The Gallant Few

Euro Sceptics!

Jamie is joined by Graham & Johnnie to recap on the Euros so far including Scotland's not so glorious failure & England stumbling into the quarter finals!

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Duration:: 1h 13m
Broadcast on:: 04 Jul 2024
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We've got the quarterfinals all mapped out and now we've got the more kicking off this Friday, the 5th of July. I've got two of our regulars and we'll be this evening to talk about the upcoming games. Cleum, how's things? Yeah, good night. It's hard not to be enjoying the fee stuff. Well, we've had the last couple of weeks, so in good spirits. Good mind. And Johnny, you have a presence on this podcast now. And it'd be good to obviously get your thoughts on where we are in terms of the tournament now. The bonus show for the Euros do we really hope to? That's not something else we could be doing. My game's on the bottom, what's going on soon, so? Yeah, well, maybe I'll show you. No, I've been enjoying it. Me, although I didn't go to plan fast, I have enjoyed it and it's always good to be back in the pot. Good mind. And I think I suppose it's a nice simple straightforward question. Glenn, I'll start with yourself. Have you actually joined the tournament? How has it been for you so far? I've loved it. Do you know I read recently a couple of things online about it's been a poor Euros, et cetera, but I've thought that I've sort of came. Maybe the final three games, sorry, the final group games across the board. Well, maybe a bit poor, but that can be quite expected, especially the new format. Maybe some of the games have been a bit edgy. But I think in the whole, certainly the opening two games in the group swap. But I mean, we saw a vast array of different goals, scores and far broke their record. They existed before that for a singular goals, scores, scores. X amount of goals, it started the tournament. So I think there's been some absolute brilliant games. I've really enjoyed it. Well, it's not to enjoy a special. It was first few days. It's like Christmas when you've got three games on and then for that first kind of couple of weeks or whatever. So it's been great. Would you think it's been the best game so far? Um, I really enjoyed, was it? God, it was a while ago now, was it? Tocky Georgia. Like I loved that game. I absolutely loved that game. I thought it was brilliant and then it was one of those when the final whistle went. I was absolutely devastated. Austrian Airlines was an absolute peach. I was over there for a few games, a few days and was at Slovakia, Ukraine. Really enjoyed that, the atmosphere was amazing. There's been some absolute brilliant games, maybe more so some of than expected. I think some of the bigger, hotter games have been a bit edgy, like your Trans Netherlands, that sort of thing, maybe a bit more stale than you'd want. But I think some of the games certainly between some of the small nations have been great. Good. I'm joining the same question for you. Thoughts on the tournament so far and what's probably been the standout game for you? A game for me, like I said, the Tocky Georgia game was good. Most of the games Georgia were involved in were pretty good to be honest, just by the way they play. They're really direct and open and it usually makes for a decent game. But I really enjoyed last night, the Austria Tocky game was just bananas. It was non-stop both ways. So many chances could have been a cricket score, but it was a really enjoyable game. Some bits of quality, maybe it wasn't there as highly as the rest. But in terms of entertainment, I thought it was outstanding. Really, really good. Really good game. And like Graham Touchstone, something that I'd mentioned before with the Europod, that the expectations, all these games going to be free flooring and that. They're just not realistic, especially at tournament football. You know, a lot of the games are going to be cagey, especially the further you go into the tournament. Team set up a completely different way. England's a perfect example on all the fans. I'm not liking what they're saying, but I think it's intended. In the end of the day, it's worker. I think tournament football has a huge element of that. But it's still been some really, really good game is made some proper balance. Good. I would probably echo it to a point I thought last night's game was probably my favourite so far. And to end, I think I seen a start this morning that Turkey have conceded the most chances in the tournament so far. And 21 of them were from last night. That's how much of a mat absolute crazy one it was last night. It was just end to end. The weather played a part that they expect to quit goals. They all like the goals for I love the last night. I think if I had one criticism and it's not really intended in terms of the tournament, I'm probably more from an individual. I don't see, I think I think the tournament's been let down by, shall we see the expected worldy kind of players? You know, bappies. You were now those, the brainers, I do think they've all been a bit evil. But I don't know. I think that's probably more to wait. As you said, John, the way the teams have been setting up. But I think it's very rare you get to this part of the tournament. And you, you know, you struggle to kind of call it some of the best players as being the big, worldy ones. I think arguably some of the best players have been from some of the lesser clubs. As you said, like Georgia, you know, those kind of countries have probably done the best from that. Game to skip along to the next games. We have quarterfinals mapped out for Friday. And, you know, to be fair, it's probably, it's probably some, what we would call some tasty ones. I think, finished up, you've got Spain and Germany. And you've got France and Portugal. You've got England and Switzerland. And Netherlands and Tuckett. What's your thoughts on the quarterfinals as expected? Or are you surprised that there's some countries not there? It's funny to be it's what though, I guess. Obviously, I've been doing spoke about, you know, England side of the draw, being, I guess, the easier side. It's funny. I mean, England obviously topped our group. And if some of them were expected, nations had done so that side of the draw. It's going to look a lot tougher for England, for example. So a lot of the criticism that Southgate's getting leveled on. Maybe rightfully so, whatever, but objectives to win the group. And suddenly you're in that side of the draw, whereas France, for example, don't in there another side. So yeah, look, you've got the blockbuster ties on that other side of the draw, probably countries that you would expect it to be there. Maybe not the pathway that you would expect them to take. I think the Spain-Germany games are obviously going to be the tire they're round. I personally think Spain are going to win that quite comfortably. I think, in my opinion, Germany have been slightly overhyped. Just the games they've played so far, the pathway they've taken, the teams they've been up against, they don't think have really challenged them as much as what they will get challenged up against Spain. Obviously, a lot of people are saying, look, for Spain to come across an accomplished team like Germany, they might be able to exploit some of Spain's weaknesses at the back, but I think going forward, Spain had been a team of the tournament anyway. See when you say that it's probably the tire they're round, do you mean that's what everyone's going to expect it to be? Or do you think that will be a banger, as you call it, you know, which I think it's going to be end to end with it. Yeah, I think it'll be a banger. I think, like, as I say, I've been, since, you know, the opening game when Germany beat us 5-1, I did think it'll be interesting to see Germany up against better opposition, maybe we made them look good. Hungary gave them a bit of a game in the second game as well, and then, obviously, they drew against Switzerland to have turned out to obviously be one of the surprise packages, but I just think, again, Spain who are arguably probably endowed to the team they've done so far, we're going to see two teams come up against each other, who many are saying have been the two best teams in the tournament, but I just think Spain should have enough about them to maybe win it by a couple of goals, but I think, regardless, it's going to be an absolute peat challenge, to be honest. The other three games, I think, probably, who will go through as we expect, I think it'll be France. I think Netherlands should have enough against Romania to, they don't know what to do, they had a relatively poor group stage, but I think they will have enough against Turkey and I do think England may