https://youtu.be/_YIx1eyK4yc Denmark V Tunisia. Go to 4 minutes in on there. Fair play to the ref.

Guy slides in to tackle with his arm behind his back and Fernandez puts ball through the guys leg and hits the guys hand behind his back as he is going to ground. Ref waves play on. VAR says ‘clear and obvious’ error. Ref then agrees.

More VAR nonsense there with that penalty to Portugal.

I watched the "Germany 1 England 5" game in Scotland in 2001. The Scots knew we were a group of English and took the piss out of us from about half an hour before kick off right up until Gerrard scored to put us 2-1 up. Most of them had left by the time we scored the 4th. 😀

Wales changed it and went more direct to Keifer Moore. I’d get Toney on and do the same. Oh wait…..

Give over Jim. They've just got beaten by the equivalent of Ramsbottom United haven't they?

Well this game was dreary for 70 minutes then suddenly perked up.

The only thing I found was it is against the law to ‘encourage other people to commit illegal acts’, and there were worries that displaying a rainbow flag would fall under that law …. which is pretty flakey.

Well I’ve just tried to find if that is true that it is illegal to display a rainbow flag in Qatar without success . However there are plenty of reports from December 2020 along the lines of this - FIFA and Qatar says rainbow flags allowed in 2022 World Cup FIFA have properly caved in since then.

Hope JDT watched that. In the first half Plan A saw Wales get outplayed. 2nd half saw a completely different game plan and a huge transformation in the balance of the game. Good coaching from the sidelines.

I though the first one was grappling from both sides and the second one was a shirt pull. I'd have given neither, but if there's a lesson to be learnt it's don't take a grab of someone's shirt. Shirt pulling is always a bit more black and white than when there's physical pushing and holding.

I thought both VAR penalty decisions were correct 🙈🙈

Preston Half Season ticket £55 cheaper than Ewood.

And yet they’ve still had more shots than we did last Sunday 🙄

My favourite World Cup for non-England games was 1994. It was forecast to be a damp squib, but it was iconic for me. I was probably the right age for it to make a big impression, but despite our absence it was filled with Romario & Bebetto, Hagi, Stoichkov, Baggio, The Ireland games, Klinsmann and a Maradonna swansong. I probably watched more games at that tournament than any other

Reading the last few pages, Sunday has scarred some of our posters more than they realise. They're desperately trying to find some sort of high ground to try and comfort ourselves and strike back against the result. If I was a Burnley fan I'd be pissing myself reading this. We got hammered. JDT ballsed it up. Suck it up, don't rise to the (relatively tame) jibes and let's hope that by March he's learnt his lessons.

It's on Bet365

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League_International_Cup Porto seem to take this seriously, have won the competition twice and have been runners up once. Most of our players with first team experience will be absent. Porto 5/6, Draw No Bet seems a knocking bet.

Having an intense dislike for someone you are about to play, and also being ranked surprisingly high, doesn't mean you will be "up for it". Unfortunately 😒

So why have every other club who they have played this season managed to carry more of an attacking threat than we did? How have Luton, Blackpool, Hull, Preston, Cardiff and Stoke managed to not only put up a half-decent showing and take points off them if nobody an compete with them because of money? Why did we carry on with the same build-from-the back tactics at 1-0 after it had massively failed for the first 60 minutes?

We got mullered football-wise first half but we limited them to 3 chances. We got mullered second half again, except they eventually broke through as they had been threatening. We got absolutely destroyed at 4-2-3-1 because we could get the ball to the 4 advanced players. This is because we couldn't keep the ball when we passed it out from the goalkeeper when we had 9 players sat around or own area. So once we have only 7 players there and keep playing the same way we go even worse. It was such a bad performance, we became are the only team to play Burnley this season that managed less that 3 shots in the game, and that includes two lower league teams. It was an absolute shit show because everybody's hero JDT is stubborn and unadaptable.

That's nonsense with regards to how bad we got battered. Blackpool had a ding-dong battle and got a draw. Rotherham conceded in the 112th minute but scored twice and did look dangerous on the break. I'd be surprised if there's any team burnley have played this season that have caused them as little problem up front as we did.

I've fixed it for you. Having played on Sunday, he could easily have sat tomorrows fixture out and played in Slovakia on Sunday. There is then a 20 day break between the second Chile fixture and the Preston game.

Play it around at the back. Try and pull the opposition out of shape and then move the ball quickly into that space. It works at Ewood when the opposition sit near the half way line and allow us to knock it around and probe. It doesn't work when the opposition are sat on your 18 yard line waiting for you to do it.

Very few are calling for his head. It's just that not, only have we lost every game we have conceded first, in all but 1 we haven't scored a single goal. The passing from the back works against team that allow us time. It's brought us a huge number of wins, and as you say once we are infront we seem to be able to defend that lead. But any time a team closes us down and presses us we just give the ball away. There are countless examples home and away. Go watch the last 20 minutes of Birmingham and Huddersfield, and as soon as they start really coming at us to try and get back in the game and press, we lose control. Therefore, when we start a game and are immediately getting closed down from the front we rarely manage to get forward and we are just waiting to concede. It was obvious to most regular Rovers watchers that we were not in that first half at all on Sunday, and we could not even get the ball up to the forwards on the half way line. But we persisted in playing the same way until we conceded, and then still carried on that way for the rest of the game. The one solitary shot we had in the whole game probably came from the only long ball I can remember from a centre half. Now the reason I'm so disheartened (still), is that he sticks to this so stubbornly. We all know that if we are 1-0 down at half time against Preston and can't get out of our half, he will carry on doing the same shit. Imagine how many points we could have had if by going forward more direct when plan A isn't working had actually managed to alter any of those 9 defeat. And the more teams become aware of it, the more teams will start doing it. In a high profile fixture Sheff United showed the league how to handle Burnley. Burnley have just done the same with us.