*** Norway v England - Miami - Saturday July 11th - 10pm ***

They are saving Mainoo for the 3rd place play off

Entitled to your opinion Nanny but he's had a poor tournament. What will change.

Don’t know why he played rice if he has been ill all week, probably would of won n 90 minutes if he was 100%

Tommy unhappy
But he picks the team

Kane should have been subbed off a long way from the end

The manager is in agreement with us……shame he didn’t post could have found himself in the middle of a soap opera

Manager knows they have no chance of winning

If we had 11 subs you would change them all during the game.

120 mins in that heat is a killer

Hard enough walking to bar to get beers in.

Lets be honest Kane was a no show tonight.Thought Watkins or Tony
might've got a run.

Gabriel stirring now

Bellingham knows the Manager is clueless

Tough night for Gabriel Clarke

TV ****s

clarke wasn't happy with the tuchel interview, wanted revenge with bellingham

So the ball struck an overhead wire that those cameras move along and fell to Anderson for Bellingham's equaliser and everyone missed it?? Should have been a drop ball

Knowing how luck Swiss
Deny us 86 payback

Got revenge with Bellingham, Clarke got his own back there.

Tuchel's reaction is from the realization that if we play France or Spain certainly, maybe Argentina we will be absolutely get smashed.

Totally

Sports direct Edinburgh expecting lots of returns on rowing machines.

Don’t think England got lucky tonight, not what I seen, rice is the engine iof the team and he wasn’t right tonight

What have these two wimin got to offer?

.... Hence why Tuchel said we have to improve .... But for now as Maggie once famously said " just rejoice in the news "

Glasgow you have the intellectual gravitas of a piece of sputum. Don't get into the intelligence stakes with me especially from a thick arse jock or I will make you look extremely foolish. Now go and have some quaker oats you thickwit and stick your sporran down your throat.

rice should've fessed up and said he wasn't right.  could've been costly.

Not lucky road runner
Just no endeavour
And we got lucky that fella didn’t put
The big man through make it 2-0 game over

RR - Norway hit the bar and should have had a second goal but for a stupid push by Haaland. England hardly threatened in 90 minutes. So they were fortunate.

As for the "revenge" against the Argies, wasn't that what they called the 1 nil win in 2002 via Beckhams penalty ?

thread felt more epic than the match

tobias having a complete mental break down throwing h1ssy fits every other post. Blocking people but then talking to them

the three stooges finding each other, mega, sofaqueen and curtain twitcher nobby, which was amazing to see, put all of their brainpower together and it wouldn't be enough to work out how to switch on a lightbulb

And the best of the night, try my best offering someone out for a fight on the internet

Top entertainment

Got lucky
Belgium, Keeper  turned up tonight

Try your worst is thicker than an elephants trunk

norwegians have to drown their sorrows, and it's 17 quid a pint

Needs a dictionary ffs

Norway wouldn't have scored without haaland foul.


Your team won, enjoy it

imagine watching as many games as gabby and not having a clue got schooled so tried to throw jude under the bus in revenge,
pretty basic stuff eng were basically rubbih from start to finish and the only thing that got the through mental strength not to let it go,the gormless gabby thinks stopped them playing well, CLUELESS

FIFA Media
@fifamedia
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Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball.

https://x.com/fifamedia/status/2076088395147723022?s=20 LOL you can actually see the ball drop like a stone to Anderson

Just let me know where and when Mes.

Glasgow you have the intellectual gravitas of a piece of sputum. Don't get into the intelligence stakes with me especially from a thick arse jock or I will make you look extremely foolish. Now go and have some quaker oats you thickwit and stick your sporran down your throat.

   Wrong (again), born in Southampton, living in sunny Chester. hth.

.... and we all trust FIFA

What have these two wimin got to offer?


WHERE'S THE BLOKES ?

With all the balls in play it must be difficult to connect the right one all of the time.

