My son came home from school all excited yesterday. They had some kind of assembly bigging up the game so he wanted to watch it.
100 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Overall the defending was appalling. Three passes then a hoof up field or giving the ball away. Foul throws. I see enough of this tomfoolery watching my own team play each Saturday. I don't expect to see it in a World Cup semi final.
Then throw in VAR where it took the ref 10 minutes to make a decision so how it could have been a clear and conclusive reversal is crazy talk. England then let a centre back take the penalty when they have the joint top scorer in the tournament on the field. Phil Neville has always been the lesser brother and it continued last night.
In the end, it turns out my son only wanted to watch it because it got him a late night. All he wanted was extra time and penalties and he'd have done me up like a kipper.