turn their corner and have enough about them to beat Switzerland, however, I've been saying that about England the whole tournament so far. The next game will be there in the last, if they do play like how they did against Slovakia, Switzerland will put them out, there's no question. So, Portugal won interesting, I think there's been a lot of chat about Martin is not having the balls to drop Ronaldo, I think that was evident in the last game, maybe Ronaldo's headspace isn't where it was, he misses a penalty and then suddenly he's bubbling on the park where he'll have extra time to go and stuff, so I don't know, it'll be interesting, but I would expect Spain, France, Netherlands and maybe more of a toss up, but I'd probably stick for England and then suddenly you've got to say me fighting with it, king of four, blockbuster nations, you know. Yeah, Johnny, it's the same question for you mate, what's your thoughts on the quarterfinals coming up and anything in particular you call it? I think they're all quite good to eyes mate, I would like to have seen that side of the bracket mixed up a wee bit, so both sides with a wee bit, you know what I mean, we see we have everybody that are tonned up and play a meal, all kind of months together, and the ones that have been kind of squelching and farting our way through the rounds, they're all bunch together. Spain Germany, yeah, it should be a cracking game, Germany, I think Germany every day, excellent mate, the kind of went off the boil a wee bit as a nation, we've been on what we'd expect, but there's two of them at some time, can you see the shoes? Yeah, yeah, the kind of fell away a wee bit, from what we'd usually expect for Germany, it's kind of what I'm saying, especially in two of them at football, but so far so good for them, they've pretty much swept aside, everybody bar in that one game, but that's when you rotate anyway, so you kind of expect it to be a wee bit flatter, I don't know how to call it mate, I agree Spain have looked the best and the most comfortable, they've met a bit of their business really, really well, it's a tough game for them, for both of them, so I don't know, I would agree Spain are favourites, but it's two of them at football and anything can happen, Portugal, France I think may be a bit flat, Ronaldo absolutely makes my teeth it, I don't hide that one, that dollar night was unbelievable, it's just, you know, what gets to me about it, it's nothing much that I don't make Portugal at all, I like them for a good squad, good team, but everything has to be about him, everything they do, everybody focus, all it, it's him, it's not about Portugal, it's about Ronaldo, it's the same night with this and the drama halfway through the extra time, so yeah, that was really great in there on my gears and it still does, I think it might be the Achilles helmet, because they do play everything, even when they work on any kind of break, they're always looking every single time, they don't really try anything else, it's just everything has to hit him and then he's free kick record, I thought was it, well I said one goal in 61 attempts somewhat, one goal in 61 attempts at an images moment, yeah, get your ass off those free kicks, it just frustrated me, because they do have so much talent there that probably would do a better job, understand it, I do get the loyalty, I mean the guys I'm having, absolute icon, but I just think it's getting a bit stupid, so yeah, I mean some good ties, I think England are in for a tough night, I really do, they must be honest about it, they have, I don't know if you want to call it luck or call it fighting week to the last minute, it's not, it's not meant to shuthouse today, they've just, they have been quite a lot less tough, I think would be fair to say, Slovakia played quite well against them, and then the first half could have had that game one, but didn't take the chances, and it's been like that right through for England, I think the first half of the first game is probably the best they've been, excuse me, so coming into this game so it's all in the blue, really good, but I mean England should be beating them, should be sweeping them aside, but I don't know if it's going to be that simple, I suppose it'll just be another one that time will fail, like Graham said, if they do turn the corner, and some of those big players start turning up, then yeah, they'll go past them, they'll breeze past them, but there's nothing to say that it won't just continue as it has been. And kind of what Graham said, do you think any of the ties are going to be like an absolute banger, we're going to see goals, what you think they're going to be edgy, the reason why I ask that is that I can't help but think everybody's looking at the Spain and Germany game and it's probably going to be a nail mill, they're going to switch to time, just to piss them out of the way this one has gone into. I think for you, those games will be tight, the one I think might be wide open and quite, quite fiery, it'll be neither ones in Turkey, I think that'll be a game, the other thing I think will be close and quite, quite foro, maybe even extra time, like you say, but yeah, fingers crossed, I hope they're all bangers, but I'd have to see it. I think it will almost be impossible for the Spain Germany game to be acting the close. I fear I'm really hopeful, obviously I'm saying, I'm ingesting Germany up against some new quality opposition, purely because I found it hard for them to keep their intense day in consistency throughout games, going back to that Denmark game that came out of their blocks, I mean, it was unbelievable that first 20 minutes, 25 minutes, I thought they looked immense and I was like, okay, I think maybe I've been talking about a bit of crap about them, but then they just started, I don't know, they eased back, they let Denmark into the game, and actually Denmark looked, and they hadn't had a great time. Denmark should have had a couple of chances, didn't they, did you go ahead? And then obviously Denmark got a goal, it shrugged off side, name of them one minute, the guy who scores for them gives away the penalty. I do base, look, I think in today's all, it's a penalty, but then you look at Spain and the white players who've got Emal and Williams have easily been the players of the tournament between them, Emal, 16 years old, it's just an outrageous story, like he's doing his homework in between games now, that's just ludicrous, and he is an unbelievable talent, he's movement, he's passing, to spot a pass, it's just some of his decision-making as well, maybe that's something he can win, but I just I refuse to see how this game is going to be in the other one, Kingdap or Baszler, but I think it's Spain. I think the only thing, I think the only thing that gives me that hesitancy is, was it the second game that they played Italy, finished null-nil, Spain controlled the game, but there wasn't that many attempts on goal from what I remember, and it was, you know, every team's got, every club's got to have, sorry, every team was going to have a performance like that, but up against the home-nation team, and you expect GMA to be on the front foot, you just like, do the cancel each other out, I hope personally hope it is a banger, I'm looking forward to it, I think it's the five o'clock game as well, isn't it? So it's a slightly early one, so yeah, definitely looking forward to them, can you just kind of following on from that then, so I think you have a pretty much top turn, I kind of called it two questions, who's probably been the standard team so far, and which team has probably been the surprise package or player, right, pretty evident that you're going to go with Spain as your, as your team of tournament so far. Definitely Spain for me, no question, and as I say, either that white players I can have been exceptional, Rodger, we all know what Rodger is about, you know, we have a Premier League show itself to everyone, everyone who watches, who knows how good Rodger is and how capable he is, so I'd say between those three players for me have been, have been the best in terms of surprise packages, I think obviously like after the talk he's just out, you could say "Oh, still look good", and well the surprise package, but then some of these nations, like Turkey, Switzerland, they are capable of showing capability in the past, they go relatively deep in tournaments and put up a good performance, and they've just got that generational capability of doing so, and they always have a good stream of players, so obviously the fact they're in the quarters, I don't think anyone probably would have seen Turkey come there, so I guess surprise package them, but I think everyone's probably thought "George over excellent", and every game they played, they gave it an