Hasta

If we signed him for a fee you be pretty disappointed at wasting the money. He had a purple,patch where he scored a few late in 2017 but before and after that spell he was largely ineffective in a successful team.

Yawn. Not again.

There are casual fans who will decide on the day of the game whether to go depending on weather or late changes in plans. My dad was one such fan later on in his life. Of course £3 will potentially put them off. Rovers have obviously done the numbers and feel squeezing £3 extra from the fans that will pay it will outweigh the people who are being put off by the surcharge.

I've no problem that France deserved to win. I just don't think they look like a team that can go on and on. They were solid but far from spectacular, and it was a World Cup were a lot of the usual suspects didn't turn up. It was less than 12 months ago they couldn't beat Luxembourg at home in a competitive game. International football is open for so many teams at the moment.

No it wasnt. Most people I know where very worried about the Croatia game. We hoped they'd be tired, the same as we fear we (England or Rovers) will be when we haven't had much recovery time. We planned what we might do if we were in the final but surely that's excitement and human nature.

And having seen the freeze frame, Pogba IS offside for the first France goal. He jumps for the ball and Mandzukic just manages to nick it of his head - into his own net. Why didn't VAR look at that, but does overturn a not very "clear and.obvious" handball. One was a matter of fact not.given. Then the opinion is given.

Is that goal not offside?

I've not seen an England side control the midfield, keep posession and generally control the tempo of the games in major tournaments ever. That's due more to the formation and tactics than it is to the players. Therefore I think changing to a back 4 would be madness. Make slight tactically tweaks by all means but play the formation which has served us well and let them worry about us. Otherwise if it backfires we will always wonder what if?

This is going to be a long 15 minutes for the Red Devil's.

Ball was going out of play. He was never going to catch it. However at the point of impact it's not over the line so it's a penalty. I know this because I rewound it and played it back in slow mode and freezed it. Its a pity the officials can't do that. Oh wait.....

Found it. So he did. Tom reported it on Thursday on here, it was in the local Derby paper on Friday and the tubster broke it as an exclusive on the Sunday. Looks a cracking signing .

When did Nixon get this right? Do not recall (or see) him linking him by name until after 5pm today.

2-1 now. I thought there maybe a marginal offside early in the build up to the Belgium goal. Hope the linesman didn't keep his flag down for VAR and then they never had a look.

It's still awaiting approval from Switzerland.

Only If it leads to a goal or penalty. If it leads to a corner which leads to a goal then the attacking team benefits. If it is borderline there's no real issue but I've seen a couple where the attacker was 3 feet off and the linesman played on.

Not really arsed about the result. However If Pickford had gone for the save properly with his right hand, instead of going at it with his 'wrong' hand, he may have saved that. Nigel Martyn used to make the same mistake on shots across him.

6 minutes injury time added. Then it takes 3 minutes to review VAR and for penalty to be taken. Game ends on 97 minutes. Farce.

Or we'd have won both games also.

Others also never stopped supporting the club and started supporting City (cos they were winning ) for several years. A point he ignores when brought up.

It's not really. There's a link to it in the transfer links thread from about 3 weeks ago.

If Iceland win then Croatian will need to not lose to make sure they top the group and avoid France. Any other result and Croatia can probably do what they'd want in the last game.

If Neymar had done that to a defender and clutched his shirt, do you think the ref would have not given a free kick?

Wigan please. Boxing day is always Bolton away recently so that wouldn't surprise me again.

On the actual game, I thought for the first 30 minutes we did have the killer ball we usually lack. Some of the way we got players running in behind was exceptional. I think it caught Tunisia by surprise and, once they equalised, they got everyone deeper and became less adventurous. Then we struggled. Having said that, we also have seen Brazil, Argentina and Germany have similar problems but also concede goals and not be as dominant in the midfield. I don't think Tunisia had a meaningful touch in our box all of the second half. Loftus Cheek and Rashford gave us some much needed impetus back late on although their refusal to cross, to try that one extra touch or try a little flick frustrated. It's not normal to praise a former dingle but Trippier has it right. When your in a decent position get it in with quality as soon as possible. Many times, the best chance you get to put a cross in is the first chance you get to put a cross in. Sterling and Young were poor. At the moment I'd just consider swapping Young for Rose. Impressed with Maguire's determination to step out with the ball and try and force the team forward. That's got to be credit to the manager. Worrying that there is only 1 proper finisher in the side though. Kane took both simple chances well although I could see some players panicking at the end and heading it down and wide (Morten - I'm looking at you !!!). Vardy is the only other player that would probably have stuck most of the chances that came our way away but he'll be difficult to fit in that formation. Overall I'm quite pleased with how that went. Panama looked relatively harmless so a win should see us through next weekend. Final word on Southgate. I never wanted him to get the job and I expect he will fail like everyone else. However I find it hard to dislike the guy. Speaks sensibly, picks who he wants to pick rather than bowing to influences, and his goal reactions show a genuine passion.

There wasn't an absence of VAR. It was reviewed by the officials in Moscow and decided it wasn't a penalty. It clearly was. VAR will stamp out the contentious decisions. Like hell it will. Throw in the Argentina penalty not given as I said before and you've got blatant decisions not being given. Once upon a time you would say the referee can't see everything and doesn't have 50 angles like the TV viewer. They've taken that excuse away now so they simply have to get the decisions correct. When they don't it's actually worse than it was before.