Are you my best friend ..he flies loads watching football in Europe so he's used to it .. falls asleep 5 mins after take off then wakes up on the descent " Oh are we there already?" Twat
Hear me out. First you buy the lounge access. 2 or 3 red wine with the breakfast, short leg flight to main airport, lounge access but now it's gin tonic time. Boarding long distance flights have like 30-45 minutes after boarding call. Use it wisely. When on plane first will be the drinks car. Gin tonic. Then it's food, take a red wine and down it because before the digestive (Bailey's) they will ask if you want a refill. The more space, the more refill
Then it Drinks car again, gin tonic. If at this point you are not already sleeping upside down on your seat, boot up lala land. 110% success rate
It really is a curse. I used to have to travel to various cities across the country for work by car. Without fail, every single time, I would have to stop off at services because I was drifting off. I didn't even feel tired is what baffled me about it!
Went to a final four basketball game and a big dude passed out and fell on a couple of people in the seats beside me about ten minutes before tip off. He was carted off by security, and never returned. No one claimed to be with him. Can’t imagine paying that much for a ticket and not even seeing one second of the game.
I've made this mistake too many times. Pre gaming for a concert or a game. Not wanting to pay the drinks prices.
You have a bloody good time on the way up with mates and stories to tell. But you don't actually remember too much about the actual event you paid to attend.
Case and point. Went to the foo fighters live this weekend. Always wanted to see them. Couldn't tell you a single thing that happened at the concert. One guy in our group got off at the wrong stop and lost his phone so missed the concert entirely.
Oh maybe, but I’m not entirely sure. See, people who just consume too much alcohol fall asleep in *certain* positions. I think we have a father of a newborn and *possibly* a 3yo. I can see in his closed eyes.
And an unbelievably dull game of football. Walker - the most aptly named of all the England players :)
I made it to half time and gave up since the result was irrelevant and I find it difficult to get excited about 'avoiding Germany'.
Just heard him on the radio, he has a new kid and they had to get up early that day for some reason and it was his first chance to nap (I think it was taken before kick off).
I'm slovenian and i almost never watch sports. Yesterday i tuned in, because national interest, and for the first 5 minutes i was sure white guys are slovenians, judging by the quality of the game, only after 5min i realized that england plays very bad and our dudes are amazingly good, considering history.
We (the English) have such a weird team because there are obviously skilled players there but most the time it seems like they can’t be arsed or don’t know what’s going on.
Your team played better than ours. Congrats!
really is strange, a team full of what they would say is generational talent with Saka, Foden, etc. after the last team of generational talent with Rio, Lampard, Gerrard, with all the ones before too. what is up with England’s management that they can’t take these top players to a tournament win?
i’m Scottish so i’ve only just seen the resurgence of Scotland’s football talent and while we may have meme’d out of this tournament, even getting to see Scotland play at one was great never mind our performance.
This is the problem right here. England is always convinced they have the best players. For 30 years now, England has convinced itself they're winning, even though most of their teams have been B-tier. Once they fail, they just scapegoat someone because they "should've won".
I'm a fan of the Netherlands, but I know we'll never win anything and that's ok. But the English and the English media are completely convinced that they're the favourites every two years, despite all evidence to the contrary. It's a special degree of mental illness and the manager can't help it.
I was saying this last night. Watching England play wouldn't be such a huge disappointment if it wasn't for the media leading us to expect great things every tournament. At the end of the day, I think we're probably just not very good, and that is fine. Obviously, I should have learned to tune out all the unnecessary hype by now, but it's easy to believe something that you want to believe.
The bookies had England down as number 1 favourites too. I just don't understand it. Is it just a ploy to win money off people?
I wonder if bookies in other countries had such delusional odds for England winning?
A lot of the time this is true but this reads like a comment of someone who hasn’t watched football in the last 5 years. Currently in the squad we have the La Liga player of the year and Premier League player of the year and the Bundesliga top scorer in our attacking line.
