Your opinion of England game

@Elessar If it was six times wouldn't he have been booked. But of course..the ref must ave been on England's side. But then why wasn't Jorginho given a red for his tackle on Grealish? Maybe Jorginho himself simulating being hurt after helped.

@romper69 The ref simply allowed the game to continue and just didn't award you a penalty any time he dived in the box. They weren't booked but they didn't lead to a penalty either, and in one instance he was visibly annoyed by the thing. And a lot of other more or less minor fouls were simply ignored by the ref, for both teams, or do you realistically think that Chiesa faked a bleeding ankle out of the game?

@WintaTheAngle Filthy animals

@romper69 Yes, that's what I'm saying, contextually to the history of football pretty much every team has done what they accuse others of doing. I brought Sterling both as a counterexample for "it's Italians who dive and get away with it". Totally agreeing with you on the Ultras here being just as toxic (I knew they were politicized and afaik far-rightwing as well).

Contextually to yesterday's game, it wasn't us diving, and it was *some of* the English fans being more toxic. The ref has been permissive in regards to a lot of potential fouls, and to me it looked like both teams benefitted from it, not just Italy as the OP and some in this post are implying. Let alone the implications that we won only thanks to the ref.

@romper69 I said some of them. I don't know how you jumped to the conclusion that I meant all of them.

Yes, there are hooligans in almost every country. I never said hooligans only belong to England. But why whenever there is a football competition somewhere, the host is worried mostly about English fans? Of course, as long as you think England becomes a target and the rest of the world is unfair towards you guys, there is no point in continuing this conversation.

@LookingForTheSummer I said "some, not all". I'm happy to cease this convo...you seem a bit out of your depth

@Cierzo Agreed. I would add - substitutions were not so much atrocious as non-existent. All that unused attacking talent on the bench. And Southgate’s failure to make Sterling take a panalty was ... criminal? cowardly?

@MartinII I don't think for a second, Southgate wanted to play as deep as we did in the second half, we just got forced back. If he had wanted to park the bus, why would he have brought on Saka for Trippier? It didn't work because Saka had a bad game. He should have brought Grealish on earlier and left Saka on the bench but whatever. Its fine margins and Southgate got most things in the tournament right.

@MartinII I'm sorry you were not entertained by the matches. I enjoyed every single one of them

@InOtterWords Perhaps I’m becoming difficult to please in my old age. I enjoyed Czech Republic v Netherlands most. Glad you enjoyed them all.

@Burnley123 A great deal better in attacking intent and composure under pressure.

@MartinII We did well in the first half but yeah. I think a big flaw in our team is the lack of an outright deep-playmaker. Like Jorghinho for them.

@GovanDUNNY Maybe not. I'm sorry. It's just the other Scottish guy I know definitely would do this kind of thing as a troll post.

Though he is a Celtic fan.

@Burnley123 I couldn't come up with something as laughable as suggesting they were cheated in that game but cheers dickhead

@thatscottishguy Pfffffff. 🤷

@GovanDUNNY Sterling dived. Look at the replays.

@helensusanswift @GovanDUNNY I’m not sure whether he died (sorry, dived!) or fell over, but it certainly wasn’t a penalty.

@MartinII Agree with that. Look at the big grin on his face as he threw himself to the ground. Denmark should have won that game.

@wildbill83 'the Beautiful game'

@wildbill83 You cared enough to reply. 🙂