Certainly appeared to hit wire.

https://x.com/MelissaReddy_/status/2076070315449286902?s=20

Norway wee bit unlucky, that. Winger Gordon plays for England,who sanctioned that 65 million pound for him ? Crazy stuff

there's probably no chips in any of these balls, it's just their way of making things up.  that was a handball !!! no it couldn't have been we've, um, well what we did was, oh yes we checked the chip in the ball.  and that showed no handball.  yes, that's definitely what we did.

Looked a pelanty on Spence too, he appeared to plant foot on ground and got clattered.

Otherwise we can revisit kane giving one away against Mexico.

Dixie get on Side FFS , you didn't buy the 100 Inch TV to watch a goal By Haiti

It's Nyland's fault he kicked the ball so high.

clarke still going for it with kane this time.

manager told me earlier you were total garbage.  thoughts ??

good call donnie , They gave Kane , Old school Spence is a pen , would not be much protest Either

Halland was poor

Its along way to row

same as every other match for halland, just walks around in circles waiting for someone to play him a killer through ball

if only his teammate had passed him the ball, he would have scored, Norway would have been 2-0 up and we could have a different type of conversation now.

spider cam assist ruled out by Howard Web.

Norway were good value, England rode their luck and were probably the better team overall but not by much, still think we'd beat the Argies, but will need a monumental performance to have any chance against France.

that joke failed to land twice already, but thought it was worth another go.

Was a good joke Des, but the misspelling of Howard Webb took it down a notch for me.

I thought your joke about Sow making a pigs ear of it was quite good des, but it killed the forum for nearly 24 hours on the Colombia thread

I just haven't enjoyed watching England tournament games that much in the past few years, the football is often turgid and they have usually been playing much lower ranked teams and often needing a touch of fortune to beat them .

England managers from a few years back must be cursing they didn't get the same rub of the green with the draw etc as Southgate and now Tommy Tuchel have.

If they were playing a great brand of football a la France i would be right on side.

Lets not forget they were 3rd favs to win the damn thing yet listening to the OTT media you would think they were overperforming getting this far.

It's not sour grapes on the betting front from me either, i will collect a tidy four figure sum should they actually win the tournament.

Jul 12, 2026 -- 1:21AM, mesmerised wrote:

It's Nyland's fault he kicked the ball so high.

I agree in theory, hitting that should not be rewarded, but if FIFA have rules that say play should be stopped for that and then they go on about chips than can react to a hair but not a cable it's not good.

spider cam assist ruled out by Howard Web.

Jul 12, 2026 -- 1:31AM, DixieDean60 wrote:

I just haven't enjoyed watching England tournament games that much in the past few years, the football is often turgid and they have usually been playing much lower ranked teams and often needing a touch of fortune to beat them .England managers from a few years back must be cursing they didn't get the same rub of the green with the draw etc as Southgate and now Tommy Tuchel have.If they were playing a great brand of football a la France i would be right on side. Lets not forget they were 3rd favs to win the damn thing yet listening to the OTT media you would think they were overperforming getting this far.It's not sour grapes on the betting front from me either, i will collect a tidy four figure sum should they actually win the tournament.

England hasn't been lucky with the draw this time. You could say they have been lucky by just scraping through but Mexico away or Norway are no gimmies. Some of the Southgate draws much easier.

Jul 12, 2026 -- 1:33AM, TheCarambaExperience wrote:

Jul 12, 2026 --  1:21AM, mesmerised wrote:It's Nyland's fault he kicked the ball so high.I agree in theory, hitting that should not be rewarded, but if FIFA have rules that say play should be stopped for that and then they go on about chips than can react to a hair but not a cable it's not good.

that's actually a good point, if it has hit the wire, how has the chip not detected it ?

yes, I noticed the Sow joke caused so much hilarity that the Forum couldn't cope, and broke down

Probably kicked the ball so high it switched to different ball around the pitch before reconnecting.

Played golf on course with pylons and wires and for sure you knew if you'd hit one.

caramba -  One half of the draw had Spain, France, Portugal , Netherlands and Morocco.