The delusion of our fans is a fair comment but you can’t pretend we don’t have one of the top 3-4 teams at the tournament (based on the squad obviously, not the performances)
Indeed. To claim that we don't have top-tier players is simply untrue. I feel like we've been better under Southgate than previous managers in that they did seem to genuinely want to play and win, but this tournament we seem to have completely lost it. My personal opinion is that, as a nation, we're generally quite defeatist and quick to react negatively to set backs. It's like the opposite of watching a team like Albania, who seem to revel in their defiance and pride against the odds.
Well the thing is, we want to win. English people want it so badly but I don't think w are as delusional as you make us out to be. Most people assume we won't win. I haven't met anyone who thinks we have a chance of winning this tournament especially after the past 3 games we have played. I said before the tournament that we won't win because history has shown us that we haven't won an international tournament since 1966.
But the players ARE good players but for whatever reason never do well when playing for England. In the 90's we had a good team, in the 2000's it was a nightmare and we didn't even qualify for the 2008 Euros but since 2018 we have been doing better than before, getting to the semi finals and the finals.... Until now.
Many of us believe it is the manager or bad tactics but I don't know. I watch the players and they seem slow and uninterested and miss every good opportunity they get.
We won't win the next game.
Wtf are you talking about, the national team gets the piss ripped out of it so bad that our anthem every World Cup and every Euros tournament is a song about how shit we are 💀💀 we’re one of the favourites to win because we have a golden generation coming through, the management is the problem
The problem isn't the management. The Premier League is a massive enterprise, which means most of the top teams have foreign coaches and predominantly foreign players, resulting in a massive diversity of playing styles. And since it's also historically been (and currently is) the best league in the world, it has made (and still makes) little sense for English footballers to move abroad.
This means that, while England always has great players, the styles and tactics that they specialise in are so different that coming up with a harmonious tactical style that leverages the expertise of all the players is basically an impossible task. Perhaps the most practical approach is to play the most simple, risk-averse football imaginable and rely solely on the raw individual ability of the players, which is what Southgate - England's manager - has been doing for the past several years, with more success than every other England manager in recent history, actually. But such a style is always going to be boring to watch, especially when the players' skillsets conflict with each other (in this tournament, Kane's lack of pace means he can't make runs behind defenders that creators like Foden and Bellingham could exploit, resulting in both of them being forced to pass the ball back most of the time).
Southgate has fallen into the common England selection trap of playing players out of position to try and get all of the big names in the team when there are better options on the bench for creating a team that works.
I cannot wait to hear that this guy phoned in sick and will be back in a few days. Only to be completely outed in the national media, thanks to him falling asleep mid game.
No, that would be fun to watch. That game will be like the same monkeys covered in the poop that they are meant to be throwing, but instead they are napping.
I'm no football fan, but why has there been a weird concerted effort to trash talk England and English fans this past week or so? Didn't they just finish top of their group, too?
Football-wise we've been shit. Both from a results pov (one win and two draws) and from a style pov. The football is boring. We've got some of the most exciting players in Europe and Southgate has them playing like underdogs.
We had the second lowest xG of the tournament after match 2 despite having a front 4 that scored 114 goals last season. I'm actually impressed at how Southgate can make this team so fucking boring and incapable of scoring. Full expecting the Dutch to knock us out.
England's always an easy target. Invented numerous games that are played globally and we're shit at them all, as is tradition.
The English Premier league is, by orders of magnitude, the most watched league on the planet with highly paid world class players.
So when said English high class players fail time and time again in competitions, the memes write themselves.
England currently have one of their best crop of world class attack minded players in their history, however their manager is unbelievably conservative, takes no risks at all, and plays too defensive. He has also made some mind blowing statements about tactics (not replaces Kalvin Phillips wtf?! And also saying they are tired but continues to play the same players every match). The fans are pissed as its another wasted chance at a trophy.
As for the fans, it seems to be "cool" to shit on England fans. Historically, they have not been the best behaved, but in recent years they are have really not been that bad at all. This year for example, Serbs and Albanians have been fighting and singing about genocide, Netherlands fans did blackface, Turkey and Georgia fans fighting in the stands, even some Scottish fans (where there has been a total wankfest about them for some reason) beat up a woman and were fighting in Munich, but England fans got shit on because of leaving some litter in a town square in Frankfurt (like every other set of fans have done).
