@darrengrimes Stick to local politics, Darren. Thats probably complicated enough for you.
Your ability to suck up to that orange thing proves how little you actually care about this country.
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3 Cheers for Ramirez 🏴
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Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary!!! I hope Donald J. Trump tells the man exactly what we all think of him!
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@lucyjaynewhite1 And how exactly do you propose to do that?
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What England needs is more indigenous English people.
Not more people in England.
There is a difference.
NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunaga
What Japan needs is more Japanese people. Not more people in Japan. There is a difference.
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@arlowhite This was given offside by the assistant on field. Tech or no tech, this goal would not have counted.
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@FlapjackFpl You could have every physio on earth in your team, whether a player is fit to play or needs a rest isn't enough of an exact science to rule someone out of big tournament.
This is the same medical team who thought James, Livramento & Saka would be fine for this WC by the way!
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@3Cheers_Ramirez They have a huge team - investigation with the medical team
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I think there’s two things I’d like to see Tuchel do:
1) Take the Nations League seriously and try and win it. We have Spain, Croatia and Czechia in our group. Get ready for the big games
2) If a player pulls out the squad for a weak reason, they are out of the home Euros squad
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@tomrenniesoccer I think its worth giving him the nations league. See what he can do vs Spain.
But completely agree, his big calls have limited us.
- Quansah/James/Livramento all cost us at certain points
- Saka/Madueke injured and average
- Mainoo/3rd CM seemingly ignored
- 5 at the back - Awful
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The team look drained?
Did you bring a deep squad? No.
Did you rotate? No.
Did you bring different types of players for different game states? No.
Did you bring unfit or injured players? Yes.
It’s all on Tuchel. All of it. Mismanagement.
Henry Winter@henrywinter
Thomas Tuchel talks. No regrets but plenty of pain, a plea for perspective, insistence he will not quit and belief that players hit by intensity of schedule. It's draining men. 48 hours after defeat to Argentina, England’s embattled head coach tried to answer his critics when talking last night on arrival here in Miami in advance of today’s World Cup third-place play-off against France. Tuchel refused to say whether Atlanta was “the most painful experience” of his football career. “I don't know. I had a lot of painful ones and it wouldn't be the last one.” Report from Miami. Main lines of questioning and TT answers… RESPONSIBLE. Who was responsible for England dropping off and for the defeat? Players or coach? “Listen, if it's easier, if someone takes the blame, I take the blame. No problem. This is the deal that you signed up for, as I understand it. "You have every right to do so (criticise), but I will not engage in this kind of game. For me, there's no one to blame. If you need someone to blame, I'll take the responsibility. I’m the head coach. If ‘drama’ is needed, if a blame game needs to be played, OK, we can do that, but I have the right to not engage with that.” SCAR. The pain remained. It’s a scar. “It’s a shock in the beginning. It's becoming more, more painful every single day. It will be a scar for us. Unfortunately, not the first one, and very likely, not the last one. This is what it is in high-level sports. We have to live with this. It’s our pain, my pain, the players’ pain, we feel the most pain of all. It is our scar that we carry. We have to live with this defeat, not the critics, not the experts, not our family members who suffer with us, and want only the best for us, but it's basically us.” NO REGRETS. Any regrets on his defensive substitutions when England were 1-0 up against Argentina? “I don't regret my decisions, because I felt that we become too passive, the momentum switches and I try to help my team. I took several decisions, trusting my instinct, my intuition, my experience, my trust in my competitiveness, and I took the decision to help the team and get the results. "We didn't get the result. So I take the responsibility for all these decisions. But the decisions are made under stress, the decisions are made in-game. I would regret if I didn't help, I would regret if we didn't react. But I have no regrets over the decisions.” PERSPECTIVE. A plea for perspective. “It's not so long ago that we were in front of 1000s and 1000s of fans in America, singing Wonderwall, right? What these players built in the last six-and-a-half weeks was just on the highest level in terms of togetherness, in terms of skill. This represents me and my values. We have to take the next step and play better football under pressure of the football in tournaments. We have another level to reach. “Maybe it's worth to put it into context. We lost the first official match together since 14 matches. We played in the semi-final against the world champions. We were (at) 85 minutes, 1-0 up. We played against the best player in the world. We are one of the top-four nations. France, Spain and Argentina expect to win the title. We were hoping, we would dream. We are not there yet. There is still a gap to close. And this is what we will do.” REACTION. What will England’s reaction be, starting against France? “I am competitive. Every player is competitive. We will have a reaction, and it starts from tomorrow. We will not stop chasing, hunting, challenging. If we win, we (England) have the best results of the World Cups in 60 years. That's the perspective, yes. We will show that the mentality is real, the spirit is real, and the togetherness that we have built is not to be questioned." PASSIVE. So what went wrong against Argentina? “We became too passive in