

SDGoonerCap 🇬🇷
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Lifelong Gooner & Raider. Husband, Father. There’s only one Nation. #COYG @SanDiegGooners #RaiderNation #SDFC #SDPadres




Wembley DJ now playing "Things can only get better". D-Ream on. Rising sun and a sinking feeling: Japan beat a disappointing England 1-0. Seven thoughts on the whistle from Wembley… Harry 1. Wrap Kane in cotton wool. Hope he enjoys a prolific, niggle-free end of season at Bayern. England lack leadership, focus and goals without their captain and record scorer. England also missed Rice and Saka. Harry 2. Believe in Maguire. How on earth is Maguire sixth choice centre-back, according to Tuchel? Brings authority, passing from the back and a threat at corners (and pens). Header cleared off line by Sugawara. Must go to the World Cup. Play with more width, more freedom. Get the wingers to take on their full-backs, not cut inside all the time. England painfully narrow for an hour. Rashford and Bowen brought some width. Some. Express yourself. Believe in Bellingham. Injured but let’s dispel the doubts: he has to start at 10. Bellingham would have taken responsibility, imposing himself. He’s world class. If England are to progress far at the World Cup, they'll need their best players. And Bellingham is one. No more Ben White. Decent player but a divisive figure amongst England fans. Booed on, booed off. England’s hard core crowd in the Block 109 particularly vocal. England have enough alternatives at right-back (even with Tuchel’s damaging snubbing of Alexander-Arnold). Perspective. England swept through an easy qualifying campaign. But up against decent teams, Senegal (ranked 19th at the time), Uruguay (17th) and Japan (19th) they struggled. LDL. You cannot lose possession cheaply. And this was 13C, not the 23C+ across the pond. Japan looked a real team, well-organised. England didn't. Positive. Don’t panic. England lost 1-0 at Wembley (to Iceland) in their warm-up before Euro 2024 - and reached the final. #ENG



THERE'S THE BREAKTHROUGH! ⚽️ Ben White puts the #ThreeLions ahead! 💪




Arsenal players on international break who played today all had a good game except one fool 😭😭.





😈 Looks like we just picked up a new supporter! 🤭👇 🎙Ex-Liverpool boss Graeme Souness has claimed Arsenal “get away with” more than other Premier League teams as they chase the first leg of a potential quadruple this season, speaking to the Daily Mail....... 🗣 “Arsenal get away with a hell of a lot by crowding goalkeepers and blocking goalkeepers. You block anyone on the pitch, anywhere else on the pitch – a centre-half half blocks a centre forward as he's trying to make a run – and that's a foul. “I just think we've got daft referees. We've got poor referees who don't really understand the game. They know all the rules from the first page to the last one, but nuances of the game they don't get.” 🗣 He continued: “I love the term ‘free-kick guru’. Their guru (Jover) is all about fouling the goalkeeper. That's as simple as, black and white. Now, of course, there’s people like Gabriel Saliba who are really brave and will put their heads where most people wouldn't put their feet, and they attack these balls that Declan Rice whips in, and they're great quality. “To be successful at free kicks you need a really good kicker of the ball, Declan, you need people who will attack the ball, they've got that, and then you throw in the guy who’s fouling the goalkeeper. It’s not rocket science.”