Tuesday's International Football

[tans]

Marvellous

[Mexicano Rojo]

i watched the end of the scotland match, actually felt for scotland, litchenstein were easily the dirtiest team i have seen in years, the ref had lost all control. they were hacking down scottish players and ref was doing fuck all, to my suspicious mind i would say ref had money on result.

[STFC_Gazza]

I refuse to watch England at the min after that shit in the Summer, Glad to hear Milner and Johnson seem promising however I flipped between the Scotland and Ireland matches last night. With Ferdinand, Terry coming back, Crapello will be back to kissing the ass of his favourites and drop players who from most reports have managed to do their job well. Rio and Terry should be on the bench at best if we are to believe his "youth movement", which was clearly forced on him by the FA because the country wanted it and the FA couldnt afford to sack Crapello.

[Jean-Francois is God]

Personally I enjoyed watching the England game last night and was very impressed with the football that we played.  I am glad that we now seem to have our goalkeeper sorted in Joe Hart which seemed to be a major problem in the World Cup because quite frankly David James is past it.  It will also be very interesting to see if/how the likes of Ferdinand, Terry and Lampard will fit into the next England squad/team because over the past two games we have done very well.  The only change I would make is probably bring in Terry to play alongside Jagielka at the back.  Gerrard has played much better in his role without Lampard, breaking forward and leaving Barry to do the dirty work.  Adam Johnson looks a real handy player and I think James Milner owes everything to Andy King.

It was also very good to see a Devizes St George's flag at the ground (although it had obviously been tarred with 'Wolves' on it).  Oh, Jamie Redknapp is a complete and utter knobjockey.

[chalkies_shorts]

Liechtenstein must be well fucked off. 1-0 up against a pile of shite who get the winner in the 7th minute of the 5 minutes added

[Spy]

I won't be happy about England football until we do well at Euro 2012. We did well in qualifying for the world cup then fucked it up at the tournament itself so tbh no matter how well we do in qualifying for the Euros it won't make up for what happened at the world cup.

So long as we qualify the only matches I really care about in these qualifying games are the ones against Wales as they're derbys and it's rare for us to play them, especially both home and away.

I wish we had a new manager.

[china red]

I wish we had a new manager.

Yeah but who

[STFC_Gazza]

I won't be happy about England football until we do well at Euro 2012. We did well in qualifying for the world cup then fucked it up at the tournament itself so tbh no matter how well we do in qualifying for the Euros it won't make up for what happened at the world cup.

So long as we qualify the only matches I really care about in these qualifying games are the ones against Wales as they're derbys and it's rare for us to play them, especially both home and away.

I wish we had a new manager.

This really. Until we actually do well in Euro 2012 then I wont give a shit about English Football, as noted above we did great to qualify for the World Cup and fucked it up.

[Summerof69]

I see the Scotland fans were booing the Liechtenstein national anthem, which just happens to be 'God Save The Queen' :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8980064.stm

[erictheexile]

You always get that up here so just ignore it.  To say that the Tartan Army soon stopped laughing last night would be the understatement of the year.  I don't know what made me laugh more.  The degree of celebration after beating a country whose population is about the size of Penhill's or the manager talking about it as being a "great night". 

[Anteater]

Personally I enjoyed watching the England game last night and was very impressed with the football that we played.  I am glad that we now seem to have our goalkeeper sorted in Joe Hart which seemed to be a major problem in the World Cup because quite frankly David James is past it.  It will also be very interesting to see if/how the likes of Ferdinand, Terry and Lampard will fit into the next England squad/team because over the past two games we have done very well.  The only change I would make is probably bring in Terry to play alongside Jagielka at the back.  Gerrard has played much better in his role without Lampard, breaking forward and leaving Barry to do the dirty work.  Adam Johnson looks a real handy player and I think James Milner owes everything to Andy King.

It was also very good to see a Devizes St George's flag at the ground (although it had obviously been tarred with 'Wolves' on it).  Oh, Jamie Redknapp is a complete and utter knobjockey.

Agree with this except maybe the Andy King bit.

England played well, Capello picked the right team and formation (and against Bulgaria) so fair play to him. Hope he carries on with the same (more or less) team.

As for not giving a shit until we do well that's pretty crap really ! As with the Town I'll support England through thick and thin, even if it is almost always thin, and therefore give credit if and when it's due and not just wait until they finally win something.

[flammableBen]

I dunno who to agree with, on one hand I haven't given a shit about England for ages, long before all these not hating bandwagon jumpers. On the other hand Gazzza used "Crapello" twice, I can't be agreeing with someone who does that.

Argh.

[Samdy Gray]

I refuse to watch England because of Gary Spamley.

[Ginginho]

I was pissed off about the World Cup, the same as everyone else.
But that's history now, and I know it's only two qualifiers against mediocre teams but my enthusiasm for England is coming back, I think because of the change in personnel more than anything, these young'uns have breathed fresh air into the team and I hope they keep their place.

Roll on Euro 2012

[thedarkprince]

You've hit the nail on the head there Ginginho.  We look good in qualifying from easy groups and then get found out against the decent teams at the tournaments.  I genuinely think we could do with getting a tough group to qualify from as then we would face some genuinely tough games before we get to the real competition.

Saying all that I'm happy with how we're playing, and who's playing, but will be interesting to see how Capello copes with Milner being suspended and some of the old regulars returning to fitness.  Genuinely don't know how it will play out.  I'd assume Ferdinand will walk straight back in as he's captain but that's if he's match fit.  Lampard and Terry, I'm not so sure about.  The midfield is looking far more balanced so I'd replace Milner with Johnson and stick with what we've got.  Reckon Terry could have a few games on the bench after his Summer spat.