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Which explains your view that they've just dressed up the old friendlies. They haven't mate, watch the games, the teams are properly trying to win these Nations League games.

That Spain game didn't look like any friendly I've seen since pre-Sven. Both teams playing their hearts out, Spain throwing everything at us, while we were defending for our lives. Whatever the "dressing" that you think has been done on these "friendlies" it's worked, because they are...

It's more than that though isn't it, because it's a route to qualification for the next Euros. That's more than just UEFA "say[ing] it's a tournament"

Personally, I think it is a big deal, as it devalues the England Cap, devalues the game and turns the whole game (and possibly the week if he's training with the squad as well) into the same old shitty circus we used to have before Southgate got a grip on things and made it about the football...

I used to go along with this, or similar, believing that players generally had 10-12 years at the top, max. So, if you are a Michael Owen, starting at 16, then of course you are on a downward spiral by 28. Rubbish that "28 is the peak age" etc, because it all changes with when they started...

You say that, but if in 2013 we were all debating "where will be Bradley Wright-Phillips be playing, and scoring bundles of goals, for the next 5 years" I think the guesses would have been somewhere close to Billericay Town. I actually amended and upgraded my comparison to Jake Robinson at...

Or how to be ungracious in both victory and defeat.

There is a MASSIVE difference between recognition (which he deserves) and coming back into the side for a "One Night Only" special, earning a Cap in a Full International, and putting the brakes (albeit minimal) on the change that Southgate is driving through that squad. Someone who was...

Yeah, but it does though doesn't it. Have you seen the goals Jake Robinson has been scoring the last year and a bit? But he's not about to get a call-up when it's for Billericay Town is he. You might still call it "form" but it's not relevant form.

Yep, that's the fella. We won't throw him in to the Croatia game because the Nations League does mean something, so the USA game looked ideal. If he plays now, he'll be stood around waiting for Rooney to have done his lap of honour first.

But are these the SAME people? I don't know anyone who would be in both camps. The first one, is just that moany git, who tbh,.doesn't like International Football, and has no time for it, until the tournament comes round. But even then always predicts we'll lose the next game. In summary...

Is that what happens then? I assumed that the qualification through the Nations League would be done before the Euro Qualifiers start, so those teams who have qualified don't play in them, and just play friendlies until the tournament comes round. So while you have avoided meaningless...

Completely agree, IF, it was a farewell Charity Game, and not a FULL INTERNATIONAL. If it's a Charity game, fine play it like that, with that lad from The Royle Family, and Robbie Williams mate having a game, but you don't finish the evening with Ben Shepherd having an England Cap. It's a...

No he isn't, he's scoring goals in a League where Bradley Wright-Phillips is a goal scoring sensation. That doesn't class as "in form".