The World Cup 2018

[badpiggy]

I've said it before many times. I think Nationalism generally brings out the worst in people and there are too many countries in the world. And the national chest beating I find regressive, pointless embarrassing and I don't identify with it.

A bit like religion for you, I suppose.

**** em all generally. But for Sunday I'm firmly supporting one team.

I tentatively support your temporary and ambiguous passion

[dom9]

I tentatively support your temporary and ambiguous passion

Let's tip toe into the unknown and see what happens.

[Liverpool]

I've said it before many times. I think Nationalism generally brings out the worst in people and there are too many countries in the world. And the national chest beating I find regressive, pointless embarrassing and I don't identify with it.

A bit like religion for you, I suppose.

**** em all generally. But for Sunday I'm firmly supporting one team.

could you not swap clubism for nationalism though?

there are more dimensions and its worse for country though

[dom9]

could you not swap clubism for nationalism though?

there are more dimensions and its worse for country though

I absolutely could not.

My colours are well and truly flying on the LFC mast.

I used to be massively into England too but that just got eroded into actual all out hate for the football team over the years.

I went the best part of 10 years without watching a single England match. Couldn't have been less interesting to me.

This world cup has swung my view of England team back to the positive for the first time in years.

But really, do I identify myself with the England team?

No.

Will that change in the future? Who knows.

But in the meantime, I'll take a country that I've never lived in and support them for the next game n

[dom9]

England were a team of future journeymen.

Discuss.

[PTP]

England are a decent well drilled team, great at set pieces but with a lack of top class creative and finishing ability. Lingard for me is the obvious weak link in that starting XI and if we could swap him for a genuine creative, goal scoring midfielder then they’d be in a much better position.

Nail on head

Kane was static during the last two games, without say an erikson to pick him out he offered **** all

Dele Alli also dreadful, personally I don’t think he was ever fit and shouldn’t have been starting

Sterling, without wanting to jump on the bandwagon bashing him, lacks and has always lacked that final bit of quality

Lingard also, does some good but fails to deliver real class when needed

For me I’d have had rashford starting

Also reckon England were crying out for ox instead of lingard in that role

They worked hard, they gave it their all, they were likeable and Southgate has been brilliant but ultimately we lacked a bit of top quality/class in the final third

[Rigadon]

The Spurs lads were utterly pathetic. Trippier was woeful on both goals though well done for the free kick. Alli seemed to think the game was a diving competition and Kane was a total waste of space. And Eric Dier, one of the worst players to ever play at a world cup comes on and stinks the joint out to complete the set.

Chris - Est’s version of Donald Trump

[labourRed]

Luka Modric explaining why the English press should have kept quiet.

They celebrated like it was a final for the semi. Totally dismissing Croatia.

https://twitter.com/itvfootball/stat...65637343481857

Nailed it.

[Fuzzy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/alansmith90/status/1017182776045572097[/ame]

[Exiled_red]

I refused to get carried away about the England run which has been called negative but for me not much has changed they went out to the first good team that they faced. They played well for a game and a half (1st half vs Panama and vs Sweden). Their game plan was ultimately to play for set pieces which in fairness worked well up to the semi, but you can't just rely on that and that showed. Despite all the goals I don't think that the attacking side of the team really worked so many came from set pieces. For me I thought he needed to change tactics for Croatia, ok they went in front but never looked in control, in the end I thought that they went out with a wimper.

[Fosterbloke]

I'm glad we don't have to listen to that ****ing brass band knocking out the same ****ing tune every ****ing match. Grrrr

[BG1973]

Harry Bane is so overrated. Was anonymous all game.

I don’t any centre forward would do much in that game.

Long ball after long ball.

He’s done his job very well in this tournament - he’s an wxcellent player.

Second decent side England played and they were exposed.

[Norbs]

A nation of just over 4 million people
Is this the smallest country to have made a final?
Too lazy to look it up myself

I thought Uruguay had fewer people

[Kenneth]

The hype was encapsulated by the narrative that Sterling was doing great. Poor control, could't beat a man, couldn't pass to a teammate and with a weaker shot than my toddler, but he apparently caused chaos by running alone. Showed a complete lack of awareness of what is actually required of players at this level.

[ChesterDave]

It stayed at home...

https://twitter.com/djdaymos/status/1017150023233130496

That's from a game earlier in the tournament