Marseille – The Inquest

As most experience sports journalists and long time England fans predicted the off field antics are catching the headlines today.

While England fans are certainly no angels the sight of organised masked Russians wearing hoodies pulled up in 30°C temperatures and armed with all manner of weapons takes hoolaginism to a new depressing level.

Saying that, we had a great day with nice food & wine in the sunshine near the beach. The stadium looked really good too – completely rebuilt since my last visit for a UEFA Cup semi-final with The Toon in 2004.

Our Woy really needs to answer some questions – no bigger one than why has he brought Rashford and Vardy with him if he doesn’t play them when this game desperately needed a change from Sterling, Kane and Lallana. Quite impressed with Rooney however, good distribution and vision all night.

Everyone could see a change up front was needed – what does Neville do, surely he could see what a waste of time Sterling was? Should have been easy for England and hugely frustrating when the inevitable equaliser came right at the end.

Don’t let us even start on Kane taking corners or the scenes at the end – could have been another Heysel. Back in 98 the only major trouble was in Marseille, let’s hope things calm down now but there’ll be a lot of English & Russia fans in Lille on Wednesday and Northern Ireland & Polish fans clashed in Nice last night ahead of their first game today.

Roll on Lens and the Wales game with England under pressure already…

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