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£30 million and you stop posting. Win-win then.

Bit confused why Southgate is playing Norwich's Harry Kane as opposed to Tottenhams Harry Kane

Kane not in the game Sterling rubbish. Worst thing that could’ve happened is Sterling scoring last game. Meant he kept his place and he’s all wrong for this game. Not playing well enough and not the Grealish type we need. If Grealish is fit enough get him on

Yeah but they were crap tonight. Maybe they looked cr*p because Scotland and Hanley made them look cr*p.

Cantwell would have done more than Grealish did tonight.

I dont think Grealish deserves criticism but christ the pundit/media obsession with him both before and during the game was nauseating. Based on that if you didn't know anything about him you'd think he was some generational talent with a track record at this level, rather than a good but not great midfielder with no goals at international level.

The less said about that decision, the better.

Funny that when it happens to Labour, its considered a disaster but this is not? Grow up man and admit there is definitely a groundswell of people who just don't like liars.

Soon they can have independence and then rejoin the EU. That will make them around 25th largest member country (by population) just above Slovakia. Still when your Nationalist leaders are elected on how much you hate the English without any proper economic or social policies , you can only hope they know what they are doing . Which they don’t .

Mason Mount was Chelsea's Player of the Season and Reece James played more games than anyone under Tuchel. Phil Foden is now a regular starter at Man City, Harry Kane won the Premier League Golden Boot (and topped the assist chart) for the third time and John Stones is a mainstay in the Man City defence. This England team, man for man, is as good as any side there bar France.

He did well tonight but unfortunately he won't be playing against England strikers every week.

I’d rather Frank Lampard than Southgate if we keep this up!

The one that pays £5m a year and comes with 40 weeks a year holiday?

Please tell me what Declan Rice does? Southgate fits the FA nice chap role. But he is clueless and wasting so much forward talent. Scotland played 5/6 at the back and created as many chances as us.

Also Jack Grealish, who everyone was talking about as if he was ****ing Leo Messi all game, came on and did jack ****.

When in possession, it looks like the main tactic is to stand around and watch the player on the ball.

Still in it! England.

Booing the taking of the knee is worse

Bawbag......

Pitiful really, Big Pharma fighting Rich Countries whilst the poorest of the world getting overlooked. As a species, we are not good at ensuring mutual survival.

I did the figures in detail the other day, worked out at very much 96%+ for two shot vaccinations, but this is brilliant news.

I just hope it's a fun, entertaining game with good intensity. i honestly don't care about the result. Having lived my whole life in Norfolk I feel about as much connection to the rest of England as I do any other random country

Au contraire Monsieur Muzinic, she played as child and is a Dunfermline fan from childhood. After watching the recent C4 Dispatches that she fronted about gambling in football, it certainly showed a different side of her. It is fair to say she delivered it in a non partisan manner and remained apolitical throughout.

I'm fully expecting the Pope to announce today that for the first time in Catholic history, living people can be beatified then made a saint. Guess who's first in line?

At the last election Labour were 3rd. The tactical voting was always going to go to the Lib Dems. Only an idiot would describe it as a seat Labour 'should have won'.

Where is the Big Society or the One Nation now? Swept up with all the other discarded promises.

Spurs' managerial hunt reminds me of me and my mates on a night out in our younger days. They're now about to head to a kebab shop and hook up with Big Sam.

I've woken up to this news and whilst I won't get carried away it shows what is possible. Looks like a progressive opposition might be achievable in areas I never thought possible. It's a win for decent values isn't it?

Big Vince says all the best

I'm still going strong at 58. I await Villas call. Just sayin.

Will she have a cake ?

"Prof Whitty said there are areas of deprivation which have been repeatedly impacted by Covid-19. “The geographical areas where Covid has hit have been extremely defined, where the biggest problems have been repeated. “So, you see in situations in Bradford, in Leicester, in bits of London for example, in bits of the north west, you see repeated areas where places have been hit over and over again in areas of deprivation. “Indeed in many of them, if you had a map of Covid’s biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar. “These are areas where deprivation has been prolonged and deeply entrenched.” He said the NHS needs to look at these areas and say “look, whatever happens, it’s going to happen badly here” whether it’s cardiovascular disease, cancer, or new infections." Thats a pretty damning indictment of our attempts ( or lack of ) to deal with poverty, deprivation and failures in Public Health over a century and a half. These are not issues we have been unaware of but issues we have failed to address.

