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That was phenomenal. Genuinely the most a football match has ever been like a boxing match. There were only 2 people on the pitch.

I mean the last 10 minutes of course. I just love how high the stakes are. Also I very much enjoy how blood and thunder most of the Home Nations play, and I can cheer them on (bar Scotland obviously) without it affecting me whatsoever if they don't make it.

Also I don't think I'd realised quite how BARE BONES we were for this weekend. I'm far more excited about the WC playoffs anyway, those games are usually high drama crackers.

I didn't say we'd sweep them aside - I didn't even say we'd win both! But we pretty much never get battered in friendlies. You'd have to go back quite a few years for much more than a 3-0 loss I reckon.

You clearly haven't watched England for very long. We will draw and win these games (playing quick, Prem style footy, you know, the exact way we SHOULD play, a la the Germany 3-2 last year), and someone will ask Rashford if we can win the World Cup. He will give a vaguely non-committal answer...

Unlikely. Look at our record against top teams in friendlies over the past few years; German 2 - 3 England England 2 - 2 Spain Brazil 1 -2 England We are bizarrely very good when there is no pressure on us at all. But put us against Egypt in a group game in 2018 and watch us forget how to...