England national team

[Meanwood Villa]

Morissey did his Finsbury Park performance at Madstock that summer with the Union Jack flag wrapped around him. Was bottled off after performing National Front Disco.

Now that's social history

[brontebilly]

You are correct that he hasn't done anything yet, and when we finally do meet any of the favourites we might get bitten by our lack of defence, but I will also point out that although aging, it is the first time we have beaten another team ranked in the top 15 for 24 years at the World Cup. The last time was when we beat Argentina in the first match in 2002. And attacking wise, Tuchel did deliver more then we have had for the last 8 years or so. Even when we beat Iran 6-2, we barely created much more. We had almost as many shots on target against Croatia then we had just shots againt Iran.

Are these group stages maybe just a level above Nations League or friendlies in terms of how competitive they are? It was a good win but no more than that. Arguably Tuchel got away with a couple of strange selections like Stones and moving Bellingham into a midfield two could have cost him against a better team.

For all the talk of how fortunate Southgate was, that defeat to France when Kane missed the penalty was unlucky from memory.

[Brazilian Villain]

Wasn’t Gareth Southgate’s biggest fan but I am a bit perplexed by talk in the media “Tuchel has an extra edge over Southgate”. Tuchel has done nothing yet but it’s once again Press and Media going over the top after one ok win against aging Croats🤷🏽‍♂️

You are familiar with the media coverage of the English national team at major tournaments?

[Monty]

Villa players aside, I would love to want the former African colony to stick it to the old imperial bastards, on Brexit Day of all days. I'd really love to - but Ghana have Thomas Partey in the team and it's just, man, it's just so depressing.

[paul_e]

Villa players aside, I would love to want the former African colony to stick it to the old imperial bastards, on Brexit Day of all days. I'd really love to - but Ghana have Thomas Partey in the team and it's just, man, it's just so depressing.

Yep, everything else ignored I want Ghana to get absolutely destroyed every game and for him to be personally responsible for a good percentage of the games. I get the common argument of innocent until proven guilty and in many cases I would agree with it but his specific scenario does lean much more clearly towards no smoke without fire.