absolute right go, and really enjoyable games to watch all the charter games, and, you know, they did really dig in Spain, that Spain absolutely dominated them and went through those evertally, but, you know, that's, it's a Scotsman who's well watching, they're watching us crash out pretty well wimper, that's how you want to see your team play, whether you get beat 4-1 or not, you know, that major tournament, they only come around the Euros once every four years, and it's like "George over great to watch", so I think there's been a few teams in this tournament, as you've seen at a group of stages with, you know, teams like Austrian remaining are taught in a group, these, these weren't things we could have seen, so there's been plenty of surprise packages and playing a good role from unexpected nations, I think that's why I've enjoyed it so much as well, not every game's just been an obvious walk in the park for maybe a day, so go back on the nations, so yeah, that's probably where I'm at. I just, when you said Turkey, when you thought about Turkey, I just remembered them going into the World Cup, they were actually tipped to be one of the dog horses, and they actually fell flat in the face, so it was kind of good to see them actually do something in this one, but probably nobody was talking about them just because of the group doing it. Johnny, the same questions for you really, who's been your standout team so far, and what's been the surprise for you in terms of the overall tournament so far? It's hard to go against what Graham said, to be honest mate, Romania, top of the group, that was a shock, it's not the easiest to group, it's a tough group, then I didn't think they would go into the to get out of that group to be honest, so yeah, that was surprising, and they were quite good, they were good to watch, Georgia have been excellent, I agree, I don't think many people have seen that coming, they do have a few stars, there's maybe two or three players in there, you know, that are playing at a very high level and do carry them up, but listen, they still have to be a solid unit and work together and they do, and like we said earlier in the pod, they really, really have a goal, they're very direct, we've seen that last night with Turkey, Austria, it was two teams, Austria's another one, I should say, along with Turkey, I mean, I thought they were excellent too, they really, really go, they move the ball quickly, cleanly, and they get the ball really, really fast, get forward, so I think that's what made last night so good because they payed them to do that, so yeah, probably one of the two of them made some really, really enjoyable football, I remember there's a few teams, I think, who got through in the last 16, you're Slovakia, you're Slovenia, stuff like that, I think they've done okay as well, I mean, they get Slovakia, I gave a set, a really good account of this, so I gave against England, and I thought they've done really well, and we're really unfortunate then, just ran extreme, once again, I asked the team, I think they were a bit gassed, and England's tales went up after that, like, late equalism, but in terms of shocks, mate, I suppose, I was a bit shocked by early, getting turned over to Switzerland, I didn't expect them to go deep, but I thought they was winning that game, because they are really notoriously tough to beat, to break down, but Switzerland made it look easy, that was kind of it, I did not see that coming, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shocked about our opening game, and I hate to say that, but I know I expected those to lose, I didn't say that before the game, but I expected so much more fails than that, it was, I suppose it might be if it's even shot me, it just so disappointed, in the manner that the way it happened, so yeah, probably those mate, and I've been a wee bit, shocked with the way the fallout was seen from how England had been, even though they're still there, and they've got through the group pretty comfortably, that's another shock in the tournament for me, I know that's nothing new for England, and it's not a day, it's just the way it always seems to be, but yeah, that never ceases to shock me with the way that attitude is towards them. I think for me, I think it'd be hard to go away from Spain, I think they probably have been the best complete package, from goalkeeper right through to the front line, they're not hung up on one player, they've got multiple players that are probably chipping in, in terms of the surprise package, I'd probably made a new journey, I'm more impressed with the lesser clubs, the lesser countries starting performing really well, the Slovakia's, the Slovenia's, the Georgia's, I don't want to say talky, but I'm surprised that they got through last night because Austria were probably heavily the favourite going into it, so I'm more welcome of that surprise, more than anything else, I think it was at Romania, top leg loop, I thought they were actually brilliant, you know, very much surprised packages of what, you know, we've seen great performances from players that probably we wouldn't have looked at pre tournament, so I've been very impressed with those countries, it's probably just fitting now that it's in the quarterfinals, and it is what you would call the legboys and the tournament winners that you would expect to see there now, on the back of that then getting into going back to yourself, I think we've touched on it, in terms of disappointments, who's been the most singular big disappointments, and what, and same again from a player perspective? I think maybe a bit more of a tracky question, because there's your own personal disappointment watching your own nation, and then I guess there's disappointments in terms of the clear favourites coming in, it's France and England, and I think both of Kings I failed to, maybe I'll have up to to that expectation, to be perfectly honest, I think everyone's talking out, you know, before the start of this, about the battle and all of them, and you've got all note bailing, I mean, and maybe even folding with a snuffin, I mean, what an unbelievable season he's had, I think between bailing and folding, I'm not saying, through full with their own foat, bailing's obviously lifted themselves with an unbelievable goal, and I ask him, however, folding, obviously just hasn't, hasn't, hasn't been at the races, but again, I think that's more to do with how the system has been deployed through Southgate, rather than every time you see them drifting, and the middle drum games, that's where you see the best of them, because that's where you get the best of them, and you would love to have just, I think everyone, even from a neutral point of view, you want to see the best players playing the best position, I think, probably why so many English fans are baffled that bailing hasn't played a bit deeper through how folding to play as a 10, and then you get your two really wide fast men on their even life, maybe sack and golden, or even palm on golden, your best creative players from an English point of view, so I think probably England have been, just probably from a pure football and a neutral point of view, because they're generation when we talked about the golden generation 20 years ago in Lampard and Jer, I believe this is probably the golden generation for England in terms of their tank players, they've got that kind of front sixes, from a nation's point of view, relatively unrivaled with strength, can build the other nations in the world mapping, there's been talk out of defensive capabilities, but actually that's probably maybe been one of the stronger points, but maybe that's just because it's been amplified more because of how poor they've played, but I think St Langland, they've just not lived up to it, and I think obviously that's a lot down in Southgate, and maybe the negative way it plays, but they've got players there that if you play in the front foot, if you play the high press, if you get the best out your most creative players, then they would have been a real joy to watch, so yeah probably England and Foden, but as I say not, because I've Foden personally, but just the system being applied. Job for yourself? Sorry, scramble for the meat bonner. In terms of disappointment, are you talking single in a player? Are you talking about it, how is this? generalisation of a team and a separate one, I'll be rewarding the player. Okay, in terms of player meat, there's been a lot just because like you touched on it a little bit, not all of the big nations, but a hell of a lot of them really haven't got going, like Graham says, it could just well be the system, I think Foden is definitely a victim of that, he's getting dragged all over the place and it's hard for him to do what he would usually