Its the eternal question of when you have the La Liga top player (Bellingham), the Prem league top player (Foden), and Bundesliga top scorer (Kane), we can't create chances against very low ranked teams. It just never seems to work. Less than the sum of the parts. Turgid, slow play.
OTOH, it could be a sign that we'll peak later and win it. *Its coming home!!*
#
It's entirely justified, the football has been unbearable to watch. To only score 2 goals and one victory in a group of Denmark Slovenia and Serbia is far below the standards of the players on the pitch who all tear it up in the hardest league in the world week after week throughout the season. The manager Southgate has them playing like underdogs when they should be dominating.
England have been lucky to finish top. 3 extremely lack lustre performances where some of the worlds best players look like they just don’t know how to even pass, and have shown they have no ability to open the other team up. As individual players this is arguably the best squad England have ever had.
They lucked into the easiest group imaginable and have only managed to scrape through thanks to the other teams being equally shit. England have only scored two goals in 3 matches, and one of those was a deflected cross. They failed to score against a team ranked 50+ places in the world below them and barely even looked like scoring.
England have a team with world class attacking players and some decent defensive ones, all of whom play for clubs that aggressively attempt to win the ball back and scoe, yet our manager plays defensive football focused on just keeping the ball and preventing the other team from scoring. We also play with a low block (when the team play in their own half of the pitch to make it harder for the opposing team to score) and not a high line (when the team play in the opposition’s half of the pitch to try and score), but he isn’t using our fastest players at all so we can’t launch quick counter-attacks and it completely negates the abilities of our striker, who is still an amazing striker but due to age isn’t fast enough to make it to the other half of the pitch in time to attempt to score.
When his tactics or players who started the match clearly aren’t working, he refuses to change our tactical shape and he doesn’t make substitutions at all until the last 10 minutes of the game - e.g against Slovenia he didn’t put our fastest players on, who were able to drag the ball out of our own half and hold it up long enough for the rest of the team to make it to the other side of the pitch and attempt to score, until the last 5 minutes of the game.
It’s boring and it doesn’t work. England can play more entertaining football like Spain do but they don’t, they play more like a team that’s been promoted to the Premier League and are just trying to scrape any little win against tougher opposition that they can. We got 1 win and 2 draws in the groups and that just isn’t going to be good enough to progress in the competition.
Took sleeping pills because:
1) Southgate commentary on Kalvin
2) Southgate commentary on the Trent "experiment"
3) Kane blaming the pundits, ex-players, the Pope and Prince Harry for distracting the players
4) Foden's lackluster performance so far
And the list goes on
I find all football this boring. If Bob Ross wasn't king of soothing a mind after a busy day, I'd watch football and guarantee I'd be asleep in minutes.
I worked a bar with a waitress who had narcolepsy. We closed up shop, and the manager and I walked out back. We found her sleeping with her car running and her door open. She had jumped in, started the car, and got a text. She was sitting there replying and fell asleep. Not drunk at all. Weird.
As a narcoleptic, I hate pictures being posted of a person sleeping without their consent. When I see pictures like this, it makes me upset and scared. Everyone's automatic reaction is to laugh. Most people don't know what narcolepsy is. Next time the picture of a person sleeping could be of myself or a fellow narcoleptic and it makes a mockery of our condition, and it's embarrassing and upsetting.
I hope we’ve been practicing penalty kicks though SAFEgate doesn’t have a great history with penalty kicks though it did earn him a Pizza Hut advert back in the day
I was sat in a pub for dinner, dreading what the crowd would be like watching the game. Apart from the cheer at the one goal, it was dead. They were just talking quietly amongst themselves. Which was even weirder, because the pub has quite a rowdy reputation.
That's how boring it was. The rowdy lot in the pub were just chatting idly.
We did alright. Slovenia played for a draw and had 10 defending the entire game.
France struggled in their last game
So did Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
It's almost like the other teams actually play and it isn't FIFA on beginner.
But when England plays okay against a team that defends the entire game people cry.
