European Finals.

[KeyserSoze]

Is this the best game of football ever?

[Prufrock]

Must be up there for the best day

[Harry Genshaw]

I'm having a mare this evening. Switch bbc on and Murrays 2 sets ahead and 5-0 up in the 3rd. The Swiss are 1 up v France on ITV.

I then watched Murray lose 7 games on the spin and the set. Switch over to see France equalise and then go 2-1 up. I felt like feckin LeverEnd!

Murray now through and Swiss fight back for extra time. Lovely stuff

[Burnden Paddock]

I'm having a mare this evening. Switch bbc on and Murrays 2 sets ahead and 5-0 up in the 3rd. The Swiss are 1 up v France on ITV.

I then watched Murray lose 7 games on the spin and the set. Switch over to see France equalise and then go 2-1 up. I felt like feckin LeverEnd!

Murray now through and Swiss fight back for extra time. Lovely stuff

That’s a carbon copy of my evening. Nipped to the loo after the tennis, then chatted with Miss BP and missed the goals being replayed!

[BWFC_Insane]

I'm having a mare this evening. Switch bbc on and Murrays 2 sets ahead and 5-0 up in the 3rd. The Swiss are 1 up v France on ITV.

I then watched Murray lose 7 games on the spin and the set. Switch over to see France equalise and then go 2-1 up. I felt like feckin LeverEnd!

Murray now through and Swiss fight back for extra time. Lovely stuff

Done exactly the bloody same. Managed to see miracle man Murray win though which is more unbelievable than anything we will see in the football.

[Prufrock]

Superb.

Allez Les Suisses!

[BWFC_Insane]

Doesn’t matter how many great players you have if you don’t have the spirit and desire. France lacked those. I said the only way they were beaten is their own lack of real desire and that’s what has happened.

[Hoboh]

Hop off frogs.
Are you watching Napoleon/macaroni

[Bruce Rioja]

Only got home in time for the penalties (and what a bunch of penalties), haven't seen a kick all day otherwise. A bowl of Cornies, mug of tea and the highlights it is then.

[KeyserSoze]

Weird game in all. Felt Switzerland were the best team for 65 mins. However France were so utterly, ludicrously, embarrassingly better than the Swiss for that 25 minute spell in the second half you wondered where that had been the whole game. For Switzerland to then claw it back was testimony to their self belief as much as it is to France's subconscious decision to let the foot off the pedal.

What a bloody game

[Prufrock]

Xhaka was unbelievable tonight.

[Gooner Girl]

Xhaka was unbelievable tonight.

Hopefully added some value to what we will get for him!

[BWFC_Insane]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

[The_Gun]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

That's really not a very adventurous lineup, is it? Essentially playing seven defensive players and three offensive. I can't see us scoring with that team on the pitch - the best I'd hope for would be to keep it at 0-0 and then get more adventurous towards the end of the game.

[dave the minion]

Doesn’t matter how many great players you have if you don’t have the spirit and desire. France lacked those. I said the only way they were beaten is their own lack of real desire and that’s what has happened.

Big shout out to the sh1t-houses that are the French team: only about 1 member of the squad made the effort to console Mbappe after his pen miss - rest of them just left him on his own to leave the pitch whilst they wallowed in their own self-absorbed entitled arrogant pity.....

[BWFC_Insane]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

That's really not a very adventurous lineup, is it? Essentially playing seven defensive players and three offensive. I can't see us scoring with that team on the pitch - the best I'd hope for would be to keep it at 0-0 and then get more adventurous towards the end of the game.

Like I say we need to see Rice play like an actual midfield player. If he’s good as some claim he won’t have trouble playing like Xhaka did and driving England forward and covering ground all over the pitch. Down to him.

[Bruce Rioja]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

That's really not a very adventurous lineup, is it? Essentially playing seven defensive players and three offensive. I can't see us scoring with that team on the pitch - the best I'd hope for would be to keep it at 0-0 and then get more adventurous towards the end of the game.

My thoughts exactly - we're going for the counter attack with that set-up, and with a currently out-of-sorts CF up top.

I mean, if it works then fine, I'm sure none of us will mind us providing a sobering antidote to all the exhilaration of yesterday's games, but I think we could well be in for a long, frustrating evening.

[TANGODANCER]

A glorious football evening. France threw it away, the Swiss were heroic and now France,Portugal and Holland are all out. Amazing. Effectively it's one of Us, Germany, Belgium, Italy or Spain (who were impressive to say the least), but then again....Quien Sabes?

Tonight is our turn in the spotlight. Bring it on..

[The_Gun]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

That's really not a very adventurous lineup, is it? Essentially playing seven defensive players and three offensive. I can't see us scoring with that team on the pitch - the best I'd hope for would be to keep it at 0-0 and then get more adventurous towards the end of the game.

My thoughts exactly - we're going for the counter attack with that set-up, and with a currently out-of-sorts CF up top.

I mean, if it works then fine, I'm sure none of us will mind us providing a sobering antidote to all the exhilaration of yesterday's games, but I think we could well be in for a long, frustrating evening.

David Ornstein (generally a highly reliable source) says Mount and Saka will start in place of Foden and Shaw in that 3-4-3. That would definitely be preferable.

[KeyserSoze]

England team tonight has supposedly leaked and is a 343

Pickford
Walker Stones Maguire
Trippier Rice Phillips Shaw
Foden Sterling
Kane

If that is the team then Rice needs to look at what Xhaka did and recreate it. We can’t have a static midfield in that system they need to be all over the pitch up and down and getting forwards. It needs all action international midfield displays. Certainly no room for a static midfield holder in there. Or we will get absolutely pegged.

That's really not a very adventurous lineup, is it? Essentially playing seven defensive players and three offensive. I can't see us scoring with that team on the pitch - the best I'd hope for would be to keep it at 0-0 and then get more adventurous towards the end of the game.

My thoughts exactly - we're going for the counter attack with that set-up, and with a currently out-of-sorts CF up top.

I mean, if it works then fine, I'm sure none of us will mind us providing a sobering antidote to all the exhilaration of yesterday's games, but I think we could well be in for a long, frustrating evening.

David Ornstein (generally a highly reliable source) says Mount and Saka will start in place of Foden and Shaw in that 3-4-3. That would definitely be preferable.

As I read it TG he seems to suggest Mount won't start.