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All four Beatles have been accused of domestic violence in their lives, and they are from Liverpool which is closer to where you grew up, so with that logic you probably tried to test the 'one punch can kill' mantra you learned from Home and Away on Yoko Ono. Home and Away is just TV mate, grow up.

I have it in black and white that we as Australians are in fact [just] 'English people but cool', if that isn't a endorsement of the superiority of our moral fibre than what is. This is just another circumstance of the son having to beat the shit out of the father for being a dumb cunt, as we both have experience in for some reason.

I’m on an English site using English, I don’t know any any French people to discuss the team with or consume French language media. Just copy my posts into google translate and change the nouns from English players to French. There you go.

Literally no one has excluded other countries from criticism, you’re imagining this.

You have to understand that the democrats are a party content with being in opposition. All they do is meet comprises to the republican when in power, that’s how and why Roe v Wade can be repealed with no fight back, that’s how the rights of American’s erode in plain view. It doesn’t matter who they put forth because ultimately they benefit no matter what, the benefit from being in power and they benefit from republican legislation that benefits the rich elite.

Wow indeed. I’m constantly surprised at the human capacity to accept rubbish and be thankful for it.

I think it’s better to try to win by actively engaging to win, than acquiescing to negativity. Especially when you have the tools to win triumphantly. I’d be more proud of Australia trying to beat France and failing, than England clawing and struggling to W against Switzerland.

I don’t think this is the gotcha you think it is mate, considering my statements on Australia earlier.

It’s an objective fact that goals win games, and defending merely prevents a loss. Attacking is active, and defending is reactive. I’m happy with Cruyff, Menotti, and Clough over Herrera, Mourinho, and Simeone.

I agree with you, Guardiola and that Vincente Del Bosque Spain are/were practitioners of the ‘active defensive’ style. Which is that they defend with the ball, as opposed to attacking with it. I feel Guardiola has relented a little from this style but it’s still there as the current philosophical identity of modern football. You see this expressed even by Southgate’s England, it’s the aversion to risk and maximising control. 2010 Spain was horrendous compared to 2008 and 2012, the later a more aggressive expression from Del Bosque. Lacking a CF they had to rely being more aggressive than opportunistic. I still vividly remember the fullbacks eviscerating Italy in the final.

Nope. Playing great football and winning are equal. Two sides of the same coin, to strive for one is to strive for both.

Grazie Helenio Herrera

I think it’s shown at every single tournament, I’m not asking for elite playing but positive playing, playing to win and not playing to have the other team lose. the Pragmatism and defence sucking the life out of the sport is one of the greatest tragedies, easily amongst the formation of the Premier League and the proliferation of sugar daddy clubs.

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2002/may/30/worldcupfootball2002.sport12

No, any country that has a deeper history and pedigree than Australia that plays like England and France are this tournament, I think are bringing shame to their football culture and history. I am hardline on this, and I know what coaches and managers throughout history agree with me, this isn’t some flippant ‘fuck England’ statement, this is an ideologically purity that I believe in from grassroots to professional international. I understand why people in club football accept the negativity as the existence of a club is held at ransoms to money, but this isn’t true at all for international and international teams should strive to play at a high level that goes beyond simply getting a trophy.

Mate, I support Australia. A bottom tier club and we always get paired against top European clubs at the WC. France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, and every single time Australia goes out to win and we put these elite clubs on the back foot, and we lose. But I’d rather lose like that than win a WC with football terrorism. There is no point otherwise

I disagree.

And England are showing their nationalism through cowardice. It’s embarrassing

Mourinho!? The man diametrically opposed to your club Arsenal? You’d think an Arsenal supporter would have learnt something from Wenger on the two decades he was coach.

Fuck that shit mate, don’t sell out for Simeoneisms. The home of football should be a standard setter, not a dinosaur.

Southgate played for England, is nice and bland enough to diffuse bad culture and controversy. It’s that simple, mate. He isn’t here because he is a 5D chess playing manger. Quite the opposite. I guarantee your mate has a harder job, with less support, fewer staff, less quality, and more work.

Harry Kane - 30+ goals in one of the best attacking leagues in the world. Jude Bellingham - the engine of the most demanding club in the world. Bukayo Saka - star forward of an establishment club that demands attacking football Phil Foden - plays for Guardiola That’s just a start. It’s unacceptable

My problem with England isn’t the negative, boring, football terrorism they employ, it’s because like France they have the quality to play above and beyond that but choose not to.

‘It's better to go down with your own vision than with someone else's.’ ‘Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring’ You’re all resigned to accepting Southgate’s cowardice.

Your friend has a more difficult job coaching than the fucken England job. I don’t even know your friend but I know she is better than Southgate. Also you don’t know that I’ve never coached, you just said you don’t know me.