No, he's terrible. Can only assume he's being brought in as second/third choice, but I don't even think he's good enough for that. If there's literally any chance of him ending up between the sticks in a PL match then the club is taking a huge risk signing him.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jason-steele-exit.1434769/ Sunderland fans gutted to see him go.

I can understand there being a few teething issues, and there may never be a 100% clear view of something which is deemed an "obvious error", but even a casual football viewer would have clearly been able to see that Kane was fouled twice in the box last night. It wasn't even debatable. How supposedly professional officials can't see that is beyond me. There's no excuse for this kind of incompetence anymore, and if genuinely terrible decisions like last night are made then somebody should be held accountable. Of course Southgate and England won't rock the boat because that's not their style, but we really should. Goal Difference could still be a decider in this group, after all, and I'd say we were robbed of at least two chances to score from the spot yesterday. Should we convert one and the game goes 2-1 then it changes everything - Tunisia have no choice but to press forward a bit and chances are we slip in behind them and finish it 3 or 4-1. Instead the officials let Tunisia get away with murder the entire match, allowing them to sit deeper and deeper and drag the game quality down to the depths with fouls, play-acting and time wasting.

By absence I basically meant it might as well have been turned off, as it never once corrected the ineptness of the officials. If they can't catch the two obvious fouls on Kane from last night they might as well shut it down.

If I was Southgate I'd be demanding an explanation over the absence of VAR last night. We've already seen at least one penalty given by VAR for wrestling in the box, so where was it last night when it blatantly happened twice? Yes we won in the end, but we were badly let down by the implementation (or lack thereof) of the VAR system. How can anybody have confidence in it if such obvious fouls are missed/ignored?

For wrestling maybe. It surely can't be football based on that display. Absolute joke of a team and I was delighted to see them crying at the end. They should be ashamed of coming to the World Cup and playing in such a negative, cynical, boring fashion. You might only get one shot, have a go for goodness sake, don't spend the match falling over (special mention to the Tunisian who fell over after the ball was kicked at his midriff), wasting time, hitting Rock Bottom's on opponents in the penalty area and just generally being a nasty, dirty team. It's no way to make a reputation. For the record I have no problem with playing tough, but Tunisia tonight were disgraceful and were very lucky the ref seemed to be either blind or bent.

Thank god for that. Can somebody go and plug var back in now?

What is it about the England shirt that turns decent young players to shit at tournaments? It's quite impressive really.

Another shitshow from Sterling. Rashford's chance to stake a claim.

We can't keep passing it across the back line in future, better teams will punish us.

Our non-set piece crossing is diabolical.

Did they turn VAR off for this one? Wtf?

We've played pretty well but a moment of stupidity means we're drawing instead of winning. Keep playing like this and we should win, but we need to stop passing it around the back like Spain-lite. The support isn't there from the midfield to do that and we keep getting caught out. Need to be more direct in getting the ball into midfield and pass around from there.

We definitely should have had a pen there. Is what VAR is supposed to be for.

Typical England. No issues, then suddenly self destruct. We can score again but our defence worries me a lot. We keep trying to pass it around like we're Barcelona and losing possession.

Belgium woke up!

Belgium are playing like it's extra time and they're knackered from the first 90 minutes. If this half is anything to go by we should definitely be aiming to top this group.

Indeed, just ideally not 95% of the time! Belgium been poor as well tbf. The pair of them look like they're contesting a friendly.

Panama blatantly playing for a 0-0, just what you want to see at a World Cup. Unfortunately we're only going to see more of this when it's expanded to 48 teams.

Brazil looked awesome in the first 25 minutes or so, then lost their rhythm and never got it back. Great result for Switzerland.

According to the BBC only one team have gone on to win the tournament after losing their first game (Spain in 2010), so Germany have given themselves a mountain to climb already. The Mexicans worked hard and Germany looked clueless as to how to break them down.

Maybe not! Nigeria played the first half like they were collectively stoned. Second half slightly better but still poor considering some of the players they have in that team.

Denmark were very poor. Peru fantastic in all areas except putting the ball in the net, which unfortunately for them is the most important thing. They could have played until this time tomorrow and not scored.

There was contact but it was very slight. With the momentum of his body he would have found it difficult not to go down, although I could see a ref without VAR waving play on for that. Horrific penalty though. Baggio-esque.

Argentina are so weak outside of their attacking options. It's little wonder they're struggling internationally these days. Iceland showing again that they have some serious belief and don't get overawed by reputations. Good luck to them.