And England didn't  get lucky being in the other half

Jul 12, 2026 -- 1:28AM, mesmerised wrote:

Norway were good value, England rode their luck and were probably the better team overall but not by much, still think we'd beat the Argies, but will need a monumental performance to have any chance against France.

Wasted opportunity.
They did quite well today before the fatigue got to them at the end of regulation, but just too many mistakes:
missed opportunity to not go 2-0 by not passing Haaland.
poor goalkick that hit the cable.
goalie clearing that ball at Spence (?) that nearly cost them the game.
Nyland's rebound at the goal.
some chances they could have scored on in the end, one was Berg.

maybe the chip doesn't work on a certain height? Like hawkeye in tennis won't react to a ball hit into the stands.

caramba -  One half of the draw had Spain, France, Portugal , Netherlands and Morocco.

And England didn't  get lucky being in the other half

not really, at least not by much, if you look at who those other teams beat and those teams were going to take each other out anyway. Well Portugal had a brutal draw, but that's what they get for finishing 2nd. England would have had a brutal draw if they had finished 2nd, but they didn't.

Jul 12, 2026 -- 1:11AM, DixieDean60 wrote:

RR - Norway hit the bar and should have had a second goal but for a stupid push by Haaland. England hardly threatened in 90 minutes. So they were fortunate.As for the "revenge" against the Argies, wasn't that what they called the 1 nil win in 2002 via Beckhams penalty ?

They did make a big deal of it in 2002. But you don't avenge losing two knockout losses by winning 1 group game (that didn't even eliminate Argentina).

Argentina didn't make it out of the groups in 2002 so we did help to nudge them out, Sweden finished the job

If Argentina wins this it will be only the 3rd time the semifinals consist of 4 previous World Cup winners.

Jeez caramba , the two sides of the draw are chalk and cheese. It always looked that way from the moment the groups were drawn and that's how it turned out.

but it doesn't matter if Spain/Portugal and Netherlands/Morocco were on the same side since they were going to knock each other out. That leaves England with only a slightly harder draw since Argentina is slightly below Spain/France. Mexico away are on par with what the other top nations had to deal with.

This is nothing compared to the Southgate draws, that was my main point.

Who cares about the draw?
England are in the Semi's,that's the main thing.
You still have to beat who's put in front of you anyway.

if things had gone as expected, England would have ended up with:
3rd team
Mexico away
Brazil
Argentina
Spain/France.

Now things ended up a little easier than that because Norway took out Brazil.

I think you are relying to much on the "Mexico are unbeatable at the Azteca" agenda that was being pushed caramba.

There is a reason their record is so good there - they normally play the likes of Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras and so on.
Brazil haven't played there since 2003 and Argentina have NEVER played there !!

The bulk of the Mexico team play in their domestic league and most football fans would be hard pressed to name more than one of their players without looking it up. No way would i rather play say Portugal, Netherlands or Morocco rather than them.

an ageing Croatia, Ghana, Panama, Congo () Mexico and Norway would compare favourably to the pretty easy runs that Southgate also had.

Surely England would have strolled past Brazil?

penzance - why should it not be pointed out that England had another favourable draw ?

The last few tournaments have been the same and we all know what happened each time they came up against a decent side.

Its the OTT media coverage that gets my goat, not the team themselves.

No one has really had that tough of a draw.

Are Morocco or Belgium better than Norway?

Argentina have had an absolute dream draw

Will be in the semis without playing anyone that was in the Top 15 of the original betting.

Norway better than both of them, but nobody still in the tournament has knocked out a big footballing nation yet

I doubt they would stroll past anyone tobes

But yes Brazil were poor and England would probably have beaten them if they had met

Yes the Argies have had it lucky too. But that shows the disparity between the two halves of the draw.

England's 'half' of the draw was only weak because of the Argentina part of it. Which hasn't benefited England at all.

Spain's path was supposedly tougher because Portugal were in it, but they were no better than Mexico really.

France played Sweden/Paraguay/Morocco, was that tougher than England's?

Really Argentina were the only team that had a soft draw.

