It must be so frustrating for the players that England are here again. Thomas Tuchel said he ‘no regrets’ but he surely knows that the first World Cup final in 60 years was within grasp.
In that second half we seemed to do EXACTLY what Argentina wanted us to do…
We were a goal up
They had both their centre halves on yellow cards
They were worried about us running at them with pace
They were struggling to maintain possession in the final 3rd
We retreated
We never put them under pressure
We took off the men who could harm them and replaced them with defenders
We gifted them the ball in the final 3rd
Wayne Rooney said afterwards that the players will have disagreed with what the manager was trying to do.
It was there for England… Argentina were creaking.
Scaloni made good substitutions but we opened the door.
This was about tactics not talent.
@LTrossard ❤️❤️ You were my favourite! Such an amazing footballer, I loved watching you play even at Brighton! Good luck for your future and thank you for everything! We couldnt have doneit without you! LEO, LEO, LEO! ❤️❤️
That was a slow slow death for us! We didnt need to lose that game!? Ive never felt like that watching an England game before, BAD subs!! Gutted! #ENGARG
@BBCSport I don't understand why we stopped playing the game of football after Gordon's goal at 11 v 11. Completely gave up the midfield. Enzo allowed to shoot 3 or 4 times unchallenged from 20 yards out. 5 at the back and still Martinez all alone for his header. Absolutely gutted here.
Jurassic Park is the first movie I remember watching. I guess, by extension, that means Sam Neill is one of my earliest memories.
He created his own small winery the same year that movie released, which I've always considered a sign of a fundamentally good bloke.
I had no idea he was 78, he seemed barely to have aged in about two decades. What a very sad start to the week.
@SkyNews Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Thank you for bringing Dr. Alan Grant to life and giving us one of the most iconic characters in cinema history. Jurassic Park will live forever because of you. Deepest condolences to your family. 🦖
Absolutely gutted for this one 💔😢 Rest in Peace 🙏 Thank you for your work! He was very much part of my childhood with Jurassic Park but he was so much more as well! 💖 #SamNeil
Sad news about Sam Neil. Jurassic Park played a massive part in my childhood. The original still stands up to movie standards of today. Sad to read this morning that he has suddenly passed away 🦕 🦖 #JurassicPark#SamNeil
You can run with this premise and the conclusion remains absurd.
The UK has rapidly decarbonised already. It has made no difference, because the UK's share of carbon emissions was already statistically insignificant — which is only becoming more true over time.
We could hit Net Zero. We could hit negative carbon. Nothing would change, because China and India exist, and they do not give a damn about our political gestures.
(This is evidenced by their emissions increasing almost as quickly as our political gestures have proliferated, and over the same timeframe.)
No amount of decarbonisation in the UK will make any difference to summer temperatures. This is not an ethical or an ideological point - I like the environment, I dislike excessive heat - it is a mathematical one.
All it does is make us poorer and less able to adapt to the new reality.
A policy of increasing carbon emissions would, paradoxically, improve our climate resilience, because we'd be able to afford basic infrastructure like air conditioning while adding nothing of note to global emissions.
The only reason this is not widely accepted is that political environmentalism is a virtue cult. It has no interest in climate science, it has no interest in tangible outcomes, it is entirely concerned with allowing mediocrities to play act saving the world.