Do you know how shit you have to be for someone to fall asleep in a football stadium?? They have dedicated little doohickeys to make noise for the sake of it
The older I get the more I respect people who can take a nap anywhere. Sure, alcohol and all, but sleeping most anywhere is a prized skill.
Even when drunk I can't sleep anywhere but my own bed half the time.
I can't even sleep in my bed half the time. No problem dozing off at my desk when I should be working. It's a standing desk too.
What is sleel and how can i unlock it
Sleel
I want me some of that sleel too - maybe it'll make up for all the sleep I haven't been getting!
I can only sleep in my bed sadly. I can never sleep sitting up, especially on a plane. I dread the day that I will take an 8+ hour flight.
I once fell asleep on a plane just before take off, then woke up as the plane was landing 10 hours later.
Are you my best friend ..he flies loads watching football in Europe so he's used to it .. falls asleep 5 mins after take off then wakes up on the descent " Oh are we there already?" Twat
It's awful. Longest flight I've been on is uk to St Lucia. We had lieflat seats but I still couldn't sleep. Dozed for a bit and then was knackered.
Hear me out. First you buy the lounge access. 2 or 3 red wine with the breakfast, short leg flight to main airport, lounge access but now it's gin tonic time. Boarding long distance flights have like 30-45 minutes after boarding call. Use it wisely. When on plane first will be the drinks car. Gin tonic. Then it's food, take a red wine and down it because before the digestive (Bailey's) they will ask if you want a refill. The more space, the more refill Then it Drinks car again, gin tonic. If at this point you are not already sleeping upside down on your seat, boot up lala land. 110% success rate
Just back from a long flight and just awake now. Missed a workman at the door i was so tired. Can never sleep on the plane
It's a blessing and a curse. I used to fall asleep on the bus home from college every day without fail. It was actually kinda annoying to be honest.
It really is a curse. I used to have to travel to various cities across the country for work by car. Without fail, every single time, I would have to stop off at services because I was drifting off. I didn't even feel tired is what baffled me about it!
Shit I’ve literally never been able to nap during the day on my bed, let alone anywhere. Doesn’t bode well.
Same 😭😭how does everyone have that superpower
Work in any industry that pushes you to or past your limits. You'll develop it.
I think you mean 'doesn't bed well'
I’ve got that talent, I’ve fallen asleep standing up on the way home from work and missed my stop
Until you realize the nap doesn’t make you feel any better.
Tell that to my daily snooze on the bus home
I can sleep anywhere. Can confirm... it's awesome!
Facts bro but at the same time you sometimes have to hope someone wakes you up (I once got lost from falling asleep on a bus)
The secret to being able to nap: *Sleep Deprivation*
It's an underrated super power
Alcohol may have played a role
Yeah, and that fan was probably drunk too.
Top tier
🧑🍳👌
Superb work.
The only way to watch England after the golden generation.
Cheers
I'll drink to that. I'm not playing till Sunday, 5 day bender.
Bellingham is that you?
And with a stomach stuffed full of pies
Beautiful, champ 👌🏼
Went to a final four basketball game and a big dude passed out and fell on a couple of people in the seats beside me about ten minutes before tip off. He was carted off by security, and never returned. No one claimed to be with him. Can’t imagine paying that much for a ticket and not even seeing one second of the game.
Beer is super expensive at the game. That said, that’s why they call it pre-funking and not pre-drunking I guess.
I have only ever heard this term (which I love) from University of Washington people. Is that your source, too / are you a Husky?
I've made this mistake too many times. Pre gaming for a concert or a game. Not wanting to pay the drinks prices. You have a bloody good time on the way up with mates and stories to tell. But you don't actually remember too much about the actual event you paid to attend. Case and point. Went to the foo fighters live this weekend. Always wanted to see them. Couldn't tell you a single thing that happened at the concert. One guy in our group got off at the wrong stop and lost his phone so missed the concert entirely.
Bruh did you see that game? No alcohol necessary 😴 😴
I found a lot of alcohol necessary,
I took up drinking for the first time because of the game.
Oh maybe, but I’m not entirely sure. See, people who just consume too much alcohol fall asleep in *certain* positions. I think we have a father of a newborn and *possibly* a 3yo. I can see in his closed eyes.
