Yes their wingers made the pitch very big when they had the ball yet still got inside regularly to threaten our goal. Does that mean wingers will be coming back into fashion. I hope so.

That’s a good point. Do people really enjoy watching England play against decent sides ? I know I don’t. I end up shouting at the TV. I was doing a lot of shouting in that second half. Our ball retention was ale house team level. We can flatten the little teams but when we come up against the good teams we look lost.

Kane has had a great career but tonight he was beyond bad. That was a Gallagheresque performance. Totally ineffectual. He should have been off at half time.

Eddie Howe will be in the frame. If they stay with Southgate they want their heads feeling.

It tells me a lot about the Prem. A lot of those players ( Rice, Saka, Foden etc ) dominate games at that level but look distinctly average at international level.

Playing like we did tonight I’d rather we didn’t. That was embarrassing. We looked like a pub team for a big chunk of the game. Their pressing exposed our lack of technique. Our wingers come inside all night long, theirs get around the side of teams.

He should have gone after the last Euro Final. We’ve just wasted three years.

I said to my son at half time he’ll make the subs when we go a goal down. It crossed my mind that Wharton would have at least put some clever passes through. We’ll never know now.

Pickford played well as a keeper but his distribution of the ball was awful. The game was lost in midfield. None of them played up to par. A comp too soon for Foden, Mainoo, Saka, Bellingham etc. They all want to hold onto the ball instead of just passing it like Spain did. Why Kane played is a complete mystery. He looked like me when I had disc problems. Taxi for Southgate I think.

We played for about five minutes. The rest of it was bobbins. We were embarrassed by a team that could pass and move.

They’re one touch, we are two or three touches.

Getting over run in midfield.

If we go 1 down he’ll make a change then.

We’re struggling in midfield, Foden and Mainoo hardly in it. Saka flattering to deceive. Bellingham trying to do too much on the ball.

Kane can’t get off the ground.

Look at the pitch in yesterday’s replay of the 1966 Final ! That’s not to mention the ball. I played on pitches like that. I also played football on a bowling green. A local engineering works went bang and the sports facilities were abandoned until eventually Woolworths bought it for their headquarters. They had a bowling green there and they had a goat on a rope to keep the grass down. We’d tie the goat to a tree and play 4 a side on the grass. It was fantastic to play on after the pitches we played on normally. Ball control was so predictable. That’s what pitches are like today.

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Does that apply to some of the first team squad ? I can think of 3 right of the top of my head that miss games regularly.

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I think we might regret doing that.

Dykes can play when Gally gets injured again.

Some guys have all the luck.

It’s a shame because he looks to be a skilful player with goals in him.

Are you his mum or his agent ?

1966 World CupFinal on Channel 4 at the moment. 1-1at half time.