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Chippenham Town: Chris Snoddy, Ross Adams, Kevin Halliday, Ashley Williams, Cortez Bell, Ian Harvey, Kye Holly, Joe White, David Pratt, Luke Gullick

Substitutes: Scott Lye, Jacob Gardner, James Martin, Sean Seavill, Luke Bryan

Swindon Town: Peter Brezovan, Kevin Amankwaah, Hasney Aljofree (Capt), Jerel Ifil, Callum Kennedy; Blair Sturrock, Jon-Paul McGovern, Chris Allen, Mark Marshall, Barry Corr, Ben Joyce

Substitutes: Callum Antell (GK), Sam Morris, Jake Hyde, Tom Evans, Yinka Casal

Very strong squad. Callum Kennedy has obviously leaped over one Yinka Casal in the minds of the current staff.

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Meanwhile, England vs. Germany - not much has happened yet!

Matthew Upson 1-0 England.

Goal! Take that, Ze Germans.

I wonder if SWP will get a corner past the first man at all tonight...?

They've been dire haven't they.

Meanwhile on good ol' wikipedia....


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At Hardenhuish Park, Ben Joyce has gone off after 30 minutes.

Nobody cares.

H-T: Chippenham 0-1 Swindon (Sam Morris)

Nope. It's all shit.

I know.

Is Blair Sturrock playing right wing, well till Joyce went off and Morris came on?

Wonder if its to make up the numbers or whether Byrne rates him

While contemplating who to play up front on Saturday, Byrne mentioned at the Trust AGM that Blair is the only striker at the club who can run the channels effectively.

It did seem he won't be frozen out in the same way he was under Malpas. Doesn't mean he will be in the squad though.

Hahaha goold ol' England.

Fuck me have england got Phil Smith in goal tonight?

Carson is a muppet

John Terry isnt very good is he....put your boot through it....

Carson was poo but Terry should have whacked that ball away.

Unless Carson gave Terry a huge shout to leave it then didnt come for it then that fuck up belongs to John Terry

 Some of the goals conceded by Carson and Robinson, have been very similar to Smith and Brezovan...Capello must know that goalkeeper is a problem....think he needs to jump to Foster and Hart.

You can't pick Foster for England until he starts playing games though right? I suspect Hart would've played tonight had he been fit.

england need a decent goalkeeping coach, get rid of clemence and employ someone of substance to sort of your keeping problems, hopefully John Granville will be available soon.

 I noticed that Spurs sacked their goalkeeping coach because Gomes is shite, the same should apply with us.

Robert Green ?

 Capello doesn't seem to rate Green...

Really Reg?  I hadn't heard that.  I don't know why, but after all his faults I still think Gomes might turn out to be a decent keeper.  Not sure if it's the language he needs to sort out or what, but think despite all his errors he may turn out to be alright.

Terry 2-1.

Terry makes up for his mistake

and Gomes is a shit keeper and if he is still Spurs number one after January I will be amazed.

FT: Chippenham 0-1 Swindon. I'm sure that was fun for the 158.

Undefeated in Brynes second caretaker spell!

Is that all you bring at home?

Well that was a good performance-Upson SWP Carrick and Downing all outstanding.Will they be involved in our next competitive game?Not a fucking chance

Why can't the Germans be so lethargic all the time.

England game was magic IMO. We totally dominated the game and should have won it easily. Carson is incredibly shit and should never get anywhere near the England team again.

Glenn Johnson was awesome as was Wright -Phillips and Downing.

Thought Agbonlhaor looked OK as well.

Terry's goal was a cracker and made up for his and Caron's fuck up earlier.

Well at least we had depth. I love how Capello will still look pissed off and yell "push up" even on 92 minutes instead of sitting back like England teams of old have. Fantastic result IMO.

I am quietly optimistic with Super Fabio in charge. Let's not mention winning World Cups etc as we have to qualify but we have the makings of a very very good side.

Gary it was a fucking friendly dude, don't get too excited.

Although I was dead against the Fabio appointment (as I fear he'll make england good-ish).

That's the most upbeat review ever.

It was okay, we should have won and did... Terry was just as bad as Carson for their goal. Germany were shite (not the reason why we won but still, they were really shit)

When Germany decided to turn up we looked panicy which is no different.

A win is a win, barely any of those will feature in the next game - we move on.

Take that optimists!!!! :D

Friendly yes but well played Friendly. Goes to show we don't need Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard etc to do well. What it does show though is that we still have players who will bust a gut to wear the shirt. Although if we were playing say San Marino would the passion had still been there? Germany is a big match and Germany played pretty much a full strength team apart from Ballack. Was just good to see a bit of passion. Fabio isn't afraid to drop players, Owen and Beckham who under previous regimes were untouchable (apart from Becks and McTwat). It's refreshing to see players who will give there all for their country instead of taking their spot in the team forgranted.

Yes Fabio has made us very good.... we still need a good goalkeeper. James is getting on a bit though.

Germany were not at full strength Gazza.

Neither were we though Rich. Good game and good performance. Think we just edged it. Downing had a good game as did Upson.

What the hell was downing doing having a good game

Except when he went to shoot :)

When the super stars Rio and Stevie fucking G return we'll be shit again

Pessimists!!! To be honest I am normally very pessimistic when it comes to England who lets be honest are incredibly over-rated by the media. But it was good to see a team without all the top players do well and beat a decent side. It shows we have depth and gives me a reason to think Fabio is doing a good job. Shame that as noted above a lot of those players wont see a senior international game again for a while barring injuries.

