England v Italy

[AwayClaret]

Channel 4 at 7.

Are we all excited???

[Smile]

Are we all excited???

It'll be turned on at 7.45pm. Owen will be talking absolute twaddle for 45 minutes.

[boatshed bill]

Channel 4 at 7.

Are we all excited???

I can hardly wait.

[Smile]

Ramsdale
James Maguire Tomori Trippier
Ward-Prowse, Rice
Sterling Mount Grealish
Kane

[AwayClaret]

Don't mind Ward-Prowse starting. Don't know why Mount keeps getting picked has done nothing in an England shirt. Glad Geealish is starting too.

[Pickles]

It'll be turned on at 7.45pm. Owen will be talking absolute twaddle for 45 minutes.

Surprised Channel Four have got him so heavily involved. Charisma of cardboard. He's just so dull.

[SalisburyClaret]

Ramsdale plays - Southgate really does hate us

[RVclaret]

Ramsdale plays - Southgate really does hate us

What on earth are you talking about?

[Smile]

Surprised Channel Four have got him so heavily involved. Charisma of cardboard. He's just so dull.

He's like Joe Johnson / Phil Yates in snooker commentary. He just completely ruins it. And Channel 4 must know that, yet they still got him.

[tiger76]

Might give it a look when the cricket's finished.

1st England game at Molineux since 1956.

[Burnley1989]

Ramsdale plays - Southgate really does hate us

Nah he’s just a better all round goal keeper, surprisingly and most importantly the world seems to agree except some Burnley fans

[Elizabeth]

If Pope plays for Arsenal he gets picked , as simple as that

[jrgbfc]

Ramsdale
James Maguire Tomori Trippier
Ward-Prowse, Rice
Sterling Mount Grealish
Kane

Abraham is playing upfront not Kane.

[bobinho]

Don't mind Ward-Prowse starting. Don't know why Mount keeps getting picked has done nothing in an England shirt. Glad Geealish is starting too.

Me neither... no doubt if asked about Mounts inclusion, GS will roll out the overused "he's never let me down" line.

Lost faith in GS I'm afraid. He unnecessarily complicates what is and should be a simple game. And lets be honest, some of his selections and set ups are mind boggling. And he's started making as much sense in interviews as Garth Crooks...

[Smile]

Abraham is playing upfront not Kane.

Quite right. I had a look on FotMob and didn't even look to see if it was Kane as I just expected it.

[SalisburyClaret]

What on earth are you talking about?

If you think Ramsdale has had a better season than Pope then fair enough - but it looks like Pope is being treated in the same way as Tarka

[AwayClaret]

2000 kids on. Be like watching an under 21 game.

[RVclaret]

If you think Ramsdale has had a better season than Pope then fair enough - but it looks like Pope is being treated in the same way as Tarka

Kept more clean sheets for a start and better shot save %.

But more to the point, he’s playing for arsenal for a reason, he’s quite decent with his distribution, that’s why Pope doesn’t get in.

[LeadBelly]

Italy are 15/4 for a win so Ive gone on that. I hope I'm wrong but that starting XI doesn't inspire me with a lot of confidence.

[Pickles]

2000 kids on. Be like watching an under 21 game.

Or this messageboard during half term.

[Venkys4eva]

Would rather watch paint dry

[Burnley1989]

Kept more clean sheets for a start and better shot save %.

But more to the point, he’s playing for arsenal for a reason, he’s quite decent with his distribution, that’s why Pope doesn’t get in.

Shhhhh it’s a conspiracy against a side so good we got relegated

[KRBFC]

Lost faith in GS I'm afraid.

You were one of the posters on here slagging England off throughout the Euros, after every game, while we reached the final. Seems like you never had faith and he can do no right.

[Buxtonclaret]

Think I'll have the Wales game on.
Sc4

[IanMcL]

I am tuning in to watch Wayne Hennessey, to see if he can perform some more heroics.

[Buxtonclaret]

I am tuning in to watch Wayne Hennessey, to see if he can perform some more heroics.

Roberts, too.

[Boss Hogg]

Barely anyone watching England match. Looks like it’s being played under Covid restrictions.

[AwayClaret]

Italy should've scored then.

[Elizabeth]

Terrible miss from inside the box by Italy

[ElectroClaret]

Should be one down.

[AwayClaret]

The way these defenses have started could be a few goals.

[AwayClaret]

Ze Germans are losing.

[AwayClaret]

Mount has to score there.

[LeadBelly]

Think I'll have the Wales game on.
Sc4

Yep, I've gone for that too. Wales just had one chalked off after a lengthy review; Roberts playing right wing-back, Hennessey in goal.

[Buxtonclaret]

Wales 1 up

VAR
Cancelled

[Bosscat]

Mount has to score there.

Worse than Weghorsts when Mings got a foot on it

[Bosscat]

Wales 1 up

VAR
Cancelled

Hungary beating Deutchland

[bobinho]

You were one of the posters on here slagging England off throughout the Euros, after every game, while we reached the final. Seems like you never had faith and he can do no right.