do domestically, but also having said that it's a totally different ballgame, like we said the tournament football, teams are so much more compact, they're so much harder to break down, if you're an ingo in the France, whoever, these teams that you're playing they're aware of the danger you have and they're going to pack and they're going to double up on those key men you're bearing on before then, so on, so forth, excuse me, so I got a wee bit sympathy for the work, I think it's having a tough time. Southgate also has been guilty of cramming players into positions, one because they never properly supported those positions in the squad they picked by picking either ninja players or covering them in positions, rather than using guys who are sitting there who actually play there, if that makes sense. He's talking about like left back. Well left back for example, yeah but even across the midfield he's dragging them all over the place, so I think that probably plays a part, but I mean there has been a lot of players in me, I mean I was going to say big Romi, I expected him to do well at this tournament, just because he had such a dynamic cause. He goes all over him for top goals going away and everything. I wouldn't have said, I wouldn't have went that far, but I thought he would, I did think he would do well purely because of the qualification. He has one of the highest rates and qualifications right across the nations that go through, but yeah he's been absolutely doggy me, I mean he was unlucky in the first couple wasn't he, because he had a stupid amount of offsides and there was a bunch more goals or something than that. Yeah there were like crazy costs for the semi-automated offsides. But yeah there's a few, I think Trent could say as a disappointment, but again I don't think a lot of it's on him. I think it's just the way he's kind of been singled out, but you could have singled out any of them in my opinion. Dokku, Jeremy Dokku I think he ain't been great, he was another one me expected to run right, but again it's another winger and I do think they have a tougher time and tournaments. Yeah even in Bapi, I know he broke his hooter, but again he's not at the off at the hell. So I mean I think it was quite a lot of those you could single him me. I think, I think we saw a bit more out of him Bapi when he got moved wide in the last match, I think there was maybe that aspect of again and we could be talking about the system of friends to play etc, but maybe about a change up moving him out wide. I think we saw a lot more of them and you know that could be a reflection of what we see him play at the armature at the enemy because obviously the players they've got their disposal and whether they continue playing Vinnie through the middle and Bapi more out wide. So it's been one of those yeah he broke his nose and missed that second game, but he still scored a goal and he looked dangerous in the last match. It's just one of those guys he said they can never rule out, you know the next game and bag in a brace, the game after a couple of goals and then I know where he's finishing top goals score also. I think he's one of those players, I think he's one of those players that's a bit sometimes a bit of a victim of his own success because you maybe expect a wee bit too much. I think Bellium's been a bit guilty of that, not guilty of it, but because he's had such a season that the expectation is that high and Bapi's probably in that same category. I was surprised really and though one thing it did surprise me is because they were toiling for goals they knew that that cutting edge just wasn't there, that they've not used Giroux more. Scarysman really hasn't offered much at all, I don't think he had any anyway and Giroux's been sitting there and he's only had like minimal minutes. I thought they might have went more direct using them. And that probably leads me onto mine, I think France, I could sit in, talk 40 minutes a bit how I would want to pile on about the England year, I've been the biggest disappointment and to kind of summarize it up, I mean we're talking, I'm thinking instead of beginning that England probably got one of the best front sexes in World Football right now. Spain, so far I've had 82 shots, whether off target or on target. England have had 44, very indifference in terms of style, in terms of play and a massive disappointment, but I could sit here all day and talk about the shade that England has been. So I'm going to go about different and I would say France for me and the reason why I say France is that they've they've actually got through on two own goals and I've handled it. That's all that's difficult so far to get through to the quarterfinals. It's what you would not expect and wouldn't shits on the fact that Mbappe has not been banging on him because as John said, getting a broken nose missing the second game and playing with the baskets obviously going to cause differences but I don't think they've used the other forwards will in terms of Kingsley Coleman in terms of Giroud and Kevin Dembelies missed the last game. Could Eastman's not been firing, but I'm very very surprised that they've not used somebody like Cam of Angamo who is very more box to box. It kind of relied on Rabio and Cante and Cante is a shot for one of the players of the tournament so far. He's been excellent but they will be forced them to making a change going into the next round because Rabiot's injured. He's got double yellow card so I would expect somebody like Cam of Ango to come into the team but to sit in and say that France are going to go into a quarterfinal and they've scored three goals two were on in a penalty. You just know where would you envision that in terms of tournament football for them? The thing is so and again and you go back to England, those nations like that that can play really bolt on and not steal through. They are stout through. They've got through the group stage and they've got through the first knockout round in your turn out in the quarterfinal. You know those other nations like Ireland who were terrible did nothing and got popped out like we deserve to be. It's just about having that guy who I get. It's not been a great one for them so far but they're in the quarterfinals. I think the balance of the French squad was always going to be an interesting one. Some of the players that missed out M. Sherky obviously looking good inside these injury issues but I think something like that would have made a big difference playing up front. It's a quality player whereas you know this journey starting out zero and that's fair enough but they shouldn't suspect them. But it's your reason. I think I think you really missed a tournament though aren't you? You really missed a tournament. I guess that is like they need to turn it on and make a lot of players that missed out. I'm sure it would have been a tough goal but potentially the balance of the squad is just a bit a bit wrong. You could say that about England as well. Maybe it's just the players they've not taken who missed out who should have been and obviously in hindsight that's a lot better. I think it probably does scream to the fact that they've not been great and I get why you know it's a toss up for me who's the biggest disappointment in England. To be clear England to me is the biggest disappointment purely for the fact that I could sit and talk all out but you guys have obviously tripped up to me when I wanted to say so there's no point in me going and doubling and tripling up. I feel like I could easily say Belgium were probably the biggest disappointment but I didn't go into this tournament expecting anything from them because we don't see anything from them and the Bruiner had his hands in the him more than Ronaldo has in all three games. He was still disappointing. He never got on the end of anything. He was expecting to be a leader. He certainly wasn't. I thought the whole Belgium team were absolutely terrible. I thought some of Martiness changes were absolutely terrible but I would never expect them to get to the quarterfinals because the Belgium they kind of always do shit at the bed when it comes to tournament football but looking on so looking as an alternative not going to say Spain as Portugal and my pre-tournament picks are still there as you as you said Germany the host nation Turkey are a bit of surprise. Switzerland you could probably do a really well tournament. Switzerland but they're not disappointed. Looking at it France three goals two and goals one penalty to get where they are. I get the aim is to get there but nobody would have went into this tournament going that's what we'll get from France. This is what we're we'll accept to see from them so that's the only reason why I'm going different but I would definitely say