Pickford makes vital saves as England win in Greece

And he doesn't continually boot it like Peter Kaye in that 'have it' advert like he does for us!

Same as he does every game.

It was not a very good game, but England without the dropouts made the best of it.

He was only a club shirt away from a MotM performance.

I am continuously bemused by how little credit our Jordan gets. He is an excellent keeper who is consistent and an outstanding shot-stopper. He especially deserves more international praise. Well done, Pickford, I for one am proud you are a Toffee.

“Same as he does every game.”

Stop it, Martin — or keep your eyes open when you watch him every game!

Agreed, re Lee Carsley and the media attention. I'm not sure if the current unease he seems to demonstrate isn't more to do with the fact that he's only taking care of the England team for a short period and it seems he was thrown under the train a bit in the last international fortnight. He was being asked questions on his future by the media that he couldn't truthfully answer as Tuchel seems to have been appointed before at least one of the games.

If Sean Dyche was to leave, I would be happy to have Lee Carsley, not because he's an ex-Everton player but because he seems to be very good at developing younger players and is highly regarded.

But, to say he commands his box in any game, let alone every game, is just wrong. I get that that's not his game and, as one of his critics earlier in the season, I am glad to see his improvement.

But I think, if we can cash in on him and bring in a big keeper who actually does command his area, the dynamics of the defence would improve. Sure we'll miss the shot-stopping heroics but, so long as we spend the money on a decent keeper and other areas that need strengthening, I think I'd accept that.

Dons tin hat and pacamac!

As has been said on many other threads, the art of goalkeeping has changed over the years for a variety of reasons, including the use of lighter balls, coaching techniques, more ball-playing keepers etc.

I think the days of the old-fashioned keeper are well and truly over.

If he goes, we better get a bloody goal scorer in sharpish. (No pun intended.)

He wasn't interested in taking on the England job full-time and wants to go back to the U21s.

Personally I'm very nervous that Southgate is still available. He's exactly the sort of high-profile manager that "the suits" would think fits the bill. And I really don't think he does.

The new owners will have their own ideas and we may end up with something we didn't see coming if they decide to change.

I hope they cast the net further than the usual suspects: Potter, Southgate. I know, this won't go down well, but take a punt on Alonso to see if we can tempt him. Now that would have the cousins up in arms on top of their jealousy of the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock!!

I see Ndiaye played the No 10 role for Senegal last night — can someone tell Sean, who doesn't believe he can play in that position.

I would certainly welcome this as an interim short-term option Martin, if Dyche were to go; whether he would take that I don't know.

Big Nev very rarely made a mistake. For that reason, Pickford will have a hard task ahead of him to match Nev's standing.

But nevertheless, at the moment and while there is always a mistake in him, Jordan is the best around for me, certainly in the Premier League and I've seen nobody else so far elsewhere to change my mind.

Martinez? No. Allison? No. Raya? No. Pope? No. Ederson? No. Sanchez? 😝 Ramsdale? No. Leno? No. Flekken? No. Henderson? No. Verbruggen? No. Onana? 😝 Sels? No. Muric? No. Vicario? No. Hermansen? No. Areola? 😝 Sa? No. Kelleher? No. Kepa? 😝 Fabianski? No.

So, why is it that Pickford is constantly berated on here for an aspect (aspects for the anti-Pickfords) of his game that is important (this commanding the box stuff) when he excels in others and in fact does command his area and box a fair amount of the time.

Each one of those keepers mentioned above has a flail, flop, howler, misplaced pass, own area fuck up, near posty, ooops through the legs in him.

But, no, our Jordan has to be perfect. Even the comparisons with Southall are unfair and meaningless, because Nev is quite simply the best.

Mistakes made by keepers by dint of their role will always be triple-bad because they can lead to goals more than any other position on the field. They also tend to attract/court attention because more than a few of them are/can be nutty.

Pickford is one of a handful of current players that for me cannot be sold at this moment in time. How many of the folks who pounce on him when he does something wrong and compete for the highest hyperbole will type about the magic he produced last night and on countless other occasions?

I would love to see the serious science, statistics and metrics – pipe-dream, I know – that once and for all demonstrate exactly how many points Jordan has won for us and how many points he has lost???

It will be the former but it would be so nice to have that at hand whenever the Pickford poppers launch another Exocet (and not one of them is perfect or even accomplished at everything he or she does).

72 England caps but he's (what?) shite, crap, unable to control his box? Jesus wept.

Anyone who thinks this lad is the problem must be out of their minds.