the last 30 minutes. We could not get hold of the ball, we could not find duels anymore. Argentina had a lot of offensive changes and a lot of offensive positions. They were chasing a goal, the substitutes became more and more offensive. We could not stop the crosses and we could not stop the runners into the box. Argentina found another gear, another momentum, another belief. They built something over several years (together).” THREAT. His response to the growing Argentina threat? “We decided to play a back-five to have more width, (and) closer to the (Argentina) guys who cross. We did excellent after some minutes. We just became too passive, and Argentina found another gear.” SAKA. Why didn’t Bukayo Saka play against Argentina. “We decided for a more physical approach with Morgan Rogers. I felt like after the game against Norway, Morgan has something special in him. I'm glad he proved to us right with his assist (for Anthony Gordon’s goal).” DRAINED. Did England suffer a loss of intensity because their players were drained? “Even if we don't want to admit it, because it always feels like an excuse, I feel the game with 10 men in Mexico, the altitude, the travelling, we lost a complete night of sleep, and the game in the heat against Norway and in extra time cost us more than we maybe thought. The players gave everything physically every single match. If you see the intensity drop there must be a reason for it because the motivation was through the roof. We could not reach these kind of intensities.” BACKING. Tuchel enjoys FA backing, and he wants to stay on. “I can never change my thinking if I would like to carry on.” And so to the game with France. “There will be changes (to the line-up).” #FRAENG #ENG #FIFAWorldCup
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@Sanny_Rudra Perfect response 👌 Love your stuff Sanny
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@RachelMcadm Well... that is certainly a new angle to defend the Nazis I've not seen before, I'll give you that
Let me try one... erm...
Ian Huntley didn't rape anyone... third world nah sorry this is insane
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@pgflophouse They're too stupid to come up with an actual idea. Easy to revert to this cheap, simple bullshit.
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I rlly hate this yankification of British politics man
The British Patriot@TheBritLad
🚨NEW: Suella Braverman MP announces that if Reform UK is elected, every school in Britain will be required to fly the British flag.
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@Nigel_Farage You going to pick up a rifle yourself, big lad?
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Whilst I am disgusted at the behaviour of some Argentinian players last night, the most important thing to do is build up the Royal Navy quickly.
Telegraph Football@TeleFootball
‘The Malvinas are Argentine’ Argentina's players unfurl banner referencing tensions over ownership of the Falkland Islands.
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@swspurs James looked finished. I know he's barely played but the bloke looks like he can barely run. Just waddled out to their wide player every now and then. Back post positioning awful and did nothing in attack either. Unless he puts his injuries behind him there's no way he plays 2028
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Bellingham having a stab at Pickford is prime deflection. Pickford, as a goalkeeper, can’t hide in games. A below par winger can.
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@TheBritLad Good to see them tackling the big issues 🤦
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🚨NEW: Suella Braverman MP announces that if Reform UK is elected, every school in Britain will be required to fly the British flag.
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@England_Pod 🎵... Anger at idiots dressed in white.
Argentinian goal-mouths out of sight.
We sat back, we took flight.
It could have been all songs in the street.
Held on for a clean sheet.
But our tactics were shiiit.
And now I'm singing...🎵
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The postmortem pod will be a lot longer and live later today.
Landy@LandyLandy_
@England_Pod It hit me hardest when I seen your pod was only 17 mins this morning
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@Jenny_1884 Learn what diversity is first. Then speak about it. Absolute idiot
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Who agrees that “Diversity” is not our strength?
It’s all lies.
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@TouchlineX This panic is mental. Its 4 years! Players come through from nowhere.
Owen, Rooney, Kane. Nobody had them down in 94, 02 or 14 as the successors to be our best forwards at the next World Cup.
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🚨🏴 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Harry Kane’s alternatives for England in the 2030 World Cup if he decides not to play:
- Ollie Watkins (will be 31)
- Ivan Toney (will be 31)
- Liam Delap (will be 28)
- Divin Mubama (will be 25)
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@England_Pod Thankfully I arrived at acceptance at 72 minutes when it became clear our players mentality was not going to be changed by the manager.
I think there needs to be a nationwide apology to Gabriel Clarke who was bang on with his mentality question IMO
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3 Cheers for Ramirez 🏴 retweetledi
If that Messi doesn’t win player of the tournament there’s no justice…
3 cheers…
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@JamesMelville They weren't on the front foot when he made those subs.
We had been on the edge of our box for 15 minutes before this!
Subs made it worse, but they followed the pattern our players on the pitch had already set. Tuchel should have changed it then but he didn't.
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You don’t make substitutions like this when you are 1-0 up and on the front foot. Instead, a coach should go for the throat. This defeat is 💯 on Tuchel. He did exactly what Southgate did. Park the bus when the game was there for the taking.
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