Topic: The Push Square Football (Soccer) Thread

Awww Joe Hart’s retiring at the end of the season. Probably the right time as he’s definitely noticeably declining but he’s been great for us.

The ‘controversy’ about the England kit is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s all the Ingerland for the Ingerlish ones doing their nut in about colours of a tiny cross on the collar when it makes sense with the colour scheme of the kit. I mean Chelsea and Spurs have a bloody lenticular badge on theirs, I don’t think anyone is acting like Jimmy Greaves would be turning in his grave over the Y2Kification of a badge. Besides, Scotland have a wa** kit for the millionth time in a row so they shouldn’t even be complaining as theirs looks infinitely better. Stick them in this monstrosity from a few years back and see how they like it

Beyond happy for Bromley going up to the EFL for the first time ever in 132 years of history through a penalty shootout. They were my first proper Football Manager road to glory club, hopefully they can also go up to the Prem the way I took them over a gruelling save file! Speaking of which, recently got a mod for FM24 that goes down to the 13th tier of English football and have taken Woking and Maybury all the way up to the Isthmian Prem so far with a 300 seater stadium.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn00k4gkpz3o

Sad to hear this, hope it's not as bad as it seems. Guy is a Legend

Hey we got a goal. Yes, it was a classic Rudiger but it’s a goal. Germany do look a strong side though, that group of players actually delivering internationally for once is a first but with the luck of the draw, they could go far.

@Falcon94 It’s Ryan Porteous, he’s always been like that.

Mixed performance by England, pretty standard for Southgateball. Good solid first half, lax and tired second half. Very very lucky that Serbia couldn’t find that tiny moment of quality in the box, they played England off the pitch in the second half but goals are what matter. England might toil through with a win here but against better opposition, I could see them struggling. They just have to control the match, defence looked a bit slack at times.

Would probably say that Serbia’s height advantage actually was a disadvantage too, their strength seemed to generate more fouls than anything. An awful lot of 50/50s resulting in an England player on the floor due to the build mismatch, which didn’t used to be inherently a foul but referees are definitely blowing for those now.

Mbappe’s nose really did go splat. ITV loving the million zoomed replays of his nose ceasing to exist.

Robbed of an absolutely clear penalty, worst decision I’ve seen in my life. Utterly robbed. VAR not even having a look. Not even that annoyed by the last minute winner, it was a counter cause we had to go for it. Hope Varga is ok.

So we got Argentina vs Colombia for the Copa America final and Spain vs England for the Euro. I am rooting for Colombia (would love to see their winning streak continue) and England but I have a feeling Argentina and Spain will win.

I watched the Copa America semi final just now between Uruguay and Colombia and it was a great game. Very foul heavy but that's to be expected with two South American teams but over all enjoyable.

What a great final for the Copa America. I would have liked to see Colombia keep their streak but the better team won tonight. Both played really well after and hour delay to the start of the game. I guess a bunch of fans tried to get into the stadium without having tickets to it or something.

I haven't been able to see the Euro final yet but I heard it was just as good. Hopefully I will be able to catch it here soon on a replay.

I didn't realise that Amazon Prime had Champers League matches this season, so was pleasantly surprised when I saw that being advertised yesterday.

As it was AC Milan v Liverpool, I stuck it on. Liverpool under Slot seem to be less chaotic than with Klopp and have better control in midfield.

Rodri out for the season. F**k me, we might actually get somebody else winning the season. Would be hilarious if he came back from injury having to play for Citeh in the Vanarama National League after they get expelled from the league.

@nessisonett Fingers crossed buddy 🤞🤞🤞🤞 I am not a fan of old Lego head but they could do it!

I'm not taking the piss as a Liverpool fan but how the hell have man utd got this bad. Its shocking

@QualityGeezer I despair my friend. Up until yesterday I could at least say the games we did not win (with Liverpool the exception) we probably could and should have won but I can't really defend any of yesterdays game, just terrible.

To further exasperate the problem we have backed ETH handsomely in the summer so to scrap it all and start again looks even worse. I don't or didn't want rid of ETH but that probably means another miserable season by the looks of it, I genuinely thought we might see improvements this season and feel like a right mug now!!!

Well at least OGS said he'd be happy to come back... 🤣

@JohnnyShoulder I'd take him over Southgate any day of the week, at this point I think no manager would make a difference, those that could wouldn't come near us with a barge pole and rightly so!!

@Mostik