This was a game you had to be at to appreciate the effort from both fans and players that went into getting that point. It felt like a win to me, loved it being there.

Derby 2 0 up at WBA after 15 mins! 

1 hour ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but here goes. We look very, very good 

Please don’t get ahead of yourself again, oh and we ended up looking very, very bad.

We need to figure out a way to play when DG is subbed because we are usually only drawing or leading by 1 goal when he goes off.  We don’t know if Brereton can do a job as lone striker because TM never plays him there.

He doesn’t look like someone who has played 50 odd Champioship games, an he looks to me like a player devoid of confidence. It’s a difficult task for TM to sort him out. 

Shelf Utd are an excellent footballing team, running Derby ragged at the moment. Really good to watch, all credit to them.

29 minutes ago, Lancaster Rover said:

Well it appears the pitchforks are out his morning, with any luck we can keep this up and hound him out by January eh.

Breaking news, footballer behaves like tit, in other news, water is in fact wet.

In other news, it’s now ok to break the law and not be subject to criticism from, among others, those who help pay your wages.

A classic, cheeky chappy Cockney. Popular with all and sundry but with no sense of responsibility, and no idea what real friends are, but knows plenty of hangers on. He should be doing this community service in Blackburn Hospice, then he might get a sense of how privileged a lifestyle he leads.

Of the youngsters on show today, Butterworth is head and shoulders the best. A terrific cameo appearance.

The comment that nearly every Rovers fan got/gets wrong is when they sing “ No nae never etc”. It’s been wrong a few times, and hopefully will be again soon!

Danny Graham was excellent today, great flicked headers, laying the ball off and holding it up. I love watching players like him, who really have a football brain. You don’t need to run around like a headless chicken to play this game, clever footballers never do so.

Rodwell is a class player, if anyone can sort him out it’s TM. He could be a fantastic signing.

3 minutes ago, OnePhilT said:

Personally looking forward to this weekend. If we manage to finish third, that'll be the best we've done at a World Cup in my lifetime. And then Croatia in the final... It's been an unbelievable and thoroughly enjoyable tournament. And I've watched every single match. ?

In reality, both finalists have been involved in one good game each, France v. Argentina in The Round of 16 and Croatia v. England.  Hope you enjoy it, Phil, but from a neutral point of view I think both sides will be very cautious, so it won’t be much of a spectacle. There is one world class player on show, Modric, Mbappe is nowhere near that yet. 1 0 to France.

Both teams deserve immense credit for that magnificent effort, gave their all for their countries. In pure football terms, Modric ran that game, a brilliant footballer. Well done England for getting so near.

13 hours ago, Audax said:

Neymar has two World Cups under his belt. I don't think there is anything extraordinary with either.

Pele helped Brazil win the World Cup and.....

 

Pele won 3 world cups, the first as a 17 year old. It would probably have been 4 had he not had a hatchet job done on him in 1966. No player has ever been as good as him, nor is ever likely to be.

How depressing to see some of the idiot England fans smashing up an Ikea store, jumping up and down on cars and generally causing drunken havoc in towns up and down the country. Why can’t they just celebrate like normal people do instead of tarnishing the image English football fans? Probably the same types who invade pitches at the end of a season.

Come on Uruguay, Latin America needs you.

Whichever team get to the WC final from this side of the draw will be the worst ever team to reach that lofty position. Every team that was in the other half of the draw, including those that lost, is better than any of those in ours.

Neymar does make a meal of things but he faces constant fouling, like most of his predecessors for Brazil.

England have the easiest route to the final of all time.

Colombia’s best player, Rodriguez aka James, might well not be playing v. England. Off early in first half today. He was brilliant v. Poland.

3 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

It started way before Maradona had arrived on any scene.

In 1966 Argentina, by then an established retirement home for runaway Nazis, arrived for the WC in England and proceeded to give a shameful and brutal display of thuggery against their hosts moving Sir Alf to call them animals setting off a political crisis and fanning Argie anger. Not the main reason for Thatcher's later triumph but a part of it.

Still having said that they had great teams when winning their World Cups and in Messi have the best current player in the world.

Maradona, great player that he was, becomes more and more a figure of ridicule which is sad. Suffice to say his offer to give a team talk was not taken up.

Brilliantly summed up. 

Three cracking  games today, very good World Cup so far.

Mexico’s fans are fantastic, reminds me of the Rovers on tour last season. 

The Beautiful Game. That was a brilliant football match. No other sport comes near it.