Gav

My initial thoughts, but I've now changed my mind. Studs up, knee high, anywhere else on the pitch its a foul and potentially a red card. It wasn't intentional, it wasn't malicious, but it was knee high with studs showing.

I'd buy a different paper.....

So much angst about this Dutch team in the lead up to this game, why I have no idea. I was always confident we'd beat them last night, we are the better side and of course we proved that and sent them home. One of my worst moments supporting England was the World Cup Qualifier against Dutch in 93, Koeman freekick, taken twice, Seaman hopeless, England didn't qualify for USA 94. Well that last night was payback Ronald, its been a long time coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8Q9drqJe0 Neville made a great point on ITV last night, nobody has more experience than Gareth Southgate in international tournament football. From his playing days in 90's, to managing the England under 21's and now the full side reaching another final, he's seen it all and its shown time and time again, he gets results. Nobody knows what will happen on Sunday, we have the players individually who can win a final, but regardless of the result, for me Gareth Southgate has once again proven the social media experts wrong and I'd be looking to tie him into the next World Cup campaign right now, as these players are his players and are to a man fully behind the manager, you can't buy that. Anyone found any decent flight prices to Berlin for Sunday?

Phenomenal record.

Come on England.

Just got even better, missed a hattrick by 1 ball, but has 5 wickets to his name so far.

A transfer thread once again dominated by these abhorrent owners, court cases, lies and mismanagement, what happened Anuradha J Desai? Friday 19th November 2010 - Anuradha J Desai, the Chairperson of Venky’s, said: “We are delighted, proud and humbled to be associated with Blackburn Rovers, a team with whom we share many values and ambitions. Going forward we plan to focus on leveraging the global influence in establishing Blackburn Rovers as a truly global brand. We will absolutely respect the Jack Walker legacy and will be actively supporting the organisation to ensure that Blackburn Rovers remains one of the best run Clubs within the Premier League.”

Different times, Ron Greenwood carrying the FA Cup back to West Ham on the tube, 1964

I wonder if anyone actually gives a toss...

Pride and passion from England fans that are fully invested.

Yet one of them is going home tonight and we are not, get some perspective man.

I was sat here trying to think of 1 Greek player from that Euro winning team, so thanks for that riverholmes

When Greece won Euros in 2004 they weren’t outstanding, they ground out results. Every ‘expert’ predicted they’d lose the next game and they never did. Keep the faith and ignore the nay sayers.

The best set of England penalties I’ve ever seen - Southgate had them well drilled. Superb stuff, the result is all that matters.

Southgate subs changed the game, now go on and win it.

Saka has been our best player today, superb strike.

Tough to play against a back 5, but I’m happy with the first half, an England goal is coming 🙏

England have dominated the game, the Swiss have been poor, you don’t need to be a bbc pundit to see that.

Saka doing just that, beats his man almost every time. Much better from England.

Saka superb run, Kane trotting into the box…. Southgate can’t run for them.

Come on England.

Many fans forget, or aren't old enough to recall, that we've not even qualified for tournaments in the past, let alone played badly in them! Some of those group games in Italia 90 were right up there with these, Mexico 86 group games too, but granted thats a while back. As for Graham Taylor, goodness me, we looked like Brazil 1970 last night compared to his tenure!

Unbeaten, into the Quarter finals, nothing else matters. The euphoria of Jude's goal hitting the back of the net last night is why we are all football fans, nothing like it, tremendous. You need luck to win tournament football, we had a huge slice of it last night, we can win this.

Same comments since the opening game and look where we are. Performances have been poor, results have been put is in Qfinals.

Winner progresses to the next round, number of goals don’t matter.