England I would definitely say forward now and definitely actually I would say one of the biggest disappointments in the England team is actually Declan Rice. He's got a sound argument that he's not had a stable partner next to him but if you go I think I said this the journey of the day if you look at his last 10-15 games for Arsenal he was so crucial in how Arsenal played he was controlling the midfield the older god we're on for him. I expected that kind of a level performance from him in the England team regardless of who is alongside. He's been given the ball away he's been making rash challenges, rash passes. He's all over the place and that's the centre that midfield for me. That's before we start talking about Kane trying to come back to left back Ford and trying to play on the right five kind of command. I could go all day but bloody England but yeah I would say biggest disappointment because there's a club that's probably going to be France at the moment and in terms of a play I think it's out of league. Ryan Reynolds here for I guess my hundredth mint commercial. No no no no no no no no no no no no honestly when I started this I thought I'd only have to do like four of these. I mean it's unlimited to premium wireless for 15 dollars a month. How are there still people paying two or three times that much? I'm sorry I shouldn't be victim blaming here. Give it a try at midmobile.com/switch whatever you're ready. $45 up from payment equivalent to $15 per month new customers on first three month plan only taxes and fees extra speed slower above 40 gigabytes of seat details. 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I know Johnny you like him a quite a lot of the ladder Pender but he just wasn't used properly as well at all by Martin as so I think there's a few disappointments that we've seen so far now. I'm going to probably call it as a bit more of a positivity. What do we expect to see from the remaining games from the tournament? Do you expect to see big expansive football? Do you expect to see a bit edgy? Extra time penalties? Any stocks? What is your thoughts for the remain ruined? I think it just depends on who gets through. To be fair for honest I think I would have thought this tournament might be better for your Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal and Spain getting through for example you know I think they would turn that better games and maybe some of the teams that have played better like England and France you know those could really turn into kind of edgy not great games. I think the remain does I think the winner is going to come for the Spain Germany game. A bit like then again I think an England nail in the same area against a Spain France report Boston you would like to see amazing game but from what we've seen from England brand so far these could be kind of edgy per tight encounters so I just think it all depends on who gets through. To judge the rest of the tournament I think you're just hoping that a team can set that light and for me that's going to be Spain but yeah the winner is going to come from that quarter fight and what I thought. There was some stats I see in the early game that the average goals per game within this tournament is 2.27 which is the lowest that's been for something like six years if you look at 2020 it was 2.78 and the last two World Cups were 2.69 and 2.64 goals per game. Do you think that's been an accurate reflection of how the games have been because you know in terms of blockbusters, edginess, I think I touched on it it feels like there's something different about this tournament whether it is the systems that are lining up or whether like sometimes you can put your finger on and go the referees are all over the place they don't know the VA is giving too much weight but I can't really call it too many decisions by VA or that's stronger game. If anything there's probably more teams of shot up in my opinion. Well first I'd probably try and avoid the comparisons to World Cup purely because the format is different right only two teams are getting it. It's just more for reference to the last three World tournaments I feel like we're grouping tournaments. Totally I think probably from my point of view the whole tournament as a whole has been really enjoyable but I think that goal average difference probably one comes down because that in one group was readiness Germany scores more goals and the whole of that group combined and then it's just those kind of final group games quite edgy tight and I think it's good that teams have most teams have something to play for that every team's certainly going into the last game have something to play for but it can also come to that you know it's not going to be an open free phone game it can be quite an edger if you're selling to the last game to 30 minutes 50 minutes whatever so I always think the average is going to come down a little bit because of those final group games and yeah the first round in all count again maybe I've been a bit more edgy so no I'm not surprised here it's been low than the last tournament but I think those first two rounds a group game certainly is just made this tournament for me extremely extremely good enjoyable um yum but I'm pretty excited about the the last rounder the games from the quarter thing going forward and hopeful that um we can we can continue enjoying it. Johnny more bit yourself man um excuse me in terms of what you were talking about there with the the lower goal average and stuff like that I think that's going to fluctuate by every tournament it's going to depend on who goes through the system as a play how they want to set up for that tournament who they get grouped with all those things can can have a you know what I mean it can have a adverse effect on anything kind of start wise but like Graham said I've enjoyed it there has been some snow fest but there hasn't been loads at same majority and then came in around the around the 16 the groups were actually pretty solid I've fairly enjoyed um the vast majority well I don't think Graham said was the beset teams it probably would have been nice that they see them go through purely because of the way they play I kind of agree with in that sense that you know we could say Turkey um even Georgia Romania these guys were so open and they were made for a really good tie but it can't last forever I think it's still going to be caging mate the further we're going we're going to have a tight set of games I think it's potential for the next four to be all cagey I think we'll get maybe one two for lucky but there's a hell of a lot in the line and it's to be expected so I'm not really surprised by and it made the way it's went or any kind of changes like that so no I think I've actually completely lost track of the original question so did you want to tell me expectations for the remainder of the tournament and who do you think we'll go to win it I got that focused on your second question to Graham you threw me taking her back the way um I think the majority who they expect to go through will go through I don't see a hell of a lot more shocks um the the angle and Switzerland game I think it's going to purely come down to if the same England turn up and Switzerland keep going the way they're going that could be a shock um if the improve of it as an England do then there should be only put Switzerland down the way they have had slices of luck uh by getting through and the in the knockouts uh even through the group sorry but you do need that so I'm not gonna but they're going to need that again and I mean that can't last forever I mean so that he does really need to pick up with nobody's got the quality we know they've got the system it's just whether he's brave enough to try it so far he hasn't the the Spain game I'm uh I get why Graham's saying Spain I really do because they have looked the best but I think that's going to be how much tougher game than probably a lot of you expect um I think it's going to be close so I'm really not 100% sure who to go with that I actually went with France for the start of the tournament so I'm going to I'm going to echo that with absolutely no faith in it whatsoever I'll just go with it so yeah I mean I can easily say expectations me it's really do we have to tell because you don't know what you're going to get you don't know who's going to go through it's it's a really tricky one and I just hope we get enjoyable football mate I do hope it's a bit more open than I'm expecting but I don't know what everybody ever helped yeah Graham you did that if I remember out you went on the previous podcast we did pre tournament who was your favorite two with the tournament I have no recollection being on that pod so that's my idea and before the tournament started um I fancy tingling the