|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
The only problem is that a draw would be enough for Italy to win the group. Danger of a mutually beneficial point each there. |
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
|
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
hindsight, but much as I dislike the £#%&!er..... Ashley Cole... and although I applaud the decision not to take the @#%&! because he's a @#%&!...John Terry, not so sure about Rio but I really don't think we'd've leaked at least two of x3 conceded with them in the team. The whole back four was a £#%&!ing shambles and the two fullbacks; never mind not defending but they didn't even support the attack apart from the one time Johnson did, and we scored. Midfield was so ponderous I just don't know where to start and can't even be arsed - embarrassing. Forwards played like strangers not as rabidly anti-England as some but £#%&! me, the whole circus is £#%&!ing chaotic. wtf do the media think they're achieving in scapegoating? It goes back to Bobby Robson in Italy when the press got on his case because their beloved el Tel didn't get the gig despite being a perennial failure himself. The squad just £#%&!ed the cockney fleet street @#%&!s off and then thrived up until a deflected free kick saw the krauts beat them in the semis. You couldn't imagine a more loathsome bunch of @#%&!s. Can't wait for LVG to get the ball rolling again and win another title. |
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
It might work to England's advantage if Italy play a number of 2nd choice players who will be looking to impress but I realistically I can't see it happening I actually don't even think England will beat Costa Rica :shakehead: |
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
football is £#%&!ed in england from the fa to the education system that has more or less given up on sport, the closure of amenities and fields, the couldn't give a £#%&! attitude of the clubs developing the game in the community, the concentration of the money in the game in the pl and media interests, the whole thing is set up to be nothing more then a spectator sport these days.
When I was involved in youth football, our club had a tie up with a club in Dortmund, by no means a big outfit, bringing teams back and forth each year and so on. The difference in the quality of everything was astounding. |
|
||||
|
||||
Someone here (can't remember who) wrote that the England teams problem was the manager picking a formation to shoe horn players in. Personally I think the problem is the exact opposite.
Every England manager in recent times goes into the job with a formation in his head and tries to make the players fit around it. We need a manager that will look at the pool of players and work out what formation suits them. As in the past trying to use a flat 4 man midfield with Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard and Scholes as the options now we have a formation using two holding midfielders choosing from Gerrard, Milner, Wilshere and Henderson. None of those 4 are holding midfielders, you could argue the mistake was not taking Carrick who is a holding midfielder, but that would still have only been one, and he had a shocking season. England should have taken Terry and Cole. They are both past their best and if Hodgson had left them out to give the future a chance then fair play, but to leave them out in favour of close to 30 year olds Jagielka and Baines was a bad decision. Forgetting for a minute that England have a teeny tiny chance of qualifying Hodgson needs to think about the future, thats not the Euro qualifiers but the Euro's themselves. Any player that is not going to be up to it in two years should be binned directly after the World Cup. He should then look at the players he has a find a formation that suits. There will still be a shortage of holding midfielders, so Hodgson needs to either find the best up and coming option and stick with him despite not being ready or pick the best 'average' option available. Personally I think he should play a 4-3-3, pick the best players for the formation not just the best players. |
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Oh no, hang on. He's picking brain-numbingly average £#%&!ing Everton players. |
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
|
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
he's one of the few managers who could have shit@#%&!ed his way into the knockouts with this lot. |
Similar Threads for: *Official* World Cup 2014 - Group B England v Uruguay 19/06 | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
World Cup 2014: Group D Costa Rica v England 24/06/14 | Sparky*** | Football | 170 | 26-06-2014 06:44 PM |
World Cup 2014: Group D Italy v Uruguay 24/06/14 *Game To Watch* | Sparky*** | Football | 115 | 25-06-2014 10:46 AM |
*OFFICIAL* World Cup 2014: Group C Japan v Greece 19/06/14 | Sparky*** | Football | 44 | 20-06-2014 03:26 PM |
World Cup 2014: Group D England v Italy 14/06/14 | Sparky*** | Football | 729 | 16-06-2014 07:57 PM |
World Cup 2014: Group D Uruguay v Costa Rica 14/06/14 | Sparky*** | Football | 115 | 14-06-2014 11:58 PM |