Good Evening Britain

OK, two viewpoints that right off the bat do my head in:

Andy Murray: if anything, outlets these days go out of their way to say he's Scottish to avoid annoying anyone. But he is both Scottish and British, and Scotland competes in tennis under the UK flag. (typically, we're good at the sports where we represent the whole UK, rather than play under our own banner)
Everyone should support England: 1. National broadcasters shouldn't assume that to be the case, and 2. Scotland, NI and Wales are in a different spot to England. Everyone hates upwards in football. So England support Scotland/NI/Wales in a slightly patronising way because they're better than them, and hate Germany. Scotland/NI/Wales don't want England to win because it's a huge rivalry for them (and we'd never hear the end of it). We have a particularly complicated situation in the UK because we have several national teams, which means we watch a national broadcaster which is desperately cheering on our biggest rivals. Imagine if Portugal had to watch Spanish TV for its matches. There isn't an easy solution. Rugby handles it better but all the teams are of a similar stature in that game, and football is more populist.

Yea I'm pretty sure the "I support Wales and whichever team England's playing" rule is only a rugby thing.

A lot of the England team play for Premier League teams which are widely supported by people across the UK. Therefore more people in Scotland/Wales/NI support the England football team as if it were a UK team.

Rugby is of course, very different. Because it just is.

Brazil are perfectly beatable.

I can confidently tell you the "I support Wales and whichever team England's playing" rule is not only a rugby thing. It's certainly not the case in Scotland and plenty of people support Premier League teams in Ireland and would desperately hope England would lose there too.

It's not something I strongly subscribe too - I was quite happy when England got their late goal in the first game. If it's all the same I'd prefer it if England didn't win the whole thing though, they'd be unbearable.

Hmm, certainly in South Wales it's not really a big deal to support England in the football when Wales hasn't qualified. But then we do have a habit of designating ourselves British (rather than Welsh) when it suits us.

As stated by other posters, it’s not an attack against England (the team or the country). It just becomes tiresome for Scotland, Wales and NI fans when broadcasters endlessly refer to ‘us’ ‘our boys’ ‘our national side’ etc. However there isn’t much point in having that debate. If the UK media and the wider English public still can’t get their head round that, the Union (and btw it’s a Union, not a nation) is dead.

Of course, it’s GMB rebadged with Piers, so starting a fight about these kind of issues will be a core element of the show. Brexit Britain, eh?

The Twitter Account has now temporarily been changed to Good Evening Britain:

https://twitter.com/GMB

And the night backdrop looks stunning!

The backdrop - stunning.
Logo - looks like someone just turned on inverted colours and said "that's great" - worse than Oneness.

I disagree with you there sorry, I think the logo looks really good and they’ve kept the gradient on it which is nice. And besides... why would they spend money on a big new brand when it’s for one night only....

It is really nice. It’s basically a moon version of the GMB sun coloured logo. Smart.

Agreed. I would really like to see them take GEB as a more permanent show in the future, instead of a one-off that's mainly associated with the World Cup's aftermath. Hopefully that's the way things may be heading. Even if it aired every Thursday night I would really enjoy it. But of course let's wait to view tonight's edition before making any judgements.

Piers and Susanna have just popped up on ITV.