[theo_luddite]

Steady on lads, they'll be asking us to put a Yorkshire side out at the next World Cup at this rate.

[WakeyTerrier]

I've just read that the England players will donate the Prize money they earn from Euro2020 to NHS Charities....that's £9.6million if they win on Sunday

Fair play lads, Fair play

[Devongone]

If South Yorkshire didn't spend most of its time trying to annex Derbyshire Harry Maguire would be from the county in which he was educated and in which his brother plays.

My opinion is that outside the French England has the strongest and most exciting squad of players in this tournament. Yet, twice we've met teams in Scotland and Denmark who were far inferior in talent, but more advanced in terms of teamwork and the result was we more than struggled against both.

Goalkeeping is only our current glaring weakness. You might add not selecting our strongest team and limiting its creativity as a runner-up, but it has worked so far.

We can beat the Italians, whether we will is another matter entirely. We could even win a World Cup, specially if Spurs' new manager can resurrect Dele Alli, and our manager works out what a player like Patrick Bamford could add to a squad, so long as Nick Pope stays fit of course! Pickford on Sunday has the capacity to be either a hero, or a clown and you can't really afford that at this level.

The Italians have some very good players, but are very weak at full back. Up front Immobile is a permanent danger, Insigne must be prevented from cutting inside to fire off a shot, and my opinion is Chiesa is potentially a magic man, so we have to stop him getting the ball and limit his space throughout. And yes like the Spanish, the French and Germans, the Italians are usually bigger and better cheats than us. They'll take a dive and slot home the penalty quite happily. Doesn't make it right though, doesn't mean we should do it. And the fact we aren't as good at it as them doesn't give us the right to adopt the moral high ground.

And by the way, VAR doesn't confirm a penalty, it fails to find enough reason to overrule the original decision. So if the felled forward has actually deceptively wrapped his foot around the adjacent defender's leg as he comes in to tackle, there's contact for sure, the VAR man can't be 100% certain of the defender's innocence, so the penalty stands, because he has insufficient reason to overrule.

I want England to win, I want Chesterfield to win, I always wanted to win any game I played but I was NEVER and NEVER will be uncritical. You should be permanently seeking ways to improve, and you should never cheat the opposition, because you are then cheating yourself.

[Lord Snooty]

I've just read that the England players will donate the Prize money they earn from Euro2020 to NHS Charities....that's £9.6million if they win on Sunday

Fair play lads, Fair play      

Ruddy Marxists!

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Despite Raheem's record of diving for them (both for Man City and England) but I think it's a penalty that would be given most times than not. I don't know why we're supposed to feel guilty at getting to the final on a soft penalty decision. What country would?

[theo_luddite]

It was barely in the League of Francis Lee diving for Man City and Direby back in the day in my opinion, how many did he win by tripping himself up as he crossed the 18 yd line?

We should have had two in my opinion. Hurry Kane was felled in the box far earlier and the ref gave them a free kick.

When the "Paesans" are moaning about our ability to use the "dark arts" then we know we are getting close to a level playing field.

[hibeejim21]

It was barely in the League of Francis Lee diving for Man City and Direby back in the day in my opinion, how many did he win by tripping himself up as he crossed the 18 yd line?

We should have had two in my opinion. Hurry Kane was felled in the box far earlier and the ref gave them a free kick.

When the "Paesans" are moaning about our ability to use the "dark arts" then we know we are getting close to a level playing field.

Level playing field my hole.

It's always 'goes to ground' and 'clever play' when England do it.
And its cheating when Johnny Foreigner does it.

England had players sent off for serious foul play in 98 and in 2006. Deservedly so too. The media are still moaning about it today

[theo_luddite]

Aye, and no Jock ever did it in his life. Did you Mr. Dalgleish?

[Tobias Chuddlewick]

If England do win this competition, then large thanks should go to Yorkshire.
The rock solid defense, 3 of the back 4 are from Yorkshire. Maguire, Walker and Stones. We have the Yorkshire Pirlo in at defensive midfield.
And not forgetting the honorary Yorkshireman, Gareth Southgate. Lives in Harrogate.
And a couple of ex Town loanees keeping the first 11 on their toes in training - Coady and Chilwell.

I find this post racist and full of Yorkshirism. Having read several posts on here , I just think its high time I was offended ~ Tobias .

[theo_luddite]

Aye, and no Jock ever did it in his life. Did you Mr. Dalgleish?

Oh and while I'm about it - take a look at the replay of Immobile going down with "a broken ankle" against Belgium - only to get up and celebrate when Italy scored seconds later. A miracle, an absolute miracle blessed only by the Pope himself.

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I find this post racist and full of Yorkshirism. Having read several posts on here , I just think its high time I was offended ~ Tobias .

.... and where were you when we used to get up 2 hours afore we went to bed, worked 12 hours darn t'pit, licked t'road clean on t'way home and then did 16 hours in t'mill, aaaand paid t'mill owner for t'priveledge?

You weren't breeding Norwegian Blues by any any chance were you?