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3-0 Engerland, Owen Crouch Lampard  :beers:

F*ck me ! Its 6:25am. Do I reach for the beer or what ?

NMH 'Hung over from Poland vs Ecquador yesterday lunchtrime'

I think England will win 2-0. Worst case scenario will be 0-0

I'm going for 2-0; can't see us not winning this one.

I think we'll win, but it won't be pretty.

I'm saving the beer swigging for a little later (I was pissed by midday yesterday on the golf course and I'm still in recovery)

Well that'll work for a start!

I predict OG will be England's top scorer  :P

Wish we were more than 1-0 up at half time.

Bloody shite abc commentary and coverage.

US idea of covering a game:

1. Start transmission just as the ball is kicked off
2. Stats on the earliest goalkeeper substitution in a WC game
3. Ashley Cole: A great attacker.
4. Ref blows for half time. No review. Straight to commercials.
5. As I type. Back to soddin basketball !
6. Back to game and view of 3 x blonde tottie. Now commercials again !

Despite all this crap, we need another goal methinks !

NMH

John Moston is really pissing me off now. he just keeps going and going.
i agree with number 6.
:beers:

Disappointing game:

- Defended well and killed the game in the 2nd half
- Dire game to watch
- RoboCrouch penalised for everything
- Linesmen hot on throw ins..Who cares !!
- Poor yellow cards
- Abc commentator goes on about Robinson being in the select club of keepers that have scored a goal in a game. He also saved 2 penalties...Didn't mention it was against Swindon.

NMH 'Cmon T&T'

If your in America, why are you complaining! It's better than this shit hole :o

that was poo

I wasn't complaining about being in America, I was complaining about the American commentary.

NMH

It was indeed rather dull. Now for the real entertainment...The Italian Job on BBC1. 8)

I'm still dying from last night, crap game and as my Mother would say a clean sheet is always a result.

Three points aren't bad either.

Mark Laurenson made me chuckle when he described Robinson as a flying banananananaaaaaa.

 :nod:

not enough attacking options.we need rooney fit quickly

england fans always get carried away before a tournament...overly confident. ive ALWAYS predicted semi final at best. this performance = quarter final at best.

i think the heat was a major factor today some of them looked dead (gerrard)

The first half we played very well and outclassed Paruguay, should really have been more than one up.

Didn't really start the second half too well but I didn't think the substitution worked at all. Crouch will always provide plenty of knock ons from balls he wins in the air which is great if you have Owen there to to get on the end of them which worked very well in the first half but when Crouch is isolated with no-one within 30 metres of him there is no-one he can head it down too so there is no point in just playing high balls to him.

If Sven wanted to take Owen off then surely he should have brought on Walcott or there is no point in him being there. Also it was dissapointing than Aaron Lennon didn't get a chance as his pace could've been a big help in the second half.

The delivery in the second half was also much worse, in the first half it was superb and led to the goal.

Hopefully it was just the heat that took it out of us but we can play a lot better. The important thing is we got a win though, need to beat Trinidad and Tobago now and then we can think about giving Rooney some time to get match fit.

I'd agree we were crying out for a striker to come on in the 2nd half after they nailed down Cole in his hole.

Crying out for Dafoe really.   As BWB and Ian Wright mentioned there's not much point in young Walcott being there if he's not going to play.

oh, and we will never win the WC with sven...hes too negative

Coxy in correct prediction shocker

For once I also agree with BWB.

Its after midday now, so beer is acceptable. Although I'm currently drinking coffee.

Fucking rubbish.  My mates have stood me up on an all-day sesh and night out in Brighton, so I should be cunted about now and ready to go out....   :x

Oh yeh, the footie was alrite...

:(  Bit of an anti climax really. The game was slightly dull, and its a bit worrying that we did'nt score any ourselves but to be fair we had alot of chances and I still think we'll win the games coming up too but it won't be a walk in the park. Lampard looked shit hot, I have a good feeling he'll score some beauties for us in this competetion. Gerrard worked his arse off too.

How can they blame the heat! especially beckham, ffs he plays in spain every week!!

Not a classic seconf half performance :) But a commanding if not deadly first half.

Crouch can not play as the loan attacker Sven. It's OK pushing Joe Cole up bu he needs someone along side him as an out and out attacker.

At the end of the day we have 3 points, 2 more than anyone else in our group. A win against T&T and we can put our feet up a bit.

