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If so what channel is it on. Is anybody pubbing it?

BBC

I expect instant answers. you lot are rubbish. I'd found out already.

7mins. This is supposed to be the information age.

As someone who does not like you i declined to answer

cheers macca  :D

Dont mention it :D

I wasn't going to bother but it seems my other plans have fallen through so I probably will end up watching it.

Why the fuck to we pass it round the back 4 for like 10mins every England game. Pisses me right off! And whenever Joe Cole gets the ball he tries to cross the ball which is the one thing he CANT do, we need him skinnin up bringing Rooney into play etc.

My God we are crap, in fact double crap ... the new era, just like the old one as far as I'm concerned.

Wes Brown is shit...End of.

I cant believe after 20 minutes I started doing work again and even put my beer back down

Let the booing begin, sounds like a fantastic non atmosphere tonight.
For fuck sake this is bloody Switzlerland we are playing, not a super football power.
We are at home playing ONE up front.

Do England's players learn anything in training?
This is exactly the same as we played with ShitClaren and Eriksson.
Its the players who are just complete shite, not our managers...apart from McClaren :D

nothing like giving people a chance eh

i've got the ireland game on.

Its got to be a better game than this crap

thats not even remotely funny, its funny if it sounds the same as his name

back to watching flight of the conchords

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
FINALLY SOME DECENT FOOTBALL... AND A GOAL :beers:

joe cole is a class footballer.

I concur

made that out of fuck all

england fans are retards.

Over the last 40 years, the relative route one direct style of play has done fuck all for us. We pass the ball around well, and were getting slated for it!! Some of the passes are going astray, but were playing much better than we ever did under mclaren

Really

er yeah

I just thought up Erection as opposed to Eriksson, that sounds the same and at least a little bit funny?

I'll put the kettle on, give me a shout when we look world class, in the old days we actually did.

hehe i like that mate

also Turd Grip  8)

The mighty Swiss equalise

chin up yer miserable grump. When, in the last 20 years, have england ever looked remotley world class in the finals of a tournament?

arse

dont let the Swiss goal stop people from noticeing my Turd Grip post  :x

European championships under Venables in England, knocked out on penalties in Germany when Robson was manager.

Oh bum me 2-1 up

That goal was bloody well worked :D

I noticed it, just can't think of a reply though. Maybe we should just expand this to managers in general otherwise this little side game could be very short lived.

Many Genitals sounds a bit like Terry Venables?

hmmm borderline

i was only 3 months old at wc '90, but after reading books and looking at highlights and shit like that it seems we were lucky to get to the semi's. A truly world class team doesn't need a last minute goal to beat belgium, or two penaltys to beat cameroon.

And euro 96 i can't really comment on again, but from what i can tell we only played really well once, against holland. And we were at home too.

If only Andy Kings first name was Juan.

You asked, I answered, last four in both competitions.
Not even qualified this time and not likely again if we play like this.

So when we thrashed the favourites Holland 4-1 we were lucky.
We outplayed Germany in the world cup in the semi, definitely the best side in the competition, lost on penalties again.

he stated other than that game delly welly

didn't win though. Capellos a winner, and WILL get us to at least a final. With a full strength team, and learning to play the capello way more will bring us success

A world class England won the world cup after a 0-0 draw with France, a lucky win against a better Argentina with 10 men, a very competitive 2-1 win against Portgual, a disputed goal against Germany in the final.
They are remembered as the best we ever had, Chewey Mint.

i wasnt agreeing or disagreeing with either of u delly, just stated a fact, and id prefer Minty Winty, not chewey mint

I keep glancing over at the telly seeing the abbreviation and thinking we are playing 8) (and losing I might add)

its Switzerland mate.

is that fucking cunt lawrenson calling me a geek

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: that was ace

i'm still laughin at lawro's comment.  comic timing to perfection :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Yep you personally. Oooh, he's just called you a speccy wanker as well. I'd do him.

Capello worries me, he looks too much like Bowden. I keep seeing him out the corner of my eye and hearing "I've got a game plan .... in my head". It might be unfair but I'm never going to like him because of this. That and he's a Nazi.

Absolutely spot-on there David

  I'd quite forgotten the 0-0 v France....in fact it never happened we won 2-0.

 There's bollocks and then  there's bollocks.

I seem to remember we looked pretty handy against the sweaties too.............................

....but had to thank a terrible penalty by Gary McAllister(?)

Untill England stop playing the 'european' style and start playing the 'Premiership' style we'll never do anything.

Look at the pace and tempo the Premiership teams play with when they need a goal. Look are the pure pace in the Aston Villa team. Watch the way Tevez, Rooney and Ronaldo run at players.

Yet, England pass it sideways for about 65 minutes of each game. Unless you're at least 3-0 up then you should be attacking after more goals, not passing it across your back line boring everyone to sleep.

