Off Topic International Break Thread

It's a good job that we kept Doherty on the books, eh?

 

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Katy Perry’s let herself go

 

I thought jacksepticeye was Irish

 

Greizmann : sponsored by Swan Vestas.

 

In the space of ten minutes on the pitch for Scotland v Cyprus and Spain, McTominay scores three goals.
Erling who?

EDIT: And another..

 

Ivan Perisic reportedly limped off in Croatia's match with Turkey

Charlie Sayers, you're up...

 

Lo Celso with a couple of assists last night

Yes, it was against Curacao, and the Yank commentator didn't appear to know the names of anyone other than Messi, but still...
https://streamff.com/v/l4V91UQwvz
https://streamin.me/v/07eb0be0

 

Thought I’d put the England U20s on as they kick off their WC. Scarlett and Devine starting alongside Ronnie Edwards and Alex Scott, both players I’d be really interested in us signing (especially for a coach who works with young players).

Scarlett just opened the scoring, nice movement to head home on the end of a lovely ball in.

 

Yeah decent header but brilliant cross.

Devine should’ve had an assist at the death too but Jebbison decided to hit the post.

 

England squad:
Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)

Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)

Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City), Declan Rice (West Ham United)

Forwards: Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), James Maddison (Leicester City), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Callum Wilson (Newcastle United)

Various players have requested not to play, as it's only Malta and Macedonia.
Kane will play every single ****ing second though, obviously.

 

Spence, Skipp and ex-academy player Modueke have been called up by England U21s.

 

Southgate sticks with what he knows.
Glad to see Eze called up - he deserves that.
For these players, the season will have lasted 11 months and included a World Cup in the middle of it. Crazy

 

SpursWeb howling that Cuti is in the Argentina squad, in spite missing tomorrow's match with a knock

Argentina's next match is in three weeks, which they neglected to mention. Why are they posting this, other than to rile fans up about our players?

And some of the replies certainly bear that theory out

 

Because it’s pure clickbait and nobody should treat as anything but that?

 

That's the issue with SpursWeb (or one of them, anyway...), once they started losing engagement to better sources like Alasdair Gold or other aggregators like Hotspur related or Lilywhite Rose, they started to pivot towards the anti-Levy headbangers and started putting out obvious ragebait

At this point they're doubling down even harder, not least as their one anti-ENIC protest in response to the ESL was attended by a whole 18 people

 

The club could (and should) pre-empt such stuff by
publicly stating their assessment of the injury and
the estimated date for return to starting XI duty.

If the club states they do not expect the player to
be so ready over an international duty window,
and the player does in fact play, then at least one of
the following exists :

1. the club is wholly incompetent on injury assessment
2, the player has lied about the nature of the injury
3, the national manager is risking the health of the player

 

The problem is that, if we do it, guaranteed some pundit somewhere will claim we're faking the injury - but only us, no other club has ever pretended a player is injured when they aren't

That's what happened with Gareth Bale at the 2012 Olympics, where pundits insisted he was fit and we pulled him out the squad with a righteous fury they never seem to use when Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea pull players from international squads willy nilly

 

The problem is that he misses quite a few games and then plays internationals.
It doesn't help that we've had a few of his countrymen do the same thing.
Is it justified criticism? Probably not, but the pattern is annoying.

 

SpursWeb being SpursWeb, though, they're talking **** because that's their engagement these days

Spurs Express is rapidly headed the same way, too