Right - forgetting the bent bidding process and the conditions of the migrant workers building the stadiums - does anybody else agree that a Nov/Dec competition has the potential to be ace?

 

Firstly because it will take up most of the traditional Christmas bullshit season so we'll all be talking about football and not festivities. Secondly just for the novelty factor. And thirdly because we can see whether or not our well worn excuse about our players being tired stands up to scrutiny.

How bad was that first penalty haha wow

Put laces through it ffs

26 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Does he really need to

Clearly not!

Fucking hate those stutter penalties 

27 minutes ago, globaldiver said:

For a young lad, Mbappe doesn’t seem to put a shift in

Mbappe is the best striker in world footballl. He is  the main reason that 9 times out of 10 France would beat England in a World Cup quarter final.

He hasn't progressed as he might have done though since winning the last World Cup.It now seems as though he will be a slight upgrade on Thierry Henry rather than the next Cristiano Ronaldo. I put his lack of progress down to a lack of ambition.Instead of wanting to test himself at Real Madrid or Barcelona he prefers an easy life in the French league albeit on a fantastic salary due to the unlimited oil money at Paris.

If goalkeeper isnt allowed off his line, why it the penalty taker allowed to stutter their run up.

Taker can't "stop" can he?

Keeper has his own rules, not sure one has a bearing on the other.

5 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Mbappe is the best striker in world footballl. He is  the main reason that 9 times out of 10 France would beat England in a World Cup quarter final.

He hasn't progressed as he might have done though since winning the last World Cup.It now seems as though he will be a slight upgrade on Thierry Henry rather than the next Cristiano Ronaldo. I put his lack of progress down to a lack of ambition.Instead of wanting to test himself at Real Madrid or Barcelona he prefers an easy life in the French league albeit on a fantastic salary due to the unlimited oil money at Paris.

Why would he go to Barcelona? To play in the Europa League?

14 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Mbappe is the best striker in world footballl. He is  the main reason that 9 times out of 10 France would beat England in a World Cup quarter final.

He hasn't progressed as he might have done though since winning the last World Cup.It now seems as though he will be a slight upgrade on Thierry Henry rather than the next Cristiano Ronaldo. I put his lack of progress down to a lack of ambition.Instead of wanting to test himself at Real Madrid or Barcelona he prefers an easy life in the French league albeit on a fantastic salary due to the unlimited oil money at Paris.

Spoken like a true Man Utd fan 

Though isn't his record of taking penalties in shoot outs poor?

News has just come on bbc

First 10 minutes chatting about the game later

Wtf

Bit more of an enthusiastic start. Mendy is dodgy as fuck in net, he'll throw at least one in.

Senegal are not good, but neither are we

The distance between defence and midfield is massive

Wouldn’t fancy it if we didn’t score first

Are we even playing with a midfield?

Dioufff

2 minutes ago, globaldiver said:

Wouldn’t fancy it if we didn’t score first

Might wake us up. This is particularly turgid 

Awful like watching us !

Just now, Rizlar said:

Awful like watching us !

Isn’t it just!

Absolute shite this walking pace stuff, we’ve got quick skilful players on the pitch yet we don’t use them. Tell you what let’s drop our best scorer Rashford and play Henderson instead. Fuck off Southgate.

I'll take that

Yeeeeeeah, knew that would get them going. Brilliant Henderson, we’ll done Gareth!! 🥴

What a pass that lad is quality 🙃

You just know Southgate will be delighted with this performance 

Quality assist that. Tough half but good to see us being clinical. Hopefully it will open up a bit for us.