Whistling wasn't just when the Franch were attacking just having the ball period lol.......
WTF is wrong with that from your NT supporter base trying hard being the 12th man for your team especially knowing your up against it.
Christ some people live in a sanitised world, D2 I know your an avid cricket supporter, what about the crowd behaviour in that game, the Barmy Army,

Still think a France vs Argentina final. Was always on the cards. They are far superior than any other team. And as our luck always has it, we did have to play the best to try and advance.

I  think France and  Argentina have played the best football in the comp, although Brazil had been good too until Croatia knocked them out.

Portugal also looked good at times.

I was very disappointed with the way the Netherlands played though.

What about poor ol' Germany?

Barmy Army usually provide a great atmosphere to any game they attend.

They are not sanitised. Usually, just good fun.

I'm also keen to adhere to good sportspersonship. Whistling/jeering over 90 minutes is pathetic.

Only watched extended highlights of the German  matches .

Not along ago from probably about 2009 - 2017, Germany was considered to have the best development  system  in the world. Yet for all that success and admired football methodology, that everybody else was copying, they've struggled in recent times.

As is often stated in coach education courses - things change so fast in football.

I  didn't say Maguire was the best CB in  the world. I  said he is one of the top performing  CBs in the world playing international  football for England under Gareth Southgate. A sound defence is a  prerequisite  for any successful team.  

Southgate and Holland have coached it into a cohesive and compact  shape when the other team has the ball. Maguire, along with Stone, is part  of an effective England defensive unit. I'm also aware , as LFC elucidates, that it helps the English defensive line, having a good  midfield screening the defence. In any team, the defence  should start from the attacking line. The midfield line also assists the overall defensive team unit. 

A semi, a final and a quarter final, in the last three big tournaments is a pretty decent achievement for England. England isn't the epicentre of world football. There are six other leagues similar in quality to the EPL.

  I have watched  a lot of European football in  the past.  Unfortunately, it is becoming  too much like corporations  playing each other - Abramovich v Glazor v Murdoch v Bezos v Musk v Sheik Mohammed  (not all these guys  own  football clubs, but you get my drift). They just simply buy players so that a rich club can end up being barely represented by any  local players.

I  don't  expect you to understand this, but international football is the pinnacle of football where coaches can't  buy players  to fix a problem.  For mine, international football is a purer form of football.

Given the lack of  success England have had  in big tournaments since Alf Ramsey circa 1966-70, Southgate is a wonder coach. His results demonstrate this. Suggest any English coach between the era of Ramsey and Southgate who has had more sustained success in three successive,  big tournaments? 

I feel through using football specific performance  analysis I can evaluate players and teams without having to know what they have, or haven't done, at club level. Just because I  don't  know the circumstances of how Messi left Barca,  does not mean I can't  dispassionately evaluate him as a player in the World Cup. 

Pointless game 

Tell that to Morocco - it's their biggest game in history for them.

What a pen - cool as 

What a counter !!!

Argentina in total control, completely controlling the midfield.