[Jacko The Flopsy Piglet]

2 - 1 Kane

180 mins

[St Charles Owl]

OP updated to reflect Lithuania predictions.

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Here's where qualification stands prior to today's games.

Qualified
France (Hosts)
Iceland
Czech Republic
Belgium
Wales
Spain
Germany
Poland
England
Switzerland
Northern Ireland
Romania
Austria
Italy
Portugal
Albania

[consilio]

5-0 Jagielka

198 mins

[Maddix]

1-0 Barkley just need another 5 goals for a

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2-0 Kane, four more required 

[St Charles Owl]

Decent performance so far, nothing special but it's always difficult playing a team that are sitting so deep.

[Maddix]

Those artificial pitches are shit to play on too. They just make the game artificial.

They should only be allowed to be used for drunken 25 a side, three hour long, kickabouts between the English versus the Germans/Dutch/French/Spanish/Italians/Jocks and Paddys whilst on holiday in the Canary Islands

[St Charles Owl]

I always feel like I am watching a pre-season friendly when it's on an artificial pitch. Of course the way the game turned out was more like a pre-season game anyway. England in complete control without getting out of second gear. Well done to them, 10 games, 10 wins, not really troubled at all and a perfect job well done.

[Maddix]

There are so many different nuances that a good footballer can use on grass that don't apply on an artificial surface. Even the direction the turf has been cut makes a difference to the pace that needs to be put on a pass or knowing that it's a quite wet down one wing so a long ball will hold up or skid on depending on the trajectory ... artificial pitches don't add to the skills of the game like some would have us believe, they just take the real skills away from the top talent.

[Washington]

My analogy of grass and artificical turf is that real grass is like playing squash and the turf is like playing raquetball.

The first time I played the latter over here I'd rush to hit the ball like in squash only to find it had bounced over my head and was at the back of the feckin court.

[St Charles Owl]

Update to the International BML, Washington rounds off a fine weekend by adding another against Lithuania to the two he picked up against Estonia!!! BML is up to date ready for the next international game.