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Viva Espana

Could do with a tournament when England are indisputably shit. Fed up of these "so nearly" moments. Bring back debacles like South Africa and Brazil.

So.... Thomas Tuchel's game management skills then?

Well we've just lost Atlantic Conveyor.

"And that tackle by Spence..."

Hang it in the National Gallery

It's all getting a bit Tumbledown.

Just wait til we bring on a sub.

God, it must be exhausting being Argentinian.

Hydration break.

England moving the ball quickly, precisely and the Argentines can't cope.

Shearer: "Bit of Argy-Bargy in the middle of the park."

One of the massive problems the Starmer government had was the compulsion N10 staff had to appear interesting when speaking to journalists. Lethal in a political operation.

Gonna spend the evening telling American progressives that they're engaging in Breton erasure if they refer to the Îles Malouines as "the Malvinas".

The progressive case for memorialising a fascist junta which threw dissidents out of helicopters into the Atlantic. And then incompetently attempted to extinguish self-determination at the cost of hundreds of conscript lives.

I have one question for France. «Où est la masse de manœuvre?»

I'd failed to spot this result risks comprehensively pissing all over the fireworks for quatorze juillet.

Quelle horreur.

France V Spain always makes me think of this.

China has a chance to do the funniest thing.

TOP TIP: Avoid being embarassed by the inevitable twists and turns of complicated police investigations by simply avoiding comment on possible motives etc.

Our migrant communities and neighbourhoods - certainly in London - are now engines of social mobility and striving at a level that reminds me of NYC's Lower East Side in the early 1900s.

Allison Pearson there. Instructing the Widdecombe family on how best to mourn their family member. The entire Reform clan looks increasingly mad.

Rewatching Tuchel's interviews and there's got to be a decent case for making him Cabinet Secretary.

Bluesky would never refer to a thread discussing the main part of the Palestinian territories as "Judea and Samaria". And yet denying the Falkland Islanders self-determination and the dignity of choosing their own name is apparently okay.

Thinking Emirates Airline might want to pause the new ad campaign with the strapline "We're Back".

Yeah but you're American so eff off and post about lacrosse or whatever.

Is this a genuine steer from the spooks? If so, Farage is probably finished www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Want an all-UEFA set of semi-finals as a fuck you to FIFA, Infantino in particular. And because Switzerland are a much poorer opponent than Argentina.

An England that wins. Imagine that.

England could win the World Cup on Starmer's last day as PM

That is a winner.

Spectacular interview from Tuchel.

Negating Haaland must go down as a great defensive triumph.

23 - Aged 23y 12d, Jude Bellingham is the second-youngest player to score 2+ goals in successive FIFA World Cup knockout stage games behind only Pelé in 1958 (17y 249d). Talisman.

Having second thoughts.

That's Count Binface fucked.

I actually like VAR

Anthony Barry is the reliable corporal in a British WW2 war film.

England boys are on a bender, Schjelderup's a child molester.

Would probably get beaten by the Paris banlieue, perhaps.

ITV's terrific One England film is reminder that a Zone 3/4 London side would have a decent chance of progressing at the World Cup.

I see Inspector Farage is attempting to solve the crime. Leave it to the police you desperate, awful person.

Sigh. They actually mean it. But they mean the newer, smarter, harder working elite which supplanted the washed-out, effete elite they themselves formed part of.

I went to Ulster and all I got was a lazy "Loyalists-bad, Republicans-progressive" discourse.

Okey-dokey. But now do the allegations for which Posh George and his mum have been interviewed under caution. Don't think Matt has thought this through.

I think we're probably only weeks away from Farage staging a fake assassination attempt on himself.

If I'd bought George Cottrell's book, I'd want my money back. I mean, if he's been interviewed under caution by the rozzers then the advice he provides could be a bit suspect.

It's because he's white. I mean, he's a wonderful player and seems quite nice. But let's be honest here.