The World Cup Thread

[Springsteen]

The Sun are the worse for overhyping the England team. And conversley the first to jump on anyone's back when the fail to play well.

 

[Zorak]

England's problems are numerous. The lack of a consistent goalkeeper is a concern. Sure James did ok tonight, without having to do an awful lot, but who's to say he will do that again? Johnson is not a right back, he's a full back. The centre halfs are really slow and will, not might, be exposed by faster players. Lampard and Gerrard cannot play together. Lennon's delivery is poor, as is Wright-Phillips. Rooney hasn't got going yet when the expectations were for him to do just that, and Heskey is a poor poor player. I see no reason why he should play.
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You make no sense.

James did ok, so what's your point?

Johnson is a right back but not a full back? Last I checked, same fucking postion.

Algeria forwards were pretty fast.

Lampard and Gerrard were in different postions,

 

[Alien Allen]

American football is sure a lot easier to determine who advances

 

[Tuffdisc]

unlike spain,germany and france we are unbeaten....a strange tounament indeed

Well I am more concerned about England's performance, than the other three, albeit, Spain's performance the other night did shock me

 

[cam elle toe]

I'm debating whether or not to even try and stay awake for our match later....

 

[Azazel]

I'm debating whether or not to even try and stay awake for our match later....

 

[cam elle toe]

Yep, thats me.

 

[Springsteen]

You make no sense.

James did ok, so what's your point?

My point was he did ok against Algeria, what's to say he'll do well against Germany or Argentina, you know, where he'll be worked more.

Johnson is a right back but not a full back? Last I checked, same fucking postion.

Apologies here, I actually meant a wing back, which Johnson is, he is not good enough defensively to justify being a right back.

Algeria forwards were pretty fast.

Yeah, but they weren't particularly good. When it comes to the really good forwards in the WC, England are fucked with that defence.

Lampard and Gerrard were in different postions,

Lampard went missing again. Please get over the fucking argument that they can play together, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T. THEY NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO BECAUSE THEY ARE SIMILAR PLAYERS.

No other Country in the whole wide world but England plays with two Centre Midfieders who are similar, it just doesn't work.

And last night he put Gerrard out left.....HE IS NOT A FUCKING WINGER, JOE COLE IS A FUCKING WINGER, SHAWN WRIGHT PHILLIPS IS A FUCKING WINGER

But Steven Gerrard isn't.

The problem is Fabio, or any other England manager, doesn't have a pair of bollcks big enough to drop Frank Lampard. Who has been completely shite so far, please don't tell me he hasm't, because he has. The England Centre Midfield should be Gareth Barry and Steven Gerrard. Because Barry can play a holding role, which is what is needed.

I could go on all day about England's problems, personally I think they might struggle to beat Slovenia, which is of course what they have to do. But they will never beat a Brazil or an Argentina playing that shit, fact.

But at least Carragher's out of the Slovenia game, that's a good thing.

 

[Peter Parka]

What a pile of shit! England players need to sort out their cant be arsed attitude, especially Rooney having the cheek to moan about the supporters at the end.:thumbdown

 

[edgray]

What a pile of shit! England players need to sort out their cant be arsed attitude, especially Rooney having the cheek to moan about the supporters at the end.:thumbdown

the English footballers these days seem to be lacking any kind of pride in what they do, probably too busy thinking about what super car they're going to buy next, or how much their WAG is spending down in the boutiques...

 

[Peter Parka]

The missus is dancing around, happy now! Another howler by a keeper, cant help thinking this ball has been a good part of the problem, this World cup.

 

[Springsteen]

What a handball.

Had to go though.

 

[retro]

US/Slovenia Ref may be dropped from the rest of the tournament

At least he'll get some form of punishment for royally fucking us over and stealing a win from us

 

[Springsteen]

Just as well it isn't 40 years ago, he'd be swinging from a tree now.....

 

[itsmeJonB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3bkiRqekQ

 

[itsmeJonB]

Cameroon v Denmark doesnt sound very exciting to me, I dont know if I want to watch it

 

[skyblue]

US/Slovenia Ref may be dropped from the rest of the tournament

At least he'll get some form of punishment for royally fucking us over and stealing a win from us

keep qualifying.....you'll get used to being screwed over:nod:

 

[retro]

keep qualifying.....you'll get used to being screwed over:nod:

well, we've qualified for the last six World Cups and we're consistently in the top 20 at least, so I don't think we'll have any issues with continuing to do so

 

[Springsteen]

Really good game between Denmark and Cameroon. End to end it really was.

 

[cam elle toe]

Suckage. Its a conspiracy to keep our two strikers out. No way was that a deliberate handball.