RickyFitts

Did look that way, and to be honest I couldn't entirely blame him because Spain are clearly a better team. I agree, it's just that it had become all about winning at all costs for me, and then when I started to see how unimportant winning actually was, my interest in it started to fall away pretty drastically.

I've found that my interest in sports has massively fallen away post-awakening for the most part, tbh - it just started to seem really silly to attach so much importance to putting a ball in a net or whatever, though I do still have some lingering emotional attachment to certain teams.

I gave it a swerve for the most part, because I was still deflated after the semi-final loss and figured the third-place play-off match was pretty meaningless anyway - then I saw the French were in serious danger of making an improbable comeback from 4-0 down and suddenly I found myself caring quite a lot about the outcome.😂 Insane game though - amazing what can happen when the pressure's off, if that had been the final it probably would have looked a lot like the awful spectacle we got yesterday.

Completely agree with that, I'm no great fan of Argentina with all their cynicism but I can't really warm to Spain either, with the way they play. They manage to be both very impressive and yet somehow also completely forgettable, imo.

Speaking as a Manchester United fan, that's the least I'd give him.😂 I'd tend to agree that England should be too strong, but I think it'll be a very close game so you just never know.

That result last night will definitely have given us more belief, still lots of tricky hurdles to overcome though. Given ourselves half a chance though (that's about as close to cock-eyed optimism as you're going to get from an Englishman ).

Fair play, you called it! Some result that for England, not an easy assignment but we did enough. Not that I actually watched it (did watch the highlights), would have meant getting up at 2am and I was just way too tired. Glad I didn't watch it quite frankly, don't think I could have handled the stress.

Wish I shared your feeling.😅

Speaking as an Englishman, I'm dreading it.😂 It's the issue of the high altitude as much as anything, the Mexicans are acclimatised to it and we're not - we'll have to be very smart with our approach or I can see us getting well beaten.

Mine too, and I'm not a podcast kinda guy.😸

Nice.😄

Knowing me I'm probably very late on this, but I've just seen this on Youtube now and I simply must share.😂

Right, exactly. It might just put your mind at ease knowing that you've got pen and paper close to hand if you need it.

No harm in seeing it again.😂