The Official England Thread-The Team We All Support [Vol 2]

[Ayahuasca]

fathomfive said:

Completed the root and branch review?

They're still trying to think of a suitable fking title for it.

No good having a root and branch review when it's just the roots and branches reviewing themselves.

Tree is dead, chop it down, plant another.

[TEKNOPUG]

Steameh said:

Maybe my comments are out of hope for the country I love who deserves a golden era. I know I was the first one to jump to Pearsons defence when my club had a sticky patch and I know with the right man it can work out. I suppose I just would like everyone for once, to rally round him, sure question him, but lets give the guy the Euros, changing now would help no one.

The FA won't fire him and he won't resign. Best cross our fingers and hope that he can at least pick the kids regularly.

[pincher]

Ayahuasca said:

Steameh said:

that we played more attacking football than I have seen England play in the last 10 years?

And that failed to beat Ecuador.....or Honduras......or Italy.......or Uruguay.... or Costa Rica.

If that is our 'attacking football' I would hate to see our 'crap football'.

P5 W0 D3 L2 F4 A6

Attacking football at its absolute best

[pocty]

I'd love Roy to be manager of Chelsea one day...by the way I'm a hammer

Pocty

[vonuber]

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

[smn159]

vonuber said:

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

Players were st, it's all Roy's fault

[Amirhussain]

vonuber said:

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

Same st different day.

[Stu R]

vonuber said:

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

22 men kicked a ball around for 90 minutes. Nobody managed to put it between the sticks, few came close and overall it was as dull as this summary, had it been typed in beige.

[vonuber]

[Justin Cyder]

vonuber said:

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

Better than that, I shall shortly be uploading a comprehensive highlights reel from the entire England campaign for your delectation.

Anyone know how to work Vine?

[GloverMart]

vonuber said:

I missed the game, can someone give me a quick summary?

Don't need to. The highlights of the game are on Vine if you look...

[fathomfive]

The highlight of the England match was Suarez biting the Italian.

[PlankWithANailIn]

As someone that witnessed mexico 86, Italy 90, and USA 94. England's performance is not acceptable, Millionaires, jumpers for goal posts..all that st.

Since 1990 the England team has not been managed.

[Foppo]

Chuffed for Greece they never gave up,deserved to carry on.

[GloverMart]

Just seen Jimmy Anderson's tears at the end of the cricket match. He'd held out with Mooen Ali for nearly an hour and a half but was caught out on the penultimate ball, meaning England lost the Test and the series.

It was obvious he felt terrible and at the post match interview, he cried. Wish some of our footballers would show that sort of emotion instead of coming out with the usual "We know we've let everyone down blah blah; hope we get the opportunity to put it right blah blah..."

[gpo746]

But to take a positive from the games................

Flags are now cheap as chips in the shops and they can be bought and stored and wheeled out for the Euro's or next World cup

[JagLover]

Only saw about 30 minutes of the game but thought Luke Shaw looked good. What did everyone else reckon?

[London424]

JagLover said:

Only saw about 30 minutes of the game but thought Luke Shaw looked good. What did everyone else reckon?

Much better defensively and looked pretty solid...but, the number of sloppy/lazy/careless passes was frightening. I'm not talking about giving the ball away, but those passes that aren't played in front of a player to move on to (causing the player to go back and get it) or rather than pass across the floor it is bobbled to them so they have to control it before doing something with it.

Just to note, I thought a lot of the back 4 were guilty of this.

[sjc]

London424 said:

JagLover said:

Only saw about 30 minutes of the game but thought Luke Shaw looked good. What did everyone else reckon?

Much better defensively and looked pretty solid...but, the number of sloppy/lazy/careless passes was frightening. I'm not talking about giving the ball away, but those passes that aren't played in front of a player to move on to (causing the player to go back and get it) or rather than pass across the floor it is bobbled to them so they have to control it before doing something with it.

Just to note, I thought a lot of the back 4 were guilty of this.

Agree with that, frightening is the word.
Difficult to gauge the back four against a team that didn't show any ambition though.

[Amirhussain]

I know it was one of our worst world cups, but which player/players stood out for you?