World Cup 2026

[Milltown Row2]

Great to see, that's them home after the embarrassing third place game..

That said Argentina are a shower of passionate durty bastards lol

[statto]

Argentina weakness is their full backs, don't see why Tuchel made subs and then left a team with no threat to run in behind. Even if game went extra time the team was so lopsided. Wonder will Tommy get the treatment Beckham got in 98 after losing Argies.

[OakLeaf]

Very little chat about Argentinas quality. Yes, England's tactics were poor but Argentina still had to break them down, and what a job they did. Could have been 4 or 5. England created almost nothing aside from the goal.

[gerrykeegan]

Did Messi foul Spence just prior to the second goal. I thought that at the time.

[Nanderson]

Did Messi foul Spence just prior to the second goal. I thought that at the time.

I haven't managed to see a close up of it but it looked like he did catch him. Spence didn't really make much of an incident about it

[laoislad]

And if anyone thinks Ronaldo is or was a better player than Messi they are crazy.

Only footballer that comes close is Maradona.

[podge]

Jaysus, Micah Richards is a total arse.  Impossible to listen to that.  Captain hindsight

[tyroneStatto]

So in the end England didn't have a better manager than Southgate.

[oakleafgael]

Tuchel 100% deserves the blame that last half hour was a shambles!

Not that I'm complaining!

It was crazy. England doing ok Argentina created nothing. Once he decides to park the bus suddenly Argentina are given the freedom to play and could easily have scored about 5 in those 30 mins. It was incredibly naive at best lol

Argentina had started to get on top before the England goal against the run of play. To say they had created nothing just isn't true. The first half was mostly turgid stuff but Argentina completely dominated the second half.

[gallsman]

It's not so much that they decided to try and shut up shop; it's how bad a job of it they did. Argentina were carving them open. Stones, Guehi, Burn etc all in there and Argentina had 3 or 4 really good chances from headers. They should have scored at least one more. A complete and utter collapse.

[thewobbler]

So in the end England didn't have a better manager than Southgate.

Nope.

They got exactly the same.

Men who would rather lie down than fight.

Eventually England will get a manager who realises they don't have the technique or patience to play other country's football.

That's when the real problems could start for the anti English.

Until then they're just pissing into the wind. Hitting the same again with a different result theory into a theorem.

[From the Bunker]

Argentina weakness is their full backs, don't see why Tuchel made subs and then left a team with no threat to run in behind. Even if game went extra time the team was so lopsided. Wonder will Tommy get the treatment Beckham got in 98 after losing Argies.

Keane should have been called ashore - there was no thought of catching Argentina on the break with him on parked on the edge of his own box.

[tyrone08]

Knifes are out for tucal already.

[tiempo]

Knifes are out for tucal already.

Wild scenes on talksport

https://youtu.be/p6EbhE8eNi8?is=uOg-AwuXWqtK-ToB

[weareros]

Did anyone read that Irish Times article than the reason Brazil are rubbish now is because most of their players are evangelical Protestant and were majority Catholic nation when winning World Cups. Two Catholic nations in final (give or take a Muslim or two) . Maybe England need to ditch the boring auld Church of England.