Jul 12, 2026 -- 2:16AM, DixieDean60 wrote:

I think you are relying to much on the "Mexico are unbeatable at the Azteca" agenda that was being pushed caramba.There is a reason their record is so good there - they normally play the likes of Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras and so on.Brazil haven't played there since 2003 and Argentina have NEVER played there !!The bulk of the Mexico team play in their domestic league and most football fans would be hard pressed to name more than one of their players without looking it up. No way would i rather play say Portugal, Netherlands or Morocco rather than them. an ageing Croatia, Ghana, Panama, Congo () Mexico and Norway would compare favourably to the pretty easy runs that Southgate also had.

I do agree the Mexico at the Azteca stat is blown out of proportion for the reason you say. But they did turn out to be better than what I had expected, and England were lucky to not even go down by an early goal but instead go up by 2.

Yes Argentina have had a dream draw and were also helped by Colombia getting knocked out/Portugal not winning that group.

And I think England will come up short again once they play a top team, unless they massively up their game similar to how they did against Italy in the Euros final where they had also just scraped by before that.

So after 90 odd games, a few shocks early on and a couple of the minnows excelling, we are likely to end up with the 4 teams that were expected to get to the semis

Makes you wonder if it was worth all the hassle

Mind you the argies are not through yet, they have been very average since taking the lead.

Aside from draws, England have had it tougher than the others in terms of conditions - altitude followed by heat/humidity - and distance traveled of 11,000 miles. France have only had to travel 2,000 miles, the argies about 6,000.

The Argies haven't been very impressive in any of their KO games. 2 went to ET and the other they were 2-0 down with 10 mins to go. They don't look very fit and don't keep the ball well. Seems the 2 strongest teams are on the other side of the draw.

Media already trying to cause division between Tuchel and Bellingham, Gabriel Clarke stirring the pot by foisting Tuchel's comments onto Bellingham at a moment of elation looking for that clickbait moment, in terms of scummy jobs they're just a shade behind politicians and the tax man. Kind Regards.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6CSzDfsIowk

He's rowing home, he's rowing home,
Erling's rowing home!


(currently 2 miles of the coast of Miami)

Jul 12, 2026 -- 10:42AM, mesmerised wrote:

Media already trying to cause division between Tuchel and Bellingham, Gabriel Clarke stirring the pot by foisting Tuchel's comments onto Bellingham at a moment of elation looking for that clickbait moment, in terms of scummy jobs they're just a shade behind politicians and the tax man. Kind Regards.

I don't mind interviewers asking tough questions, but this was him making himself part of the story too much, especially the stirring in the Jude interview. Wouldn't have minded it so much if they lost, but they won, they are still in the tournament and don't need drama like this.

Just found a replay of the spider cam incident (it's blocked on you tube by FIFA by the way)

The goalie clears the ball from the edge of the penalty area. It travels in a high arc peaking at

beyond the half way line. But instead of continuing on that trajectory it suddenly drops straight

down. Claerly the chip in the ball didn't work, or it's a ball that can defy the laws of physics!

Of course, our media barely mention the incident because England are through and that's all that

matters. Imagine if it had been the other way round with Norway scoring. All hell would have broken

loose in our media! Unfortunately,the game has become the worst sport in terms of sportsmanship and

fair play for a number of reasons. Not least the fact that it's run by the historically most corrupt

sporting body of all time.

y the way, I have no axe to grind, since I'm English.

I've no axe to grind, and am English.

If it fell to a Norwegian who went on to score, I would have another large axe to grind.

Very droll, you have!

Not as if it hit the camera and went in the goal

The wire of god

haha!

looking on social media today it seems alot of the SUNDAY MORNING OVER 35,s GLORY BOY WANABEEs have now decided that in the orloth /alfie chance which was apparently a sitter on the night, has now become brilliant defending/positioning by john stone,s and as a left footer sorloth had a narrow/miniscule chance of making the goal scoring  pass, pointed out by me and others on here minutes after it happened ,still frame photo,s in a moment in time are  the new scurge of football debate on social media