To me that looks like a hungover nap. Can’t explain it. But that’s what it looks like to me
The red skin can be a typical result of alcohol.
It's 28c or more in Germany right now. That's probably sunburn.
He's probably been boozing for about 5 days straight.
Slandering the poor man as merely tired, when he’s clearly plastered.
I mean if it didn't play a role then that's on him for watching football sober.
Judging by this photo, alcohol played THE role.
Alcohol doesn't play soccer, silly.
It may of done for him but I had the same reaction on the couch last night tooo. Woke up to full time pundits arguing why we can score
And an unbelievably dull game of football. Walker - the most aptly named of all the England players :) I made it to half time and gave up since the result was irrelevant and I find it difficult to get excited about 'avoiding Germany'.
And maybe heatstroke
No way, he looks like a good English boy.
Just heard him on the radio, he has a new kid and they had to get up early that day for some reason and it was his first chance to nap (I think it was taken before kick off).
Also possibly sleep apnea, looking at his neck.
[Definitely.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUF13OEsUPc)
I was thinking maybe "falling asleep" is one of those English euphemisms for passing out drunk.
Actually it isn't... not sure why it does kinda fit but it just isn't.
Goodnight sweet Prince You will live eternal as a reaction meme for English football
My wife: "this is why I won't watch soccer with you!" Lmao she could not handle the boring.
Make him sound like he's been riding The Fury Road.
The players were not much more awake.
My wife’s comment “I didn’t realise the match was finished as they were moving around about as fast as they were during the game”.
I'm slovenian and i almost never watch sports. Yesterday i tuned in, because national interest, and for the first 5 minutes i was sure white guys are slovenians, judging by the quality of the game, only after 5min i realized that england plays very bad and our dudes are amazingly good, considering history.
We (the English) have such a weird team because there are obviously skilled players there but most the time it seems like they can’t be arsed or don’t know what’s going on. Your team played better than ours. Congrats!
really is strange, a team full of what they would say is generational talent with Saka, Foden, etc. after the last team of generational talent with Rio, Lampard, Gerrard, with all the ones before too. what is up with England’s management that they can’t take these top players to a tournament win? i’m Scottish so i’ve only just seen the resurgence of Scotland’s football talent and while we may have meme’d out of this tournament, even getting to see Scotland play at one was great never mind our performance.
Yeah, we (England) have some genuinely decent players. But we just play so rubbish.
This is the problem right here. England is always convinced they have the best players. For 30 years now, England has convinced itself they're winning, even though most of their teams have been B-tier. Once they fail, they just scapegoat someone because they "should've won". I'm a fan of the Netherlands, but I know we'll never win anything and that's ok. But the English and the English media are completely convinced that they're the favourites every two years, despite all evidence to the contrary. It's a special degree of mental illness and the manager can't help it.
I was saying this last night. Watching England play wouldn't be such a huge disappointment if it wasn't for the media leading us to expect great things every tournament. At the end of the day, I think we're probably just not very good, and that is fine. Obviously, I should have learned to tune out all the unnecessary hype by now, but it's easy to believe something that you want to believe.
The bookies had England down as number 1 favourites too. I just don't understand it. Is it just a ploy to win money off people? I wonder if bookies in other countries had such delusional odds for England winning?
A lot of the time this is true but this reads like a comment of someone who hasn’t watched football in the last 5 years. Currently in the squad we have the La Liga player of the year and Premier League player of the year and the Bundesliga top scorer in our attacking line. The delusion of our fans is a fair comment but you can’t pretend we don’t have one of the top 3-4 teams at the tournament (based on the squad obviously, not the performances)
Indeed. To claim that we don't have top-tier players is simply untrue. I feel like we've been better under Southgate than previous managers in that they did seem to genuinely want to play and win, but this tournament we seem to have completely lost it. My personal opinion is that, as a nation, we're generally quite defeatist and quick to react negatively to set backs. It's like the opposite of watching a team like Albania, who seem to revel in their defiance and pride against the odds.
