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Good evening all
Just thought I’d start the football thread for the upcoming championships ,good luck to all the home nations ,hopefully we won’t be out by the quarter finals as we so often are ,Jack Grealish looks promising ,as do the whole team ,hope Kane can get a load of goals as with Marcus Rashford,if he is up to full fitness should be a good front pairing
However after seeing Germany thrash Latvia 7-1 in their last pre tornemant ‘friendly ‘ the other day (not just the same goal scorers ethier ) we are all doomed and Germany probably going to win they are too efficient ,also France and Belgium will be hard to beat to
Anyway having said all that ,come on England
Whatever happens let’s have a ball it what the country needs at the moment

Good luck to England, Wales and Scotland.

Let’s hope the idiot that manages England doesn’t continue to play both 5 defenders and two defensive midfielders and actually plays some more of the talented attacking midfielders and forwards we currently have.

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Kick of soon two days
So if anyone has team selection predictions please add here
For me I’d go with this team v Croatia If I where the manager
Henderson (GK)
Defenders
Stones
Reece James
Shaw
Chilwell
Midfielders
Phil Foden-or James Maddison
Jack Grealish
Mount
Sancho
Forwards
Kane
Rashford
Pointed out I selected one too many ops ,cheers for the good point ,but that’s my team reckon it might stand a good chance this time and I hope iv not spoken too soon ...

I would have Jordan Pickford in goal

If I were a time team manager then it would be Peter Shilton

Good call Mike ,he was my second option he’s done well of late ,but I can’t resist being a life long Man U fan
Shilton a bit before my time but what a keeper he was

I would pick a starting team of 11 and not 12 as listed.

Shilton was not a patch on Gordon Banks; ask Pele denied by one of the greatest saves ever.

Italy just beat so called fancied favourites Turkey 3-0 don’t believe the hype ,Italy could be a dark horse....
Iv got a soft spot for Italy so I do hope they do well ,Rome is a beautiful city ,love to go back there one day

Not so long ago "gli Azzuri" were the team to beat.

Skywatcher wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:26 pm

Kick of soon two days
So if anyone has team selection predictions please add here
For me I’d go with this team v Croatia If I where the manager
Henderson (GK)
Defenders
Foden
Stones
Reece James
Shaw
Midfielders
James Maddison
Jack Grealish
Mount
Sancho
Forwards
Kane
Rashford
Pointed out I selected one too many ops ,cheers for the good point ,but that’s my team reckon it might stand a good chance this time and I hope iv not spoken too soon ...

I wouldn't be having probably the best attacking midfield player in the country in defence Foden,needs to be backing up the forwards,

Funny how quiet this topic is ...

I turned the game off at half time last night as I had some paint to watch dry...

Pathetic performance by England. Shocking how many times they passed sidewards or back to the defenders.

It was a bright start

After Stones hit the post in the first few minutes I thought here we go , here we go , here we go. Here we go. Here weeeee go!

But we didn't go anywhere fast

Can't understand why Scotland were so jubilant about a nil-nil draw?

A bright start? Think that was the floodlights There should have been only one winner and they were not wearing white. Still the world number one team are quietly progressing

slogen51 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:10 pm

Can't understand why Scotland were so jubilant about a nil-nil draw?

paddyboy wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:12 pm

‘Football fans’ Nick

No, just the usual band of Jock p!ssheads intent on getting stoned on cheap cr@p from wherever, before getting humiliated by England yet again

Maybe they read that post.

plmc135 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:27 pm

A bright start? Think that was the floodlights There should have been only one winner and they were not wearing white. Still the world number one team are quietly progressing

If you mean Belgium, they overly rely on Chelsea reject Dr Bruyne

You can get 50/1 for Wales to reach the final

Why has the thread title got 'England' in it, are we just supposed to be discussing the England team here, or can we discuss other teams?

Fair comment, gmc007

Still think I have more chance of being Pope Paddy 1st than Scotland progressing