Dave

On 28/06/2024 at 15:16, Stan said:

Please get ALL predictions in by FRIDAY 5th JULY - Topic will be LOCKED at 17.00 (BST)

Friday 5th July, 2024
Spain 2 vs 2 Germany, 17.00
Portugal 0 vs 1 France, 20.00

Saturday 6th July, 2024
England 0 vs 2 Switzerland, 17.00
Netherlands 2 vs 1 Turkey, 20.00

 

Netherlands played like I had expected England, France, Italy and Portugal would play. Good but not brilliant.

Now they'll have a wave of optimism and they should feel confident of beating any side on our bracket to the final.

Norris

Norris 

Piastri

Russell

19th

Piastri

Thank God we haven't got to watch extra time of this.

Top Four with a nice gap now.

Even if I didn't miss a race I don't think I'd be there.

Happy to give him a chance.

Not sure being second best to Slovakia for 120 minutes is the time to give it a "Told you so".

On 29/06/2024 at 23:24, Whiskey said:

@The Palace Fan burns bratwursts in his spare time.

I don't respond to bait by a side that were saved by an offside toenail though.

When Slovakia scored I turned round to the people I was with in boxpark and said: "we are in trouble here. Southgate is out of ideas".

And I still think I'm right, he was a minute away from losing his job and our last throw of a dice was on overhead kick that saved his job.

The limbs at that moment though, in that atmosphere at Wembley, you couldn't make it up.

I'm sure after this tournament and think it's rather sad that my greatest ever moment was a 95th minute goal against England in my Gazza 96 shirt, but I wouldn't change it for the world.

I hope we improve, but I can't see us beating Switzerland given we didn't improve. Southgate will be a Palace manager sooner rather than later 

3 hours ago, OrangeKhrush said:

Southgate says he is worried about making changes that disrupt the team. 

If he said that I'm suddenly nervous. The issue is there is no cohesion. Three players all dropping deep to get the ball whilst the fluidity of our play has been the level of a Championship team.

I'm watching the game with people I haven't watched England with since the Iceland debacle, which doesn't help my nerves. I have every faith in us defensively but there's been so many out of the area goals this tournament I'm concerned if something happens Southgate doesn't have an answer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/saudi-football-clubs-to-curb-spending-in-next-transfer-window?embedded-checkout=true

10 minutes ago, OrangeKhrush said:

This will be the last time Southgare will ever get to manage stars. 

Incredibly insulted give he's a shoe in to manage Crystal Palace in the next couple of years.

I hope Derby had a sell on clause.

Italy looked like a Championship team but credit to Switzerland they looked very impressive. We would have to improve significantly to get past them if they play like that again.