There are few tears for Belgium or Germany in the Mailbox. Might either take Gareth Southgate? Also: one Liverpool fan accepts Man Utd produce the best pundits.
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Today, I feel Belgian
Finally we can be proud to be Belgian again.
First our foreign minister ostentatiously wore the One Love armband while engaging in heated conversation with Fifa’s head honcho. Then the national team sent an even stronger message by refusing to turn up to any of their matches and catching the first flight back home.
Today, I feel like a migrant worker.
Today, I feel gay.
Today, I feel like a Belgian. *raises fist*
Reinoud (currently exiled in Hungary)
…So Belgium are going home. No harm.
There will be better analysis of how Martinez wasted the potential of this group of footballers than I can articulate but at least now we’ll be spared any further viewing of a frustrating and frankly disastrous effort from the Belgians.
I also take an admittedly petty delight in the failure of their assistant manager.
He can hug Lukaku all he wants, it doesn’t offer any redemption.
Karmic justice applied to Belgium for employing Thierry Henry at a World Cup.
Eoin (2009, lest we forget) Ireland
Wrong target
When Lukaku punched the dugout it was the only time he managed to hit the target. Bada boom tish!
Rob, Dorset
Gareth’s next gig?
The theory that Southgate wouldn’t get a job at a top club is used as a stick to best him with but would Belgium or Germany hire him as a national coach?
Do they have enough right backs for him to accept?
Alex, South London
Shocking decision
That must be one of the worst decisions ever seen on TV.
Somebody needs to have a word with Graeme and tell him never to wear that jacket again!
Howard (FIFA make Boris look honest) Jones
…As if John Hartson’s continued defamatory implications that Spain might have in fact been throwing their game against Japan wasn’t bad enough, we then have to put up with the bizarre rantings of Graeme ‘Mr Brexit’ Souness. First, Souness struggled to understand the quite simple point that for a ball to be out of play the entirety of the ball needs to be out of play. Second, Souness asserted that the decision to allow the goal was also wrong as Germany is a ‘big’ football nation (which should clearly determine whether a ball is out of play in a match involving two other football nations). Third, the decision was also wrong as there would be 80 million Germans upset…
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