Football Talk

[Anonymous]

Thought I would start off a thread, bit of friendly banter not too heavy and an opportunity to express your ideas about your favourite team.

What are you hoping for in the January transfer market?

As a Liverpool fan I am hoping for cover for Mane and the front 3.

[Cleoriff]

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@Oxonian wrote:

All going according to plan for England :-

- unbeaten. 🎉

- group winners. 🎉

- only one goal conceded in three games. 🎉

- in what is arguably the easier half of the draw in the knockout stages. 🎉

Could we reasonably have asked for more ? ⭐

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Yes @Oxonian I could ask for more. Like an exciting game of football!! 😫

[Oxonian]

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@Cleoriff wrote:Yes @OxonianI could ask for more. Like an exciting game of football!! 

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There's no satisfying some spectators @Cleoriff. 🤣

It will get exciting and tense nor we are into the knockout stages ! 👍 

[RunrigForever]

England ... v ... X ? ......... in semi - finals of 2024 Euro's (European Football competition) ..... Wednesday at 8pm.

Manager Gareth Southgate needs to 'Lighten up on the Sidelines' ....... = ....... the England players don't like a 'Frozen Rigid Statue' of a Team Manager who shows No -Emotion = Feedback when the England Players do what they're paid to do and no doubt paid handsomely.

I don't blame them.

They're trying to put into practice what Southgate has decided in the way of Team Tactics ... & ... with Woeful Boring Boring results ..... = ....... No Flair on the Football pitch.

A lot has been said = Win Ugly ... but ... Just Win ....... Play to Win ... & ... Not Play to Draw, then Play Defensively !!!

Use All the Tools in Your Toolbox Southgate !!!

The younger talented players ... & ... the more experienced players ..... But ..... Sooooo Staid & Predictably Boring !!!

taken me Positively Ages to find the Football thread which @Cleoriff mentions when welcoming this week's new joiners to the O2 Community in the Welcome & News section.

The Beautiful Game ... ... ... No Comment from Me 😞

Beautiful sport to me is Gymnastics in the forthcoming Olympics ..... =  ..... Paris 2024 coming up shortly ... & ... the likes of USA gymnast Simone Biles xx

Enough said ... ... ... I hope to be 'down the pub' experiencing for the 1st time in a sociable situation some top flight English sport.

I won't be holding my breadth ....... = ....... just Hoping xx

[Oxonian]

Yes @RunrigForever, tomorrow evening's game will be tense. 👍 

[Cleoriff]

It was F1 at Silverstone yesterday (The British F1)

It seemed fitting that a British driver should win. We had 3 British drivers on the grid. Lewis Hamilton won. Everyone post race wished England all the best for the match tomorrow.

Fingers crossed hey?

[Oxonian]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

It was F1 at Silverstone yesterday (The British F1)

It seemed fitting that a British driver should win. We had 3 British drivers on the grid. Lewis Hamilton won. Everyone post race wished England all the best for the match tomorrow.

Fingers crossed hey?

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Yes, fingers already crossed @Cleoriff and they will remain so until the final whistle. 👍

[Cleoriff]

First goal to the Netherlands after 8 mins.

Netherlands 1 England 0

[jonsie]

1 - 1

[jonsie]

Think the forum should be cancelled/postponed/paused for the next 90 minutes or so!

....unless there is extra time of ccourse

[jonsie]

.....and penalties 😂