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Subbed on 74 mins - not a great game. Norway putting more attacking players on to try and nick a win.

One loose pass so far that put the Dutch in. Norway seeing little of the ball so far. The fact that its being played behind closed doors might help them but they are in a tricky situation depending on what happens in the Turkey game.

Interesting to see how the groups are shaping up. Some are quite close - a few must not lose games tonight - CZE V WAL and Turkey v Norway. Last night's game between France and Belgium was good. Belgium are running out of chances to win something with this talented squad.

Beat me to it...https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2021/09/derby-county-board-of-directors-statement-17th-september-2021

Lose tonight and it must be curtains for him.

The Danes made a load of changes for that game. Beat Israel mid week and they are pretty much there which they should expect to be from that group.

Root, Silverwood, Sibley and many others out of their depth. Made the Indian lower order look like Dravid and Chanderpaul. Pathetic.

Ribs of Beef. Never set foot in a Neverspoons.

Jon Otsemobor, Elvis Hammond, Jean-Yves deBlassis...

The National League play-off final appears to have gone under the radar somewhat. The kick off is at 1400. Hoping that Torquay Utd can do it and secure a Devon derby next season.

I think the question for the BBC was how long they continued to carry the feed. The Danish Broadcaster DR would have been televising the game so they controlled the pictures. Once it was clear how serious it was then they should have gone to the studio which from memory had about 5 mins discussion before changing schedule.

I'd turn this around and say we forego sponsorship and do something to put something back into the community so the Samaritans, Mind, EACH, Cancer Research - perhaps on different shirts is the way forward. I'm sure there are plenty of local charities. Pay them the direct proceeds from shirts and raffles etc.

Any Nordic side or really anyone but England, Wales or Scotland for me.

The Sky bet football league needs to go for a start as do betting adverts that are littered pre, during and post games......

I think Australia 31-0 American Samoa remains the biggest margin of victory in a WC qualifier.

I'd like to see Lincoln City do it. Will be tough for them as Blackpool are in very good form. Whichever team goes up means there will be some good derbies in the Championship. For Blackpool, there is PNE, Blackburn and for Lincoln there is Peterborough, Derby, Forest and stretching it further Stoke, Brum. We be good to see both grounds full for those games.

Likewise.

I voted. In the semi finals and the final using the app. Very simple.

You get out of it what you put into it. Songs that do very well have been expertly marketed by saturating various platforms (radio, tv youtube etc) for months so the song is well known to a wide audience and demographic and have taken care in their staging. I thought that the UK song was the worst I heard on the night and nul poits was fully justified. It wasn't a stand out song on the night and simply had nothing to offer. The fact it scored nothing across the whole of Europe said it all. If you send a rubbish song don't be surprised by the result.

Because they like it.

We know from experience that not getting promoted at the first attempt can be costly. Firstly, Fulham, WBA and Sheff U should be there or thereabouts in the top 6 (unless one does a Sunderland style implosion), then there is the possible fire sale of players and churn of manager and other staff etc. It depends how they use their 2nd year parachute payments but Bournemouth's ability to attract players is probably going to come down to their wage strategy. It is convenient for them that the EfL seems to have forgotten about their breaking of FFP rules. I can seem them struggling to be competitive.

You do wonder when they are going to get it right though. They've stacks of players out of contract and will be a cup final for the L2 teams that go up and another ground where the away team will most likely shut up shop. Sheff Weds, Pompey, Charlton, Rotherham, Oxford are likely to be challenging towards the top end.

That's why Brentford need to get level and ahead early otherwise **** will just do their usual gamesmanship by slowing down, appealing for everything and surrounding the ref at every decision. They will speed up play if they get behind.

Or some defending.

Come on Brentford - a routine two goal margin win please.....