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Nah, Marcus Rashford is ace.

If you look for reasons to hate something, you'll always find them. The players tonight are not Boris Johnson, they're not Brexit, the National Front, the Queen, a failed legal system, horrible chants, bigotry or malice. They're a group of professionals - which include the Liverpool captain and a fella who campaigns for feeding underprivileged kids - with a limited career life span, reaching one of the pinnacles of the game. That's it. That's all they are. Anything else is projection.

I hope every gobshite who laughed their bollocks off at Gerrard and us in 2014 and who sing about how he fell on his arse, and the same gobshites who thought it was so, so funny when Karius handed Real Madrid the European Cup, who also pissed themselves when we got 97 pts and couldn't win title and who flooded social media demanding null and void when we were on verge of title are absolutely gutted tonight. Fuck them, fuck ingerlund.

Winning the crocodile soft toy throwing competition at Pontins Prestatyn Sands. My greatest, well, only, sporting achievement.

Just watched Nomadland and part of the theme of the film is the experiences people remember as part of their lives. For me, in terms of sights, the three things I always immediately recall are: 1. Watching the Space Shuttle Discovery take off in Florida. I was a few miles away at one of the popular observation points, but it was still an absolutely amazing sight in the early Florida morning. 2. Kilimanjaro. Not the mountain itself, which is pretty impressive, especially seen from the air as you’re coming into the airport, but rather get above cloud cover and you can look out across the top of the clouds and it’s like an ocean of cloud. You feel as though you could wade out into it and start swimming. Almost surreal. 3. Kilimanjaro again. This time the night sky above cloud cover. No obscurity. No light pollution. Just the incredible sight of the universe (or our little part of it) laid out like a tapestry. You just never realise how full the night sky is until you see it like that. I wondered what it is for other people. Events, sights, experiences?

What an absolutely magical end to the weekend.

Well in Luca

I'm watching some of these fan gatherings thinking that it would nice to actually get those eight German bombers back in the sky for a day, fully loaded.

How is Chunks these days? Not seen him for a while

Fuck the haters. I'm Welsh by birth so was disappointed they didn't go further but I now genuinely hope England win it. The feelgood factor for the country is a massive boost after the last 18 months of shite. I won't be singing or cheering any of them on with the exception of Hendo if he scores and / or gets to lift the trophy. But I'll be watching avidly and hoping they win. There's plenty of time to go back to hating other clubs and their players and all the horrendous shit that surrounds the game in a few week's time. Some of you need to chill the fuck out and just try and enjoy something good happening in the country.

I won’t be enjoying myself. Antiques Roadshow isn’t on tonight due to the football.

It’s going to Rome, it’s going to Rome, footballs going to Rome.

I feel sorry for the kid.

As Paul said - brilliant thread idea. After I’d finished Camp America in 98 I went travelling on my own. Went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. You get given a passport style book with the indentity of someone who had been there at the start and read about them as you go through the museum. At the end there’s a mini cinema area where you watch a short film before reading the last page of the passport you were given and find out what happened. There was only one other old guy and I watching the film, when the lights came on at the end we just started a polite chit chat and he asked me what happened to the guy in my passport. I told him he had been killed and asked him what happened to his? He then pulled up his shirt sleeve to show me his identification tattoo. Was so fucking surreal and moving.

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Was also at the M.E.N when Mr " I fight for me wife and me kids, never forget" got sparked clean out:

So you don’t stand arm in arm with any evertonians on anything then? Anyway, I’m not arsed - each to their own. I understand the viewpoint, but I don’t share it anymore. I hate and stand against all the things you mention, but it’s fuck all to do with the English football team for me. I can hate Boris Johnson with a passion, feel forever angered about the despicable Hillsborough cover ups, and feel total contempt for dead headed and outdated chants about Liverpool slums and signing on, while still following the England team at a tournament. You think the Italians haven’t got the same skid marks within their national and recent history? I won’t feel guilty for not hating everything English. It isn’t shameful to be English. I obviously live away these days, but the buzz around when I’ve been out and about this morning is brilliant. Everyone letting each other out at junctions and in Aldi car park, cars playing that 3 lions. It’s lifted the mood big time. I’m going to get involved too - few scoops in the local with the neighbours this avvy, then round to the in-laws to watch the game later.

I've got Phil Neal on the phone. Shall I put him through?

Get in! Great to see Man United letting everyone down. FORZA AZZURRI!

Stand with Evertonians? Not on football issues no....some social issues of course, because they are mostly cut from same cloth as us - most of the rest of this country are not.....but this is for meabout how the social/politcal and frankly culture issues breed into what wish for football. On top of all the things i have previously mentioned about other clubs fans songs to us, all the politocal and societal stuff etc (i am sure you are aware of it) to me Ingerlund fan culture is the exact polar opposite of LFC fan culture....from all the 'No Surrender' 'On tour' 'For club and country' '3 Lions' shite they display on their George Crosses even when watching their clubs, to their shite generic 'please don't take me home' 'sweet caroline' blah blah blah songs to their 'German bomber' songs etc.... The pundits who are desperate for them to win, cheering on Harry Kane's dives then no doubt next season sitting on Match of The Day calling Mo Salah a cheat and a disgrace for going down.... The national papers and their xenophobic, jingoistic shite.... But to each their own....enjoy your day/evening. As i haven't all tournament i won't be watching tonight, but i'll be hoping Italy win and i make absolutely no apology for that.

