Go on then: England vs Croatia

[Red Chilli]

All the teams from the UK are out. I think that say that something is wrong, not only in England but in the other countries in the UK too.

If you want to have a chance to win the big cups then you need to have the skill to do it and not just physical strength.

Change what you are allowed to do on the pitch so the players won't need to put in a lot of work on their physical strength from a low age and can instead train more with the ball and get better skill.

Then you will get more skillful players that can actually pass the ball instead of hoofing it because they need to many touches when they get the ball and that means that they will be closed down.

You win the big cups when you have both strong and skillful players and not just one of them, like England have now.

Look at Argentina, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and so on.

Well I won't be looking at Spain croatia and Portugal for advice on how to win international tournaments.

[reddragon]

oi oi savaloy ingerlund til i die im ingerlund til i die

2 world wars one world cup

god bless her majesty















**** i wish i was welsh

[paulcooper4]

Neil Young
victor meldrew

[Neil Young]

I don't bel...

[The Erectile Banana]

YAWN

course it is mate - that's why everyone all over the world wants to watch it - loads of silky skills for 1/2 hour then **** all else.

I DO know the difference between the most 'exciting' and the 'best', and the Premiership is both.

It might have the best action in terms of excitement but in terms of the quality of the football it is a poor second.

And everyone wants to watch it because it is being marketed so agressively. La Liga, or any other big european league would be just as popular if it was marketed so well.

I can see you point but I can't agree with you on this one.

[Iceman]

I am a Liverpool fan who is interested in England............ I dont go to summer tournaments nor do I see them live.............. well not since the rebuilt wembley now hosts all their home matches................... it just annoys me that the idiots in the FA make mistake after mistake................. and let (their choice) the manager take the fall

You only have to look at McClarens cv to know he was never going to pull up any trees

#2 at Derby
#2 at the scum (reflected glory)
Manager of the mighty Boro...... who with one of the best chairman in the league he managed 1 league cup victory
#2 to Sven (reflected glory)

then suddenly he is England manager




Go on who believed he would ever make it at this level?...............I didnt

[paulcooper4]

2 world wars one world cup

god bless her majesty















**** i wish i was welsh

Thank **** I dont have to read all that ****E in the summer about england. All them ****in stupid little white plazzy hats with the red cross on and stupid ****in pictures of cabbies etc with 3 lions wrapped around them.

[Iceman]

Thank **** I dont have to read all that ****E in the summer about england. All them ****in stupid little white plazzy hats with the red cross on and stupid ****in pictures of cabbies etc with 3 lions wrapped around them.

but what am i to do with my St George car flags?


I cant put them on the car this coming summer................ Oh woe is me............ a whole £2 wasted

[reddragon]

Thank **** I dont have to read all that ****E in the summer about england. All them ****in stupid little white plazzy hats with the red cross on and stupid ****in pictures of cabbies etc with 3 lions wrapped around them.

innit - just watch the footie and enjoy without all the ****ing sun reading arseholes that make up the usual fans of Ingurland - whether they be from Scunthorpe or Telford or wherever they're a complete embarrassment to the rest of us - it's part of the reason we're Scouse not English

[Kronenburg1892]

I am a Liverpool fan who is interested in England............ I dont go to summer tournaments nor do I see them live.............. well not since the rebuilt wembley now hosts all their home matches................... it just annoys me that the idiots in the FA make mistake after mistake................. and let (their choice) the manager take the fall

You only have to look at McClarens cv to know he was never going to pull up any trees

#2 at Derby
#2 at the scum (reflected glory)
Manager of the mighty Boro...... who with one of the best chairman in the league he managed 1 league cup victory
#2 to Sven (reflected glory)

then suddenly he is England manager




Go on who believed he would ever make it at this level?...............I didnt

Never did.

My problem is with how much pressure is on any England manager on playing the players with sponsor "commercial value"??!!!

It's utter sh!te. How many weeks before a tournament does it work out for an ad agency to film an ad??

How did a team of nobodies from Greece win a European final?

International football needs to have a revolution in this country.

[reddragon]

It might have the best action in terms of excitement but in terms of the quality of the football it is a poor second.

And everyone wants to watch it because it is being marketed so agressively. La Liga, or any other big european league would be just as popular if it was marketed so well.

I can see you point but I can't agree with you on this one.

1. La Liga enjoys the experience of two of the worlds best marketed clubs to aid it's expansion. It's main problem is it's neither all that exciting or all that good [for the main]
2. Don't kid yourself - the quality of football in the Premiership is second to none. What happens in the Premiership happens 2 seconds quicker than in La Liga - ask Morientes! To be a Success in the Premiership you have to have the skills you have in La Liga, with the extra ingredient of speed of thought.

[disco]

All I can say is - what the **** was going on with that ****ing umbrella.

What the **** do you think the players were thinking when their manager was trying to keep their ****ing ginger hair dry?!

Umbrella-gate, I tell thee.

PS Feel sorry for Carson.

[disco]

**** me did you see the big eared one then? The face on him. He looked like he'd just found out Ray Stubbs had **** in his kettle.

Big ear's was (allegedly) thinking - well that was an easy million lost, most of it going to my ex-wife, next summer

[reddragon]

All I can say is - what the **** was going on with that ****ing umbrella.

What the **** do you think the players were thinking when their manager was trying to keep their ****ing ginger hair dry?!

Umbrella-gate, I tell thee.

PS Feel sorry for Carson.

aboslutely bizarre

[disco]

aboslutely bizarre

Terry Venables should have knocked him out and said, we're 2-0 down to ****ing Croatia after 10 minutes, have a seat and keep your hair dry, I'll take ****ing over from here.

But he didn't.