Euro 2016

[Reg Smeeton]

It's not saying much but i think the team in last WC was quite a bit worse.

Clutching at straws now probably but at least we have a few exciting young players who may have potential at international level.

Certainly, in the second half these lads went into a collective mental disintegration....it will either finish them or they'll come back stronger.....

[Honest Lee]

And they all cried at the end ............ so that's alright then.   

[fuzzy]

So, we were beaten by the better team.

All those pundits and commentators with their patronising bollocks about England being a superior team and Iceland being the minnows? Hers a bit of a clue you cunts- the rest of the world is catching up with the top teams and England have never been better than a division 2 side occasionally punching above its weight (1966, 1996). You only have to look at the percentage of foreign players and coaching staff in the Premier League to realise that we ain't all that.

The Premier league being the best in the world? Fuck off. Most entertaining maybe but technically not the best.

[suttonred]

Some decent piss takes here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36648624/social-media-laughs-at-england-being-knocked-out-of-euro-2016-by-iceland

[adje]

So, we were beaten by the better team.

All those pundits and commentators with their patronising bollocks about England being a superior team and Iceland being the minnows? Hers a bit of a clue you cunts- the rest of the world is catching up with the top teams and England have never been better than a division 2 side occasionally punching above its weight (1966, 1996). You only have to look at the percentage of foreign players and coaching staff in the Premier League to realise that we ain't all that.

The Premier league being the best in the world? Fuck off. Most entertaining maybe but technically not the best.

Agreed .yes its pretty disastrous but christ,to listen to some people its as if we lost in a qualifying match to azerbloodybaijan.its the last 16,iceland came through a far more taxing qualifying group than us and then arguably a much stronger first round group also.its not THAT humiliating

[Don Rogers Sock]

Agreed .yes its pretty disastrous but christ,to listen to some people its as if we lost in a qualifying match to azerbloodybaijan.its the last 16,iceland came through a far more taxing qualifying group than us and then arguably a much stronger first round group also.its not THAT humiliating

The performance was

[suttonred]

Performance was more funny than humiliating. Felt sorry for my 11 year old kiwi nephew, he lands here next week and was hoping to watch England in the final in a pub with me and his dad. I did tell him before it started that was as likely as herthab winning miss world, poor sod.

[Posh Red]

I find it quite amusing that a group of footballers that failed at international level are slagging off another group of footballers that have also failed

All six of them from ITV & BBC have won fuck all at that level, I guess that's why they are qualified to say how shit the current bunch are. After all the bunch before them almost certainly slated them for their failures

[Don Rogers Sock]

As opposed to us doing it on a forum eh.

[StfcRusty]

I just listened to Hodgson's press conference.  Unbelievable stuff.

He started by saying "I don't know what I'm doing here" because he'd made a statement yesterday and was now not the England manager.  Clearly there under duress.  Total arrogance, no understanding that the public might want an explanation for last night's shambles when he's pocketed £15 mill over 4 years.

He was asked a handful of pretty gentle questions and just waffled on until they ran out of time.  None of the questions the journos asked were ones that anyone on this forum would've asked.  Smacks of an old boys' club protecting their cushy numbers.

Hodgson ended by saying "I hope you're happy with the job I've done.  If you're not, I make no apologies".

Like I said last night, Hodgson = Paul Hart

[Flashheart]

I find it quite amusing that a group of footballers that failed at international level are slagging off another group of footballers that have also failed

All six of them from ITV & BBC have won fuck all at that level,

Some of them gave it a good go though at least.

[adje]

I find it quite amusing that a group of footballers that failed at international level are slagging off another group of footballers that have also failed

All six of them from ITV & BBC have won fuck all at that level, I guess that's why they are qualified to say how shit the current bunch are. After all the bunch before them almost certainly slated them for their failures

absolutely.thats what i was shouting at the telly myself.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

And just what are the Iceland fans chanting with the one that sounds like 'Come on you Spurs'?

[Ells]

And just what are the Iceland fans chanting with the one that sounds like 'Come on you Spurs'?

The Icelandic pronunciation of Iceland (Island) sounds a lot like England when sung at that level, it was odd.

I quite enjoyed the punditry last night (in as much as I was in the mood to enjoy anything.) I love Crouch, Lee Dixon sounded actually livid and Ian Wright compared it to Space Jam. It's been worse.

[Abrahammer]

They might not achieved much at international level themselves but you could see they bloody cared last night.

What else were they supposed to do apart from deservably slag off the shit we saw served up?