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[Danielle @Danielle91V]

@TheAnfieldWrap And hopefully gets absolutely battered by Spain

[David Lynch @davidlynchlfc]

The idea behind appointing a tactician like Tuchel was to break England’s long-standing tournament habits of both panicking when in front in big games and simply hoofing it from the goalkeeper when trailing. He has managed neither - this is every England team I’ve ever watched.

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Spain better beat this horrible team

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

100% on Tuchel this. Stupid stupid tactics

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

That was inevitable, trying to defend for 30 mins was madness

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Never been happier for a hydration break than that one

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Djed Spence is having the best game of his life

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Really impressed with Spence! Unimpressed with Argentina's cheating!!

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Messi is the most protected player in all of football

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Already different from slot who would have happily used the same 11 players all season if he could

[The Redmen TV @TheRedmenTV]

🔋 Andoni Iraola on extra work-load: “I think it's a big challenge for me and a big change. Most weeks we have a midweek game, a great opportunity for the players, I loved these seasons as a player, playing a lot. A chance to use more players also, because it's impossible to deal with it with just a few players, we need the whole squad.

“Injuries will happen, we have to get ready in terms of squad depth.”

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

This is the first time ever that the top 4 ranked nations in the world rankings will be the final 4 at the World Cup

[Aaron Newbury @AJNewbury94]

I have to admit, Burnham's speech comes off as a bit naïve. To be blunt, it smacks of a man who's grown extremely used to not having much scrutiny and to being the centre of local power and attention for nearly a decade.

Him not taking questions at the end is just as telling. Burnham will effectively become Prime Minister by default: no contest inside his own party, no general election mandate for the changes he wants, and of course no scrutiny from the press.

His entire speech was, in effect, "why can't everyone be more like me" and yet it announced almost nothing. Nothing on cost, nothing on how any of it actually gets done. Just a collection of soundbites, and painfully political ones at that, with no substance behind them.

"A circuit-breaker." "Good growth in every postcode." All of it sounds lovely (let's do the good things and not the bad ones). Nobody's ever thought of that before!! But… how?

Being a Mayor is a fundamentally different job to being Prime Minister. A Mayor spends money, much of it handed to him by central government, and never has to weigh one department's misery against another's. The job he's warming himself up for is the one that has to make those trade-offs, and nothing today suggested he's reckoned with that.

He reaches, as these people always do, towards the idea of a country "lifted back up", homes built, places regenerated, industry revived, pride in place, etc etc. There are models for this. You can run massive public housing programmes, but historically they're delivered through expensive, highly centralised, government-run schemes. Singapore being the obvious example. What they are not delivered by is building a second centre of government.

What Burnham is really offering is top-down socialism with a smile. Devolution on steroids doesn't shrink the state, it bloats it. A "No.10 North" doesn't move power closer to people, it just builds more state, in a second place, at additional cost. It's more process, dressed up as a radical idea nobody's ever had before.

More and more, political speeches are just a hodge-podge of pleasant noise. We will do things, lots of things, good things. We'll make sure things you like have "social value", we'll make you proud of [insert thing to be proud of], we'll deliver [insert policy that sounds really nice].

But the problems this country faces are enormous. Law and order is eroding, and rebuilding it means serious money for police, courts and prisons. The state grows more expensive by the year while the workforce paying for it keeps shrinking. We have an energy crisis and a poverty crisis, conflicts multiplying abroad and armed forces begging for cash, and more than a million young people out of work - on top of housing nobody can afford, child poverty, and a generation that feels detached from the society around it.

You don't fix any of that with a slogan and a second postcode for the guy in charge.

Every Mayor thinks his city is the best, and Mayors, almost uniquely in British politics, are rarely questioned. Today we all saw what nearly a decade of that does to a man. And thanks to his refusal to so much as take a question, we've had no chance to hold a single one of his plans up to the light.

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

woww incredible!!

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Kane reminding me again why I've never been a fan

[mikaela @jfruityx]

Rapist btw.

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

What is Pickford trying to do there. Utter fool

[Danielle @Danielle91V]

Where was that kind of goal when you were playing for us Cody??

[Rachel Kryshak @RachelKryshak]

To recap: He’s been charged with 7 counts of rape. Then he lied on a visa application about it. That is a deserved inadmissibility decision.

1) Don’t be in a position to be charged with rape
2) Don’t lie about it and expect a country to grant you a visa

It’s really simple.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

Partey loses Canada visa appeal - incredibly court documents show he (or Ghana) initially declared 'No' when asked if he had any outstanding criminal charges

https://t.co/h1GmcB8SPl

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

South Korean fans weren’t allowed to take their bottle of tequila beyond the first checkpoint going into the stadium, so they necked the lot of it alongside Mexicans who were there to watch the game.

That’s the World Cup spirit we all know and love. 😂❤️