hahaha suck it Ronaldo

I mean they’ll be underdogs still against France but we can shed the Cinderella label. This team plays great defense and can grind out games just like Croatia.

You all need to watch more AFCON. The most disappointing part is that a Mane injury and Idrissa Gueye yellow card accumulation probably robbed us of what could have been an absolutely fantastic matchup this afternoon!

There’s no reason whatsoever to suspect foul play, at this point.

Senegal were pumped by England, there's no way they win that game

Morocco has played toe to toe with some good teams, they aren’t a Cinderella story, they’re a quality team that was overlooked by western press.

Crazy how taking the top two players off a team would make them different. Mane would have given Englands weak fullback defenders fits and Gueye is the heartbeat of that midfield. Obviously a much different game with those two out.

Who cares about ratings? I'm not an exec at Fox...

Official statement by Womble:

I will not be appearing in this thread post match if we lose. I can confirm that in the unlikely event of an English win that I will be making an appearance and will be unbearable.

Yours always,

Womble x

Gonna drink 20 pints of carling and beat the misses after you guys lose?

This really feels like March Madness. It would be hillarious if the final was Croatia vs Morocco

Croatia was in the final in the last world cup. Not a surprise they are almost there again.

So status quo.

So you're basically a Titans fan

With his wife being a doctor and faculty at NYU Medical School and him seeming like a fitness guy. It would be interesting to know if he had a monitor connected to an app on his phone.

I think the most likely forensics is that he had a sepsis from his respiratory infection or was having a mild heart attack, it would be interesting to know what his fitness app data would show if he was monitoring himself.

Dude was a high achiever and treated people well according to the tributes. A real shame that his life ended prematurely.

Amazing Giroud got his head to that, but it swung so low I wonder if he wished he'd tried to get a boot on it instead.

Uh, oh!!!

I love seeing composed middle-distance shooters. So smooth.

Should have been a penalty kick for England.

Are you positive? Didn't seem like the shots they showed indicated it was in the penalty area.

This is the worst reffed game this WC, complete stitch up

Bonkers referee can’t see a foul anywhere

Halftime mood: suicide watch.

I don't see any way this game ends 1-0.

Big Opportunity!!

How many penalties have those two taken in practice together

Get in

The best at those. Total power, nowhere the keeper can reach. That’s how you take a penalty

Well that seems to have broken something loose!!

Wild abandon at the moment for both squads.

Yeah, France was definitely looking very complacent and dropping back waiting for the counter. Should make it more interesting now that they have to try again.

Ref is going to gift this to France. Incredible

Vicious set piece header, . . . kisses the lumber.

Who you guys rooting for?

England racking up the quality chances.

The closer this game gets to full time I’m actually starting to hope England can pull off the upset and clear the path for Morocco to the final, but something just tells me we’re going to see Mbappe get his moment soon.

It'll be a flash moment from France and then they'll close the door, but England have been better

Yeah, the early goal really hurt France actually. Don’t know why the coach took the foot off the gas.

There is no stopping Giroud!!!

For those wondering why everyone as grousing about USA lacking a 'true 9' watch Giroud.

Maybe now you can **** off forever.

Yeah, better luck in the next life, Womble.

England raped there.

EDIT - VAR gonna rectify. Get ready for the match to be tied back up.

Aww, and in keeping with the holiday season, a card to remember it by.

Another pk

Really dumb play

wow. This is England's shot. Have to hit this one. Gotta give Womble a chance at life.

Poor defending from France, and this ref seems to be missing a lot of calls which may be why France is committing these dumb penalties

France just keeps giving England a chance to mess it up themselves.

OMFG - Kane boofed like he's never boofed before.

Boy oh boy

Oof

Or now.

Nope. Kane chokes. Gonna take a miracle now.

Now it’s officially an England World Cup elimination match. :clap:ROFL

Goodness gracious

Still plenty of time left

This is a robbery

What a choke.

France’s defense is bad, England can’t do anything with it

Bellingham complains so much

England still just expecting the refs to save them. They’ve called the match consistently all night. Shut up and play. Stop going down so easily if you know it’s not going to get called. Really stupid on their part.

This is hilarious, the ref has been absolutely terrible.

Hope Morocco smash France or more likely, hopefully a Messi-inspired Argentina.

Not calling that penalty on that spot was incredible earlier. Couldn't get more blatant.

Yep, horrible decision as was the foul on Saka before France's first.

England is never going to get a better chance than that to win one of these given the remaining field. Blew it again.

Missposted in another thread

Could it happen twice in two days?

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Cheerio womble, ya daft ****! Bollocks and shite for the rest of your days!

Womble weebled and finally fell down.

Not a great game by France but sometimes you need to win games like this. They're obviously not worried about Morocco.

I can see either Argentina or Croatia beating France. I didn't one week ago.

Womble was the one questioning if you were really from England, not me. You don’t have to incessantly bitch about the referees all game just to prove it.

Haha, come on now, I'm not the only one pointing out how awful he was. If you honestly didn't think there was a foul on Kane, peno or not, then...well.

But I've been pretty clear about England's chances. I thought we were a good not great team with few truly elite players and probably a better team than a group of individuals. Not surprised we lost to France, just surprised we were better than them and should have won it.

Too bad for England… France weren’t very good today. Weird subs for England and no goals in open play. Just didn’t do enough.

[QUOTE=POND_OF_RED;16656897]Womble was the one questioning if you were really from England, not me. You don’t have to incessantly bitch about the referees all game just to prove it.[/QUOTE]

Have you been in the GDT ever?

Grant wahl died in qator

Fair assessment if you don’t understand tactics and how conservatively France was playing after the quick goal. Same could be said about the US vs Netherlands match, but England fans would laugh at that assessment.

I also said the ref was consistent and said nothing about how good the ref was.. The “foul” on Kane was the same “foul” on Mbappe at the end of the match in the corner. He was consistently letting them play and England refused to adapt and still went down every time they felt a finger or wind gust.

Think it's fair to say France attack in spurts and like England tend to benefit from speed in transitions and the occasional moving through the gears. The former is something England do well, the latter not so much. It's why I thought, and still do, that France is a better team. But they weren't better tonight, just silly to pretend otherwise. They didn't sit back to conserve and soak it up, they were on the back foot and commiting clumsy foul after foul. They also benefitted from a missed penalty. Hernandez was absolutely pantsed all game, it wasn't conservative it was England (for once) having urgency and causing them problems.

I think towards the end England were looking to milk some decisions, which, frankly, was a silly approach with this ref.

Welsh solidarity [I know it might not specifically be about about this particular WC, but still teh funneh]

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Refs won that game for the French Foreign Legion.

Kane: Protoplasmic, jelly spined womble.

Ohhh!!

. . . . Aaaah, oh!!

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tough one for england. they were better overall but kane just bottled that pen.

probably an unpopular opinion but i quite like this english side, for more than england teams of the past.