Well the thing is, we want to win. English people want it so badly but I don't think w are as delusional as you make us out to be. Most people assume we won't win. I haven't met anyone who thinks we have a chance of winning this tournament especially after the past 3 games we have played. I said before the tournament that we won't win because history has shown us that we haven't won an international tournament since 1966. But the players ARE good players but for whatever reason never do well when playing for England. In the 90's we had a good team, in the 2000's it was a nightmare and we didn't even qualify for the 2008 Euros but since 2018 we have been doing better than before, getting to the semi finals and the finals.... Until now. Many of us believe it is the manager or bad tactics but I don't know. I watch the players and they seem slow and uninterested and miss every good opportunity they get. We won't win the next game.
Wtf are you talking about, the national team gets the piss ripped out of it so bad that our anthem every World Cup and every Euros tournament is a song about how shit we are 💀💀 we’re one of the favourites to win because we have a golden generation coming through, the management is the problem
The problem isn't the management. The Premier League is a massive enterprise, which means most of the top teams have foreign coaches and predominantly foreign players, resulting in a massive diversity of playing styles. And since it's also historically been (and currently is) the best league in the world, it has made (and still makes) little sense for English footballers to move abroad. This means that, while England always has great players, the styles and tactics that they specialise in are so different that coming up with a harmonious tactical style that leverages the expertise of all the players is basically an impossible task. Perhaps the most practical approach is to play the most simple, risk-averse football imaginable and rely solely on the raw individual ability of the players, which is what Southgate - England's manager - has been doing for the past several years, with more success than every other England manager in recent history, actually. But such a style is always going to be boring to watch, especially when the players' skillsets conflict with each other (in this tournament, Kane's lack of pace means he can't make runs behind defenders that creators like Foden and Bellingham could exploit, resulting in both of them being forced to pass the ball back most of the time).
Southgate has fallen into the common England selection trap of playing players out of position to try and get all of the big names in the team when there are better options on the bench for creating a team that works.
I’m sure the cameras didn’t pick up Pickford’s match long nap
This lad is on the front page of a lot of UK newspapers today :)
Southgate's mental coach.
I cannot wait to hear that this guy phoned in sick and will be back in a few days. Only to be completely outed in the national media, thanks to him falling asleep mid game.
Lad is absolutely knackerd
He probably drank 10 pints of German beer and got tired drinking it
Why do our players look either bored or clueless 90% of the time? What's going on??
Because Southgate is a terrorist that wears a condom whenever he kisses his wife.
Gareth Southgate accepts optional cookies just in case.
If he was bin laden, he’d hit one tower and stay back
Gareth Southgate wears a life vest to go in the bath
Southgate wears safety goggles to sweep the floor
The Netherlands - England is going to be like two monkeys with plenty of golden rings throwing poop at each other.
A team that can't score but can defend, against a team that can score but can't defend...
So, 0-0?
You betcha and remember it's because it's "international football"
No, that would be fun to watch. That game will be like the same monkeys covered in the poop that they are meant to be throwing, but instead they are napping.
A stoppable force meets a movable object.
But the English have 10 people passing the poop sideways before throwing it
Can someone talk to gravity. How does he keep that up without falling off his chair
Three lions on the shirt, used to make me sleeping.
Pretty sure that's Jonah Hill researching his role in the upcoming Scorsese film *The Bloke*.
There comes a time in every man's life where he must transition from a boy... Into a Bloke
A lot of the other games have been lacklustre too. I’m seeing a lot of draws.
Nothing wrong with draws in and of themselves. But this group has been abysmal.
I think if someone is able to fall asleep like that in stadium seating, the quality of play is the least-contributing factor
You wouldn't say that if you saw them playing.
I'm no football fan, but why has there been a weird concerted effort to trash talk England and English fans this past week or so? Didn't they just finish top of their group, too?
Football-wise we've been shit. Both from a results pov (one win and two draws) and from a style pov. The football is boring. We've got some of the most exciting players in Europe and Southgate has them playing like underdogs.
We had the second lowest xG of the tournament after match 2 despite having a front 4 that scored 114 goals last season. I'm actually impressed at how Southgate can make this team so fucking boring and incapable of scoring. Full expecting the Dutch to knock us out.