The perfect example of nominative determinism. 😀

Kane and Rashford must be covered in lint, from spending all that time in Hanley's pocket

Or if you're Kalvin Philips, pass it backwards as soon as you get it. He was so dynamic v Croatia but has been a crap tonight.

Kane off, sterling off CalvertLewin on, Grealish on

They've been giving our own Mylene a bit of stick. She loves it mind!

Probably doesn't need a truce, demographic changes, Labour voters forgiving the Lib Dems for enabling the coalition, the absence of a Corbyn bogie man, a desire for change from these truth twisting bastards and the voters tactically voting will do the rest. If truth be known socially liberal, economically conservative Tories get very little from the hollowed out socially conservative, economically profligate Conservative Party now controlled Brexit Party entryists. Farage's great Parliamentary election record of failure demonstrates where that can lead.

No birthday cake for you, impertinent young man!

Great post and I agreed with virtually every word until you said 'There IS a decent country there underneath this all' - there I'm afraid we diverge sharply. There are certainly still decent people in the country, quite a lot of them, but collectively and speaking of the country as a whole I don't think you can realistically call us anything like decent. Leaving aside that we have now on several occasions voted in totally amoral governments, culminating 18 months ago in the most venal government this country has ever had, what about the litany of truly indecent actions and policies that have been enacted in our name by 'our' government for the last 11 years - I won't bother to repeat the litany because we all know it so well, and whilst many of us haven't liked or supported it and may even have protested a bit about some of it, the fact remains that we have tolerated it and a sizeable minority have enthusiastically endorsed it. I'm afraid that doesn't meet my definition of a civilised or decent country in the 21st century.

i heard Everything is in Hand i dont think we wil be scrabbling around a lot has been put in place already , i heard the club are very confident behind the scenes , I hope this works out as i think this season we really could be Surprised after the last time we went up

Thanks for popping up with some info, Norfolkngood - you’ve tactfully provided some reliable information in the past so I trust what you’re saying. A total guess but I think we’ll keep Todd for another season, but Max will go before long. And I’m ok with that - he’s a fantastic player and of course I’m sure we’d all rather keep him, but that said, if an offer comes in for £35mil plus add ons then I’d take that just because I believe we could get a RB of sufficient quality in for far less whilst having some extra cash to improve the squad as a whole, and hopefully produce another 2 or 3 £30mil plus players in the process - after all this is how the self sustainable model works at the end of the day. To be honest, if a crystal ball could tell us Sam Byram would remain fit for this coming season then I’d be more than happy to see him as our first choice RB. He really was outstanding in the Premier League before he got injured against Liverpool and would have surely been in the running for POTS. Great little player.

Got to respect Ashley Young really. Converted seamlessly from winger to fullback, playing at the highest level at 36 and won quite a few trophies.

The way he dragged out his well known move to Hearts so that he’d get officially become a free agent first to get one final, large payout from NCFC was sickening too. I know he’s got to look out for himself and careers are short blah blah blah, that piece of recruitment was an absolute disgrace.

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I'm assuming that just like Boris and his famous brexit articles you had another version ready to post which would have lambasted Delia and Michael for spending too much on ground developments and not investing remotely enough in the playing squad.

Is that even possible?

I'm not against caution, I'm against the total panic being induced by completely off the wall predictions. The only way there could be a massive third wave with 100k cases a day, NHS being overrun etc is if the vaccinations don't work. The modelers have been wrong so many times, I'm amazed anybody still puts any trust in them. Covid is never going away, at some stage we are going to have to accept this and live with it. If we wait too long there will be nothing worth going back too anyway. Mask wearing and social distancing isn't a problem, apart from that I'm more or less living life normally.

Needless panic

Fitba I think 😄