Lost faith quite some time ago in GS I'm afraid. There...adjusted it for you. At first I was underwhelmed by the appointment, but being well aware of exactly what the FA want (media compliant, FA compliant, inoffensive, malleable) I wasn't surprised. Then i sort of got on board as he seemed to be doing what he stated he'd do - pick form players in positions they were familiar with and using tactics and formations they understood and were used to playing. Then he just got weird. He just started doing what most of the other England managers have done since Ramsey. I'm not gonna bother explaining what that is, i'm just assuming you know, but i'll ask this. How do you think some of Englands left backs feel about his team selection? How do you think they feel about watching the 2nd/3rd choice right back starting at left back?

You call it slagging off, I call it challenging the starting line ups and the tactics. We got to the final, how was that for you? How did the tactical genius that is Gareth Southgate manage the game?

With the players at his disposal, we SHOULD be European champions. Purely because of GS, we aren't - but we got to the final so it was a success right? I say it wasn't.

[AwayClaret]

Worse than Weghorsts when Mings got a foot on it

He only needed to pass it in the corner. No need to blast it. Mount that is not Wout.

[Buxtonclaret]

Brilliant save by the Welsh Number One.

[Buxtonclaret]

Lost faith quite some time ago in GS I'm afraid. There...adjusted it for you. At first I was underwhelmed by the appointment, but being well aware of exactly what the FA want (media compliant, FA compliant, inoffensive, malleable) I wasn't surprised. Then i sort of got on board as he seemed to be doing what he stated he'd do - pick form players in positions they were familiar with and using tactics and formations they understood and were used to playing. Then he just got weird. He just started doing what most of the other England managers have done since Ramsey. I'm not gonna bother explaining what that is, i'm just assuming you know, but i'll ask this. How do you think some of Englands left backs feel about his team selection? How do you think they feel about watching the 2nd/3rd choice right back starting at left back?

You call it slagging off, I call it challenging the starting line ups and the tactics. We got to the final, how was that for you? How did the tactical genius that is Gareth Southgate manage the game?

With the players at his disposal, we SHOULD be European champions. Purely because of GS, we aren't - but we got to the final so it was a success right? I say it wasn't.

Said similar for a long while.
No England manager in my life has ever had the wealth of talent GS has had.
But he's ' clean cut', doesnt rock the boat or, get up go dodgy stuff.
Perfect fit fod the suits.

[AwayClaret]

Great save by Ramsdale.

[Milltown1882]

What a save Ramsdale. Succeeding without having Burnley fans’ expectations of Pope, Taylor, Tarks, Mee and Lowton being at the back for England.

[Bosscat]

Great save by Ramsdale.

A very Popesque save with his feet

[Tricky Trevor]

Seeing refs letting so much go over the last 6 months I’ve decided it has to be a policy from on high to do away with diving. Pat on the back for whoever came up with that.

[bf2k]

Ramsdale plays - Southgate really does hate us

Best England goalkeeper

[KRBFC]

Lost faith quite some time ago in GS I'm afraid. There...adjusted it for you. At first I was underwhelmed by the appointment, but being well aware of exactly what the FA want (media compliant, FA compliant, inoffensive, malleable) I wasn't surprised. Then i sort of got on board as he seemed to be doing what he stated he'd do - pick form players in positions they were familiar with and using tactics and formations they understood and were used to playing. Then he just got weird. He just started doing what most of the other England managers have done since Ramsey. I'm not gonna bother explaining what that is, i'm just assuming you know, but i'll ask this. How do you think some of Englands left backs feel about his team selection? How do you think they feel about watching the 2nd/3rd choice right back starting at left back?

You call it slagging off, I call it challenging the starting line ups and the tactics. We got to the final, how was that for you? How did the tactical genius that is Gareth Southgate manage the game?

With the players at his disposal, we SHOULD be European champions. Purely because of GS, we aren't - but we got to the final so it was a success right? I say it wasn't.

I'm not sure why you expect England to be European Champions, we've never won that trophy in our history.

The England left backs should pull their finger out, Chilwell can't stay fit, Shaw has been 2nd choice at United, Rose is history, Taylor's had the worst season of his Burnley career. Who else is left to play left back?

As for the team selection, every manager is judged on results, results have been good so the team selections have been justified wether you disagree or not it doesn't matter. You have every right to question the team selection if the teams losing games, questioning team selection of a side playing in a rotation pre-season competition that just came narrowly close to lifting the last major international trophy for the first ever time makes you look stupid imo.

Not to mention you look even more bonkers saying he's not picking players on form when Tammy Abraham is starting ahead of Harry Kane right now, Tomori and Ramsdale are starting. Mount has come off the back of a great season at Chelsea. Rice one of the best CM in the PL last year. Ward Prowse is even getting a chance. I don't know why you're so mad at the selection, who is this bang in form player not getting a sniff?

[Rowls]

It's so true about Southgate.

He's a useless manager and he had ample time to prove that at Middlesbrough.

It's like giving Mike Jackson the England manager's job.

[Tricky Trevor]

2000 kids on. Be like watching an under 21 game.

Sounds like a ‘60s ladies hockey international at Wembley. 60k little schoolgirls screaming their lungs out.

[jos]

I’m currently watching in Italy, and nobody seems to be the least bit interested in the game. Mind you where I am is almost totally occupied by Germans.