just another way to shit on Sterling imo and pretty fucking snidey way at that. I can't find it in myself to want anything other than England to get utterly destroyed at the soonest opportunity purely because of the way Sterling is treated and rashford being constantly praised for fuck all is part of the equation.

Bob on.

 

[The Colonel]

We had one shot on goal the whole game.
Aside from the missed rashford chance we never threatened Belgium.
I forsee disaster against Colombia

How we set up? Do you think that we’ll see that side again?

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

How we set up? Do you think that we’ll see that side again?

I hope not! I have no idea how we will set up against Colombia tbh