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'Chelsea are shit with youth' - well, quality over quantity. England's best player tonight is Loftus-Cheek. How many United, Man City & Arsenal youth products have been MOTM-worthy for their national side in recent years? I think Wilshere was, in a friendly against nobodies, a few years ago. 

It can be argued that Tammy Abraham's one of the best players today too - at least one of the most dangerous. Both have been with us for ages. Real ages.

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43 minutes ago, Leif said:

'Chelsea are shit with youth' - well, quality over quantity. England's best player tonight is Loftus-Cheek. How many United, Man City & Arsenal youth products have been MOTM-worthy for their national side in recent years? I think Wilshere was, in a friendly against nobodies, a few years ago. 

It can be argued that Tammy Abraham's one of the best players today too - at least one of the most dangerous. Both have been with us for ages. Real ages.

And now Bertrand, another youth product on. Is that 3 to United's 1, Tottenham's 0, Arsenal's 0, Liverpool's 1?:cig:

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11 hours ago, Leif said:

I despise Lingard simply because he's so bad. 

He wouldn't play for Portugal. Or Sweden. Or Italy. Or Belgium. Or Germany. I don't think he'd even play for Wales or Poland. Yet he plays for England. Scandalous. 

His miss against Germany was Torres-esque. 

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Neymar crying after his NT manager Tite defended him with strong & beautiful words in a press conference is one of the best moments i've seen. Instantly I have faith in Tite. That's a manager. Very special what he did there, and i've not seen it from any other manager.

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This Italy game is definitely the most important game I've watched since our Champions League-winning campaign. Forget random teams winning titles, even ourselves winning the Premier League - games like this are so much more important. Like, once or twice in a lifetime level of importance. 

2 sides to this coin tonight. Embarrassing if Italy don't get through - but getting through puts paper over the cracks; losing out is the reality check they need, sorely.

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Incredible. First time with my own eyes that I've seen genuine cheating in this game. We're not talking getting away with challenges because of a clumsy ref, but actual pre-determined cheating. 

It was already being said pre-game that there was worry of cheating - Fifa would lose 100m+ with Italy not being in the World Cup, and, pressure was already being put on refs post the previous game.

So far, 2/3 rather obvious penalties denied for Sweden. And the Swedish players are acting like they know. The ref definitely knows.

And a yellow card for good measure, for Forsberg, after denying him a rightful clear as day penalty :lol:He didn't even contest it.

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