Hodgson - I dont know why I'm here; smint?

[Saveloy]

I'm still disappointed Sterling isn't our player though. He could have ripped it up in a Klopp team.

[Chazza]

Great stuff from England bricking it under pressure and conceding possession at every opportunity.

[Gibbo]

Carzola wants to stop morphing into Adam Sandler.

[Bender]

Jesse Lingard called up to the England Squad

[dww]

England's team tonight is just dire.

England XI to face Spain: Hart, Walker, Bertrand, Jones, Smalling, Carrick, Lallana, Delph, Barkley, Kane, Sterling.

My hope for tonight is Phil Jones to get injured again so I don't have to watch him play football.

I don't think that is as bad a team as many make out. Baffling choice to use Jones rather than Stones and Walker is terrible but other than that it is a pretty solid, unspectacular international team. The unwillingness of Hodgson to have any sort of progressive game plan (in a friendly) is a much bigger problem for the tournament ahead.

If you want play as back to the wall defenders then you need to be picking your best defense and two disciplined deep midfielders.

[Chris]

Jesse Lingard called up to the England Squad

Started 2 Premier League games in his career. One of them he was off after 23 minutes. The other one must have been some performance!

[Shaggy]

[Fredo]

I thought he was Dutch.

[Leyton388]

I ****ing hate the England national team and their owl faced cunt of a manager.

[Rich]

Started 2 Premier League games in his career. One of them he was off after 23 minutes. The other one must have been some performance!

Has to be the most ridiculous senior call-up of all time. Utterly mad.

[Exiled_red]

Jesse Lingard called up to the England Squad

WTF?

[Bender]

Has to be the most ridiculous senior call-up of all time. Utterly mad.

Let's not forget who the manager is

[Chris]

Look at this cunt! ****ing hell, it's 7 months away and he's already making excuses for failure and why it will be the players fault not his if they do. Massive ****house. This tournament is actually a massive chance for an outsider, most of the recent ones have seen an obvious winner before they've started but no one really looks particularly good right now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34891449

England manager Roy Hodgson fears "inexperience or a lack of quality" may be his side's undoing at Euro 2016.

Hodgson's team qualified for the finals in France with a 100% record and beat the hosts 2-0 at Wembley on Tuesday.

That side contained six players aged under 23 and Hodgson wonders if their youth will be an issue.

"You don't turn a guy who has played six or seven Premier League games and once for England into a Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard," he said.

"I do believe we will have the organisation, the discipline and the desire.

"If we fail it might just be because some of the teams that beat us have got that player or two who can turn a game."
Hodgson has been in charge of England since May 2012 and his team have only lost once in 16 matches since coming bottom of their group at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

He is pleased with the side's improvement, but says the young players are still learning at international level.

"I believe in the players and, given the opportunities, can become a good team but we are young, we are inexperienced - nothing is going to change that," added Hodgson.

"When Paul Pogba came on for France there was a definite acceleration in the quality they showed - we have got to get players up to that level of quality.

"It's still six or seven months away and I'm optimistic, positive and hopeful. This group of players won't let anyone down in terms of their attitude and desire.

"If they do fail it might just be because of inexperience or a lack of quality."

[Bender]

Look at this cunt! ****ing hell, it's 7 months away and he's already making excuses for failure and why it will be the players fault not his if they do. Massive ****house. This tournament is actually a massive chance for an outsider, most of the recent ones have seen an obvious winner before they've started but no one really looks particularly good right now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34891449

England manager Roy Hodgson fears "inexperience or a lack of quality" may be his side's undoing at Euro 2016.

Hodgson's team qualified for the finals in France with a 100% record and beat the hosts 2-0 at Wembley on Tuesday.

That side contained six players aged under 23 and Hodgson wonders if their youth will be an issue.

"You don't turn a guy who has played six or seven Premier League games and once for England into a Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard," he said.

"I do believe we will have the organisation, the discipline and the desire.

"If we fail it might just be because some of the teams that beat us have got that player or two who can turn a game."
Hodgson has been in charge of England since May 2012 and his team have only lost once in 16 matches since coming bottom of their group at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

He is pleased with the side's improvement, but says the young players are still learning at international level.

"I believe in the players and, given the opportunities, can become a good team but we are young, we are inexperienced - nothing is going to change that," added Hodgson.

"When Paul Pogba came on for France there was a definite acceleration in the quality they showed - we have got to get players up to that level of quality.

"It's still six or seven months away and I'm optimistic, positive and hopeful. This group of players won't let anyone down in terms of their attitude and desire.

"If they do fail it might just be because of inexperience or a lack of quality."

no surprise at him or the English FA

[Leyton388]

He's a massive cunt who's voice is like finger nails on a chalkboard to me. He's a completely fwaud and the sooner he's sacked the better.

Bellend!