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Carroll played well enough I thought. Dropped from a winning team.

I have in no doubt that Germany would have romped us.

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This was an absolute certainty. Will be quite intriguing actually how Pirlo manages against the Germans, they surely won't afford him as much space.

His penalty.

for me terry was making too many positional errors, especially tonight, a more clinical striker than mario would have gotten a couple in normal time

Hi Hodgey can you check my offer in transfer central

Yeah that is an angle you could have taken it from, but he recovered for all of his errors positionally I'd say though.

Loved Joe Hart during the shoot-out.

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Germany Italy should hopefully be a better game as well. As reckon England would have played exactly the same if they'd gone through on pens.

the midfield battle in that game is certainly going to be a belter

I think the Spain - Portugal game will be terrible. Spain are quality at what they do but watching their games has been painful.

Come On Germany. Ashley Young is so fu^king $hit, been that way throughout the whole tournament. Him and Milner have been awful.

i dunno, i thin portugal could kick it, with spains midfielders drifting all over the place, they might not be double marking ronaldo, and if portugal try and sit tight and hit them on the counter, i could see them getting a couple of goals

i wonder if todays showing will finally be enough to tell him an orthodox 442 has no place in the modern game

But Hodgey, he's not better than Kroos
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Oi!

I'm already pi$$ed as it is, and I can't be ar$ed to argue over little things

N21 thats not a little thing! Pirlo has been a joy to watch for the last ten years, such a hero

Today he was a pain in the f^cking Ar£e

the problem was, everyone in this country knew was pirlo was going to do, so youd have to imagine woy and his coaching staff, would have known the same thing, and yet did feck all about it

Exactly. Same old, same old England

Rooney actually was hovering round him for the first 20 minutes, probably why we did so well in that period. After then he just gave up.

Rooney had a stinker

Transfer offers can be bid on for 12 hours, correct?

What? No, as soon as one is confirmed now then the player is theirs. It used to be 12 hours to be outbid but everyone's had enough opportunity to scout players.

Oh, I read that rule of 12 hours to outbid.

I'm going to be away next week. (From the 29th).

I'm not sure how much internet coverage I'll have, I'll be taking my mobile broadband dongle with me, but the coverage in Northern Australia is pretty shocking. Would it be possible for me to submit my predictions a bit early for that week?

Only 12 months until I'm back in London with a good internet connection.