England wins the European championships, pre match celebration!

party

Why did you do this! We will definately lose now and it's all your fault.

😂

Anything can happen in a one off game but Italy have to be clear favourites here. Everything the England team are currently good at are things the Italians have been doing for decades. Italy will probably have more fear of losing this game than England do though.

Don’t underestimate Southgate’s intelligence.

9 hours to wait!

Originally posted by Blakemore
9 hours to wait!

No jokes, no silly comments, just gonna say this: The better team won, both because of Italy's composure, and England, again, having the wrong team on the pitch.

Originally posted by -Pr-
No jokes, no silly comments, just gonna say this: The better team won, both because of Italy's composure, and England, again, having the wrong team on the pitch.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
As I said in the Guy and Rao tribute thread. It's like Southgate is in the Omega sanction by Darkseid since 96.

He's too cautious, and it ended up biting him in the ass because of all the teams he tried to be cautious with, it was Italy. Those guys waited, and waited, and waited, and Southgate refused to bring on Grealish, Sancho and Rashford earlier when he should have.

They could have won, and I have to wonder how the match would have gone if he'd been more aggressive in even his subs.

😥 England failed 😞

Originally posted by Blakemore
😥 England failed 😞

Not sure if 2nd place counts as a failure, especially when you consider that we were probably the 6th or 7th best team in the tournament heading into it. Only one team had more success in this competition and we made them fight for it.

We did kind of blow the final though, with too much caution both tactically and with substitutions. I don't think Southgate should be fired after this though, he took us to the World Cup semis in 2018 and to the final of this tournament, he deserves another crack in 2022.

I guess I shouldn’t be too harsh on him, he’s progressing the squad. Like I’ve said before, roll on 2022!