Russia World Cup 18

[Ronnie Whelan]

Looks to have been about as good a World Cup as we could have hoped for.

 

Lovren and Henderson aside none of our players have really stacked up loads of games/minutes.

 

No injuries.

 

A lot of our rivals best players are stuck out there for the maximum possible time.

 

Ingerlund squad full of Spurs, Mancs and Belgium same with key Chelsea players too....France has a couple of Chelsea as well.

 

Gonna be some real disruption to those teams at start of season assuming they will be looking at 3 weeks holiday then you are talking back at clubs just 1 week before season starts.

 

Could work out very nicely for us that.

Great world cup to watch and this has been the best thing. Lots of our rivals having their players run into the ground. A load of injuries now in this final set of games would be boss.

[Guest]

Great world cup to watch and this has been the best thing. Lots of our rivals having their players run into the ground. A load of injuries now in this final set of games would be boss.

England and Belgium will go at each other like Tyson and Holyfield and maybe a few ears will be lost.

[Gym Beglin]

I thought he was pretty decent. Certainly more dangerous than Sterling when he’s near the opposition’s goal.

 

I thought Alli stank the place out for the whole tournament, one goal aside.

Alli was appalling in every game.

 

We missed a link player, and that’s where the injuries to Lallana and Chamberlain come in. He might have been better off to have gambled on Foden or Wilshire. Massive gambles though.

 

In hindsight we were lucky with injuries at the tournament, basically the same 11, but you can’t pick a squad based on that notion.

 

Euro 2020 will be interesting as we see Sessegnon, Trent, Sancho, Grey, Hudson Odoi, all developing.

[s(k)aturation]

Absolutely correct, what I should do obviously is back a team from a country that I've never visited and have no connection with whatsoever to express just utterly fucking cool I am.

 

You could argue that England are the worst of the four teams left in it and they're definitely worse than two of them.  Doesn't mean that just because I'd rather they win than lose, I immediately turn into some twat with a union jack hat and an Aldershot FC St George flag.

 

Who said it was 'cool' not to support England? It's nothing to do with being radical and more to do with what and who they represent. I have always been really pissed off that those twats at the FA didn't get anywhere near the amount of culpability as they should have over events in 1989 either. I have little emotional investment in international football and have always considered myself British with an Irish heritage. I think there are a fair amount of Merseysiders who probably feel similar but may have other reasons too. It's not about 'coolness' to me,it's about other and more important reasons, for me at least.

 

 

To give this context, comrade... I used the term "cool" because it was the terminology Robo was using in the post (above) that I was engaging with and directly responding to.  I said nothing about "being radical" either.  

I just said I found it curious.

 

Having said that, on reflection - yes you're right in the case of Liverpudlians specifically and the Irish heritage context, and such things.

 

A similar phenomenon perhaps to Barcelonans and Spain.

[Pidge]

Trippier starts?

 

Fuck off.  Dickhead was acting like his leg was falling off in the last game...

 

Belgium have gone strong, but England have a proper midfield for a change.  Think this'll come down to how knackered Kane is and how useless Sterling is.

 

edit: and how disinterested Hazard is of course.

[TheHowieLama]

Trippier starts?

 

Fuck off.  Dickhead was acting like his leg was falling off in the last game...

 

Hopefully it does in the first half -- then Alli and Kane run into and all three are out til Christmas

[TheHowieLama]

Hendo -- WTF??

[manwiththestick]

Tottenham players will hopefully have a massive hangover come start of the season.

[RoboRiise]

That was predictable.  This could be brutal.

[J-V]

Hahaha Dier aye. Tottenham contingent doing what they do best

[J-V]

Southgates a coward. Perfect chance to start Trent.

[manwiththestick]

Sterling will score today now the pressure is off.

[TheHowieLama]

Gonna need a bigger lion

[El Rojo]

Looking forward to collecting the first token for my Harry Maguire Of Hearts commemorative plate in the Mail tomorrow.

[Anubis]

Looking forward to collecting the first token for my Harry Maguire Of Hearts commemorative plate in the Mail tomorrow.

Cheapskate. Buy the Franklin Mint commemorative pocket watch. Just five instalments of £39.95.

[Anubis]

Kane has caught Raggetyitis.

[Pidge]

His deal with the devil doesn't cover July or August it seems.

[TheHowieLama]

Christ - Sterling

[clangers]

I'd forgotten there's a reason why Young was picked ahead of Rose.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Christ - Sterling

Watching our game v Bury. What happened? The daft twat miss another sitter?

[dockers_strike]

Sterling is utter gash. He is not good enough to play as the second striker at this level. Delph looks like a lost kid and if people think hendo passes the ball back too much take a look at Dyer. Rose is totally out of his depth. I do not see what people rave about Loftus Cheek either. Goodness me Bobby Brown Shoes on course to be the 3rd best manager at this World Cup. I think my head has just exploded.

[Anubis]

Watching our game v Bury. What happened? The daft twat miss another sitter?

Let's just say the corner flag needed time to recover.

[RoboRiise]

Sterling passes when he should shoot, shoots when he should pass and when he can't decide which one he shouldn't do, he just runs.  I still can't believe how much we turned City over for; if he was Czech or something he'd be a £10-15m player.

[clangers]

if he was Czech or something he'd be a £10-15m player.

Shaqiri's a much better player than Sterling.

[manwiththestick]

Shaqiri's a much better player than Sterling.

Some would say twice the player.