That was dogshite, we created about two chances in each half....only one of those was any good and it went in.

Strikers, got nothing and did nothing.....

Too much backwards and sideways passing, not enough get up and go. 2nd half we were crying out for Rooney to pick up the ball deep and just drive forward at their defence.

Agree,it was dull and a bit worrying in the second half :-))( but at this stage its about getting through to the next round,its no good playing really well yet,lets save it for the knockout rounds[fingers crossed anyway :wink: ]

Oh yeah and the referee was fucking awful.

We had far more than 2 chances in the first half though.

Wouldn't surprise me if Paraguay got past the group stages.

Beckham is a cunt -should have been subbed with half an hour to go.Apart from the free kick did shit all.

agreed adje, sadly i think his deadball ability makes him almost a neccessity as we'd have been fucked without him today. i'd much rather see a winger who will take players on, trackback, you know - actually play like a winger.

oh hang on we've got one!

the ref was shite as well.

look at the stats and facts on beckham and you will realise how important he really is to enland (and madrid)i would love to have a winger who attacked his defenders but until we have a winger who can create as many chances as beckam does he will do the job

I wouldn't take that for granted just yet.

No point on wasting energy on the fucking Paragays.

Job done, get in get out stop fucking about etc etc.

Frankly I dont care.

Yup it was shit but more winning shit will do me fine.

I got squiffy and was in bed by 7.30 :D Ive lost it I really have :(

i was gone by 10  :?

did start at 8.30 in the morning though  :D

oh i've got a black eye to from a rather mental celebration  :D

He'll have been playing in the evenings though (Spanish clever enough to know it's too hot in the day).  It was over 30 degress yesterday, but the next 2 games are a late afternoon and an evening kick off.

I think 3 points is all that matters in the end. The referee was a total cunt but then it hapens.

Bring on Trinidad and I hope I'm not being too optimistic expecting atleast 3 goals from England on Thursday.

I took your advice Macca and looked at the stats and they told me that once again,Beckham's pass completion rate was by far the lowest of all the England players,proving that factually he gives the ball away more than any other player in the side.This,sadly,is not a one-off either,it is the case in practically every England match

 The last time our primma donnas came up against a commited side of lower league players who got in their face...namely Norvern Ireland....they didn't fancy it much, could easily be something similar on Thursday.

I think Beckham contributes much more than a lot of people make out. His pass completion rates will be lower than others because he's the only one that puts any crosses in. And most of the crosses are pretty damn good: if not finding the striker then at least going pretty damn close. Much more effective than a lot of other players who go past a player and then pass it backwards/knock it out.

Having been too drunk to remember the game, i've just remembered Hargreaves and Downing came on. Forgive me if i'm wrong, but wasn't our best winger in the warm up games Aaron Lennon? He can play roght or left, and should have been chucked on way ahead of the massively overrated Downing. And i can think of 3 players in our squad who should play the holding role ahead of Hargreaves.

I don't get Ericsson.

Oh, and how obvious is it now that we needed a Defoe or someone in the squad for whan Mickey Owen inevitably fails to produce again...?

 :shock:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

and how many more attempts does he have than others..also when i notice you forgot to mention how many assists the bloke has had in the last 5 years for england.but hey minor details and that

What? :x  :wink:

When has Owen EVER" failed to produce" in a tournament?

This is all past tense. We need someone NOW who can make up for his evident short-comings.

The boy wonder will come good-cant believe people are writing him off yet again.He's our only proven goalscorer at this level.Taking him off was a huge error.Everybody knows he can turn a game in a flash-remember Argentina.

The only way Hargreaves can keep getting picked is that he must have some spicy fucking sleaze on Ericsson.

I think we should be told

the last one?

He did alright in euro 2004. Superb goal in the Portugal game.

And he was tremendous v Switzerland

michael owen is our only world-class proven goalscorer. u can only leave him out if he is playing truly bad, i mean havin consistent stinkers. against the argies he did fuk all for 89 minutes, then scores 2 in the last 2 minutes. that is why we cannot afford to leave him out. end of.

knob

lets get rory fallon in  :roll:

The ITV news mentioned Walcott has picked up a knock and missed training today.  Not that it seems to matter, the poor lad seems to be nothing more than a mascot at the moment.

Poor Owen looks a yard off pace at the moment but he has to get 90 minutes in against T&T.  Later kick off so hopefully won't be as hot as Saturday which should help.