UEFA Euro 2024: Mod Note Added 2/7/24

Disgusting result. Conned a penalty and a late, late goal through the Dutch players legs when it was moments away from extra-time.

Unfortunately the Ref has had a massive say in the outcome

Clown or not he is doing the business, if he keeps winning and getting to finals what can you say? Three Semi-Finals in a row, two finals in a row. The only nation that has done better than that was the great Spanish side.

Southgate is a sound out guy, can't knock him, you have to be restrained to get to the latter stages of these international competitions, to play it safe, but to always have more to call on, he has that in this squad, and he knows how to use it.

If Holland had gotten that corner off Stones. If the ref hadn't given England a phantom free for Guehi diving moments before the 2nd goal, everything changes after that.

The obvious corner not given and phantom free for England are some of the worst refereeing decisions I've seen at this level in a long time.

The ref needs investigating. An absolute embarrassment tonight.

I think the referring standard across the competition has been awful. It's really gone down hill, that obvious corner shout been a prime example. How does a ref and your lines man who's looking directly across not see that.

Playing the percentages, Italy have done it for ages and get lauded for it. Southgate has got to the final now with that mindset, fair play to him.

What makes this even worse is that the aviva will be playing host to England's homecoming do.

Oddly the Dutch put in the worst performance against them, England were second best for the majority of their games in this tournament.

The referee's take the brunt and rightly so, but the linesmen have been terrible as well. So often they don't raise their flag until after the referee has blown the whistle for a foul, sometimes offsides as well.

There you go. He's a clueless manager who keeps getting to finals in spite of himself.

He'd be sacked by Christmas in the club game but this gig suits him.

should have backed them before this game for happiness insurance.

Let's not forget the Dutch beat Poland, drew with France, lost to Austria and qualified as a third place team, then beat Romania and Turkey.

This is not a win over a great team.

Absolute disaster England getting to the final, but on the plus side they'll get the runaround from Olmo and co on the big stage.

Dunno how Koeman keeps getting these jobs. Holding the national team back. He's a worse manager than Southgate probably. Turned Ajax and Feryenoord into midtable clubs during his time there, turned Valencia from a Champions League outfit to relegation candidates, robbed a living off the back of another managers good work at Everton and So'ton and seemed to get praised as a top manager, but inevitably took them backwards in time.

Somehow has got the Dutch job twice and the Barca job, where he was disaster, off the back of his "reputation". You'd wonder how some people get away with it in life, cruise by in life doing terrible work, yet still get promotions and there seems to be no accountablity.

I actually followed Ajax and Valencia during his spells there, and you'd have had to seen them play, to really understand just how bad he made both. An absolutely terrible manager, who seems to take every team he manages backwards, yet continues to get big jobs based on his "reputation"

Kane's a ₱####. He was asked in a post match interview if it was a penalty. He said "I don't know, but my foot was hanging off."

Hungary 1954

Holland 1974

Holland 1978

Brazil 1982

England 1990

England have had their greatest squads ever under Southgate. They should be winning tournaments regularly. The fact they haven't won a tournament under Southgate shows how bad he is.

In this tournament he's been saved by a 95th minute bicycle kick by one of the greatest players in world football and then another world class strike by another gifted player to bring them to extra time again. These strikes came out of nowhere and it's in spite of his tactics.

ed sheeran and beers. most likelt the dutch scoring early.

i think i agree with sadlier re the ref - didnt want to be seen to have an agenda against england (bellingham) so erred too much on england's side.