The Official ENGLAND Thread - The Team We ALL Support

[cotney]

bodhi said:

How to prove you know fk all about football in one post ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah ok then... Let me guess, you've won 8 World cups, managed Man Utd AND been to watch over 15,000 matches live?

Go on then fella, explain to me how Terry has been playing well recently, and I'll send you some links to the highlights of a few of Terry's recent games for Chelsea, misjudging long balls seems to be a abit of a speciality recently, letting it bounce in front of him and over his head, cost Chelsea 2 goals in the last few weeks. Even last night, he tried to head the ball out the box at one point, and it flew past his head, didnt even make contact.

[im]

So...according to Harry Rednapp...Spurs may be supplying 8 players for Capello's World Cup squad. Even as a spud thats at least 3 more than deserve to go to be honest.

I mean...Jenas? Bentley? Huddlestone?

[mickk]

I'm wondering if Defoe should go, King and Awesome Dawson must go.

[pokethepope]

He'll choose experience (King) or less prone to injury (Dawson), not both IMO, although if it was me i'd take both and leave out Upson.

Defoe should go, as Hansen said, defenders hate pacey attackers. If we're losing a game, having Lennon, Walcott and Defoe on the field would be an enticing proposition.

[silverthorn2151]

I'd take King and Dawson, but I'd probably bin Ferdinand.

King, because he has the presence to do it on a big stage and has played more games than Rio this season. I'd prefer Ledley to be there in a nail biter of a match and if he could be there with Dawson, well they have played very well together.

I'd take, and play, Dawson. He has a high work rate, responds to good players around him and can do the job for England.

No team with Jenas playing will EVER win anything so I wouldn't take him, Huddleston, I'm a BIG fan but can't make my mind up and Bentley....no, not the best option in that position.

Just my two pennies worth of insight. Mind you, I know fk all about being a football manager.

[Ferg]

im said:

So...according to Harry Rednapp...Spurs may be supplying 8 players for Capello's World Cup squad. Even as a spud thats at least 3 more than deserve to go to be honest.

I mean...Jenas? Bentley? Huddlestone?

I'd take Tom.

I'm struggling to see a reason NOT to take Ledley. If England have a better central defender I'd love to know who he is. The ONLY caveat is his fitness, but to be honest I think even we Spuds hype that up out of proportion. He is, along with Terry, the calmest under pressure. I'd like to imagine that he doesn't have the pace, but that's not true either. I think we all make too much out of his knee condition.

[im]

Ferg said:

I'd take Tom.

I just think he's to much of a luxury player. Good on his day but England need people who can battle it out consistently for possibly 6 matches over a very short space of time.

I've never seen the Hudd have more than 2 good games back-to-back.

[Ferg]

Team for tonight.

Wayne Rooney
Robert Green
Leighton Baines
Theo Walcott
Steven Gerrard
James Milner
Michael Carrick
Peter Crouch
Rio Ferdinand(C)
Glen Johnson
Ledley King
Substitutes

Matthew Upson
Jermain Defoe
David James
Joe Hart
Stephen Warnock
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Emile Heskey
Jamie Carragher
Michael Dawson
Tom Huddlestone
Adam Johnson
Aaron Lennon
Scott Parker

Edited by Ferg on Monday 24th May 19:01

[alex1982]

Anyone jus seen that Mars advert with John Barnes? Who ate all the pies? Let himself go a bit but can still rap...

[Ferg]

alex1982 said:

Anyone jus seen that Mars advert with John Barnes? Who ate all the pies? Let himself go a bit but can still rap...

Yeah, the chunky bloke is in this too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiom1VuEdac

[anonymous-user]

Anyone else getting just a little bit excited about the World Cup now? I cannot wait!!!

[Killer2005]

Fecking ITV

[Jonny671]

Have they given the crowd t-shirts or is that very well co-ordinated dress sense

[dreamz]

yeah some world record attempt

tshirt on every chair

i was thinking that - wow i cant beleive they sat everyone in shirt colour

the chances of that eh?

[Jonny671]

dreamz said:

yeah some world record attempt

tshirt on every chair

i was thinking that - wow i cant beleive they sat everyone in shirt colour

the chances of that eh?

I just turned on now and wondered why everyone was holding their piece of card up you sometimes get to make patterns at matches

[anonymous-user]

Go on Ledley!!!!!

[dreamz]

hahaha yeah

na its a tshirt

though i think quite a few taken em off

get in!! good goal - against the flow of play though

[Killer2005]

Hope defending like that against england is as bad in the WC

[E31Shrew]

Good to see us 2-0 up but our defence is torrid.

[Gun]

anonymous said:

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I am, can't wait for it to start!