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England brought it on themselves the way they just stopped playing as soon as they scored

Fucking hell Palmer

Seems like Spain will probably win this easy now, they're causing England all sorts of problems

An Aston Villa player just scored the winner for England in the semi final of a major tournament - I am so fucking happy for Ollie Watkins! Love that guy so much, deserves all the praise he'll get over the next few days

For fucks sake, now we have to endure another half hour of this shit

Don't have much hope that England can turn it around though. What have they been doing in training? They look so clueless

Yeah, it was shame Ukraine couldn't score - they were the only team trying to win that game. Austria and Spain are definitely the standout performers so far, most of the big hitters have been pretty poor really

Worst group in the tournament, easily. Just dire. England will play either the Netherlands or whoever finishes 3rd in Belgium's group, can't see them getting through against any of those teams if they play the same way in the round of 16 - and with a potential QF against Italy if they do scrape through I can't see England getting to the semi finals.

Why are we so shit? No urgency until stoppage time in a must win game, probably created one really good chance - just can't put in a proper performance when it matters. So frustrating to watch

Feel like it's a bit too early to judge it either way. They've basically only shown off the opening section of the game - whatever there is that is new and unique will surely be revealed in the next trailer

Playable Zelda and the glorious return of the Deku - it's like a dream come true.

Fantastic direct, 2D Zelda lives! And she finally gets her own game, it looks fantastic. And September - only a couple of months away! There were a lot of surprises, new Mario & Luigi looks really cool and I'm glad I held off on playing the Wii version of Donkey Kong Country Returns with the HD version on the way (but we have to wait until January for it!). It moved along at such a good pace too, constant wave of announcements, I look forward to playing Turok on NSO. Although I had anticipated it potentially being here I was still quite surprised that Metroid Prime 4 finally showed up. It looks good but they obviously didn't show off too much of it, given the vague 2025 release date it has to be a cross gen release unless it comes out in Q1 or something and then the Switch 2 follows in the second half of the year. Lots to look forward to though, a very strong line up for the last year of a fantastic console

Seems very short notice for such a big Direct. Looking forward to seeing what they have in store for the rest of the year - don't really have any big expectations besides the usual suspects (Prime 4 & Silksong) but it's been so long since we had an update on either of them that it's more a case of it'll be great if they're there but I won't be too downhearted if they aren't.

England looked very fluid and exciting for the first half an hour or so but there wasn't much to shout about after that. Like you say plenty for them to work on before the Denmark game but at least they held on for the win. Seems like it's going to be quite a tough group, Slovenia looked brilliant in the second half - deserved to win the game really, so they'll definitely cause Serbia & England problems in their remaining group games. I had allowed myself to get excited about Scotland possibly getting out of the group in the lead up to the tournament but the performance on Friday night was so disappointing. The chances of getting anything against the host nation were always going to be low but from the first whistle Scotland didn't look up for it at all, no energy or effort, no real plan - they just let Germany run rampant. I'll still hold out faint hope of being able to finally get out of the group but the heavy defeat means they'll likely need to get 4pts to even have a hope of going through as one of the best third placed teams. Feels like goal difference is going to prove our Achilles heel yet again.

I watched the show after it had finished and I don't know why I don't do that more often - was so refreshing to be able to skip the stuff that didn't interest me (which was actually quite a lot). Overall it didn't seem like that bad of a show but there weren't many standout announcements, for me it was pretty much just the new Sam Barlow game (a collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg which sounds exciting!) and Wanderstop that appealed. I'll probably watch the Xbox show live but the chances of Silksong seems to be lower, Jaso Schrier said it won't be showing up so that basically just leaves the Nintendo direct if the release really is imminent