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

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

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audi321

5,156 posts

212 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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zygalski said:
I'd say Greaves was on his own as by far the most natural English goal scorer of the modern (post war) era, followed by Lineker & then Owen.
Lineker was just a goal poacher (albeit a good one!!)

Blib

43,788 posts

196 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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audi321 said:
zygalski said:
I'd say Greaves was on his own as by far the most natural English goal scorer of the modern (post war) era, followed by Lineker & then Owen.
Lineker was just a goal poacher (albeit a good one!!)
Greaves was 'just' a goal poacher too. Best finisher I've ever seen, by far.

RichB

51,429 posts

283 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Re George Best, it's difficult to judge him as a great when his career was effectively over at 25.
He was 28 when he left ManU and 30 when playing at Fulham. I guess one had to have watched him live...

TwigtheWonderkid

43,244 posts

149 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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RichB said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Re George Best, it's difficult to judge him as a great when his career was effectively over at 25.
He was 28 when he left ManU and 30 when playing at Fulham. I guess one had to have watched him live...
I did say "effectively over". The booze took hold after that and the rest of his career was the odd flash of brilliance but living off past glories. I saw him playing for Hibs and he was nothing special then.

RichB

51,429 posts

283 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
I did say "effectively over". The booze took hold after that and the rest of his career was the odd flash of brilliance but living off past glories. I saw him playing for Hibs and he was nothing special then.
Let's agree to disagree - however I will say that watching him play for Hibs would hardly have been representative of his abilities so don't form your opinion of him based on that.

aeropilot

34,286 posts

226 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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zygalski said:
I'd say Greaves was on his own as by far the most natural English goal scorer of the modern (post war) era, followed by Lineker & then Owen.
Agree with that.

44 England goals in only 57 appearances - amazing strike rate, and he is still England's leading hat-rick scorer with SIX international hat-ricks.


Did pretty good driving in the 1970 World Cup Rally as well smile


zygalski

7,759 posts

144 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Black can man

31,816 posts

167 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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zygalski said:
I'd say Greaves was on his own as by far the most natural English goal scorer of the modern (post war) era, followed by Lineker & then Owen.
yes

Jimmy Greaves is the reason i support Spurs . Git !

TwigtheWonderkid

43,244 posts

149 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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Black can man said:
yes

Jimmy Greaves is the reason i support Spurs . Git !
Allo, allo, Chelsea reject, Chelsea reject!

hehe

RichB

51,429 posts

283 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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Ha ha...

Mind you, if you ask a Chelsea fan who Greaves played his best football for they'll obviously say "Chelsea."
If you ask a Spurs fan they'll say "Spurs!"
If you ask a West Ham Fan who Greaves played his best football for they'll say "Chelsea or Spurs!"

General Price

5,238 posts

182 months

Friday 9th October 2015
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Wtf has happened to Harry Kane?

Jonnny

29,387 posts

188 months

Friday 9th October 2015
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General Price said:
Wtf has happened to Harry Kane?
Pony.

They all looked pretty bad tbf.

Cobnapint

8,596 posts

150 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Jonnny said:
General Price said:
Wtf has happened to Harry Kane?
Pony.
More seaside donkey, I thought. Terribly slow in front of goal.

Good performance overall though, even Milner raised his game (to average).

Blue62

8,739 posts

151 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Jonnny said:
Pony.

They all looked pretty bad tbf.
Granted Estonia are nowt special but there were some good performances tonight, Walcott and Barkley stood out for me, especially Barkley (I am biased). To hear the pundits knocking him for his mistakes after playing like that makes me despair for English football, we just don't know how to handle players like him.

DuncanM

6,105 posts

278 months

Sunday 11th October 2015
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Blue62 said:
Jonnny said:
Pony.

They all looked pretty bad tbf.
Granted Estonia are nowt special but there were some good performances tonight, Walcott and Barkley stood out for me, especially Barkley (I am biased). To hear the pundits knocking him for his mistakes after playing like that makes me despair for English football, we just don't know how to handle players like him.
Barkley could become an all time great imo. His control is reminiscent of a young Gascoigne or Zidane.

He's only 21, I really hope he pushes on and fulfils his potential.

Kaj91

4,705 posts

120 months

Monday 12th October 2015
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Woy got a little bit of wevenge on Liverpool tonight by adding woughly £5m to Danny Ings' transfer fee.

GloverMart

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11,773 posts

214 months

Friday 13th November 2015
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Bloody Ian Wright on ITV's football coverage now. He's been on Match of the Day, BT Sport and now ITV this week.

Does he actually add anything to the football experience or is he just there as a box ticking exercise?

BlackST

9,079 posts

164 months

Friday 13th November 2015
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Atleast he has ditched the Harry Potter glasses. Looked like a bad muppet wearing them.

mickk

28,769 posts

241 months

Friday 13th November 2015
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Decent goal.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Friday 13th November 2015
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yikes
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