France I think probably most most people did I think and that would have been my pick I think if if I attacked a pick I think my would have went England um purely because they're straight into depth and quality but you know he's now now it's now it's all about Spain for me uh or the one of that Spain Germany game I think I'm probably gonna gonna win it but um yeah before they turn probably England would have been my pick my pre tournament I think Colin and Mason were both England um I think Johnny was France in my pre tournament was Portugal um so do you do you think being the host puts we add elects of pressure or gives you add elects on centre gives you that we care about us I think it does both I think I think from past experiences of of all international tournaments hosts from the most part tend to do it well I mean when you look back at World Cup Germany 2000 cycles you go out there the South Korea is where we're reaching the semi-finals England reaching the final like I do think in general it probably helps I think it makes the early encounters maybe a bit more edgy and I think that's why you know Scotland fans had that hope of getting something that first game against Germany because of pressure but I think once you get that off your back get through the group stage then it can only be a good thing I think I'll see that with Germany I don't think it's really reached fever pitch when the German fans yet in terms of excitement for winning the don't but I mean I think if they can get past Spain then certainly it would be probably going to be pretty hard to stop them I was listening to people on the radio sorry Johnny there was a guy in the radio who said German journalists and they were talking to him about German these expectations and he said honestly he said this is like a nobody expected this he said because German football has been on a client for the last couple of years in terms of qualifying and in terms of the pre-tronements them going into the tournament they were expected to win obviously the opening night and win the group but I don't think they expected to keep progressing shall we say so first thing they've reached they've passed the last 16 in our turn and most of the last three times they've failed too so yeah I can which is what I don't you think about that I was just going to say behind say we were the ideal game for them to open the tournament and I couldn't really come back in a no I'm saying what so why don't you just why didn't you just shut the fuck up when you were asked for questions why have you learned all this things you've easily there was I think I sucked in a bit this tournament as well as link the top goals score at the moment on three goals and I think it's shared by four different players at the moment which is not necessarily unheard of but you've had nine oh sorry seven uncles you know more than double the top goals score at the moment I think you've had probably seven disallowed goals prove all for X, Y and Z reason that probably contributes to the you know the lowest score in our region only gave to confess a little bit the last I heard so this was maybe a week ago or something but the first 50 goals in the tournament was scored by 50 full different players so again the low high score account doesn't surprise me um I think some day will break clear obviously Kody Kody Hack was looked excellent and I think he's probably bagged a couple of years he's a little bit bigger than two yeah he obviously bagged one yesterday as well did you really well but and then mama mama dish feely in Georgia was obviously I'm gonna do that I'm so glad he pronounced that I was gonna do that he's been practicing already I think mama he'd came at a few things in my practice but yeah um he's he's obviously been excellent so look I think somebody's gonna peel away and look as I said yeah um oh god I don't know you tell me first Slovenia and um mr aller gentlemen should actually be the first one I got and he has he's been he's been magnificent as well he's been sleeping um so like as I said and you you never know when I'm bappy you know a couple of races do games then when suddenly he's on five do you know what I mean so look it's it could be one of those and I hope it's one of those don't so every say a lot of goals come at the end but with it sprays me if it was going to be the lowest area top goal score we've seen the Euro's maybe not so yeah we'll see what happens um and you know in terms of the yellow cards and red cards so I've just cut a stack so I think we've had um we've had two red cards at the moment um the obvious being portrait do you remember who the next one was no I do not like called badeck from Czech Republic he was sent off there the other two red cards we've seen so far in the 20th actually was that one of the bad lanes on one but he was a hunter yes it was yeah you absolutely should have remembered it um the Ronaldo is the current highest shots off and on for the tournament he's at 20 um and all this gold um an ochre for an ochre penalty shall we say um the Swiss are the lowest possession team remaining within the tournament with an average of 46.9% possession across all the games so I don't see that changing any time soon I think they'll sit on the counter against England um we've seen a couple of records broken we've seen Albania scored after 23 seconds against Italy and Demerall was the fastest knockout goal last night after 57 seconds so this we have seen some we have seen some absolute characters of you know kind of turn the table shall we say this tournament Johnny Sony what are you going to say who is the king of ball recoveries oh oh i've got i've got it says i wonder if i'll about because up there as well so when i was in Germany so ill about careful so when i was in when i was in Germany and i was talking to a couple of so back fans after that in the game um and i was talking about my love full about games probably one of my favourite players in world football has been for the last couple of years uh yeah since Napa came i was um i was just like astounded by how good he was um and i've kept just kept an eye on him since and the Slovakians were saying there's a there's a saying in Slovakia that um the 70% of the earth is covered by water another 30% it's covered by Lebok and i was like i mean it's it's so right the guy he's just unbelievable so i don't know if he's up there on some of these stats but i thought he was probably not getting that sternment and to be honest i can't believe um he's he's not been looked at by maybe some of the bigger clubs in the world and he's 29 maybe patient 30 but my god we'd do a great job for somebody did you know what's the answer uh well i'll give you top three pepi it's thought with fairly can i just say 41 years old the performance he's been me he's been putting in he's been astronomical like i really go as 30 feet and second and top is gay with 37 okay he said like i think i've failed to argue against that and that was actually that was but i was going to say that so going into the quarterfinals i probably should have covered the salient so gay he's out um for a massive uh yellow gods you've got robiot that's out for france for a massive yellow gods and tuck your missing two of their players at the last nates game yuksek and kotchu um i i think for england and france they're probably going to be two missies because it forces changes that it's not like for like this coming in if anything i think it's talking then you're going to move to a three at the back with two high wingers um playing with a spread across the middle france it's not quite so yeah i think i think it's like yeah i think it's like so secret and so because he came on as well um against Slovakia i think he's more likely to come in and don't and i think if they are going three at the back you'd maybe like to see walkers they're right central back he's played there before maybe bring train back in but like all depends you maybe get a bit more width and because switzerland play with three at the back it's it's probably more like england will do that and try and go like for like against them so this again this might help england uh this kind of thing there's something pretty tournament though if there was an interview with hadecane and and this is just because i'm being so critical of england right now there's that there was an interview with hadecane and he talked about england struggle against teams that played with three at the back and now we're going up against the team to play three in the back dealing with my fucking struggle against everybody right now this is probably the first time cockiness aside arrogance aside this is the first time i can honestly say england potentially go into this game it's not the favourite um you know from a bookage perspective from a