The greatest trick Southgate has pulled is in creating what is basically a carbon

[Luis Anaconda]

copy of the Wimbledon sides of the mid-90s (ie not the good one but the one that kept them up each year) and people seem to like it. This side has almost no creativity outside set-pieces and relying on Trippier and Young crosses

[Sir C]

copy of the Wimbledon sides of the mid-90s (ie not the good one but the one that kept them up each year) and people seem to like it. This side has almost no creativity outside set-pieces and relying on Trippier and Young crosses

They do look a bit... ordinary, don't they? Obviously they are to be applauded for making the best of limited resources, but it's not exactly scintillating to watch.

I suspect the game against Sweden will be a dull off. They will essentially try to bore each other into submission.

[Luis Anaconda]

They do look a bit... ordinary, don't they? Obviously they are to be applauded for making the best of limited resources, but it's not exactly scintillating to watch.

I suspect the game against Sweden will be a dull off. They will essentially try to bore each other into submission.

I suspect Swedish players might be clever enough not to rugby tackle Harry Kane in the penalty area. We may struggle to score

[Rich]

I suspect Swedish players might be clever enough not to rugby tackle Harry Kane in the penalty area. We may struggle to score

Southgate has also come up with 'the love train' at set pieces.

Saying we have no creativity is harsh, though. Henderson can pick a pass, Lingard has a spark about him etc.

[Luis Anaconda]

Southgate has also come up with 'the love train' at set pieces.

Saying we have no creativity is harsh, though. Henderson can pick a pass, Lingard has a spark about him etc.

Oh right - one player who can "pick a pass" (any idea what that actually means, r, because to me it seems just to be cliché-ridden *******s). I like Lingard, I don't think he is good enough to unpick the best defences though. No creativity may have been harsh, given that Henderson picking a pass and Lingard having a spark about him is the best you can come up with, I wouldn't say "very limited creativity" is entirely innaccurate

[Rich]

Oh right - one player who can "pick a pass" (any idea what that actually means, r, because to me it seems just to be cliché-ridden *******s). I like Lingard, I don't think he is good enough to unpick the best defences though. No creativity may have been harsh, given that Henderson picking a pass and Lingard having a spark about him is the best you can come up with, I wouldn't say "very limited creativity" is entirely innaccurate

Rashford obviously has some talent, in fairness. And Sterling scored a lot of goals for City this season.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Southgate has also come up with 'the love train' at set pieces.

Saying we have no creativity is harsh, though. Henderson can pick a pass, Lingard has a spark about him etc.

They created about 40 chances between them in the league last season. Slightly more than one a game. This is also in teams with better players. The only creative player England have is Alli and I don’t think he has ever had a decent game for England.

[IUFG]

The only creative player England have is Alli and I don’t think he has ever had a decent game for England.

I think the snidey, spursy **** is carrying a (at least) minor injury.

Seems to be rubbing his thigh / hamstring a lot.

In any case, not once, has he played a pass through the defence to Kane (as he seems to every week for them) at this WC.

I'm sure he would have done versus Panama had he played, but then again, so could Stephen Hawking against that lot. And he's dead.

[SWv2]

copy of the Wimbledon sides of the mid-90s (ie not the good one but the one that kept them up each year) and people seem to like it. This side has almost no creativity outside set-pieces and relying on Trippier and Young crosses

Trippier and Young appear, in their own minds, to have invented themselves as some kind of dead ball experts.

[Luis Anaconda]

Trippier and Young appear, in their own minds, to have invented themselves as some kind of dead ball experts.

****s the pair of them. We used to have Gary Neville and Ashley Cole; Anderson and Sansom; Pearce and Dixon - proper full backs