UEFA Nations League

That's how it is with leagues. The best English teams are in Premier League as well :)

So there's actually two leagues operating here and that explains the relegation... uh.

Yeah, there's four tiers. The Better Than Denmark, The Just as Good as Denmark, The Worse Than Denmark, and the A Lot Worse Than Denmark. Or at least that's how I understand it.

The concept works well at the lower levels, I think. Kosovo have battered all the teams in their division and get moved up to play better ones next time, for example.

I can’t think of many pure friendlies wrt England more memorable than the Spain and Croatia games recently.

woof

Joachim LÖL

I'd post a hearty "O'Neill Out" although I dont think it would get much better even if we did

mccarthy in

Jamesy Forrest on, er, fire.

raking tackle wouldve prevented

Great idea of McLeish's to put Forrest on the bench for the first game against Israel. I'm giving McLeish absolutely no credit for any of this because the team that he's played for the last two games was forced on him through injuries and withdrawals, it picked itself. Left to his own devices he'd have undoubtedly picked a team of numpties and hod carriers, making sure he could make do with as few Celtic players as possible.

Wee Jamesy is a player

He's scored some great goals in the last two games!

It looks like O'Neill is getting the road

I know he has a reputation for negative, conservative football but do ye have anyone who could score a goal under any manager these days? It looks too early for Obafemi and idk who else there is.

its hard to say. i mean its been a long time since we tried

I'd have O'Neill as Scotland manager any day of the week btw.

gwan so

We're more likely to get Michael than Martin tbh. Either would be better than Big Eck.

Draw!

Netherlands vs England
Portugal vs Switzerland

I'd be pretty #stokedforthemadness if I could figure out what this tournament is about.

it's about the thrill of qualifying for the Euros twice

Is there going to be a thread for the Euro 2020 qualification? I look forward to Denmark playing against Ireland two more times. Four times in a year wasn't really enough.

Scotland got Belgium and Russia, er, nae bother at a', er... England get their usual red carpet easy group.

journalists once more giving it the "this is totally a real competition that is more exciting than meaningless friendlies", PR budget for this must've been massive

imagining someone watching having been tricked into thinking this is an actively competitive match and going spare about how inept England are

I'm mostly surprised about the amounts of Dutch and esp English fans that went to Portugal for this

de Ligt is cancelled

Yup, ages too late.

opposition never knowingly underclownshoed of course

this England midfield is chronic

Took a while but it's a proper pace now

oh dear, ya boy stones

not that it matters as it's just a friendly but Stones with one of the absolute worst performances you'll ever see for England

LOL

4 goals, 4 horrible mistakes. I wonder what the level will be in the D finals (if those will ever take place)

beautiful stadium though :-)

i mean that is the booziest pair of anthems i have ever heard

going it like nfl

they wanted the physical limited Irish theyll get em

Decent start tho increasingly ragged since

gutsy

so there's a 3rd place play-off? lol this fucking tournament

turkey are killing these showpony fools

Norway 2-1 up with a superb Haaland goal after...six minutes.

His opposite number just signed for...us

Maguire should probably have been off for a straight red after five minutes. Two bizarre, completely unnecessary tackles.

Eran Zahavi scored a twenty-minute hat trick for Israel. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does for PSV, he has been one of the most ludicrously prolific strikers in the world for years.

Nations League, wonderful tournament.

I think Harry Maguire might be even less likeable than John Terry. Easy to write him off as just a dumb slab head cunt but I sense a sort of spiteful vindictiveness in there. In another life the lads from Mindhunter would be visiting him in prison talking about all the animals he used to drown.

I almost felt a bit sorry for the cunt as he shambled off, Martin Tyler going on about this being “a terrible time in his life” or whatever. It’s all relative of course but he certainly looks like he’s got some stuff going on atm and could do with a holiday.

are we just going to ignore the fact that a charlton player scored a winning goal for a home nation

I still don't really understand this thing (I speak as a Scottish person). For most countries, isn't it the case that while it would be nice to win your group, the minute that stops looking likely you'd be better off getting relegated, so then you should try to lose your games?

Southgate was a mediocre to absolute shite flop of a club manager. But failing upwards is the English style, so fair enough. It looks like his lucky run has ended now though.

Stop calling me useless, Southgate tells England fans

Really sticking it to those racist Hungarian fans, great to see