pundit perspective there's just so much doom and gloom about how this game potentially could go of course but as i say the thing it comes in with three at the back for england is getting the width of having your wingwax now obviously there's maybe a potential problem i wouldn't be surprised actually to see maybe saka um and obviously be so easy so it's like back there um but a left wing back role trend right then you're allowing your central players you're kind of forcing yourself in it playing forward and folding that and then again and potentially battling them in there with rice and amino for example so actually i think that's good help england uh obviously gaze a big mess but it's not like you've got mug step into that equation you've still got um you've still got some uh a wonderful player so this may help and as i say even if this wasn't forced or i think england might have went through the back because sweat's some play through the back so it could be a light for like it and we might say i'll be out of game for him there's something in me as well and i've slim now but the blink is on but um joco missus played half a season that left back full of pull this season all that she's into to say that the fact is not even in the conversation or it doesn't look to be in the conversation is some of the baffling decisions that i think people are trying to call out he isn't that is he not a natural but he's natural right yeah he's natural right that's what i mean is like so you see if you look at trippy for example trippy is not even they're even playing like back food you castle at times he just doesn't sliver mental comes in that the fact itself gave his potential looking at other people to try and fill that slot is where the frustration comes you could then say the same a bit folding doesn't play on the left never plays on the left being played forced to play on the left and it's just unbalancing him it's quite obvious like i think the most damning thing i can say and it's set off time in the last game it was quite obvious like it needed to do something whether it was change of formation whether it was bring the sub on i was massively shocked to see the exact same team come out and play the best part of 75 minutes before a change was made and now you can go on and say obviously well the people that got the goals were the people that you're talking about getting changes i get that but we might not have been that this isn't a people votes on people early in the game and they kind of got this back into it so it kind of hoses for carts a little bit um that's the biggest criticism i can give self-gait is that it just seems reactive as opposed to proactive which is very very edgy when it comes to tournament football but listen i don't want to finish off the podcast by talking about england because i know everybody will talk about it it should be better than england but so i'm going to let you guys do my talking for me so i want true assessments of scotland um i know john is going to talk about it but in two assessment of scotland expectation going into the first game and expectation going into the last game how that differed for you um and should clock keep your job as a result so there's kind of like three or four questions in the one of that um green or gold you first because i know john is going to go with it i mean i'll try and keep it short um no clock shouldn't still be the manager i think when you've got david moizer a job for example with the vast experience he has at a high level i think scotland would be better if you said no i don't think he would i think he's so i heard him on talk sports who was it i think it was a while ago so i didn't mean cut you off i never and um the jim white was pretty much saying to him you know there's potentially a hot seat for you there and i think he made it abundantly clear now is not the right time for him to be going into international football no that's not a quote for quote but from what i heard he made it sound like he wasn't ready to go into an international stage at the moment i think there's i think there's partly a bit of a political answer there when you're talking about a job that somebody who he probably knows Steve Clark through the years as well is in the job so i think you're not going to get a forman's offer on regardless um look i think when you look at how some of the other nations this the size and um status risk all and they've done this done i think you can only look at it is a pretty big fail especially some of the players scotland have like it's not like it's a full team of useless footballers that don't know how to control and keep control of them the game and and good width etc like it it was per scorned or set up per too negative for me didn't get the best out somewhere more dangerous players get one or even stand against Germany i think it was a poor decision straight off the mark and it took me back to um euro 2020 when you know that that first game everyone's grinding out for parts and get one to play and then suddenly we'll losing at home to check republic aandin you know you're never going to play a euro's um it's going to play so many games aandin or unlike litter a euro's so i know you can island have the next euro's but i'm sure scotland i'm not going to get two games aandin or if they do fair enough but i'm just saying the expectation of it a whole clock was going to learn from that and be a bit more positive as we've seen from some of the nations we've talked about in the pod tonight i think that would have helped and in actually i think he would have got a lot more credit going out with just trying to play a bit more expansive football trying to get the best out some of the beta players scotland have because there are some really good players specifically in the middle of the park um in obviously like he's coming to the end but Andy Roberts and he has a lot of total thumbnail if these are dangerous players well known i just think it was too negative and really disappointing and i think we would have and should have expected more i think a middle game against switzerland dink played well um did well against a really good swisting but then again that last game against hungry it's like come on it just poor i think maybe hard done by by the penalty decision and you can always look at this in butts but i think in the whole um yeah okay it's statements to two major findings well done thank you time to maybe just move on and and get there get the best out of the team so question for me then from just on the outside then and i'm trying to make it play you know platonic four years but as you can the two are glad you know obviously it's not mistakes are the admittedly for me was the lack of time for shankland on the pitch during all the games um and am i right and thinking that James Forrest didn't get on either who was arguably one of the better games we're better players within scotland in the last few months yeah i think look in terms of first gaming in steremy we could have had macy up front and it would not make a difference in that in terms of shankland that first game i mean that would not make a difference ever yes looking on i think i don't know what he got collectively let's say 25 fair minutes i don't know yeah right that yeah that is absolutely not an office space so then one needn goes and we went to win games and and again that probably shows a negativity i quite like she had them but um there's like like we've seen watching scotland through our lifetimes you know playing with that one man up front and gaining my love is so good i thought all those years does only so long you can stay in the pitch doing that job i mean it's probably the the hardest job no one to do is that long strike going you're not going to win you're not getting a lot of service so yeah again it would have been nice to see that positive do i think yeah that a lot made about forest and whether he should have played his already went back rather than rousing for some of those games and that error he made in switzerland okay shakiri school's an absolute world then problem i end up being the guy just doesn't die doesn't um so look i think i think those decisions like that when we could have got more pace in the width down there down the way there is we really didn't look to do that it was more about containment and i think that's where the disappointment comes and yeah it's bit you know that's being Scottish i guess in any sport it's usually um comes with battle disappointment and you're just looking hope that um the next tournament's better if you get tunnel of tournament i would love to see scotland that would help that be great but obviously that's a hard to qualify in process and as i say look clark's been a job a while yeah i don't want to be totally overly over the