No long balls though. That was good to see  :D

But we won...

It's a good start at least.

I didnt watch it. Did everyone observe the minutes silence for the Munich anniversary? Bet some twats didnt.

I wasn't unimpressed.

I've been angry with England for a few years now, and i'm giving it a chance. Like DV said, I also don't like the Euro football style, it's not playing to our strengths, however, Capello knows a thing or 2 and i'll be willing to overlook boring football in place of victory.

I was actually pleased with our game. It's a start.

I forgot to turn it on until five past 8, but I was on my own so I wasn't talking anyway.

I semi-agree with you DV (which is a bit of a change). I don't think it's a case of us playing a European style though, I think it's just a lack of any urgency in the side. I agree that getting players running at people, having the defensive midfielders coming in to sweep up clearences etc is the way to go, but not doing that doesn't equal European style. In our case it's just been not really giving a shit.

I watched todays game and enjoyed it in bits. Joe Cole was good, although he tended to be one of the highlights when everybody else was being shit anyway.

Rooney had a good 20mins spell, but he's not a one man show, however much we want him to be. His good bit's coincided with decent balls from the midfield. Which seemed to always come from Bentley and Cole.

Jenas seemed to be a bit of a vanishing appearing player. He popped up in bits but wasn't exactly a presence.

Or something. I don't like trying to talk football about the national side. I tend to disagree with people.

No, you're wrong.

It was all thanks to Uri Geller.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/photos/uf_geller_122206.jpg

The second half performance was much better, but then this was a Swiss team who made god knows how many changes in said second half.

I've been complaining about the difference in style from their premier league games, to England games for ages and have put it partly down to the talented non-english players in the Prem. Grab the English on their own and they seem to want to just pass it sideways for long periods. zzzzzzzz

I went to the game, it started a bit slow and we looked nervous but we controlled the possession and looked the better side for the whole game. Their goal was completely against the run of play. Both our goals were very good and we could easily have scored more if the Swiss goalkeeper had not made a couple of very good saves.

I thought Joe Cole should have been man of the match not Gerrard. Rooney up front on his own always seems a bit isolated but he did ok, though Crouch up front, Rooney on the left and Wright-Phillips on the right worked much better - very promising. Another excellent performance from Crouch, great first time volley and started the build-up to our second goal.

Overall the performance was not amazing but decent and a good start to Capello's reign.

Sorry Uruguay was 0-0, stand corrected Reg.

what a bender he is

I went to the game too and have to agree with you. First half we really were poor, and Brown and Cole were the weak links. They gave the ball away and provided nothing in the way of support for the wingers. Both our goals were good and there were flashes of what we expect an England side to play like. We can only hope Capello can get them to turn that into a proper 90 minute performance.

Nobody's mentioned the "ball-watcher".Yet another game where he's cost us a goal,got away with it in the first half when the Swiss guy missed an easy header  but as long as Ferdinand plays we will never win a tournament-liability imo

I didn't think Ferdinand was that bad, certainly no worse than Brown, Upson or Ashley Cole. Brown was particularly bad, he really shouldn't be playing for England and Upson is no way near as good as Terry but he won't get near the team when he's back.

Ferdinand was by no means worse than Brown or Cole but I think Upson was decent.The fact I was trying to make is that Ferdinand unlike the other three seems to be a shoe-in and I dont think thats a good thing.

Terry is so over rated its scary

He's much better than Upson though...

Brown was cack the other night, I said he shouldn't have been in the team and think I was proven right well before half-time

well yes he is better than upson obviously I just hope woodgate stays fit for a while ,

Terry is slow and basically just good in the air,if vidic,ferdinad,toure or carragher are out for lenghy spells the respective clubs miss them , Chelsea are doing better without Terry that speaks volumes

I don't think Terry is overrated, he's been one of the top defenders in the premiership over the last few seasons so he deserves to be rated highly, has to be one of the first names on the team sheet for England when fit.
Are Chelsea really doing better without him? They didnt beat Portsmouth or Aston Villa and they need to win those sort of games to have a shot at the title. Also Chelsea have spent way more on their back-up players than most teams, if he played for a different club they would miss him more.

John Terry isn't overrated, he is a top player and never seems to make mistakes.
However, I would like to see Woodgate given a chance over JT or Rio in a friendly or something, Woody deserves it.

I think Woodgate is overrated. People always go on about if he could stay fit for a while etc. etc.. He's never fit, ergo, overrated imo.

Ferdinand gives goals away for England on a regular basis-that is a fact.People can say he's good if they like,I'm just saying against top-class opposition he's a liability,how he plays for ManUre doesn't bother me but for England it does and I think he is vastly overrated

Not a great Ferdinand fan, always seems to play better with a PROPER centre half next to him picking up the pieces, good playing when in possession though.

yep-if he's got time on the ball-but first and foremost he should be able to defend