Winning Would've Felt Wrong.

[mickd1961]

Comfortable territory in being the serial losers and "bottle jobs".

There's just something in our mentality, compare our lot with the two centre backs with a combined age of over 71 for the Italians........did we every really think they'd end up as losers tonight?

Absolutely magnificent.

The better team and the braver manager won, fair play to them.

[westcountryvillain]

Agreed - unbeaten in 34 games now, a very good side who fully deserved it.

[WBA1955]

Winning mentality is absolutely spot on, we have never had it, not just in football but other sports as well. Being humble wins you nothing.
At home, with the crowd behind them, ahead in the game and in penalties and still couldn't do it.
Missing three penalties on the trot is not bad luck.
Once your belief in your ability goes you are stuffed.
Apart from football Boxing is my next favourite sport, and the most confident sportsman in history was Muhammad Ali. He would fight anyone anywhere at any time.
George Foreman used to intimidate opponents by staring at them, when he stared at Ali he knew he was f ucked.
Remember good old Tim Henman and his hill?😂

[Lindenbaggie]

Comfortable territory in being the serial losers and "bottle jobs".

There's just something in our mentality, compare our lot with the two centre backs with a combined age of over 71 for the Italians........did we every really think they'd end up as losers tonight?

Absolutely magnificent.

The better team and the braver manager won, fair play to them.

They've been so professional from the start, so you have to admire how they set about things. Thought the ref was superb last night as well.

[Johnny on the spot 1]

Have to agree with the above posts the Italians were the best team & deserved to win it ,

[kettering_baggie]

Winning mentality is absolutely spot on, we have never had it, not just in football but other sports as well. Being humble wins you nothing.
At home, with the crowd behind them, ahead in the game and in penalties and still couldn't do it.
Missing three penalties on the trot is not bad luck.
Once your belief in your ability goes you are stuffed.
Apart from football Boxing is my next favourite sport, and the most confident sportsman in history was Muhammad Ali. He would fight anyone anywhere at any time.
George Foreman used to intimidate opponents by staring at them, when he stared at Ali he knew he was f ucked.
Remember good old Tim Henman and his hill?��

The winning mentality, I can give you an example of a Briton that has that in abundance, Mark Cavendish. His record is peerless, never, ever gives up in a sprint finish. That last win he had last week was incredible, came from so far back and had hardly anything left even to give an interview!

[wbaliquidator]

Ok so we lost.
Loosing mentality ?, I don’t buy into that. We are very competitive at most sports. Football is actually the once sport we don’t do that well in. BUT it could have been different as small margins make the difference. Germany did us twice in semi- finals, both really close games and then both times they went on to win it. In fact the games against us were actually the closes and hardest they had.
Southgate chose raw enthusiasm rather than experience. Probably in practice Sancho and Saka were very consistent. With hindsight it would have been better to rely on your experience players, Club captains are chosen for a reason, Kane and Maguire both delivered, Grealish and Henderson ( taken off ) may have been better option. Although Hendeson has missed quite a few!

In the end we had an excellent tournament and in open play I think all of the guys played to their best and many above their best. How many tournaments have we witnessed were many of our top players have not produced anything like their best.

[billsbest]

Not for the first time in the tournament I didn't agree with Southgate's team selection. I would have played Saka or Sancho or even Grealish rather than play a back five. We could then have played more on the front foot. The game was quite similar to Croatia in the world cup. I do think the squad will be even better next world cup.

[regis80]

We simply need 11 Maguires on the pitch plus a Maguire type manager, this guy plays the way that will win you games like yesterday.

Southgate happy to take England to Qatar.. yeah ffs your last payout for another disappointment eh.
I think we should only appoint England managers on a low wage and on a short term contract.. you stay employed if you progress each time and a huge bonus if they win a trophy. Bloody FA though. You need a manager who fears losing his job like club managers.

I wonder where Fat Sam would have got us had he not done those apparent dodgy dealings. That’s not an endorsement of him btw.

While i’m at it, the sheep shaggy ers can do one.. they think and only want to be better than us. It’s about time we kicked them out of the football league and subsidising their country.

[Prando]

The winning mentality, I can give you an example of a Briton that has that in abundance, Mark Cavendish. His record is peerless, never, ever gives up in a sprint finish. That last win he had last week was incredible, came from so far back and had hardly anything left even to give an interview!

Spot on Ketts buddy. Super athlete