England national team

[darren woolley]

I love watching England I hope this is our year.

[Flamingo Lane]

Why are the media blaming Konsa for defensive frailties? He did absolutely nothing wrong as far as I could see

I agree. I thought he was absolutely fine, and did far more than the much lauded John Stones in terms of using the ball in a positive fashion. The first goal we conceded through careless loss of possession by the midfield, the second was the result of inviting pressure and dropping off, again more of a failure of the midfield.

[LeeB]

Stones got sent to the shops again for the first

[Monty]

It's a funny thing, I can't hate England but I can't love or support them either. I wish them well, but whenever Croatia sored yesterday I felt nothing, genuinely. I like the Villa players to do well, that's the most my emotions get engaged.

[LeeB]

It's a funny thing, I can't hate England but I can't love or support them either. I wish them well, but whenever Croatia sored yesterday I felt nothing, genuinely. I like the Villa players to do well, that's the most my emotions get engaged.

Exactly this.I've been more excited watching the demolition videos of the North Stand.

[Nev]

It's a funny thing, I can't hate England but I can't love or support them either. I wish them well, but whenever Croatia sored yesterday I felt nothing, genuinely. I like the Villa players to do well, that's the most my emotions get engaged.

Exactly this.I've been more excited watching the demolition videos of the North Stand.

Yep.

I stayed up to watch last night but with all the emotion of a house brick. It's interesting from a football point of view and of course I know a lot of people who will feel all the emotion so if England prevail I'd be happy for them.

It's a combination of many things, age predominantly. I've done my time watching in pubs and getting pissed up and pissed on as the beer flies through the air. Then there's donkey's years of watching mediocre players get picked on reputation, the media knowing better than the manager and the cycle of rank dissapointment.

And then there is the objectionable side of the England support and the general direction in which the country is going. A mate of mine, left wing and politically astute was in France in 2016 just before the Brexit vote, singing along with all the others "fuck off Europe, we're all voting out" which was so depressing, to be fair he said he just got caught up in the moment so I'll forgive him but now we have stop the boats, On the charge with Farage and even questions over the validity of the black players in the squad. Of course it's not everyone and we have plenty of wankers down the Villa  but after last night's performance and the increased possibility of England going all the way, I pondered what I would do in the event of them reaching the final and concluded that I would probably stay in and watch it.

Says it all.

[dr.chekov]

Same. I come from a patriotic, monarchist, tory family who were all very supportive of England (or even English clubs in Europe for God's sake). But even as a kid I was devoid of any enthusiasm for anything England. No idea why. I was probably radicalised by the 1970/80s version of social media (BBC's Play For Today?).

[VILLA MOLE]

I think collectively we were poor defensively first half gave them far too much room and couldnt get any kind of rythm.
 
Croatia were tidy on the ball and pass it around well ,  but didnt have the legs to stay with us second half.   Job done but early

days for me .  Lets not get too excited.  Now the North Stand on the other hand .......

[Stu]

From Soccer Guy on FB:

England Soccer Club open up their World Cup World Championship of the world championship with the W as they go kick CrowAsia’s multi-squared uniformed asses real good.

The Three Lines’ hopes of emulizing the boys from back in the summer of ‘69 were given a humongous boost when the Crowasians committed a felony so bad the referee gave tbe Hurrikane two death strikes. Too bad for his golden cleat hopes, the former Soccer Chicken could only go 1 from 2.

The British guys tried to tighten up on dee after their first insertion, but messed up when some guy let fly from downtown and found the SGI for the equalization.

It didn’t stay knotted at ones though, as a Vanilla Rice apex restart was head kicked home by the HurriKane.

Up on the bleachers the English guys were pretty pumped, singing a bunch of songs about how this time they sure were gonna go save that king this time, even though their plays could not go save his wife.

But, with the halftime show in sight, their deefense goofed around some more and the Crowasian’s had them a second equalization play and Tommy Touché was real pissed.

The Three Lines were way better at the start of the second quarter though, dominizing the offensive sector with real sweet kick passes until Real Salt Lake Madrid’s Dude Bellingham found the ballbag from a cute angle.
That how it stayed until after the commercial hydration break when Coach Touché dipped into the subshack, bringing on Demarcus Rashford and DJ Ed Spence.

With squeaky fanny time approaching, Rashford wrapped up the W when his sweet cleats in the DBZ sent some deefense guy to 7 eleven for soda and kicked the soccer ball real nice.

What the fuck is this shit

[Holte L2]

It's a funny thing, I can't hate England but I can't love or support them either. I wish them well, but whenever Croatia sored yesterday I felt nothing, genuinely. I like the Villa players to do well, that's the most my emotions get engaged.

Exactly this too.  I don't proactively want them to fail. But win/lose or draw and I just feel nothing.  I spend ten months of the year worrying about everything that a match going fan does.  When June and July come I really enjoy detoxing and doing things I don't get to do during the football season.  We are on holiday next week in Venice.  I believe the match  on Tuesday Kicks off at 10pm. I'm the one that's offered to stay in with my youngest daughter whilst the wife goes out with the eldest to watch it.

[Monty]

It's a funny thing, I can't hate England but I can't love or support them either. I wish them well, but whenever Croatia sored yesterday I felt nothing, genuinely. I like the Villa players to do well, that's the most my emotions get engaged.

Exactly this too.  I don't proactively want them to fail. But win/lose or draw and I just feel nothing.  I spend ten months of the year worrying about everything that a match going fan does.  When June and July come I really enjoy detoxing and doing things I don't get to do during the football season.  We are on holiday next week in Venice.  I believe the match  on Tuesday Kicks off at 10pm. I'm the one that's offered to stay in with my youngest daughter whilst the wife goes out with the eldest to watch it.

Irish Pub on Strada Nuova is a better bet than Devil's Forest at Rialto, just FYI.

I suppose if they won I would feel something more than if, like, France won. But it wouldn't be huge emotions or effluvia of joy or anything of the sort. Just a moment of cultural recognition I guess.

[Vegas]

I’m a bit more into it than that. Nothing like the involvement and tension you get with Villa of course, but I’d go out of my way to watch it and enjoyed the win last night.  Very surprised at Konsa getting stick. Croatia didn’t create much, their xG was only 0.7, and the two goals weren’t on him at all.

[Meanwood Villa]

The emotional investment is definitely lower for England and I'm still in my post season bubble of joy so not much can pop that. Having said which, I would love to see England win a tournament so the emotional side increases the further into a tournament we go. Last night was no jeopardy really.

[Toronto Villa]

England might not win it because some other national teams will have better players. But they will actually give it a go in the latter stages. Express themselves versus hide in their shells when the pressure goes up.

It’s also going to challenge the media perceptions of what England and English football management should be. Yesterday after the game the likes of Gary Neville said the players must have got a “rocket” at HT. That’s such an old mentality. Players don’t always need that. It’s been proven Tuchel calmly spoke to the players, told them he believed in them. It was a more cerebral form of management that might eventually help England to a title at international level.

[Rotterdam]

Why are the media blaming Konsa for defensive frailties? He did absolutely nothing wrong as far as I could see

I said the same thing last night. Konza acknowledged the issue by putting his right arm up and pointing to the gap. Reece James realised too late and the bloke was passed him.