Heartbreak for England as Spain score late to win Euro 2024 final

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1. Has to be some of the worst management of a side to get so far.

   You’d think Gareth was just taking twitters ideas for how to play the game.

   No cohesion, no actual plan and no balls to drop Kane who may have cost England that tournament.

   Also his absolute cluelessness with TAA is still beyond me and should have had him gone years ago.

2. Used to it by now! Ah well, 60 years of hurt has a ring to it.

3. To be fair watching it seemed England tried the strategy they’ve fumbled with the whole tournament and finally fucked around and found out.

   When they didint get their last minute goal like they tried other times the whole thing seemed to collapse very quickly.

   edit- honestly its puzzleing they got to the finale, because watching Spain was so much more flexible than them.

4. Can’t really complain too much.

   Best team of the tournament won and clearly the better won on the night.

5. if he announces he’s stepping down, it’ll be like winning a small trophy

6. Kane and Foden have been so unbelievably washed this tournament. And that’s fine. It happens. That’s what the bench is for. But to disrespect Ollie, Palmer and Gordon and give them 5 mins here and there… unforgivable.

   Also burned bridges with England best RB too at the last tournament and we will now be wheeling out a 74 year old Walker and Trippier at the WC too.

7. England always failing to win but never failing to disappoint. Oh well maybe next time I guess.

8. Kane has been a lifeless boulder up front the entire tournament. So much talent on the bench which southgate brings on far too late, again and again.

9. England has the best players. Just needs a manager.

   It’s sad to see those guys , but a lot of them are young and will be in another final soon!

10. The only good news is surely this now means Southgate can fuck off.

11. Why does English team keep Kane as captain? Dude is a corpse on the field

12. We were overachieving getting past Slovakia. A decent manager should have THESE players playing

13. I loosely follow the Buffalo Bills who famously went to the Superbowl four times in a row and lost and it’s a pretty fun meme. We’re halfway there boys.

14. Watched. Disappointed.

    I am concentrating on the fact that England is playing better than it has for most of my lifetime. Made it to the final.

    Lost, but against Spain, a world class team, 2-1

15. seriously lacked quality up front.. Kane should have been benched, Bellingham wasn’t great either

16. Sitting in my Scottish flat and hearing distant cheering and celebrating happen twice gave me a pretty good idea of what the score was.

17. Thank you, Southgate. Made us believe twice.

    But clear as day, his style of play is tactically inept.

18. Englands strategy of have Pickford kick long every single time , turns out wasn’t a good strategy

19. Honestly we were in contention until the last minute of the final and we should be proud.

    Yes it fucking sucks right now. But I won’t hear shit from any former international when this side has done more than the so-called golden generation, or any generation, in 58 years.

    Well done, boys.

20. Can’t wait to see all the Scots with an inferiority complex displaying the Spanish flag.

21. Oh well, the better team won.

    Should have dropped Kane a few games ago IMO, might have played better footy.

22. As a non-Brit: still a very good performance throughout the tournament, you guys can be proud of your team

23. Fact is, Spain were the best team in the tournament and the best team tonight… They deserved to win. And it’s a win for football when the best team actually lift the trophy.

    They beat the three favourites on the way to lifting it.

    England have the best generation of players they’ve had in decades, but lack a manager with the abilities to use them fully. Whereas Spain were organised, together and whenever subs were made, they slot in perfectly every time. That’s how an elite manager coaches his team.

24. I was really annoyed at the foul at the end. Sure it was highly unlikely England were going to win at that point, but it would have been nice if they had a chance near the end, but it was ruined by something that didn’t even look like a foul.

    I might have gotten a really bad camera angle (watching on a strange Romanian TV channel in Bucharest doesn’t really have its perks) but it looked pretty unjust.

25. I live in the depths of Wales and we had one colleague (only English) come in with the English flag, kept bringing it up every day in the office and slack how it’s coming home and even had some English bunting up on Friday….

    While would have been nice for a British win, I’m kinda glad I won’t be hearing it for the next year or so

26. Just remember guys it’s only football, no need to beat your s/o over it

27. 4 minutes of extra time my arse. Ball was out of play for 2 of them! Football sucks