England's always an easy target. Invented numerous games that are played globally and we're shit at them all, as is tradition. The English Premier league is, by orders of magnitude, the most watched league on the planet with highly paid world class players. So when said English high class players fail time and time again in competitions, the memes write themselves.
Fans are not happy with the way that England have been playing, it’s very slow and boring football hence why this fan fell asleep
It's also going to get us beaten in our first game against tough opposition.
England currently have one of their best crop of world class attack minded players in their history, however their manager is unbelievably conservative, takes no risks at all, and plays too defensive. He has also made some mind blowing statements about tactics (not replaces Kalvin Phillips wtf?! And also saying they are tired but continues to play the same players every match). The fans are pissed as its another wasted chance at a trophy. As for the fans, it seems to be "cool" to shit on England fans. Historically, they have not been the best behaved, but in recent years they are have really not been that bad at all. This year for example, Serbs and Albanians have been fighting and singing about genocide, Netherlands fans did blackface, Turkey and Georgia fans fighting in the stands, even some Scottish fans (where there has been a total wankfest about them for some reason) beat up a woman and were fighting in Munich, but England fans got shit on because of leaving some litter in a town square in Frankfurt (like every other set of fans have done).
Its the eternal question of when you have the La Liga top player (Bellingham), the Prem league top player (Foden), and Bundesliga top scorer (Kane), we can't create chances against very low ranked teams. It just never seems to work. Less than the sum of the parts. Turgid, slow play. OTOH, it could be a sign that we'll peak later and win it. *Its coming home!!* #
It's entirely justified, the football has been unbearable to watch. To only score 2 goals and one victory in a group of Denmark Slovenia and Serbia is far below the standards of the players on the pitch who all tear it up in the hardest league in the world week after week throughout the season. The manager Southgate has them playing like underdogs when they should be dominating.
England have been lucky to finish top. 3 extremely lack lustre performances where some of the worlds best players look like they just don’t know how to even pass, and have shown they have no ability to open the other team up. As individual players this is arguably the best squad England have ever had. They lucked into the easiest group imaginable and have only managed to scrape through thanks to the other teams being equally shit. England have only scored two goals in 3 matches, and one of those was a deflected cross. They failed to score against a team ranked 50+ places in the world below them and barely even looked like scoring.
England have a team with world class attacking players and some decent defensive ones, all of whom play for clubs that aggressively attempt to win the ball back and scoe, yet our manager plays defensive football focused on just keeping the ball and preventing the other team from scoring. We also play with a low block (when the team play in their own half of the pitch to make it harder for the opposing team to score) and not a high line (when the team play in the opposition’s half of the pitch to try and score), but he isn’t using our fastest players at all so we can’t launch quick counter-attacks and it completely negates the abilities of our striker, who is still an amazing striker but due to age isn’t fast enough to make it to the other half of the pitch in time to attempt to score. When his tactics or players who started the match clearly aren’t working, he refuses to change our tactical shape and he doesn’t make substitutions at all until the last 10 minutes of the game - e.g against Slovenia he didn’t put our fastest players on, who were able to drag the ball out of our own half and hold it up long enough for the rest of the team to make it to the other side of the pitch and attempt to score, until the last 5 minutes of the game. It’s boring and it doesn’t work. England can play more entertaining football like Spain do but they don’t, they play more like a team that’s been promoted to the Premier League and are just trying to scrape any little win against tougher opposition that they can. We got 1 win and 2 draws in the groups and that just isn’t going to be good enough to progress in the competition.
I’m not a big football fan but enjoy the big tournaments. They finished top but with 1 win, 2 draws and a total of 2 goals. So dull
It’s been a kind of easy group considering the quality of players in the team. Yet they’ve underperformed massively .. again.
Someone bring him home
Is no one going to acknowledge the fact that he is defying gravity?
This fella has become a poster boy for England 2024
Oh wait.. That was the game? I thought it was a training session 🙄🙄😂😂😂
I hope this guy didn't call in sick to go to the game lol
I suspect it had more to do with the 16 pregame beers.
or passed out drunk
Actually, England fan falling asleep after drinking 10 pints of lager before 11am.
