World Cup 2022

[Darrenbot]

Grealish or Maddison on the bench and Southgate brought his lovechild Mount on

[matt83]

We are perennial bottlers. But this time been beaten by a better side. Always ends the same way though. Disappointed never battered. 

[Displaced Rover]

Just now, Darrenbot said:

Grealish or Maddison on the bench and Southgate brought his lovechild Mount on

Won a penalty tbf. Not his fault Kane bottled it

[Darrenbot]

I don't know if its the Rovers result today that's deflated me but i just thought oh well another defeat after the pen miss rather than being peed off at losing

[Darrenbot]

3 minutes ago, Displaced Rover said:

Won a penalty tbf. Not his fault Kane bottled it

Clumsy defender got the pen for us rather than anything Mount did

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Subs way too late.

[roverandout]

Grealish on with 2 minutes to go genius 

[matt83]

5 minutes ago, Darrenbot said:

I don't know if its the Rovers result today that's deflated me but i just thought oh well another defeat after the pen miss rather than being peed off at losing

To be honest I know the vast majority on here would take a rovers win over an England defeat but in the context I’d have taken a big loss and an England win. Might be the last of a country over club era but with 3 knobbers who would have fucked off their biggest win in 50 years for a win here.

For us here now everyone has lost. Except we have lost twice. 

Edited December 10, 2022 by matt83

[K-Hod]

Miss a decisive pen like that, you get what you deserve, for me.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, K-Hod said:

Miss a decisive pen like that, you get what you deserve, for me.

Simple as that.

[jim mk2]

In the end England failed again 

Germany 4 World Cups 3 European Championships

Italy 4 WC 2 Euros

France 2 WC 2 Euros

Spain 1 WC 3 Euros 

England 1 WC, 56 years ago

And we think we're good at football

 

Edited December 10, 2022 by jim mk2

[roverandout]

Usual story.  We aren't good Enough. Simple.  Southgate's subs have let us down badly again.  We will never win a world cup In my lifetime 

[DE.]

Once again England choke when it really matters. Still can't beat a nation of similar stature. Kane's horrendous penalty will be a defining moment of his international career, unfortunately, whilst Southgate currently slots into the long line of managers who couldn't get England over the line when it really mattered. He's had three big chances at WC 2018, Euro 2020 and WC 2022 to take that step and it just hasn't happened. He'll probably have another crack at the next Euros and World Cup, but he still hasn't been able to solve the problem of us bottling it against teams on par with us in terms of talent and reputation.

France weren't even that good tonight, yet we rarely threatened them from open play. Morocco will give them a game. A Morocco/Croatia final would be quite appropriate considering the below average performances of most of the big nations/favourites in this tournament. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I can’t understand why we didn’t go man to man on Greizmann. Everything went through him.

[jim mk2]

Nothing you can do about the first French goal, but England will be disappointed with the 2nd. One moment of quality from Griezemann and Giroud and that was enough. I always thought Giroud might score rather than Mbappe. 

I was lucky enough to see 1966. It won't happen again in my lifetime

[roverandout]

5 minutes ago, DE. said:

Once again England choke when it really matters. Still can't beat a nation of similar stature. Kane's horrendous penalty will be a defining moment of his international career, unfortunately, whilst Southgate currently slots into the long line of managers who couldn't get England over the line when it really mattered. He's had three big chances at WC 2018, Euro 2020 and WC 2022 to take that step and it just hasn't happened. He'll probably have another crack at the next Euros and World Cup, but he still hasn't been able to solve the problem of us bottling it against teams on par with us in terms of talent and reputation.

France weren't even that good tonight, yet we rarely threatened them from open play. Morocco will give them a game. A Morocco/Croatia final would be quite appropriate considering the below average performances of most of the big nations/favourites in this tournament. 

We had 3 or 4 excellent chances. The better team lost

[roverandout]

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

Nothing you can do about the first French goal, but England will be disappointed with the 2nd. One moment of quality from Griezemann and Giroud and that was enough. I always thought Giroud might score rather than Mbappe. 

I was lucky enough to see 1966. It won't happen again in my lifetime

U can't be sure of that

[Giant]

In the cold light of day, France scored two brilliant goals and England missed a pen. Ref made some terrible decisions but England had the chances to score despite him. If you don’t take your chances, you have only yourself to blame.

[Ianrally]

I hope the fans of all the Premiership teams remember how Loris threw the ball at the England fans at the final whistle, no class, unlike Giroud who was class at the end. 
 

[davulsukur]

What a proper shit day today has been.

[DE.]

2 minutes ago, roverandout said:

We had 3 or 4 excellent chances. The better team lost

I remember one superb save from Lloris, what were the others? 

[jim mk2]

Just now, roverandout said:

We had 3 or 4 excellent chances. The better team lost

 We were the better team. But we lost. Again

A book to read

Why England Lose, By Simon Kuper

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Why-England-Lose-Audiobook/B004FTCEAQ?source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH121515013C&source_code=M2M14DFT1BkSH082015011R&&ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&gclid=CjwKCAiA-dCcBhBQEiwAeWidtRt1dCpUcmKgFriR1iCPVBxXaAIjD0uoPc-vsA1AsKZppGRVW01eoBoCDAkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Ianrally]

2 minutes ago, roverandout said:

U can't be sure of that

What?

[Silas]

Harry Kane is devastated. Feel for him.

Was nice to see Mbappe and Lloris consoling him at the end. Good sportsmanship. 

[roverandout]

Just now, Silas said:

Harry Kane is devastated. Feel for him.

Was nice to see Mbappe and Lloris consoling him at the end. Good sportsmanship. 

Mbappe was goading kane when he missed