In 1966 did the fans of all those other clubs that make up a very, very big chunk of Ingerlunds support week in week out in games v Liverpool sing 'sign on' 'always the victim' 'in your Liverpool slums' etc etc? Had Liverpool as a city been treated like shite by the government for decades? Had the person who was Prime Minister written a piece a few years before in a magazine calling Liverpudlians 'victims'? Had the FA (who the Ingerlund football team is run by) been absolutely up its necks in the cause of and later cover up of the deaths of Liverpool supporters at a game in its cup competition? Had the queen (who the Ingerlish national anthem pays homage to) presided over a nigh on 30 year miscarriage of justice by the legal system that she is 'crown of' around those deaths? Were scores and scores of the Ingerlish public falling over themselves to spite Liverpool by sending in letters to newspapers desperately looking for the 1966 European Cup Winners Cup Final to be won by Borussia Dortmund? Fuck Ingerlund....I hope they get beat tonight and I hope it is in the most heartbreaking way imaginable.

In the meantime, it's been a bit busy sorting out dinner for my queueing bunny rabbits every evening. Demanding little buggers.

The best team over the last 4 weeks and last 120 minutes, won the tournament.

Oh well, I'm sure England fans will take this with a silent and respectful grace and not vandalise anything, batter anyone or spout xenophobic and racist abuse.

Yeah. Made up England lost but wanted Saka and Rashford to score. Would have loved Kane and slabhead missing for Italy to win.

Fireworks round by ours. We are not a patriotic people.

Anyway Back to the real stuff

All things considered, that England team did a fantastic job. Rice, Phillips, the full backs, Sterling and Kane were all really really good. Pickford in the pens. Credit to them.

I just want to say that I completely stand by my hatred of international football, and that goes for big tournaments (where at least the games matter, whereas most of the hatred comes from the pointless friendlies they're always taking our players off to and breaking them) as well. Don't care if England hang on to win this thing in the second half, it's still dreadful. Seen way too many takes on the internet the past week or so about what a great tournament this has been. Sorry, they're all wrong - it's shite, just like international football always is. Harumph.

That's exactly why I hate Ingerland. Gobshite fans who are as we speak storming the security checkpoints at Wembley without tickets. Yet for 30 plus years all we've heard from these types of fans is how Liverpool fans without tickets stormed the gates at Hillsborough without tickets and killed our own. Fuck them.

Lad, I was on holiday in Namibia once and two Bolton fans heard my accent and wanted to kick the shit out of me for them getting relegated in 1998. I had to convince them that I was a Liverpool fan and that I hate Everton as much as them.

If only these retards could channel that aggression towards the billionaire class, bankers, government and anyone else who has been systematically dismantling the UK's standard of living for the past 15 years, fucking numbskulls.

https://twitter.com/Locati0ns this twitter page has got some good ones on it

(1) Having lunch at the bottom of the grand canyon. They flew us down in a chopper and I blew chunks on the decent as I'd been out the night befor, I managed to catch most of it in an Asda bag but it had a hole in it. Flying over it and the Hoover dam though was amazing. We had lunch at the bottom with our pilot who'd been a squaddie in Iraq but retrained as s commercial pilot, and tbis nice chubby American couple. I was conscious walking around down there how relatively few people in history would have done the same. (2) dinner at some posh restaurant at the top of the Eiffel tower. The meal was terrible, nine courses of mostly raw foods, but the view at night was breathtaking. I'd never even been to France before so being up there was amazing. (3) Going on a submarine trip in Fuertaventura. It was a commercial sub that went about 30 metres down and it was crystal blue, could see manta rays on the seabed. There was a shouty German tourist onboard who was bladdered which gave the whole thing a magnificent Das Boot vibe too. (4) The first time I saw Manhatten and the Vegas strip. Vegas is basically a patch of lights with a green hue and a lazer shooting into the sky from a pyramid, slap bang in the middle of a pitch black desert. We had steak at the top of the highest point, the stratosphere hotel in the presence of an Elvis impersonator while helicopters whizzed past the window. First time you see Manhatten in the flesh, there's nothing like it. Driving through urban areas then over the hill and bang, there it is.

Colonel Kurtz, Captain Howdy and the lads getting ready for the big game tonight!

Or Owen, Fowler, Sterling, Gerrard, Carragher or Trent? Nobody knows how Elliot will turn out, why don’t we support him and see if can reach those levels instead of making snide & tiresome comments of failed youngsters?

Gutted with how that ends because McGregor and his dumb fans can actually think he still had a chance when the fact is, he was done. Poirier absolutely dominated him on the ground and McGregor was exhausted as soon as he attempted that guillotine. He's such a horrible fucking cunt and I am absolutely gutted he couldn't continue getting his arse beat so it at least shut him up for a few weeks.

Southgate got just about everything wrong tonight. Spectacular bottle-job.

England win here and Levy will be wanting at least £200m for a Knight of the English realm.

Joe Calzaghe here...

Ferdinand making excuses for the "golden generations" failure. Capello said "excuses are for losers"

If the Mbappe song I’ve been working on all summer with ‘My Girl’ as the original source material isn’t gonna happen I’m going to be proper fucked off. More fucked of than not having the Kabak song, that was a kick in the dick, this would be the final straw.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

I don't why people keeping called "her" Therese. Clearly that is Ken Clarke.

Regardless of the freak accident, McGregor is finished. The blueprint is there on how to beat him and it was going to that script again. That just saved him getting knocked out.