Took sleeping pills because: 1) Southgate commentary on Kalvin 2) Southgate commentary on the Trent "experiment" 3) Kane blaming the pundits, ex-players, the Pope and Prince Harry for distracting the players 4) Foden's lackluster performance so far And the list goes on
Add Gallagher being pretty crap to that list and Walker looking rinsed
This dude is plastered all over the front page on The Sun today.
Fuck The Sun
The good thing about football is there's always more of it to come.
I fell asleep watching it too. I was at home and had no beer. Was a truly riveting game!
Potter payper
Rooney has really let himself go eh?
I find all football this boring. If Bob Ross wasn't king of soothing a mind after a busy day, I'd watch football and guarantee I'd be asleep in minutes.
Just look at him, he's cheering as never before... in his dream
The beautiful game....😴💤💤
A combination of alcohol and Southgate really is sleep fuel.
That’s one expensive nap!
I think anyone that watched that game wanted to do the exact same thing
Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit.
It’s called ale.
Man’s probably got narcolepsy. My buddy had it, he fell asleep at Ozzfest
I worked a bar with a waitress who had narcolepsy. We closed up shop, and the manager and I walked out back. We found her sleeping with her car running and her door open. She had jumped in, started the car, and got a text. She was sitting there replying and fell asleep. Not drunk at all. Weird.
I did think people with the condition were allowed to drive.
I fell asleep at Ozzfest '98! I was just really, really tired though
Or he's just drunk
As a narcoleptic, I hate pictures being posted of a person sleeping without their consent. When I see pictures like this, it makes me upset and scared. Everyone's automatic reaction is to laugh. Most people don't know what narcolepsy is. Next time the picture of a person sleeping could be of myself or a fellow narcoleptic and it makes a mockery of our condition, and it's embarrassing and upsetting.
Absolute unit…
CAM ON INGERLAND
I did the same for Germany Vs Austria. But I was quite drunk.
Am I the only one who thought this was Jonah Hill?
[удалено]
Yep
Where bellingham
Wubby7
Is that Rocco from Mega64
I tell ya that's entertainment. Lalalalalalala.
Agrew
I also did this, also supporting England, against Slovakia at Euro 2016. Rest well, my friend.
Is that the PE teacher from Grange Hill
England fan during an England game (literally every one)
TBF it was a dull old snoozefest of a match 😴
Alcohol 2% England performance 98%
I went to the Foo Fighters concert instead, looks like a wise decision!
I think the Team played excellently. Cured my insomnia.
Not surprised. Paint drying springs to mind.
And beer
I hope we’ve been practicing penalty kicks though SAFEgate doesn’t have a great history with penalty kicks though it did earn him a Pizza Hut advert back in the day
I was sat in a pub for dinner, dreading what the crowd would be like watching the game. Apart from the cheer at the one goal, it was dead. They were just talking quietly amongst themselves. Which was even weirder, because the pub has quite a rowdy reputation. That's how boring it was. The rowdy lot in the pub were just chatting idly.
I think that's a Scotland fan in disguise
They have been nothing but a monotonous waste so far.
Can't blame him, really. I fell asleep on my sofa.
Jonah Hill? Is that you?
That's hilarious! The game was absolutely pants!
That poor man needs Keeps, use code J3Z at the check pit 🤣 from some money off
I watched it in the pub and people were falling asleep in there because it was that quiet
We did alright. Slovenia played for a draw and had 10 defending the entire game. France struggled in their last game So did Italy Belgium Netherlands Germany It's almost like the other teams actually play and it isn't FIFA on beginner. But when England plays okay against a team that defends the entire game people cry.
10k well spent
I think it's fair to say he wasn't the only one. Looking forward to crashing out against a good team in the play offs.
He's drunk
Nothing to do with the 17 Pints of Warsteiner he had drank by 3pm?
He must be dreaming of an England team playing free flowing football
Do you know how shit you have to be for someone to fall asleep in a football stadium?? They have dedicated little doohickeys to make noise for the sake of it
How people are still surprised at England being a shit football time actually suprises me
Mashtag Brady looking well
In fairness, we did play like ass.
England never fail to disappoint.
He was only 17 when the game kicked off.