top negative he's he's done relatively well but i mean any manager on the world to go through the run scotland event for an arse i don't know twelve or thirteen games not many survive that over the course of a year year and a half we are really the only games we want to i've been against you but i'm maybe cypress so i think thing for past doesn't you and if you can't get miles in yeah i understand who'd you go for but maybe make a brave choice or let's go for him again um i'm sure there's a point out there maybe try and put a wee bit of money and get somebody that excites the fans and implies something different journey the same for you as clark lost the fans um i'd say a fair fair amount mate yeah i don't really think it's so much losing the fans you know they don't hate them they don't have that help me you know that bile they just think it's time to move um a lot of gram what gram said i kind of uh i would echo um i was so disappointed with what we offered um like i said i said to you across the first game of the world three games all three mate all three improved in this one so the game i'll give them that um but i'd say post tournament my realistic hopes of this was it was the best qualification in a long long time now yes they went on that wee blip after those two stupid needless friendlies um but ever since then that declines went and it's kept going i was hoping that wouldn't be the case when they got you know get the fever for for being at the tournament itself what i was hoping for was just a wee sign to say yes good qualification you have improved a bit so get out the group um then chances are you're going to get popped straight back out but that's fine if they could have got that group but at least put bite into that group and made it tough there was none of that um the first game the germany i was so confused i still don't know to this point whatever plan was and whatever setup was tactically not a clue because there was nothing absolutely nothing we gave them every bit of space do what you want all the danger players were left to run um in like fight or flee didn't it from like five minutes onwards i just remember do you remember the chat i was talking to you and me and one of our whatsapp's and i think it was Ken and Cheney was cheering a corner kick that he kicked the ball out on three minutes and i'm like what the fuck is he doing it just seemed as though they were bought into the the aura of the opening ceremony or something yeah it was the whole fire that thing isn't i think they're all doing it now defend those but i think three minutes there's maybe a wee bit early bite that by um but removing for that they they just off of nothing mate we were so passive um and got exactly what we did is i think got lucky to get that the old gee that we did i like to say pretty much what germany said they improved against what so one we did look better um the mistake absolutely cost us the game really i didn't think so it's a lint really had much threat for us they didn't offer a hell of a lot um we looked more likely so the goal was from nothing it was a gift granted you don't expect to play out to do that you know and that's ridiculous getting punished for a mistake like that and the way we did is just unfortunate um so it's a lot of bichikiri and say that before if nobody knew who that man was i only watched major tournaments they think it's a little better um and then in the final game it's got to go and when you know you want to see bite you want to see them chasing like they did against Switzerland there was none of that against germany or hungry that desire to cause everybody's space against your opposition make them make mistakes and give you the boat and that's exactly what we're done to Switzerland none of that against hungry completely passive just it looked like we just didn't want to lose the game but we're no um real idea how we're going when it Chi Adams runs his selling to the ground um he'll give you everything but it's not prolific at all he runs like he's throwing two caravans and then you've got like usage shank on the bench now you want to start Chi Adams that's absolutely fine but give your threat off the bench a chance to change a game especially when it's a game where you're toiling first game i can understand where it made it even more awkward because poachers is an absolute head wobble um but out with that subs were made way too late technically i thought we were terrible set up i thought we were terrible and that sounds so pessimistic i was just so disappointed in that i really was because i feel like we're better than that we're not world beaters but we're better than that it is isn't it mindset of Scotland don't mean when you look at the last three terms would be not um lose the first game never say die attitude in a second uh get a throw um you know no way 98 um angling that way and bling in 2021 and then switzerland uh there and then the last game you know pumped off marok when 98 whimper against creation 21 and then that kind of last gas death goal against hungry and it's like whether it's just the mentality of our country sometimes it's like you know we turn that when we think right we lost that first game like give it everything we turn that show up while decent we can play a bit of football and then i'll ask him just always kills isn't it's like and i've said if we cannot get through a group stage at these euros when three when three teams go through and um four out of six groups it's like well scottall i'd definitely give it a group stage and it's like that that's going to be the thing to celebrate for us i think there was something pre going into the third game if i remember rightly um that if i remember rightly that it became no longer talk not necessarily from the Scotland team but probably just more media and fans there was they were looking forward to the occasion but it stopped talking a bit potentially winning it was all about well if we draw we could potentially go through one two points like like that changed the narrative a little bit and it was like no you got you shouldn't be think like that no that was something that's not as well they expected to go through two points honest that mentality and each side right off and and even the second game mate i mean it's a case at all we've got a point and even if we go and leave everything to the last minute and it's like shopping on Christmas Eve at Christmas you know i mean that that's kindly what it's like we'll go for it in the last game although we didn't but that's what you would expect whereas if you're just going blitz that's a little bit everything you've got you might not need to do that um any of it like so like me i'm saying that a huge chance to go through and the worst part of it the last game was hungry but we're not great at all we've had a talk shame she was excited so much more for them over every game we expected them you know to at least give a good account of ourselves but they never had to still squeeze through not because they're good just because we are absolutely shit or well sorry so yeah that's your basic question mate actually like you said two majors and we had the highest win rate we've had in a long time fair play for that but they're on the slide now i think it's somebody else needs to try and get the ball rolling again right in contrast to the time we've taken up um so without boring the guys to death let's just finish on this bit so can you have you've got four games give me a score line for all four games go in for the quarter finals please so Spain and Germany what's the score line gonna be yeah two no Spain Portugal France one no France England Switzerland two one England Johnny sorry um Holland to tuck it i'm gonna go three one there ons Johnny same for your speed Germany i'm gonna go for a short kill just to change up but i'll go to one Germany Portugal France um one no France i'm actually i think that's an extra time effort by the way okay the one at an extra no no then you mean yeah but i did you didn't even specify a minute England Switzerland um so you know i need to do that so you're going out two one Switzerland okay and all in tuck it uh two one Holland Netherlands sorry i'm gonna go one no Spain one no France one one ninety minute signal Switzerland and three no dinner ones hard so uh yeah i think that kind of wraps it up for us boys um as ever a game has been a great talk to you yeah cheers mate and Johnny thanks for coming on again always a pleasure mate thank you and thank you good man and thank you for the listening if you've got any comments or any questions that you want to come leave a comment on the video and we'll get back to the next one until then we'll shall see you after the well probably post tournament at this rate so uh enjoy the autumns see you later guys