I have always thought that Gerrard has been shit for England and the media have mentioned this as well. Under Capello he seems to be brining some of his Liverpool form to the England squad.

Yes but I was correcting Gazza who stated that only Ballack was missing (Fritz, Lahm, Jansen, Frings, Metzelder, Borowski, Schneider....)

It was decent and it was a win, but it I was majorly disappointed that the Germans didn't challenge our B team. It wasn't a fact of being too good for them either.

We'll always win games playing dull and I have no problems with that  8)

I'd say we were better for not being full strength.

Whilst im well aware it wasnt the most difficult game and Germany had players missing.

Did we really miss Walcott, Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham, A.Cole, J.Cole & Ferdinand, did we heck.

Also, well good does Michael Carrick pass the ball? is there a better passer of the ball out there?

I'd agree with that - every time a "megastar" withdrew it got more interesting for me. Maybe why the Germans didn't seem that bothered!?!

First defeat for the Germans in Berlin for over 30 years...they gave up that record pretty easy...

Great result tonight, loved it.

From a friend at the ground Terry was screaming at Carson to come out and claim it.

Good to see the villa youngsters given a chance.

Germany 1-2 England. Doesn't get a lot better.

Gutted I didn't go. stoopid axs.

oh come on, that curry was ace, and you got a lift home from some dashing young man! :P

the curry was good, I will admit that.

Rich ffs please learn how to combine your c's and your k's, that's about the millionth time and it's a bit annoying. PaniCKy.

Carrick only passes sideways, so does Barry.

I'd admit that they can't play together, but Lamps and Gerrard have more ability in their left bollocks than MC and GB have combined.

Glad someone said it, because i don't understand this "Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard are shit" nonsense people have in their heads.

Lampard and Gerrard, are in stats alone, amongst the best midfielders in the world. Few midfielders score, as near as makes no difference, 20 goals a season for going on 4 seasons on the trot. And Rooney although a little bit poor until lately, still has so much more to give than just scoring goals. I could understand it based on England performances, but that's only judging them on a fraction of their games.

I'd have said "100% agree" until you went on about Rooney. I still dislike him because:

a) he plays for Man Utd
b) he's a scouser
c) he's ginger
d) he cost us Euro 2006 by jumping on Carvalho's manhood

They're valid enough reasons i suppose, but i care not for any premiership team, well now Reading are back where they belong anyway.

I LOVED IT. I WATCHED IT, IM FUCKED!!! I LOVE MM

Fuk off.

Better passer than Carrick = Tom Huddlestone. He's just not as good as him in most other departments!

I was shocked that Downing played well. I also thought Bent made some good runs and looked dangerous, just didn't have the quality at the end of them.

Glen Johnson should have secured rightback for the next game at least.

Organise these words to form a well known saying

GRAPES SOUR

Fred how was that sour grapes? 

A- It was a friendly
B- I think Fabio will do well for you lot, (I'd have preferred KK to get the job again).

????

I'm not sure how you arrive at your sour grapes conclusion, think you're reading a little bit into it. 

PS - All I was saying to Gazzza was don't get too carried away - )much the same as I didn't when this happened http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/330910.stm )

Nice to see Scottish fans dressing up as blue seats last night in your biggest ever friendly!! Were ticket prices too high or something? A Tenner I heard.

Best fans in the world my eye!

 :fishing: :harhar:

Biggest ever friendly?  Really?  A lot of the supporters don't care much for friendlies BO.  Don't blame them, not interested in them in the slightest, just a money making exercise for the SFA suits.

That was a flippin rubbish fishin' attempt Frederico!

It worked though Jan

Not really I just explained that it wasn't a case of sour grapes.

Fuck knows what capello has done to our boys. I'm all for it though

He's even got the squad players (who've never played together as a unit by and large) looking like a good well organised side.

The biggest plus is our ball retention. It used to do my head in watching England as we tried to play premier league style football and give the ball back to good sides every 10 seconds. As a result our players would be fucked by the end of the game after 90 mins of ball chasing.

The players now look a lot calmer when in possesion despite Fabio threatening to do his nut if any of them gives the ball away needlessly or in a bad area.

Its not perfection and we're by no means condenders for the World cup (yet ;)) but it does go at least some way to showing that those that said our players were massively over rated where wrong.  We do have some good players (and some mediocre ones) and our squad is one of the top 10 in the world. We just needed a competant manager to get the correct level of performance out of them.

Nah, they were staying away in protest against the 86 hand of god in support of Britain's best and ruling country, England.

I'm not fishing, it's the only explanation.

BTW, Butcher. Did he or didn't he?

NO, definitely not a case ... more like a whole fucking vineyard!

I don't believe he did, rather embarrassingly Maradona played the "who is Butcher?" card in a post match interview.  He said he shook the hand of the Scottish manager and that was it, as he didn't know who Butcher was.

The whole episode is childish to say the least.

I don't know, preserving a 22 year grudge takes dedication.

Butcher should have lamped the fat cunt

Tevez's mum came to visit her son in training before the big match.


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That's exactly what I'm doing-judging them on their England performances because that is the topic.They(Ferdinand and Gerrard)are generally not very good for England,dont really care what they do for their clubs

Well Terry should've dealt with it, if the keeper wants it he calls, if not you deal with it.  To be fair, Terry admitted it was his fault.

that's what i said. first priority - make it safe..

Damn right...rubber up.