I’ll be watching England but I wouldn’t be surprised if Iran v USA turns out to be a more exciting game.

Is there any way they can both lose ?

According to my paper Southgate will be going full on Tony Mowbray tonight. This is their team - Pickford Walker, Stones, Maguire, Trippier Henderson Rice, Mount Foden, Kane, Rashford

A Uruguay player goes in to block off a Portuguese player, the Portuguese player slips the ball through the other guys legs. As the other player falls backwards he puts his hand out behind himself to break his fall and his hand makes contact with the ball. Accidental for me.

If we’re talking centre halves Chris Samba must in there. A one man defence in his prime.

He’s a very lucky boy to be in that job. As far as I can see the FA wanted somebody who “ wouldn’t frighten the horses “ and that what you get with Southgate. A nice bloke no doubt but a very, very limited manager. If by some massive fluke he was appointed at Rovers I’d be less than happy.

They had some really good players in that Argentina team. It took all we had to beat them even when they went down to ten. It got a bit lively at times.

The German goal was very Sheareresque.

Best player on the pitch for me.

I don’t know why they do that with VAR. It’s obvious what happened.

They started mixing it up and it brought them results.

A bit of publicity might help you sell more shirts Herbie.

We don’t seem to do draws.

Just speaking for myself - how about a few photos of them being modelled by the lucky owners ?

When they put that shirt on they seem to become more motivated. Our lot seem to become less motivated when they pull on the shirt.

There’s a good article in yesterdays paper on DeBruyne. The interviewer asks him outright. - Can Belgium win the World Cup ? “ He says - “ No, we’re too old “.

I can’t see how you think France were struggling. They beat a durable Denmark side yesterday without really getting out of second gear. They’ll always score goals with Mbappe, Giroud and Dembele up front. Greizman is pulling the strings in midfield.

Yeah, the Mexico keeper got down like he was getting into bed.

Yes, he’s a very under rated musician.

I can always tell when my team is in for a bad night, be it Rovers or England. They start off like it’s a testimonial match. No tempo or willingness to pass the ball at speed. The Yanks were playing balls to run on to, we were playing balls to feet all night.

The guy that is turning down a £200,000 a week deal at Chelsea apparently. Modern day football is mad. What would Dougie be pulling in if he played nowadays ? He’d more ability in the big toe of his right foot than the likes of Mount have in their whole body. Same goes for Saka for me, he lost the ball nearly every time he had it last night. I don’t think playing him on the right wing when he’s predominantly left footed helps his cause though.

I’d say we passed it backwards as much as we passed it forwards tonight. We were back to taking the ball stood still again.

A remember being in the pub one Saturday night when a Dingle pal of mine came in. He’d been to the Turf that day and he said “ I’ve just seen a young lad make his debut for the scousers, he’s called David Johnson and he’ll play for England one day “.

And then what ?

I agree about Mount but Maguire has been the best of a bad bunch tonight. Saka particularly bad along with Sterling. Bellingham couldn’t get in the game. Bottom line - they were running, we were walking. That will have cheered Wales up no end.