15 minutes from ignominy. Thank God for Kane.

Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️⚽️🥅⚽️

Mexico match is 1:00 AM.

No way am I watching that.

38 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Mexico match is 1:00 AM.No way am I watching that.

Don’t be a big girl’s blouse! 😉

Harry the Hero! I just hope that Tuchel can ram it into their thick skulls that they need to sprint out of the blocks from the start, not 60 minutes into the match.

He's one of our own!

Sadly I won't be able to watch the game on Monday as I need to be up early for a 200 mile drive to a 10am funeral but I doubt both eyes will be fully open before I've checked the score when I wake up 😅

Come on England - Mexico are a massive test, it's getting real now.

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Don’t be a big girl’s blouse! 😉

But I need my beauty sleep.

Senegal are definitely doing to Belgium what DRC nearly did to England...

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Don’t be a big girl’s blouse! 😉

I had to look that one up 😆

word histories

meaning and origin of the British phrase ‘big girl’s blouse’

1969—a weak, cowardly or oversensitive man—analogy between a cowardly man “in a flap” and an oversize garment hanging loose, fluttering

9 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Phew! Cometh the hour, cometh the man...

Without Harry Kane England were hopeless, pure shambles.

Kane is now going to be touted as the Andy Burnham of football.

I would of taken Rashford off a lot earlier. One, if not the most overated players in the team. I imagine the sponsers had a quiet word to make sure they played him from the start.

Cant stand the guy.

Edited Thursday at 03:14 AM2 days by fluffyflops

we agree on something chris. they were terrible that first half, awful

7 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Harry the Hero! I just hope that Tuchel can ram it into their thick skulls that they need to sprint out of the blocks from the start, not 60 minutes into the match.

8 hours ago, martin-w said:

Mexico match is 1:00 AM.

No way am I watching that.

ive got a teams meeting planned for friday morning to look at the weekends standby coverage for the weekend, following into next week.

London Pride on the 4th and 5th and then the late game on the Monday. Coverage will be shocking all weekend and into next week.

I pity the guys working in IOCC this weekend and Monday night

9 hours ago, Mike A said:

I had to look that one up 😆

I wondered how long it would take for someone to query it. 😁 It’s a fairly gentle insult in Britain as you’ll notice Martin took it well.

4 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

Without Harry Kane England were hopeless, pure shambles......

I would not quite say that. Jude Bellingham was very unlucky not to score, and the DRC goalkeeper had a spectacular night. As for Mexico, England will need to be careful. The main consideration is the altitude. In fact, I would even suggest that playing a World Cup match at that kind of altitude is not really fair to those players who do not live there. I am not making excuses prior to the match, but the oxygen levels at 7000 feet are significantly lower than at sea level (about 24% lower). A team whose players are used to this surely have a rather big advantage?

Mexico statistics at the Azteca Stadium.....

• Played 88

• Won 69

• Drawn 17

• Lost 2

That is one hell of a mountain to climb and it backs up my claim that Mexico have an unfair advantage when our players have no time to adjust.

Edited Thursday at 09:52 AM2 days by Christopher Low

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

you’ll notice Martin took it well.

No I did not. ☹️I was very very very upset. Especially as, worryingly, my low testosterone has made me very fond of ladies cloths.

As for the football, namely the Mexico game... Apparently they have only lost two of their last 80 games. And at the stadium where we will play them they haven't lost there in 8 years..... Gentlemen, we are screwed!