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Best Soccer Aid ever

Someone is gonna say England should have played like this before and well, no that's not how it works

Just to pile into the discourse, 3rd game in a week kinda relevant, when you consider idk Man City limping past an idk promoted team one Sunday after a midweek flight to idk Holland for an idk Wednesday match

Good job everyone knows there's a lot of randomness in one football match, so no need to litigate all the decisions, just move on; live, laugh, love as the quote on this chalet wall says

Messi sticks that on a plate with his off foot, what can you do

England being all "we can defend more than you can attack" is the absolute football heritage of this country, terrifying to watch so it is

Would rather we didn't go for the "Dan Burn half hour" here to see it out, but so far so good

Have felt England have played quiet periods in halves before, felt it strategic and expected better from them later. Didn't really happen v Norway, guess we find out if they have any gears now

This is the first World Cup ever where I have been entirely fine with the match by match personnel adjustments of an England manager

Ok every Argentinian player looks twice as hyped as England, this is done

Messi out...

headline on BBC site saying "celebrities sing Wonderwall before semi-final" with a picture of Michael Macintyre in an England shirt exactly represents the diversity of feelings I have about the success of this England team, whom I would like to win the World Cup but fear the aftermath

Just walked past Bradley Walsh in a sand dune AMA

Literally none of the post game chatter here on ITV has mentioned the game being played in a furnace - which may have affected a lot of what happened - at direct odds with all the altitude chat from the Mexico game

I'd got used to the random kick off times but am now confused that there are two quarter finals on the same day

Oldest man take here, but bring back the side view for penalties.

"...and he asked if I ever played and I said, sure. Believe me I scored a lotta goals when I played. Huge goals. I could take a penalty right now and no goalkeeper could save it, they know this. Many people are asking if I could play today but I won't..."

I reckon England don't win that game without the hydration break. Comes right after the Mexico goal to go 3-2 and Tuchel has 3 minutes he'd never normally have to tee up what to do. Sure they'd have ended up in a low block anyway, but that additional time to get the message across likely key.

Kane can't speak, Henderson getting air on a stretcher what the hell is going on

ngl I'm somewhat awake

My word, 6 shots total and yet that was about the best match I've ever seen England play

James Yorke@jair1970.com · last mo.

Lmao delayed nap time

Ahead of tonight's game, that there are grown adults who seem to think "staying up til 3am" and forgoing a bit of sleep for one night is a huge compromise baffles me. I promise you will be ok.

James Yorke@jair1970.com · last mo.

We go again

Norway seems underrated broadly for a team with a guy who gets a goal a game wherever he goes

Ok last night was weird, but what is going on on the field rn

Ahead of tonight's game, that there are grown adults who seem to think "staying up til 3am" and forgoing a bit of sleep for one night is a huge compromise baffles me. I promise you will be ok.

R16 er... not quite delivering like R32 yet eh