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Does anyone remember the chippie down on St Levan Road? It had a really grandiose name like Ocean Palace or something. Think it's a Chinese now. That's where I watched a bit of the last semi-final.

HYPE.
 
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Ham Green":32gjqc6g said:
Does anyone remember the chippie down on St Levan Road? It had a really grandiose name like Ocean Palace or something. Think it's a Chinese now. That's where I watched a bit of the last semi-final.

HYPE.
Indeed, ''tis now the Royal China takeaway.
 
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And make it permanent! They only know about 3 tunes - SOOOOOOOOO bleddy irritating. :furious: Just know we're going to blow this - missed 1st half chances coming back to bite us in the arris. Well done to the Argo fan with green Union Jack on show behind the right hand goal :thumbup:
 

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It's NOT coming home :thumbdown:
 
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I wonder if Modric has ever had money for nothing, or done the walk of life.
His latest trick was to beat England.

We did well all tournament but lack the quality of a Modric. When there was a need for it we couldn't use the ball like Croatia did.
 

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We were poor after half time and we're well beaten. Should have been 2-0 up after the first half. If only Kane had squared it to Stirling. Hey go, a great world cup, exceeded all expectations.
 
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We were poor after half time and we're well beaten. Should have been 2-0 up after the first half. If only Kane had squared it to Stirling. Hey go, a great world cup, exceeded all expectations.
The Sterling who can't shoot for toffee?!
 
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First half was excellent. It was looking great.

Then second half they just disappeared. The passing was horrendous. The gap between the forwards to defence and us pinging long balls was mind boggling.

Croatia got stronger. They started to control the midfield. Instead of playing around with the ball, England lost the balance of their side. As much as we say this player didnt do this, and that, you have to look at Southgate too. Unfortuately, it tactically needed changing in terms of the system we used and instead all we did was replace one player for another.

Croatia deserved to win in the end. Yet it feels like a massive chance missed because how many times will we ever get a draw like this?

It feels like a mentality thing. Maybe we just have to accept we dont have that strong, mental approach that other nations seems to display in games like these. To play well, dominate and then just totally lose the physical control of a match against a side who played two extra time games in the last two rounds seems abit strange.

Lets hope we can build on from this and not look back in 10 years on YouTube as one of those great "glorious failures".
 

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I'm surprised Maguire didn't go up front for the last 10 minutes and hit the ball long. We still played three centre-backs late in the game when there was no need.

The ref was poor and the linesman on the far side missed an obvious corner and throw in for us.

Kane was running on fumes over the last two games.

Oh well, we had a great tournament and the players and Southgate have got the public liking England again.
 

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monkeywrench":2adxnlsh said:
We were poor after half time and we're well beaten. Should have been 2-0 up after the first half. If only Kane had squared it to Stirling. Hey go, a great world cup, exceeded all expectations.
The Sterling who can't shoot for toffee?!

Even Stirling wouldn't have missed that.