England 0 Spain 1 - Why are England so woeful?

England 0 Spain 1 - Why are England so woeful?

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Roberto Rica

Original Poster:

306 posts

207 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Hi

Given the high standard of the exciting English Premiership why is the England national team so woeful and unimaginative?

So frustrating to watch all those highly paid footballers making 'drying paint watching' exciting.

Rob

boRED S2upid

19,708 posts

240 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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hahaha.

1 answer its a team game, to many individuals not nough team work, always been the case, always will.

Rubbish.

kippax

2,788 posts

249 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Mica Richards should have started & we desperately need a forward with pace & to have 3 playmakers in midfield doesn't work! You need a ballwinner to complement the providers.

H

sleep envy

62,260 posts

249 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Great goal that won the game??

joker rolleyes

NSX Babe

93 posts

213 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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I think I fancy Alan Hansen.

That is just as wrong and hideous as Englands performance.


wobble

tvrslag

1,198 posts

255 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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had to turn over half way through, woeful just woeful, players picked out out of position, no heart no agression, passing was just utter tripe. In fact there was no aspect of englands game that didn't extend beyond mediocre, agreed MIca Richards was good and Barry wasn't to bad, but somebody please get rid of that lanky streak from up front, Crouch has no pace, he can't jump he can't shoot, and he's a cr@p dancer.
Other than that I thought england were OK,

Roll on Johnny Wilko at the weekend.

Andy mac

73,668 posts

255 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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kippax said:
Mica Richards should have started & we desperately need a forward with pace & to have 3 playmakers in midfield doesn't work! You need a ballwinner to complement the providers.

H

We do, however Andy Johnson is still having ankle problems.

icb

782 posts

269 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Andy who????

Andy mac

73,668 posts

255 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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icb said:
Andy who????

Andy 'not had a penalty this season' Johnson.

Twit

2,908 posts

264 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Roberto Rica said:
Hi

Given the high standard of the exciting English Premiership why is the England national team so woeful and unimaginative?

Rob


Maybe cos a high number of the good, creative players in the premiership are not English?!

egomeister

6,701 posts

263 months

Wednesday 7th February 2007
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Twit said:
Roberto Rica said:
Hi

Given the high standard of the exciting English Premiership why is the England national team so woeful and unimaginative?

Rob


Maybe cos a high number of the good, creative players in the premiership are not English?!


And likewise, and I've said this for years, very few English players go abroad....

I was hopeful that when McManaman and then Beckham, Owen and Woodgate went to Real that it might encourage a few more players to move abroad and widen their footballing knowledge, with the associated benefit in international competition.

icb

782 posts

269 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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I wish Crouch would f*** off abroad and I'm an LFC fan!!

jellison

12,803 posts

277 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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ENGLAND FOOTBALL - MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. We have alway been SH*T and always will be.

Why do all the Muppets that follow this stupid sport think we will ever be a world force.

Overpaid bunch of Chav Scum mostly - Bloody everywhere where I live (Work it out!) - Cretins in Ferraris that have no appreciation of they toys.....

B16 RTT

1,871 posts

235 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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I get really frustrated when people keep going on about the problem with Gerrard and Lampard playing together. We know they can't play together, we've seen it time and time again.

There is, however, a solution...DROP LAMPARD!!!

Steven Gerrard is ten times the played Lampard is. He wins balls, has a fantastic strike and his passing skills are top notch. Good example being the pass to Crouch last night.

On that note...Crouch. What the fcensoredk is that lanky streak of pcensoreds still doing in the squad? The guy runs like a newborn fawn, couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo and for a guy who is what, 6ft7(?) has no aeriel ability whatsoever. Watching him trying to win balls in the air last night was laughable. The Spanish defenders made him look like a ccensoredt. This cannot be the best striker we have available surely?

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

255 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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jellison said:
ENGLAND FOOTBALL - MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. We have alway been SH*T and always will be.

Why do all the Muppets that follow this stupid sport think we will ever be a world force.

Overpaid bunch of Chav Scum mostly - Bloody everywhere where I live (Work it out!) - Cretins in Ferraris that have no appreciation of they toys.....


Erm.. the doors that way. If it's a stupid sport, then why on earth did you enter into an obvious football thread? just to display your hatred for something? How marvellous...

trackm3

154 posts

210 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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Overpaid with no incentive to win, most just want the money not the glory of winning for there country.

Fittster

20,120 posts

213 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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What annoys me most about McClaren is his attempt to show he had his own way of doing things was to drop Beckham.

The real hard decision he needs to make is a choice between Lampard and Gerrard and stick to it.

trackm3

154 posts

210 months

Thursday 8th February 2007
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Or he could make the decision to leave himself ?

southendpier

5,262 posts

229 months

Friday 9th February 2007
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Fittster said:
What annoys me most about McClaren is his attempt to show he had his own way of doing things was to drop Beckham.

The real hard decision he needs to make is a choice between Lampard and Gerrard and stick to it.



Beckham was shyt though. Problem is that england pandered to the one trick pony for too long and in many respect we still play the same way just not with the underperforming dickwhack.

Ie knock the ball around at the back for a bit, out wide then lump it forward wiht he classic hopeful punt. Same style of football using the same outlets that Sven tried and failed with for so many years.

cj_eds

1,567 posts

221 months

Saturday 10th February 2007
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To me the goalkeeper is the only position Mclaren should be worried about, because James & Robinson are both a bit unpredictable.

Once Owen and Rooney are fit and playing, its no brainer where Crouch should be in the squad... Backup from very capable strikers like Defoe. Even the broken Ameobi could have played better than Crouch.

Bringing back some of the other injured players - thinking of choice of Woodgate, Terry, Ferdinand centre backs. As much as there's something I can't stand about Ashley Cole, he's a decent left back.
Hargreaves, Parker, Carrick, plus there's others that could be the solid player in the midfield.
Creative outlet from players like Lampard, Gerrard, Dyer, Cole, again there's many others.

Maybe with luck a decent manager will be appointed next time. O'Neill would still be my favourite.

Agreed though, how long does the Lampard/Gerrard thing have to go on? Another vote for Gerrard. He's definitely better than Lampard.