Oh dear. A dismal game which was stuck at 0-0 throughout, and Swaziland were beating the Germans 1-0 throughout as well. Then Germany scored in stoppage time giving Scotland a chance only for Hungary to score in the 100th minute, several hours stoppage time having been allowed when a Hungarian was more or less killed after a nasty tackle by a vicious Scot. So it serves them bloody right tbh for cheating and unnecessary violence. It's a football pitch you shysters, not the Gorbals.
I have no pix tonight.
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022
Scotland boss Steve Clarke is in trouble after making some unsavoury comments about last night's referee. See the bloke in question was Argentinian which is never nice but you can't go round calling them names like "shyster" and "so and so" just because he refused to give a stone-wall penalty in the dying hours of stoppage time.
Just watching BBC2 waiting for the Spain game. They had a bit about the non penalty and a lot of Scottish fans on camera complaining about it. At least I think that's what they were doing, I couldn't understand a flippin' word. All that emotion (and booze!) was making them even more unintelligible than usual!
It's not all Scots, just those that reporters always seem to interview! I'm usually pretty good at understanding most accents. Some are just really strong! Och aye!
England are already through to the knockout rounds because Spain beat Albania yesterday. So apparently even if we finish 3rd in our group, we will be amongst the four best 3rd placed teams. However Southgate MUST field a strong team and not rest on just getting through because if we do finish 3rd, we'll get a 1st placed opponant in the RO16, and this would not be pleasant given our showing so far. If we win tonight, and we should do, we will top our group and get a best of 3rd place team next time.
If England beat Slovenia and advance to the last 16 as group winners, they will play one of the best third-places sides from Group D, E or F. They are Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic as it stands.
But should they not top the group, they will play hosts Germany for a place in the quarter-finals.
A third-place spot would mean England face the winners of Group E or F, which are Romania and Portugal with one game to go.
I'd say finishing 2nd in the group would be our worst case scenario.
An unlikely but possible 3rd place finish would give us one from Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Slovakia, Ukraine, or Turkey in the RO16.
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022
England finish top of the table thanks entirely to Denmark who also saw out a tedious 0-0 and will stay 2nd to face Germany. What a thoroughly depressing game that was. In the end, and I mean the end because I'm talking the last ten minutes, Southgate finally bought on the cavalry with "Flash" Gordon and Coal Porter, and for those few minutes we were on another level, but it was too late.
Southgate must now take the hint, never mind "we won the group and that was the aim", these performances have been abysmal. Remove Kane and Phyliss (better tonight but still off form), keep Gordon and Porter on from the start. Southgate is as I type whining on about how difficult it's been, so get it sorted and act on what's been seen FFS.